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Old Feb 28th 2007, 5:12 pm
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Default Dossier of evidence for people leaving Dubai

With so few stats on people arriving and leaving Dubai I thought it would be worthwhile to compile some evidence on whether there are indeed large numbers of people leaving Dubai at the moment. Dubai has always been a transitional place but I think there is something different about the sheer number of people leaving this City.

So if you have evidence of people arriving or leaving en-masse please attach it to this thread and we will see how much we can infer from what others are saying. It's important we keep this objective for it to be as close an analysis as we can possibly get. As I said evidence of arrivals or departures would be welcomed.

Here goes with some evidence I found today...
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Today (28th Feb), I visited an insurance firm in Oud Metha to cancel my Wife's car policy. The very kind lady said almost all of her customers had now cancelled because they were returning home largely back to the UK - she couldn't understand it and had never seen anything like it before in Dubai.

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Old Feb 28th 2007, 5:16 pm
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why would you want to put togehter a dossier on this???

I've seen no evidence that people are leaving en masse...everyone I know is still here, lol!

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Old Feb 28th 2007, 5:17 pm
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Default Re: Dossier of evidence for people leaving Dubai

Originally Posted by geoffboon90
With so few stats on people arriving and leaving Dubai I thought it would be worthwhile to compile some evidence on whether there are indeed large numbers of people leaving Dubai at the moment. Dubai has always been a transitional place but I think there is something different about the sheer number of people leaving this City.

So if you have evidence of people arriving or leaving en-masse please attach it to this thread and we will see how much we can infer from what others are saying. It's important we keep this objective for it to be as close an analysis as we can possibly get. As I said evidence of arrivals or departures would be welcomed.

Here goes with some evidence I found today...
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Today (28th Feb), I visited an insurance firm in Oud Metha to cancel my Wife's car policy. The very kind lady said almost all of her customers had now cancelled because they were returning home largely back to the UK - she couldn't understand it and had never seen anything like it before in Dubai.
maybe other insurance companies are giving away good deals, and people cancell saying they are leaving the country....
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Old Feb 28th 2007, 5:18 pm
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why would you want to put togehter a dossier on this???

I've seen no evidence that people are leaving en masse...everyone I know is still here, lol!

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I can think of some people I'd like to leave...does that count?
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Default Re: Dossier of evidence for people leaving Dubai

Interesting - points. Everywhere I look people seem to be leaving - maybe I've just been here too long!! The posting on the Dubai property crash revealed some excellent insider information you just don't get in any newspaper!

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Originally Posted by MataHari
I can think of some people I'd like to leave...does that count?
oh me too MH, but they keep coming back, so looks like they are firmly here to stay

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Old Feb 28th 2007, 6:58 pm
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I lived in dubai for about 2 years.

Of my 20 or so closest friends from dubai, 6 left before I left and 6 have left since I left. 8 or so remain in dubai, and of those 4 are leaving in the next year for uk and australia. Nobody has any plans or desire to return, and in all cases leaving was a voluntary decision...
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People come people goes... I am sure plenty of new families arriving in Dubai too. Thats the way it goes.

Anyone will give evidence how many new people/families arriving in Dubai?
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As Westerners go, I know only one person out of around 10 friends who has been here longer than 5 years.

Of those 10, at least half plan to leave in the next 12 months.

I also know three people who have left in the past 3 months, who just decided to leave at short notice because the financial recompense isn't worth the downsides of the city anymore.
 
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I also know three people who have left in the past 3 months, who just decided to leave at short notice because the financial recompense isn't worth the downsides of the city anymore.

you hit the nail on the head...
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Old Feb 28th 2007, 7:40 pm
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Originally Posted by TA5
I lived in dubai for about 2 years.

Of my 20 or so closest friends from dubai, 6 left before I left and 6 have left since I left. 8 or so remain in dubai, and of those 4 are leaving in the next year for uk and australia. Nobody has any plans or desire to return, and in all cases leaving was a voluntary decision...
Yes but your a miserable **** so one can only imagine what your friends are like.






























just ribbing you TA5
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Originally Posted by W10
As Westerners go, I know only one person out of around 10 friends who has been here longer than 5 years.

Of those 10, at least half plan to leave in the next 12 months.

I also know three people who have left in the past 3 months, who just decided to leave at short notice because the financial recompense isn't worth the downsides of the city anymore.
I know quite a few expats who have been here for well over ten years, most between 2 and 5. Only one couple plan to leave as they said they would after 7 years and thats up next year. They are not returning to the Uk but looking at Asia for the next move.

There are definately a lot of people leaving but on the other hand hundreds more are arriving every week. Overall i think it depends on who you talk to and why they came, if they came for money they'll leave for money etc.
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I work for a relo company and roughly for every one person leaving there are 4 coming in........
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Old Mar 1st 2007, 2:15 am
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I work for a relo company and roughly for every one person leaving there are 4 coming in........
and they are all driving on Algeria Street....
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Geoff,
Neighbour of mine was working for the Landmark group, spent exactly a year here and returned to India in Dec05 - he found a better job and mentioned he could save much more and have a better quality of life (this being a moot point! )

Then another neighbour returned to Singapore last year - same reasons.

Also, Banks are finding it increasingly difficult to attract good Credit/Corporate Finance people from India, unless you are willing to pay top $$$.
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