Meant to be moving to Dubai in 4 weeks

[Medesres]

We've been planning a move to Dubai for a while now. Dh's work has an office out there and it seemed like great opportunity to live abroad and experience sth different. I've got a couple of friends out there already too who love the lifestyle.

Watching the news for the past 24 hours and I'm really starting to question things. I had no idea how close to Iran it was and who knows what might happen next. Part of me is hoping it will all be resolved soon but hard to believe.

My friend who already lives there has spent the night sleeping in one room with her dh and kids scared of all the missile noises.

I’ve voted yabu because moving to Dubai for lifestyle whilst not knowing how close it was to Iran is just staggeringly small minded.
Speaking personally I wouldn’t ever go, yesterday, today, tomorrow.

and they punish you if you do; please try not to downplay it.

To be fair to the OP, the lifestyle offered in Dubai is totally removed from every day life and it's almost like a sweet counter for children. @Medesres people make mistakes and sometimes it's expensive. Don't go. The attacks could last for months. Iran has the power to do that. Don't underestimate.

Say what about educated and net contributing immigrants to the uk, the majority come from commonwealth countries. None can up their family without full research surely!

Quite 🙄

Why do they ask you not to act upon it? It’s almost like they’re saying it’s wrong? But surely you’d find this abhorrent? Because this isn’t it?

But, I suppose they’re still people that think if you’re different to them, then it’s shameful and deny your own happiness?

I am not one of them, I’d also walk away from anyone I know or were friends with if they had this view.

🤣🤣🤣

In the defense of the OP, although I was fully aware of exactly where all these countries are, until someone starts sending over missiles, it doesn't quite hit home how close they are. Dubai is 1000 miles from the Iranian border by land, and you have to pass through 3 countries to get there. I can see how that could create an impression of distance in your brain.

This. Not unreasonable to want to move there but strange not to educate yourself first if taking your children with you.

Even without the current situation it would always be a risky move due its location and the history of Middle East conflicts. I couldn’t think of anything worse than living there even before all of this but know people who love it there.

The problem is Dubai and parts of the middle east have been really glamorised now so everyone wants to move there.

nope, never heard this^ opinion before

I've been rather disappointed by the number of posters who appear to be totally unconcerned about human rights when it comes to deciding whether or not to move overseas, tbh.

Indeed. The middle east was being called "The arc of conflict" when I was a young history teacher in the 1980s.

They one hundred percent will not be sending him within the next month.

There’s been a spate of tit-for-tat fire bombing homes/business here in Scotland…turf war over drugs etc. Guess where the masterminds live? Dubai!

Honestly you couldn’t pay me enough to go there. Too many people are not educated about where it is, what the government does there, the lack of human rights…. It’s not all sky bars and super cars. If you don’t know this and aren’t aware then I wouldn’t recommend living there. I know that sounds harsh but it infuriates me honestly.
I hope your friend is ok.

Shouldn’t your point 2 be point 1 and vice versa?

can you really expect point 1 not to be as it is (still questioning the move as opposed to firm decision to shelve or cancel) if point 2 says op didn’t linen Dubai was close to Iran, in the first place!

aren’t you expecting too much from this op?!?!

They think it's not going to affect them.

Oh I’m concerned about human rights. One reason I wouldn’t move eg to China.

Sounds like you did lots of research…

You’ve reflected well. Privileged westerners want the fancy lifestyle while closing their eyes to what it is like for people from Dubai to live there and how hard it is being female/gay etc. but let’s close our eyes and sit by the pool and go to massive shopping malls.

Just to let ppl know that a border crossing from or to Saudi probably isn’t possible now if it ever was as Saudi has now been also hit by Iranian missiles & is considering retaliation.

I honestly think people just don’t get the issues, and it’s not situation that’s improving. I don’t understand whether it’s wilful ignorance, misrepresentation in the media or just a general lack of education but these Middle Eastern countries have appalling human rights records, women’s rights are terrible and if crime is lower it’s because punishments are medieval by western standards.

I’m not laughing, it’s too depressing and all too familiar an attitude.

I tried to avoid spending an hour there but couldn’t get a direct flight to where I was going.

This is why…

https://www.amnesty.org/en/location/middle-east-and-north-africa/middle-east/united-arab-emirates/report-united-arab-emirates/

Well remember there is a supposed serious desire for people in the UK to throw of the shackles of human rights, so I guess they aren't that big a deal. Not when you think of the cup holders.