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.

There's a lot of hate on this thread and then some people wonder why there are wars 🤷‍♀️

Well observed!

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No I studied it extensively. Its a very mainstream view with plenty of evidence to back it up. I mean - its not even controversial. HTH

As before you couldn't be more wrong. I have provided plenty of information in multiple previous about why your view is not mainstream historical opinion including from African and communist historians as well as more mainstream historians.

You literally do not know what you are talking about. Its like you do not have the capacity to accept you have been poorly taught and the facts disprove you. Yes there are grey areas and exceptions but the over whelming body of historical evidence and historiography totally disagrees with your perspective. The evidence shows and the view of historians is wages collapsed and slavery was abolished - some historians say this was done on moral grounds after cost of doing so fell and other historians on the communist side say this was done for pure economic self interest.

I do not understand how the world will get any better when people like you ignore facts? Our understanding of the industrial revolution and it's social impacts should inform our views on AI and it's likely impact on our society.

The reality is that there is some truth behind both stated opinions.
The UK was a successful economy relative to others (no idea how anyone is measuring GDP in various countries in the 13 or 1400s though). They used coal prior to the industrial revolution and had access to large amounts of it, which was one of the chief factors behind the IR and then the British empire. They were clearly very well organised and innovative- see many British developments and salient economic developments. It is also true to say that the British colonised many countries and took their resources and taxed their people heavily, impoverishing and killing millions. The US has been doing this more recently too although not on the same scale and their 'empire' probably won't last as long.

I can't see any previous links that you have posted. Are you able to link to the historical documents that you say that you have used to inform your views please.

OP if you are still reading take a deep breath to calm yourself and start to get things sorted.
Finding out where you stand from the employer perspective is paramount, as are your living arrangements in UK & Dubai. Sounds like you haven’t taken a rental there and you haven’t mentioned needing to move out due to having rented out your UK home so these are enormous plus points. You haven’t mentioned children so I’m guessing you either don’t have any or are not committed to school fees in Dubai.
Make a list of what you do and don’t know - your husband I’m sure will be right now getting a company perspective on if/when the move would still happen and a new role if you are to stay in the UK. You can’t do anything without this information. For sure you will not be going there whilst the open conflict persists.
The next decision you both will have depends on your appetite for risk; when Dubai opens up expats will leave for sure and rents etc will go down, school places open up etc.
It is not great you are getting more of a pile on than a sympathetic ear.
I’ll bet many of these posters buy goods made by women and children living very difficult lives without a second thought.

This !

It's one thing not to know how close they are exactly if you're not going there. It's quite another if you're going to live there!!

Be fair. She googled the nearest supermarkets.

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Doesn't it just!

Phew... due diligence done then 😂

I’ve just heard that 1 in every 80 British expats in Dubai is an influencer….

It doesn't sound a lot really, but then again what is the percentage of influencers in any country? I bet the US has the most per capita.

Of course they love the lifestyle, they are white British and second only in the hierarchy to the Emiratis. They'll be kept well away from the reality of life for everyone else imported for slave labour, except for the ones they want for themselves to do domestic work and nannying. You can rest assured that your children will not see any of the true culture if you go out there.

It's always seemed bang in the middle of a very volatile set of countries to me. Bit of sea between past and present war zones. Fuck that

Given the gov is helping to evacuate UK citizens from Dubai via Oman, I don’t think the OP’s husband’s firm are likely to be sending him anymore

It's tourists and transit passengers who are getting out. Life goes on with some normality for residents. It's not the war zone it's portrayed to be by some news outlets.

I think it is hard to know what the reality of Dubai is at the moment given that it is a crime to criticise the government or post photos/videos of incidents/crimes

It's not @Lundeif you have first hand accounts in your contacts. You get a fair idea.

Seemingly so

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You don't have to go there if you don't want to. Most likely your plane can't go there and Foreign Office will say don't go there. So how can any employer force someone to go there?

I reflect on morality quite a lot, thank you. My aim is to act with a strong moral compass in myself and by treating those around me well and with care. Living here does not make me complicit in everything that happens here, just as living in the UK didn’t make me responsible for everything that happened there. Wherever I live, I try to act in ways that contribute positively to the society I live in.
Re: posturing - I don't feel there is much to gain by shouting about what you think you know, and guffawing at people for not "knowing".
I think that framing it purely as “white Western expats" having a normal life misses a lot of the reality. People from all sorts of backgrounds build good lives here, and many who come from less well-off places are glad of the opportunities they have here.
That does not mean there are no real issues.. There are, and they should be taken seriously. But it is not for others to belittle the fact that many people feel their lives have improved by being here.

But it is not for others to belittle the fact that many people feel their lives have improved by being here

So who will address the elephant in the room otherwise? If the ex pats can’t and won’t change the human rights issue it’s got to be those that don’t live there.