Moving to Dubai...

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  • Wolfboy0

    I worked out there this year for a couple of months and they'd have to pay me a hell of a lot more to go back to that place.

    If you care at all about culture, art, music, interesting social life then it's not the place for you. It's like all the worst bits of the west end of London, all faceless offices, awful chavie bars filled with suited wankers drinking crap over priced cocktails and so on without any of the good parts. No soul to the place.

    The place is all about the image it projects to the rest of the world so you have the worlds tallest building going up in front of your eyes while there is next to no public transport or even any decent pavements to walk on.

    The worst part of it for me was the local culture of that part of the world has been totally lost to western commercial forces. A good example of this is when I was there I took a desert safari trip - good laugh, bombing about in a jeep up and down sand dunes; but we pulled up to take photos of some camels and I later found out that camels aren't native to that part of the desert and they have been imported because it's what they think tourists want to see in a desert.

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