I live in the UAE - AMA

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Im inspired by the "I live in Saudi' thread and Im back from my hols so have lots of time. So.... I live in the UAE - ama

How do you cope with the extreme heat?

Honestly, for 6 months of the year, we live in air conditioning. So we only feel the heat when going to and from ac locations or while the car cools down.
Also, we have acclimatised and learnt to not panic about the heat.

How do you live with yourself? Have you no morals?
I'm joking. Hi!

Are you originally from the UAE? If not, is there anything you really miss? Could be experiences (in Spain, I used to daydream about the English countryside in the summer), or certain brands (I was delighted when I found Robinsons squash), etc.

I often wonder why humans settled in such inhospitable locations around the world, be they hot or cold.

Do you miss the old UAE?
Aren't the amount of expats and tourists annoying?
What is a typical day like for an Arab family? How many men do you know that actually have more than one wife?

I often wonder why humans settled in such inhospitable locations around the world, be they hot or cold.

Do you mean historically, or now?

Do you miss the old UAE?
Aren't the amount of expats and tourists annoying?
What is a typical day like for an Arab family? How many men do you know that actually have more than one wife?

She said she lives in the UAE, she didn't say she was Emirati.

Smithecat - lol

Dailymailcanfuckthefuckoff - ace user name btw! Im not originally from here. I am English, married to a non-gulf Arab. When we first moved here I missed chicken oxo cubes. Over the time, I have got more and more used to things here. I mainly miss cheap UK sales shopping. We are just back from the UK with loads of bags full of clothes from primark and asda (kids stuff, knickers and socks etc). I miss free schools! Also, rain. Oh, and nice tasting cadbury chocolate.

We all miss nice tasting Cadbury chocolate.

chicken oxo cubes

I'll double check on the weekend, but I think Park N Shop in DIP sell them.

TheHulksPurplePanties - i wasnt here for the old UAE lol.
The day for an expat Arab family like us starts early cos school starts at 7.30am. I wake at 5.40 and do packed lunches and breakfasts. Then we leave for school 6.50, drop them at 7.15 and go to work. Depending on classes i either collect the kids at 2.30 or they take a taxi home and i follow them at 5.
Then its homework, dinner and all in bed by 10 for the next early start.
We do have a swimming pool and gym so we go there - not as often as we should lol
I only know 1 man who has 3 wives.

Hulkspurplepanties, its OK I have got over that longing now. I use the maggi lol.

TheHulksPurplePanties - i wasnt here for the old UAE lol

Wasn't me asking! LOL. It was KimchiLaLa. :)

I use the maggi

I like the maggi. The only thing that sucks is that they appear to have gotten rid of their onion soup mix. My meatloaf is suffering greatly.

Sorry Kimchilala and beanaseirann i replied to the wrong people

Hulk - people say maggi are too salty. Thats why i like them lol

Historically TheHulks

beanaseireann

Well generally humans will push further and further in order to find food and resources. In terms of settling in the Middle East, when humans first settled here it was lakes and grassland, and there's evidence to suggest that was the case until a few thousand years ago. I suppose by the time the lakes dried up, people had adapted to the climate and learned to survive and stayed.

According to the verbal history of the Inuit, they settled into Northern Canada before the last ice age and stayed in certain areas because they were warmer and offered an abundance of food. It was thought that this was a myth, but they found the remains of a 25,000 year old village on an island that suggests its true.

Thank you TheHulksPurple