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 think OP is sadly representative of a lot of westerners emigrating to UAE. The wilful ignorance over how the country operates on slavery and how vulnerable everyone is to the whims of the police because of strict laws is shocking. It’s supposedly glamorous though so who cares!

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Because your response was not helpful to OP at all.

She’s stressed out of her mind, how does it help her to know you don’t want to move there?

You have been fooled by false advertising I’m afraid. It’s very much a case of the emperor’s new clothes.

You’re not alone though. They’ve done a job on a lot of poorly informed individuals.

I’ve travelled extensively and wouldn’t put Dubai in my top 100 places to live.

I would think that you will have to move heaven and earth to put a stop to this move (assuming it's not stopped by outside agencies).

Is his employer a UK company?
Given that the FO is advising against all but essential travel to the region, I doubt op will be going anywhere. If dh has an essential skill that's needed there I suppose he might still go, but employer has a duty of care, and it won't be possible to get insurance if travelling against FO advice.

No everyone doesn't want to move there. I'd rather move to Skelmersdale.

There is a reason they pay westerners a fortune to go there. If something seems too good to be true it usually is.
And "the lifestyle" is achieved by expoliting slave labour - nothing more nothing less. Some people are ok with that. Some are not.

Well here's comprehension problem number one, I didn't say I didn't want to go.

Checked out the supermarkets….riiight.

Nomad says it isn't helpful to say that. You're probably on the naughty step with me.

Because her husband’s employers will have a policy on this and will be able to advise them better in time, as they see the situation develop.

I would love to get all the people mocking the op to draw their own map of the area. I spend ages on Google maps but I only have a rough idea of the location of Middle Eastern countries...I thought Iran was slightly further west rather than just across the gulf. I don't think that makes me an imbecile.

Maybe you can take OP’s place then.

I wouldn’t right now, but see how it is in a couple of weeks.

I expect it's a bit much to expect that you've done any research wrt the laws of the land and how they might affect you and DC then?

Yep, suddenly they’re all ME experts.

Well, no. But presumably you’d look if you were moving there.

Comprehension problem number two, I didn't say I wanted to go.

i don’t think she said she had DC to be fair.

If i was moving my family there i would have studied a map at the very least.

Are you intending to live there? No? Then, no, you're not an imbecile. Why would you research an area minutely that you're not going to live?

To be fair, we’re not moving there and would likely do a good deal more research than watching influencers on insta.

Those people weren't about to move their children there!

You're right there are lots of places in the world I couldn't pinpoint on a map, but I'd have a look before booking a holiday there, let alone moving my family.

Maybe you need to look up what ‘maybe’ means.

Anyway, stop derailing OP’s thread, it’s tedious.

She has probably left this shit show anyway.

I would.

My SIL has had to go to Bahrain, Saudi and Dubai for work in the past and hated all three.