Would you live in Dubai ?

[Lardlizard]

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No chance wouldn’t even visit

I know of a couple of teachers that have been there for twenty five years their children born and educated there. I didnt even think that whole generations are been born and living their lives there. I dont know how it affects them legally whether they have the same rights as the locals or not.

@Cliffdonville Well that's how the UK was built too.

I wouldn't live there. It just seems to appeal to a certain sort of westerner who wishes colonialism had never ended. Plus it is just a bit shit and cheesy. Nothing about it appeals to me in the slightest.

no

I've lived there and absolutely loved it. It's very different to the West and there are some things you may not agree with but on the whole it was ace (the tax free salaries helped massively though)

Was being the key word.

Was

Just as women were denied the vote and other categories of society and so on.

In our modern world I couldn't because it's apartheid

I used to live there.

If your idea of a good time is a dictatorship with no independent judiciary and a heavily-censored press, where the 90% of the population who are non-citizens have minimal rights and criticising the government is punishable by a lengthy sentence, and where marital rape, wife-beating and FGM are legal, then knock yourselves out.

No does not appeal

I'd never live anywhere it's illegal to be gay.

No, I won't even travel long haul if the plane stops there.

Any country where rape victims are locked up for 'extra marital sex' unless the rapist is your husband, and then it's not a crime is one I give a wide berth.

Not that they would let me in because I'm not married to my dp

They'd let you in.

We intend to spend winters in Dubai when we retire, unless it gets drastically worse than it is now.

It's absolutely beyond me what anyone sees in the place.

No. Hideous place. Not my cup of tea at all. Not even a holiday destination for me. Literally zero appeal.

No way.

No.

Never. Awful place. Visited a friend who worked there and left after 3 days....full of chavs and scum with money with lv bags. Never met such vile English people....!!!...I went to Oman and was lovely...so at least I was able to salvage my trip.

3.3 million people live there and humans are humans everywhere. I know gay people who live there, unmarried couples who cohabit there, wankers that live there aned charity workers that live there.

If we all believed the press about all countries; no-one would visit London due to knife crime, social apartheid (Grenfell), terror attacks etc

Dubai is the uninformed armchair warriors place to hate. There is good and bad, go see it for yourself

Makes me wonder how much people know about the British empire

And if I had use of a time machine I wouldn't visit the empire. I do have use of a plane though. And won't go to the UAE. There are many more interesting places with similar human rights issues and boring places with good human rights records. I'll pick one of those.

@LoveIsLovely well yes of course that is true, but I wouldn't choose to live here now if we still did.

Worked in Bahrain for a year and couldn't cope with the humidity/heat and cold shopping centres !! Almost drove me insane !

I have friends and family who moved there from London. They love it and are happy there.

No way. I wont even holiday there, there are hundreds of more interesting, prettier and less restrictive places to visit/live. I really can't see why anyone would move there

@sofato5miles, ah, the classic defence of the wilfully underinformed.

When London doesn’t have free elections or a free press, when political parties are banned, when the courts do what they’re told and the penal system regularly detains its own citizens arbitrarily beyond the end of their sentences, where criticising the hereditary rulers is illegal, when it’s legal to have your daughter’s clitoris cut out in a nice, clean clinic and to rape your wife — then, sure, you might think London resembles Dubai.

But if you’re living living in a bubble in Arabian Ranches or the Palm, unable to believe your luck because you’re ‘living the dream’ on a tax-free salary with a live-in maid, then the chances are you don’t notice or care.

@ViserionTheDragon, I don’t doubt that for a moment, but see above.

We visited friends who live there a few years ago for a holiday. I found it a really interesting place to visit. It’s quite surreal. A playground for wealthy Emirates and Saudis
as well as holidaying Westerners. I spent a lot of time people watching.

Enjoyed our stay and the insights we got in to life there. Our friends are European and very much in an expat bubble, living on much better salaries than they’d get elsewhere and spending weekends at the beach, They do have Emirati friends who had a very interesting take on things and had spent most of their lives living elsewhere because they find Dubai a very stifling place to live.

To live there, though? No way. I wouldn’t live anywhere in the Middle East as it’s not culturally compatible with my values. The heat is also insane.