View Poll Results: When was Dubai last a lovely place to live in?
30+ years ago, before Federation
1
2.27%
20 years ago, when we all nightclubbed in Sharjah
6
13.64%
10 years ago, when there was "nothing but the Trade Centre"
11
25.00%
5 years ago, when the Madinat was still Chicago Beach Village
11
25.00%
It's the perfect lovely place now
9
20.45%
Dubai's golden age hasn't dawned yet
6
13.64%
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When was Dubai last a lovely place?
Jul 16th 2007, 1:22 pm
#78
Concierge
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Re: When was Dubai last a lovely place?
yes, but the expats that I hear moaning all the time, aren't single and living in shared accomodation, they are married women, who aren't working who have kids and live in 'new dubai'. Just take a look on EPW, their moan last week was the perverts in MOE - like the rest of the world is pervert free???
Jul 16th 2007, 1:26 pm
#80
Soupy twist
Joined: Dec 2004
Posts: 2,271
Re: When was Dubai last a lovely place?
Jul 16th 2007, 1:30 pm
#82
Soupy twist
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Posts: 2,271
Re: When was Dubai last a lovely place?
Supposedly higher moral standards, for one.
Jul 16th 2007, 1:30 pm
#83
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Re: When was Dubai last a lovely place?
Jul 16th 2007, 1:32 pm
#85
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Re: When was Dubai last a lovely place?
pervert is a rather vague, all-encompassing word... what was the actual complaint?!
Jul 16th 2007, 1:33 pm
#86
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Re: When was Dubai last a lovely place?
I think you need to differentiate between moaners like myself and Gareth and those JJ types 
Jul 16th 2007, 1:33 pm
#87
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Re: When was Dubai last a lovely place?
Further to the when-did-the-novelty-wear-off? thread, when is the last time that people think Dubai was a genuinely lovely place to live in?
When I first arrived here six years ago it was a truly great place. For at least the first two years, and it was quite pleasant for about a year after then.
Then it descended into hell. Many people have criticised my blog for being much more "negative" in recent years, and I agree with them, but that's how I feel about the city in recent years.
I am not sure what the trigger of hell was, but possibly Jumeirah Beach Residence. Certainly something that forever changed Dubai from a very lovely, large town-city with a real sense of community, into a "shutthefckuporgohome" place of mass labour exploitation, soaring living costs, escalating rents, traffic gridlock construction hell, and generally no longer the kind of city I really want to live in.
Which is why I'm probably not going to be here much longer to be honest. "If you don't like it, leave" - well I don't, so I probably will.
But when do others believe that the "Golden Age" of Dubai finished? Was it ten years ago? Twenty, when everyone went to Sharjah for a good night out? Thirty plus, before Federation? Or has the Golden Age not dawned yet?
When I first arrived here six years ago it was a truly great place. For at least the first two years, and it was quite pleasant for about a year after then.
Then it descended into hell. Many people have criticised my blog for being much more "negative" in recent years, and I agree with them, but that's how I feel about the city in recent years.
I am not sure what the trigger of hell was, but possibly Jumeirah Beach Residence. Certainly something that forever changed Dubai from a very lovely, large town-city with a real sense of community, into a "shutthefckuporgohome" place of mass labour exploitation, soaring living costs, escalating rents, traffic gridlock construction hell, and generally no longer the kind of city I really want to live in.
Which is why I'm probably not going to be here much longer to be honest. "If you don't like it, leave" - well I don't, so I probably will.
But when do others believe that the "Golden Age" of Dubai finished? Was it ten years ago? Twenty, when everyone went to Sharjah for a good night out? Thirty plus, before Federation? Or has the Golden Age not dawned yet?
