Inside Dubai: Playground of the Rich

[purpleme12]

I love that they've channel and Hermes life buoys if they need them 🤣

Dubai airport for a stop over was enough for me, incredibly hot at 3am, huge and full of bling. Vile place.

[quote Maireas]@Fritilleries - the books and the portrait on the wall, the flag and the national colour tributes in the chandeliers. Hilarious. [/quote]
What a crawler she was, total brown nose. Wouldn’t live there if you paid me millions.

I loved the tea party Mugabe woman threw for the newbies to the neighborhood. They obviously hated every minute and it was so awkward, especially when her bratty daughter started getting really bratty 🤣😆🤣

They portray it like Sheikh Mohammed is seen as some sort of God

@Fritilleries

"Can people go on the pull here?" Man silently shakes head and says "We can't talk about that."

Is that not weird?? I get the cultural element but it is unsettling to see people consciously censure themselves.

Make the wrong statement and you can end up in prison.

@purpleme12

Two kitchen!! One not for smelly food!!

Very common as maids cook their own food too and is usually spicy or smells strong.

@WowIlikereallyhateyou

Maireas, I know, I bet the nannies think that too, but sadly are powerless. A real eyesight into everything that is wrong with the world!

"Nanny" is a term used but is basically a maid/often with little English/is not involved in doing anything other than running after the child. Sounds better than it is.

@BliainNua

Just watched first two episodes. The poor chef from Philippines (I think?) Who only saw her son once a year Also, rich people seem to be expats but poor people are immigrants - surely everyone is an immigrant if you're not from there??

Once a year is generous. The legal requirement to provide a ticket home is two years. Many work the first year holiday to get extra money and as they cannot afford the air ticket.

I'm now angling for another expat posting 😜

@purpleme12

They portray it like Sheikh Mohammed is seen as some sort of God

Bear in mind this is a country where people depend on the "generosity" of SM to live there, where you can be imprisoned for saying the wrong thing, where the Internet is controlled and filtered, where laws can change overnight on one person's say so. In the first episode the UAE local explained exactly what the benefits of being an Emirati are so no one is going to jeopardise that - free land, free wedding, given a job with relaxed hours, free utilities. For these rich expats they have no idea of the reality of life for many there. Bear in mind that the UAE is also the perfect place for a bit of money laundering.

I watched a few minutes, the part about the women with supercars. I thought it was very interesting, showing one woman talking about how empowering it was for women to have a supercar club while the maid scuttled past, head bowed and covered.

Just watching part 3. I love this happy truffle and caviar salesman! He's definitely living his best life.

Have to say though, I've been to Dubai many times and hardly ever had a decent meal there. If you go somewhere like Zuma then of course it's a good as it would be anywhere else, and there are some great small local places if you know where to go, but the majority of restaurants are expensive and crap compared to e.g. London.

I couldn't understand why people kept saying it was beautiful. Sure the off marina or beach looked ok but it just looked so artificial, big buildings, big road and loads of sand. Overall, I thought it portrayed the place really badly. It came across as weird cult like place where money matters more than anything. The greed and disparity of wealth was pretty sickening, all that's wrong with the world in my opinion. Good Tv though as it very much seemed that money doesn't but class, so so tacky.

Wouldnt watch it...dubai is 7 star chav land....awful place....went to visit a friend and lasted 2 days...fled to oman...lovely country and people.

It all looks like a massive council estate with high rise everywhere
Ghastly place
The woman who didn’t wear the same outfit twice , well tfft ! She looked awful

@Borracha

The general consensus amongst the expat community here in Dubai is that this show is pretty embarrassing as it paints a really unrealistic and unflattering picture of what life here is like for most of us.

Our nanny doesn’t have kids but from what she has explained, the concept of moving overseas to work, leaving your children behind, is very normal. She grew up in the Philippines with her dad and older brother spending most of her childhood working in Saudi Arabia. The money they sent home paid for her to go to university and train as a nurse. She now works here in Dubai (first as a nurse in a hospital, then as a private maternity nurse and now as a nanny for us) and sends the bulk of her salary home to support her elderly parents. Not sure how this is a bad reflection on Dubai.

So I guess you would be happy for you or your children to have the same life as your nanny? Because it's 'normal'. Oh, you mean 'normal' for poor people who are used to being exploited.