Essex people and Dubai

[Petrifiedtossed]

Why Does everyone From Essex always seem to go on holiday to Dubai?
it's so common now it's become tacky. On a serious note tho, it's a concrete jungle. If you want sun and beach why not go to The Carribean for example!?

So, 'Essex people' are single handedly keeping Dubai's tourism industry afloat? Righto.

Essex are always trying to copy/keep up with the Chelsea crowd it seems

@BeautifulWar and footballers wives. Hi Colleen

Porta potties.

What part of Essex do you live? It's a big place and very few places actually have the whole 'towie' thing going on

Cranham

So not Essex then 🙄

It is Essex

Christ, imagine the embarrassment of some random MNer judging your holiday as gauche 😆

OP, have you been?

At the airport (transfer) and that was enough to put me off

The types that go there tend to be ones who love showing it off in their fb or social media. Because Kloe from down the road went I have to go, types.

It's Havering 😂
It's East London 🤣🤣🤣
RM postcode

It is yes but still considered as Essex. Everyone round here classes it as Essex.

You sound very silly. Any chance of giving something some real thought?

@Petrifiedtossed have you ever ventured outside of Essex? Perhaps if you had more exposure to other people you might realise that Dubai is considered aspirational to certain people regardless of where they are from?

Oh Everyone?
I'm sure they do.
Get back under your bridge.
Your bridge located in East London.
Seriously, if its that bad in your not Essex Town, move.

@Petrifiedtossed

Very popular in Leicester too. Personally I even found changing aeroplanes there too much, the airport is overwhelming. I like my holidays where there's greenery.

Well seeing as they don't actually live in Essex I'm curious as to what answer you might get 🙃

Agree...i lasted 3 days seeing a friend...hated the place...vile nasty ex pats from up north...rude...drunk in the club bar...wouldnt let us get served...pushed us out the way...made nasty comments about londoners.....vile place....i went onto muscat, oman and loved it....anyway it will all return to dust once the cash runs out and the building fall down...all badly built also...!!

Funnily enough I have some Essex friends who go to Dubai. None of my other friends do! The people I know from Essex seem to love Dubai and go there every year. They like to drop it in to conversation 😂 and I get the impression that they feel Dubai as a destination carries some kudos

I'm from Essex and have been to Dubai twice. Once 20 years ago to visit a friend who was working there. Had a great time and enjoyed visiting the souks and museum and went on a tour of a mosque and enjoyed a really memorable talk about Islam and the difference between their cultural and religious traditions. Also bumped into Andre Agassi who was playing tennis on the the helipad of the hotel we were having afternoon tea in. We then flew off to the Maldives for a week. It was a fabulous holiday.

I don't recall meeting anyone else from Essex there.

Went again a few years ago to catch up with the same friend to meet his new wife as we'd not been able to make it to his wedding sadly . Didn't enjoy it as much as it was so built up and busy and glitzy and expensive by then.

The hotel was full of people from Hertfordshire who you would have thought were straight from Towie but from listening to their conversations realised where they were really from. Everyone else seemed to be from Russia.

I absolutely adore where I live in Essex and I'm almost glad people are so bloody snobby about it as means our lovely town remains a proper hidden gem.

Built by modern day slaves.

I'm in Wales and we're going for Xmas & NYE

“I absolutely adore where I live in Essex and I'm almost glad people are so bloody snobby about it as means our lovely town remains a proper hidden gem.”

Probably not the same town but snap, Angels 😊

But I also went to the Carribean this year so not sure where that puts me on the classless scale?

Oh wait ........

I couldn't give two fucks what you think