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Old Apr 18th 2007, 12:56 pm
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Originally Posted by MataHari
The whole compound thing scares me...same people, same faces..day in day out...
I even refused to go and look at compounds here in Dubai...and I include Springs, Meadows, AR etc in those...call me paranoid....
God, I wish I was perfect.

I wish I had the luxury to choose!
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Old Apr 18th 2007, 1:00 pm
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I know you're being flippant, but you can't compare the minority of wealthy people who choose to live in compounds in the UK with the majority who choose it here.

Likewise you can't compare the economically enforced ghetto-isation in inner cities in the UK with the free choice, I only want to meet whiteys attitude which pervades in the expat community
 
Old Apr 18th 2007, 1:01 pm
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God, I wish I was perfect.

I wish I had the luxury to choose!
Old bean, you might find its cheaper to live outside the Greens
 
Old Apr 18th 2007, 1:03 pm
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God, I wish I was perfect.

I wish I had the luxury to choose!
?.....
We have a single villa for less money than most houses in those compounds.
Nothing to do with being perfect.
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Old Apr 18th 2007, 1:03 pm
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Originally Posted by W10
Old bean, you might find its cheaper to live outside the Greens
I live in Springs. Truman Show on acid.

You're right about the ghetto bit, I was being flippant, but the point I was clumsily trying to make is that we never hear the end of the apparent lack of integration by Muslims in the UK in filthy, hate-spewing rags like the Mail.
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?.....
We have a single villa for less money than most houses in those compounds.
Nothing to do with being perfect.
Now you're being smug.
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Old Apr 18th 2007, 1:03 pm
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Originally Posted by W10
I know you're being flippant, but you can't compare the minority of wealthy people who choose to live in compounds in the UK with the majority who choose it here.

Likewise you can't compare the economically enforced ghetto-isation in inner cities in the UK with the free choice, I only want to meet whiteys attitude which pervades in the expat community
not all the expats are like that though W10, alot of us have many friends from lots of different background and countries. That is what I love about this place, I have got a great canadian friend, who I would never have met in the UK and she is teaching me how to speak Canadian!!! LOL
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I didn't say all. But you cannot deny that the overwhelming majority of expats act like this
 
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I didn't say all. But you cannot deny that the overwhelming majority of expats act like this
i find that people are dialect racist, I have come over it time and time again.
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Old Apr 18th 2007, 1:08 pm
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Originally Posted by littlejimmy
Now you're being smug.
Why? Because I don't like compounds? Or because we found a house that is reasonable value for money? I think you keep reading things into my posts that are not there.
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Originally Posted by MataHari
Why? Because I don't like compounds? Or because we found a house that is reasonable value for money? I think you keep reading things into my posts that are not there.
I think you're taking me too seriously.

I thought you Dutch people were chilled.

Anyway, good to read that, BC. Mixing with different cultures - like Canadians.
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I think you're taking me too seriously.

I thought you Dutch people were chilled.

Anyway, good to read that, BC. Mixing with different cultures - like Canadians.
I only put it on cos I have been winding her up about speaking Geordie, she can say 'aye' quite nicely now!!
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Old Apr 18th 2007, 1:15 pm
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alot of us have many friends from lots of different background and countries. That is what I love about this place, I have got a great canadian friend, who I would never have met in the UK and she is teaching me how to speak Canadian!!! LOL
Sorry...I just saw this.

You are being serious?
 
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i find that people are dialect racist, I have come over it time and time again.
Well...if you can't speak the Queens English.

Johnny Foreigner has an excuse.
 
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Originally Posted by W10
Sorry...I just saw this.

You are being serious?
what do you think!!!!
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