Meant to be moving to Dubai in 4 weeks

Not at the moment.

Being alive is a pretty low bar, particularly on your honeymoon. There are plenty of people alive in Gaza.

And if you look at all circumstances properly such as civil liberties and habeus corpus the UK is much safer anyway.

No-one will be flying to Dubai any time soon.

Move. I spent 3 years there. The issues with Iran will be over in a few weeks or months tops. It works in your favour salaries will be better due to less competition (they are falling and have been for 3 years - so many people want to move there plus AI) and rent/housing costs will be down.

They're still alive though aren't they?

The reality is, this can happen anywhere. In the UK, children were attacked at a Taylor Swift–themed dance and yoga class in Southport, a class meant for young kids. Three children were killed and others were seriously injured.

And that’s alongside attacks like the Manchester Arena bombing.

Statistically, whether people like it or not, Dubai is safer than the UK.

Memory isn't the same thing as intelligence.

Reports that Fujairah power station and desalination plant have been very badly hit this morning. Desalination the UAE's only internal source of drinking water, with supply problems from the closure/attempted closure of the Strait of Hormuz, people in the UAE could be in serious trouble if this war is in anyway prolonged.

Even if sea supply becomes safe again in the next few weeks, repairing/rebuilding Fujairah for both power and water, will be far from instant.

Is this serious? I cant fathom how people contemplate moving somewhere they cant place on a map, genuinely crazy!

I daresay she’ll be out of there on a private jet.

But I’m not happy my hard-earned taxes might be used to arrange evacuation of gloating tax evaders/avoiders. They should be billed for it if it comes to it.

It’s always saddened me to see Brits lording it up like latter day colonialists off the back of other people’s slave labour. There’s no such thing as a free lunch. Or a cheap luxury holiday.

Like people who buy holiday homes in northern Cyprus 🙄

But then they stopped. A long time ago.

I’m not sure it’s a pile on. I hope not for OP, I feel for her and hope she can stay put for now with her DH’s work.

I think the thread really just represents what some of us feel is naivety or wilful ignorance about what UAE actually is but just listening to absolute shits like Isabel Oakeshott.

YANBU to be worried and I would at the very least wait a month before going. The only thing you can really do is wait it out, but equally, I am not sure I would want to move there either after the recent developments. How important is the move? Have you got a job there?

I knew a woman who worked in the ME. Her car broke down and she got a lift from a colleague, he came from there. They got stopped by the police and were given the option of prison or getting married. Took her a few years to get home and she brought her baby back with her.

It won't always happen like that but it did.

There is a concept in business called ‘due diligence’ where you do some research into something before making any decisions.

It can be used in life too when making big decisions. One area of research may be ‘what is the area I’m planning on moving to like geopolitically?How safe is it? ’

If you did some due diligence prior to moving to Dubai, you may even have discovered that your wonderful lifestyle would be built on the backs of slavery and human rights atrocities.

YANBU to be worried. Can you cancel? I'm not sure it will all calm down even within a couple of weeks, and surely this is a situation that wasn't anticipated; maybe opting out would be easier than you think?

Regardless of what you think of Dubai as a place the GCC is extremely stable. Once this is over Dubai will go back to being like it usually is. This is a very exceptional situation. So OP if you are worried about safety then if the IRCG falls it should be absolutely fine.

I definitely don’t want to live there. I prefer being out in the woods!

No way! 😅 She should use all the money she saved to find her own way home, but yeah I’d rather she stayed over there too.

Its always baffled me how so many people want to live there. I went there once as my children’s father was working in Iraq, and I did not like what I saw. The workers treated like second class citizens. Behind the glitz and glamour, workers are treated so badly. Once you start to notice, it becomes a totally different place. I couldn’t wait to leave and would never go back.

She does indeed. And now she expects Keir Starmer to rescue her. But I don’t see why she can’t try her luck in a dinghy, she’s an immigrant after all. Why would we want all these tax dodgers back over here anyway.

Wait… Oakeshott lives in Dubai now? You couldn’t make it up!

I don’t get these anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim types who emigrate to Muslim countries.

And they still have a loud mouth about what’s going on in the UK. They are shameless.

It feels like a pile on. Everyone saying the same thing over and over again about how could she not have checked a map. She should've but she never so can we move on from that?

Don't get me wrong Dubai has always scared me - the way they treat foreign workers from developing nations, their strange legal system that once in a while seems to make an example of a foreigner eg. Marcus Farkhana. But I never really thought of it as dangerous in the sense of being a war zone. And I’ll admit when I moved to east Asia in my 20s, I didn’t check it out on a map until I was there.

OP if you can put the brakes on this I suggest you do so. Even if it means your partner has to go out himself initially until he’s able to come back to work in the UK.

Indeed! Plenty of us would never go there for a plethora of reasons.

Bit different ehen it was 200 years ago and it is the country you were born and brought up in and live in v country where it is happening now openly and you are choosing whether to go there.

Hmm, they aren't having "a lovely time" at the moment.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg3141z13go

The UK got rich on the backs of slaves and slavery.

No, they really don't! You must be living in some sort of bubble.

I don't think you'll be able to go but even if by some miracle you can, I don't think you should.