Would you retire to a Middle Eastern playground if you could?

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For example UAE, Qatar

I will probably never be a high net worth individual anyway but even if I was I can’t imagine choosing to spend my retirement years in such places.

Work and live there for a few years to get ahead financially, yes, or a long layover on the way to somewhere else but what makes so many UK expats want to retire there?

This is prompted by something that came up at work. I’d love to understand the appeal as I have to interact with people for whom this is a long term ambition or plan.

As for whoever it was who said they’d lived in the Middle East as a child and found it dull, you must have had a very different experience from our dds, who had a brilliant childhood - masses of playing out, pool or beach virtually every day (both swam like baby dolphins at 2)

That was me! I would be bored with being on the beach or in the pool everyday. now. I much prefer museums, libraries, stately homes, heritage sites, parks.... Horses, courses etc.

I also agree with the ME soon being uninhabitable because of global warming.