MissDemeanor

I live way out in The Ranches,and I love it!...If God had intended us to walk he wouldnt have invented Taxi's.

captainflack

I have a colleague who has recently rented in International City.

1. He said the build finish is terrible. He's had maintenance guys out 7-8 times in the space of a month to fix various things.

2. The place smells of sewage. He reckons it is not actually the sewage plant which some rocket scientist decided to locate right next to a major housing development (it's not like Dubai is running out of worthless desert!?). The bods that run the place say it is the building work (metro i think he said) that is digging into sand that is full of sewage.

He has been told that the building will finish in 6 months after which International City will no doubt smell once again like an alpine forest glade.

Thankfully as we know all building work in Dubai finishes bang on schedule and everything is always as good or better than promised, and developers would never dream of giving an unrealistic and over-optimistic estimation of when a problem might be resolved.

admon

'the build finish is terrible'. Welcome to Dubai. Isn't it bad everywhere?
Pay peanuts, get monkeys. It fits dubai construction to a tee.

Blue Cat

I am going 'home' for the weekend, you up for a shwarma at Al Mulla

Blue Cat

but you haven't really lived in real Dubai, you are just living on an American style housing estate designed by Emaar to con people into investing into their properties. It's ok for some but not me. If I had a choice I would be in Satwa or in Jumierah 1 with MM

Patsy Stoned

errrm forgive me if I am wrong but I seem to remember the sewerage works have been there long before they started to build IC.. friends at the Desert Palm have moaned about it for years!!!

Coxy the Bear

Well nothing has broken in my place touch wood. As for the sewage works being built next to IC, I think the works were there first, hence being decommisioned in 2012. That's why you only smell it when the wind comes from that direction. Nothing to do with the Metro......or you'd smell it where the Metro is being built. I doubt International City will be finished in 6 months, more like 2 years!

captainflack

My colleague said he'd gone right up next to the sewage works and the smell was not coming from there. He was convinced it was the building work, and from what I recall him saying, that is what Nakheel (I think) had told him. He said his place he gets maybe an hour each night where it is really bad, but his friend lives in one of the other 'countries' (I cannot recall which one) and the smell is pretty much permanent.

It does seem bizarre that they would choose to build something right next to a sewage works. I am pretty sure last time I flew in to Dubai I saw quite a few empty spaces without waste treatment plants, nerve gas factories, toxic waste dumps, nuclear power stations, etc.

Patsy Stoned

sorry but the smell from the sewerage plant has been bothering people at the Desert Palm for years..long before they started building the metro!

W10

I'd be slightly less annoyed about the build quality in an apartment I'd paid dh400,000 for, than exactly the same problems in a building I'd paid dh3m+ for.

W10

They rarely come up with anything as soulless as AR/Springs/Jumeirah Lake whatever in the US. It's a special Gulf thing

IndieG

I love Al Dhiyafah, Al Fahidi .... The only charming bits (apart from Satwa, Safa etc) left from the 'old' Dubai. They're about to destroy all this too

The difference between the spanking new buildings on SZR and the area behind this road (just 2 parallel roads behind SZR- on the Fairmont/Holiday Inn side) is striking. I know which one I prefer....

lionheart

Have you been to the retirement communities in parts of Florida recently? Equally soul-less in my opinion.

IndieG

Think W10 was not comparing Florida and Dubai....so not sure why Florida cropped up in this thread

Anyway now that you brought it up - look what happened to the property market in Florida.......

lionheart

W10 was saying that the USA has no soul-less communities of the type found here...hence my remark. Last time I looked, Florida was still a part of the USA and had not been ceded to Cuba.