Victor
just curious...
Answer
It depends. You can love it and you can hate it.
The positive aspects:
- Good weather (personally I don't mind the heat that much) all year round
- Good lifestyle, here it is normal to go out for dinner in 5 star hotels, fancy places, boat parties whereas in Europe that would be a rare thing
- Salaries are good
- You don't pay taxes
- As a woman, you are treated very well. People are polite, let you pass in front at queues and there are "ladies only" counters (I like that ;-))
- You can become spoilt (that's a good or bad thing depending on how you see it) in the sense that it is normal to have a full time house maid to clean after every one of your moves, someone pakcking your groceries up at the supermarket and filling up your car at the fuel station
-You can call groceries at any time (till 12pm) and they will deliver for free, even only a bottle of milk
- You can afford luxury cars if you want to (loans are easy to get)
- You are well located to travel. Dubai is a major international hub and there are lots of cheap flights to Asia, the Middle East and other places
- There are a lot of expatriates from many different nationalities to meet
- You work in a multi cultural environment and can learn a lot
- Work opportunities and career growth are better than in Europe
- Lots of good restaurants, hotel quality & service is excellent
- There are good scuba diving opportunities
- As more and more expatriates are coming to Dubai, each of them is bringing a bit of their culture to the place, so culturally the offering is diverse and always improving
- Plumbing in the bathrooms is intelligent (there is a drain in the bathroom to take out excess water). I never thought I was missing something back home in Europe until I got used to this very useful thing...
Negative Aspects:
- You get bored quickly as once you've been to the malls, hotels and beaches a couple of times it's kind of always the same
- There is limited nature. Once you've done kayaking in the mangroves and been to an oasis, the rest is pretty much desert. So not really great opportunities for trekking for example (unless the stone mountains with a few shrugged trees are considered as nature)
- There are very few "free" things to do. Everything here has a price.
- It is a lot about materialism, things that shouldn't matter tend to matter a lot here (how much you earn, the car you drive, the phone you use, the place you live)
- Good schools are not free (not like in most of Europe)
- A lot of the expatriates here have come with the intention of staying a couple of years only and accumulate wealth. In turn this means that many people don't really care about making good friends, or, if they do, are likely to leave after a couple of years
- A lot of the expats are quite superficial. The Brits (I work with many of them) enjoy stereotypical stuff such as going out for beer(s) and watching a game and have little to say except that
- Guys they think they can seduce girls with a nice car and money (that is partially true) and girls think that by being beautiful they can get guys to pay for them
- Money seems to attract good looking girls. If you go to night clubs in Dubai it's like being at a Fashion show. But these girls are not for free (not necessarely prostitues, but would only go out with a rich man)
- Dubai is not a walking city, you have to have a car
- You tend to work with a mix of people. Some interesting and some plain stupid (sorry to say that). When working with certain Arabs (I'm not racist, but I have experienced this a lot, especially with Lebanese or Jordanians) they tend to talk a lot but not do much. Also they tend to be a lot of politics at work with these nationalities, many good looking girls try to advance their careers by acting "cute" at work
- Abu Dhabi is kind of boring compared to Dubai
- Some people gain weight when they initially arrive to the UAE because they stop exercising (the car is used for everything) and become lazy
It depends. You can love it and you can hate it.
The positive aspects:
- Good weather (personally I don't mind the heat that much) all year round
- Good lifestyle, here it is normal to go out for dinner in 5 star hotels, fancy places, boat parties whereas in Europe that would be a rare thing
- Salaries are good
- You don't pay taxes
- As a woman, you are treated very well. People are polite, let you pass in front at queues and there are "ladies only" counters (I like that ;-))
- You can become spoilt (that's a good or bad thing depending on how you see it) in the sense that it is normal to have a full time house maid to clean after every one of your moves, someone pakcking your groceries up at the supermarket and filling up your car at the fuel station
-You can call groceries at any time (till 12pm) and they will deliver for free, even only a bottle of milk
- You can afford luxury cars if you want to (loans are easy to get)
- You are well located to travel. Dubai is a major international hub and there are lots of cheap flights to Asia, the Middle East and other places
- There are a lot of expatriates from many different nationalities to meet
- You work in a multi cultural environment and can learn a lot
- Work opportunities and career growth are better than in Europe
- Lots of good restaurants, hotel quality & service is excellent
- There are good scuba diving opportunities
- As more and more expatriates are coming to Dubai, each of them is bringing a bit of their culture to the place, so culturally the offering is diverse and always improving
- Plumbing in the bathrooms is intelligent (there is a drain in the bathroom to take out excess water). I never thought I was missing something back home in Europe until I got used to this very useful thing...
