Dubai - the truth
Oct 11th 2007, 9:20 am
#61
Remember
Joined: Oct 2003
Location: The Land of Sindbad
Posts: 1,275
Re: Dubai - the truth
Definitely would choose Singapore over the other two but would take Hong Kong over any of them!
Singapore's e;ections may be a farce but at least they have them (not there there is all that much wrong with Sheikh Mo and his cronies).
A big factor is also job security- Singapore offers it to you, Abu Dhabi it is ingrained because less people want to go there and Dubai has bugger all. If you're going to uproot yourself you want to make sure you're doing it for the mid-to-long haul.
Singapore's e;ections may be a farce but at least they have them (not there there is all that much wrong with Sheikh Mo and his cronies).
A big factor is also job security- Singapore offers it to you, Abu Dhabi it is ingrained because less people want to go there and Dubai has bugger all. If you're going to uproot yourself you want to make sure you're doing it for the mid-to-long haul.
Oct 11th 2007, 9:20 am
#62
Lost in BE Cyberspace
Joined: Jan 2007
Location: By the old canal...
Posts: 7,715
WHAT and litter our bags with smelling, horrible fag ends ....
Oct 11th 2007, 10:34 am
#64
Account Closed
Joined: Jul 2007
Posts: 7,028
Re: Dubai - the truth
[QUOTE=Desert Dweller;5412144]Definitely would choose Singapore over the other two but would take Hong Kong over any of them!
(QUOTE]Sorry, but in my eyes, Hong Kong looks like a massive Jumeirah Beach Residence built on a hillside...not my cup of tea.
(QUOTE]Sorry, but in my eyes, Hong Kong looks like a massive Jumeirah Beach Residence built on a hillside...not my cup of tea.
Oct 11th 2007, 11:00 am
#65
Lost in BE Cyberspace
Joined: Sep 2006
Posts: 18,187
Re: Dubai - the truth
Originally Posted by lionheart
Sorry, but in my eyes, Hong Kong looks like a massive Jumeirah Beach Residence built on a hillside...not my cup of tea.
MM, xx
Oct 11th 2007, 2:18 pm
#66
Lowering the tone
Joined: Mar 2007
Location: Here and there
Posts: 7,347
Re: Dubai - the truth
Yep, that's so true. And it matters if you are Singapore-Chinese, Singapore-Malaysian, Singapore- Indonesian. And note all the workers being trucked in every day from the Cantons in Jahor Bahru - there is a desperately poor underclass working in Singapore, it's just that they get trucked out again every evening.
Chewing gum Ban, maybe. But hey, they legalized Table Dancing!!
Chewing gum Ban, maybe. But hey, they legalized Table Dancing!!
I know that a 'pecking order' is there, it exists in probably every country in the world. I was just trying to tell the OP that in Singapore it isn't nearly as blatant, as institutionalised or as in-you-face as in the UAE.
People who live in the UAE can't criticise anyone's elections....
Oct 11th 2007, 3:03 pm
#67
Not an evil hypnotist
Joined: May 2007
Posts: 1,975
Re: Dubai - the truth
People who live in the UAE can't criticise anyone's elections....
Oct 11th 2007, 3:54 pm
#68
Lowering the tone
Joined: Mar 2007
Location: Here and there
Posts: 7,347
Re: Dubai - the truth
I know what you were saying, and I was disagreeing with you. Racism may not be as in-your-face, but based on my experience of living in Singapore and having several friends in the Government and public services there, it's almost as blatant and if anything, even more institutionalised.
The Singaporean elections were one reason I decided I didn't want to stay in Singapore, and hence ended up in Dubai, so...
The Singaporean elections were one reason I decided I didn't want to stay in Singapore, and hence ended up in Dubai, so...
Sorry mate, but that is agreeing with me!!
I'm intrigued by that statement... please could you expand? If you are so sensitive to democratic injustices, why move to Dubai?
Oct 11th 2007, 3:58 pm
#69
Account Closed
Joined: Jul 2007
Posts: 7,028
Re: Dubai - the truth
[QUOTE=typical;5413235 The Singaporean elections were one reason I decided I didn't want to stay in Singapore, and hence ended up in Dubai, so...[/QUOTE]You must be joking...democracy in the Middle East simply doesn't happen
Oct 11th 2007, 4:09 pm
#71
Account Closed
Thread Starter
Joined: Oct 2007
Posts: 787
Re: Dubai - the truth
What is so bad about the singaporean elections?
After going through a general election in Jamaica, whereby violence is an ordinary part of the process, surely any other election is tame by comparison?
After going through a general election in Jamaica, whereby violence is an ordinary part of the process, surely any other election is tame by comparison?
Oct 11th 2007, 4:13 pm
#72
Lost in BE Cyberspace
Joined: Jun 2007
Location: Dubai
Posts: 13,547
Re: Dubai - the truth
Singapore is effectively a one party state! The People's Action Party has such a tight grip on the instruments of power that no other party has any chance of success.
Oct 11th 2007, 9:50 pm
#75
Lost in BE Cyberspace
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 23,434
Re: Dubai - the truth
We've never experienced oppression...Well, by a local force/dictator anyway... But we still had to endure 14 years of Syrian tutelage, and it's puppet regime which we're trying to get rid of,hopefully in the coming weeks...