I took my kids off to dubai for two years and they loved it BUT they were much much younger.
Posts seem to be either wildly for Dubai and the UAE or anti. I have very mixed views about as it really isn't the Shangri la of crime free lovely living that some are saying. Some thoughts...
My kids loved it there, went to school with people from all over the world and had their horizons very firmly widened. Both think living and working abroad is a good thing and both intend to so so when they are older. So far so good. However, they also picked up some hideous racist ideas when they were out there - not from us but when most people around treat builders/labourers/maids/shop workers etc as second class citizens it gets picked up on. And workers ARE treated badly. You see it every day. Locals and expats can be horrendously entitled and behave very badly at times. There's a very definite racial hierarchy which is very obvious to everyone who lives there.
A year is not long. It can cost a lot of money to get set up there, not all contracts are featherbed ones these days so make sure that your husband is going to get school fees, an accommodation allowance, a travel allowance for the family, all healthcare for family and some kind of guarantee on the contract. School fees are paid in advance, rent is paid in advance - often yearly (certainly very rarely monthly - mine was quarterly then every four months) You need a lot of money in the first few months - deposits for all your services, deposits and fees for housing and you may find that recouping that outlay over the year is simply not financially sensible. You can live well if you earn well - if he's being offered the same money as here then it will be a struggle. You may not pay tax but there are all sorts of hidden and not so hidden extra charges. And alcohol is expensive - you need an alcohol licence which not not employers are willing to give, mine wasn't and I ended up driving an hour or more to another emirate and illegally transported my booze back to dubai via a dry emirate!
There is crime, it's just not reported very often. Burglaries happen and they happen in the compounds and apartment complexes of well off expats as well as in poorer. There are terrible instances of rape and murder, but usually these happen to workers/maids etc. again, it is just not reported much.
I would also say that I hope your relationship is strong. A move like that can be very stressful and no matter how other posters sugar coat it, you do lose rights when you live there. I know of two women (one who is a friend) who separated from their husbands, it got nasty and they lost custody of their children. One spent time in jail and was deported after her husband falsely accused her of working without his permission. Bad things can happen. And of they do happen, they happen FAST. I also have a friend who is now back home in South Africa who had to do a runner. If you take out a loan there then you must repay it and if you lose your job you can be in trouble. He had two car loans when we were all made redundant and his final salary payment wasn't enough to pay off both loans. They froze his bank account and he left in the night (he had sent his family home the night after we heard the company was closing)
I'm posting all this because you need to go to a place like the UAE with your eyes wide open. I don't think it IS a good place for teenagers and their natural need to rebel and challenge the rules. Also, I don't necessarily agree that education is better - yes you pay, but there were holes in my kid's education which the uk school found when we got back... which is not surprising as they had four hours of Arabic a week in their English curriculum school, almost as much as maths!
Go to the britishexpats Middle East forum for non blinkered, honest views about your situation and the best options. I followed advice there to a T and I'm so glad I did. Moving somewhere so culturally different (and it is, despite being so glossy and western looking, and even if you are Muslim it is still a frustrating, maddeningly experience sometimes) is a big learning curve. My friend, who still lives there's, has a saying: "you don't pay tax but they take 40% of your soul" in some respects this is a very accurate statement.