Meant to be moving to Dubai in 4 weeks

It seems naive to move there I wouldn’t want to go and you won’t be able to anyway as things are.

What the hell does it matter who is funding the move to a potential 'war zone?🙄
Also it might come as a surprise but bombs and missiles aren't bothered by or redirected because there is 'insurance' in place! FFS!!🙄

Don't go. I know of someone who has worked as a Consultant in the Oil and Gas Industry for years in Iraq and Iran.

He worked 12 hour shifts.And in both countries, he had a Security Guard/Soldier with a gun posted outside his Office for 24 hours a day .

I honestly can't see the conflict between solved any time soon. And can see it could easily proliferate.

I sure they do- that doesn’t mean police cannot arrest them for it if they choose.

There are numerous incidents of women reporting rape only to then be imprisoned for extra marital sex.

You know I’m not ‘making up’ public decency laws in the UAE

being arrested for indecent attire

Majority of women dress exactly the same way they do here. Stop making stuff up.

I suppose I am more comfortable with regional car theft than I am enslaved domestic workers being murdered, but perhaps I’m old fashioned that way.

At least reporting sexual assault is unlikely to result in me being arrested for indecent attire or behaviour.

This..

I wouldn’t move there, or go on holiday there, especially not with children.

Millions go there year on year with their children and have a lovely time. 😳 (post edited by MNHQ at request of OP)

In parts of the UK, issues like knife crime, sexual assault, and car theft are ongoing problems.

Dubai isn’t crime-free, but the overall level of street violence and opportunistic crime is considerably lower.

A teenager in the UK will stab you for looking at them.

I’d like to think you’re underestimating how many people care about human rights abuses.

You have to make a choice based on how the situation pans out and what it means for you and your family.

I lived in Dubai growing up; the first and second Gulf Wars happened whilst I was in school there. But the world is currently in turmoil and we have no idea what's going to happen next.

It’s really NOT the case that “everyone wants to move there”.

This is true - not everyone wants to move there.

Did you not wonder why so many people really dislike it?

Around 240,000 Britons live in Dubai, and millions visit every year — that doesn’t indicate widespread backlash.

As a Brit who’s been going since 2018, I’ve never seen evidence that it’s broadly disliked. It’s fine to criticise aspects of it, but claiming it’s widely unpopular in the UK isn’t accurate.

Really? Isabel Oakeshott, the partner of Reform UK's deputy Richard Tice, has been going on and on for the past year about how she moved out to Dubai with her children because of the VAT on private school fees - and how much safer and better it was than the UK. There have been plenty of articles in that timealso about young people moving there to make their fortune and bigging it up, plus TV programmes. If it was being called unsafe by the UK government you wouldn't have known. Obviously they are issuing warnings now.

The Foreign Office were only issuing alerts about travel to Dubai for the fun of it.

i know that, its more the ones who say omg why are they betting on war etc

Why is that puzzling? Traders have always placed long and short trades based on geopolitical risk.

The UAE is near Iran, Iraq, Saudi. Not a huge newsflash that bit. As for the “glamour” of life in the UAE, I can see why some people might find that vision attractive. Those who govern the UAE have invested billions in selling that “dream”. It’s still a dream built on and maintained by slave labour. And inconveniently close to Iran, so will always be a hotspot in any conflict involving Iran. I wouldn’t move there, or go on holiday there, especially not with children. Hopefully your partner’s employer will give him a different option. I remember what it was like fleeing Saudi (where I lived because of my dad’s job) on the last flight out as the first Gulf war started. It was terrifying.

Yes, I have. I lived abroad for nearly 10 years.

Knowing about imminent war isn’t deep reading, it was very much mainstream news. And Iran and that whole region is famously unstable.

Yes but have you ever actually moved to another country? Because I'm sure it's easy to believe you'd be Princess Perfect but it is quite a process. Deep reading on the local political tensions is usually a low priority unless you've decided to move somewhere famously unstable.

one thing thats puzzling is the money thats been made via stock market betting on the war etc thats always part of the stock market for any conflict etc

But surely people watch enough news to know that war was looking more and more likely with Iran. Trump was sending warships. UAE is right next door and no friend of Iran. I cannot get my head around moving to a country without having any understanding of what is happening in that region.

But it had hardly stopped people going to Dubai, it has been an extremely popular destination for at least 20 years or more up until this weekend and considered safe. There was no government advice saying don't go there.. It seems bizarre to me that people are now making out that it was never a good idea.

Iran is not an Arab country tbough and there has been some tension for years. Everyone knew that Trump was building up a military presence there too.

I voted yabu for the same reason.

personally id keep the mission as planned