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.

Well, I disagree. For one, Denmark is easy to forget because it's up on a northern peninsula. And Switzerland's German border is pretty short. Eight countries is quite a lot to remember. I think you'd have to have a pretty photographic memory to remember all of them from looking at a map once. Maybe others aren't quite as intelligent as you.

And snobbery. I forgot snobbery

Lots more have answered her and told her she should know a lot more about a country, like its location before she considers living there!

Bloody good advice i would say!

Czechia, not Latvia, and also Luxembourg. And yes, I had to look at a map, despite having looked many times beore.

I feel for anyone caught up in this, but these does seem to be an almost comical lack of basic understanding of the geopolitics of the middle east and where Dubai actually fucking is. It isn't just a hotter, drier Monaco.

Tbf, it's sold itself as a hotter, drier Monaco, basically.

And everyone knows that it's in the ME, even if they couldn't draw a map of the region.

I swear, Britain has the world's highest concentration of puffed-up, superior, and snobbish people. (I can say that because I am British.)

Indeed - although only Jutland - having lived there if you go to Zealand where Copenhagen is you have to get on a ferry from Germany ( when we lived there although a tunnel was being started)

No, lots more have used this as an opportunity to parade their competitive morality, political and geographical intellgience and imply the OP is empty-headed and swayed by influencers.
No many have juat said she should have researched the area (which clearly she knows now) without a side helping of why they would NEVER move there as they are better than the OP.

That's MEAN! Do you feel good now?

Yes, I do think moving to a different country should prompt a bit of education about it before making the decision!

The fact it’s in the ME would be enough for me to not move my family there.

It’s not like the area is know for its stability, I’d be actively avoiding moving my child to a potential war zone.

That’s if you take out all the other reasons I wouldn’t bother!

I couldn't see them there. It still was super safe and I knew a gang with machetes wasn't going to come.

This whole thread is full of people who would have travelled to apartheid South Africa- for the lovely weather. And called protestors 'halo-polishers'

I wouldn't go there if you paid me and that's before this week's events! A country build on modern slavery with little human rights especially as a woman the mind boggles at the excitement to move there.

Also I do agree that not even knowing it's neighbours before uprooting your life to move there is actually hilarious! 🤣 Very on brand for the type of person who idolises Dubai and thinks it's all glitz and glamour without knowing or caring about the human rights atrocities that have been committed to build it .....

Just because you can't see them, doesn't mean they aren't there. There is top level security and people are paid well to do this. They have high tech surveillance.
Do you genuinely think that there's any gold jewellery shop in the world without security?!

ps a machete gang would have been spotted and intercepted....by top level security.
That's why you felt safe.

Thank you!

I don’t know exactly how close it is however given I do know it’s a pretty unstable region on a good day, you can bet your arse that if I was uprooting my life and that of my kids I would get an atlas out pretty quickly and look. Not just check out what monuments nearby would look good on Insta …

Its that ignorance that so many posters are astounded at.

Do you feel good now for being so ignorant?

I bet lots of families don’t have an atlas or globe.

I bet they have Google

How am I ignorant?

You just seem it based on your posts here.

Which they wouldn’t use for this.

I can very much assure you that not everyone wants to move there.

Why not?