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.

If you’re not “moral posturing” about Dubai I think some reflection is needed.
“Normal life” to be had by whom? A white Western ex pat, maybe & hope that nothing ever goes wrong.
A guy from a poor area of India who was lured over with promises of this & that and than has his passport taken by his “sponsor” so he can’t leave.
It’s possible to have a “normal life” anywhere if you are prepared to overlook human rights abuses.

To be fair I would rather work behind a till in M & S than live in Dubai, but horses for course hey....?

Like most posters here, I know ENOUGH about Dubai to know I would NEVER want to live there. Or even visit!

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This?!!!!???

Your Question is way too early to be answered correctly. You need to wait and see what guidelines and advice the Company that is doing the relocating give. For those berating the poster, there are some people in this life that assume rightly or wrongly if a company sends a valued member of their staff abroad they will be safe and rightly so. You have no right to berate the OP in the tones that have been used.

@TerracottaWorrier This is brilliant 😂👌

My niece lives there, her villa has been broken into twice and her son physically assaulted by a neighbour who took a dislike to him playing ball. It’s not the crime free place you have been led to believe it is.

I was going to say this.

There's plenty to do to be fair. It's just not very ethical.

They aren't "ex pats" they are immigrants. They've emigrated from their home state to a new one. Hence they are immigrants to Dubai.

Why should anyone have worried about Iran until now? Thousands of people have moved and worked in Dubai for years. It’s an Arab country and was not in conflict with Iran.

Well said. Thousands of migrant workers died there during world cup preparation, most likely from being forced to work in extreme heat.

Will add to this all that marital rape is not against the law there.

Honour killings can be pardoned.

If a woman divorces and decides to remarry, she forfeits custody of her children.

But you know, yeah great lifestyle 🥴

Anyone who is ok with their record on human rights can get in the bin.

you are entirely unreasonable to even consider moving to a racist homophobic fake place built on slavery

Have you at least read books about Dubai and the wider region's history and politics? Even if you haven't actually glanced at a map..?
The mind boggles.

Nope, 'everyone' doesn't and didn't want to move there. Why would you want to live in a place with such a dodgy record on human rights?

There's a reason jobs in Dubai/Saudi Arabia/Bahrain pay well. Let's just leave it at that. You're pretty naive to have even got to this position...

I might sound like a broken record, but the slave labour behind the glam culture is just heartbreaking. Back in the early 2000s, we were leaving Dubai to go to my dad's office in Sharjah. We turned down a side road and found a whole town made of cardboard/shanty homes. I grew up enjoying the sunshine and feeling of safety there, but I always reminded how paper thin it all is :-)

Can't believe you'd be moving there - you've probably had a lucky escape.
I feel sorry for the people stuck there now.

personally id keep the mission as planned

I voted yabu for the same reason.

Iran is not an Arab country tbough and there has been some tension for years. Everyone knew that Trump was building up a military presence there too.

But it had hardly stopped people going to Dubai, it has been an extremely popular destination for at least 20 years or more up until this weekend and considered safe. There was no government advice saying don't go there.. It seems bizarre to me that people are now making out that it was never a good idea.

But surely people watch enough news to know that war was looking more and more likely with Iran. Trump was sending warships. UAE is right next door and no friend of Iran. I cannot get my head around moving to a country without having any understanding of what is happening in that region.

one thing thats puzzling is the money thats been made via stock market betting on the war etc thats always part of the stock market for any conflict etc

Yes but have you ever actually moved to another country? Because I'm sure it's easy to believe you'd be Princess Perfect but it is quite a process. Deep reading on the local political tensions is usually a low priority unless you've decided to move somewhere famously unstable.

Yes, I have. I lived abroad for nearly 10 years.

Knowing about imminent war isn’t deep reading, it was very much mainstream news. And Iran and that whole region is famously unstable.