Negative Aspects:
- You get bored quickly as once you've been to the malls, hotels and beaches a couple of times it's kind of always the same
- There is limited nature. Once you've done kayaking in the mangroves and been to an oasis, the rest is pretty much desert. So not really great opportunities for trekking for example (unless the stone mountains with a few shrugged trees are considered as nature)
- There are very few "free" things to do. Everything here has a price.
- It is a lot about materialism, things that shouldn't matter tend to matter a lot here (how much you earn, the car you drive, the phone you use, the place you live)
- Good schools are not free (not like in most of Europe)
- A lot of the expatriates here have come with the intention of staying a couple of years only and accumulate wealth. In turn this means that many people don't really care about making good friends, or, if they do, are likely to leave after a couple of years
- A lot of the expats are quite superficial. The Brits (I work with many of them) enjoy stereotypical stuff such as going out for beer(s) and watching a game and have little to say except that
- Guys they think they can seduce girls with a nice car and money (that is partially true) and girls think that by being beautiful they can get guys to pay for them
- Money seems to attract good looking girls. If you go to night clubs in Dubai it's like being at a Fashion show. But these girls are not for free (not necessarely prostitues, but would only go out with a rich man)
- Dubai is not a walking city, you have to have a car
- You tend to work with a mix of people. Some interesting and some plain stupid (sorry to say that). When working with certain Arabs (I'm not racist, but I have experienced this a lot, especially with Lebanese or Jordanians) they tend to talk a lot but not do much. Also they tend to be a lot of politics at work with these nationalities, many good looking girls try to advance their careers by acting "cute" at work
- Abu Dhabi is kind of boring compared to Dubai
- Some people gain weight when they initially arrive to the UAE because they stop exercising (the car is used for everything) and become lazy
Is my uncle hopeless?
CodeVeroni
This topic is not about me, however, be that as it may, I would still appreciate it if you would read it and make a good reply. My uncle, Jonathan McDonald (perhaps you know him, he's famous), as been single for some time now. He has been looking for love for a while, I believe he has been ever since he broke up with his girlfriend quite some time ago.
Well he is in his 40s, and he has already tried online dating (unsuccessfully). He is a very nice, awesome person, and he is great with children. He has tons of money and drives a luxury sports car to and fro places (well, he also has another car, but his other one isn't a sports car). He is always traveling around the world, he has been to tons of countries. He is of the Jonathanlandian royal family and the current Prime Minister of Jonathanland, a sovereign nation in North America.
My uncle often has the mind of a teenager (not saying he is "unintelligent for his age", because he is highly intelligent, but likes to do things teenagers like to do), he always goes to parties, plays video games, goes on forums, updates his Facebook statuses, watches movies, etc. He is also very fashionable, is considered attractive by many women, is in shape, is athletic, and looks like he is in his 20s.
My uncle likes to SCUBA dive, watch and play sports, travel, doing things with his two nephews (my brother, Eric McDonald, and myself; such as Six Flags, baseball games, movie theatres, golfing, etc.) reenact World War II battles, etc. He is the lead software designer for Enterprise Rent-A-Car, a SCUBA diving professor at Meramec College, webmaster of 3 websites (JonathanMcDonald.me, Planet Mac, and the official Jonathanland government website), prime minister and founder of Jonathanland, former soldier in the United States Army, and a former bagger at Dierbergs).
My uncle is a great man, a good uncle, and a just ruler. I hope he finds love some day. Based on what I have told you, do you think he has a good chance of finding true love some day, and perhaps even get married? Or do you think he is too old (and/or something else)?
Answer
Your never to old to find love although most of us never find true love. I'm sure he will find someone that warms his heart.
Your never to old to find love although most of us never find true love. I'm sure he will find someone that warms his heart.
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