Looking to relocate to Dubai for a few years
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Re: Looking to relocate to Dubai for a few years
If you have friends and family in Dubai then you need to be visiting. Spend a few weeks, take time to absorb the bigger picture. Maybe try and do some Chamber of Commerce meets or other networking. You'll be much better prepared with some first hand info. Reality vs the internet, not much of a comparison. You'll soon know if its a realistic expectation and desire.
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Re: Looking to relocate to Dubai for a few years
If you have friends and family in Dubai then you need to be visiting. Spend a few weeks, take time to absorb the bigger picture. Maybe try and do some Chamber of Commerce meets or other networking. You'll be much better prepared with some first hand info. Reality vs the internet, not much of a comparison. You'll soon know if its a realistic expectation and desire.
Many thanks!
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Re: Looking to relocate to Dubai for a few years
Sounds like a good idea. Will see if we can plan something and explore networking opportunities. Any recruitment agencies as well that you'd recommend I get in touch with - ones that perhaps deal with British expats specifically interested in moving to Dubai/UAE?
Many thanks!
Many thanks!
my guess is most of the people posting here (who are all long term expats) probably came here from the UK with an employer. Few showed up with a suitcase.
I came here on the 2008 lifeboat and joined a client. I moved from a bank to a consultancy two years prior with this specific idea in mind. Again I already knew my new employee and had worked for them.
Back in 2008 the labour market was very tight and people did try to recruit directly from the UK. Now this is not the case unless it's a very specific skill they are after (ie we recruited a CEO from the UK on a portfolio company but this is rare).
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Re: Looking to relocate to Dubai for a few years
Those agencies don't really exisit...One question you need to think over is why are you better than someone who is already here?
my guess is most of the people posting here (who are all long term expats) probably came here from the UK with an employer. Few showed up with a suitcase.
I came here on the 2008 lifeboat and joined a client. I moved from a bank to a consultancy two years prior with this specific idea in mind. Again I already knew my new employee and had worked for them.
Back in 2008 the labour market was very tight and people did try to recruit directly from the UK. Now this is not the case unless it's a very specific skill they are after (ie we recruited a CEO from the UK on a portfolio company but this is rare).
my guess is most of the people posting here (who are all long term expats) probably came here from the UK with an employer. Few showed up with a suitcase.
I came here on the 2008 lifeboat and joined a client. I moved from a bank to a consultancy two years prior with this specific idea in mind. Again I already knew my new employee and had worked for them.
Back in 2008 the labour market was very tight and people did try to recruit directly from the UK. Now this is not the case unless it's a very specific skill they are after (ie we recruited a CEO from the UK on a portfolio company but this is rare).
What do you have that hundreds of cheaper Asians don’t have?
TBH, what they don’t have likely won’t compensate for the additional cost of hiring you.
Hard, but fair...
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Re: Looking to relocate to Dubai for a few years
I recently got job in Dubai from London through a recruiter who contacted me out of blue just because i applied for a different role a year ago. I think its not easy to get job remotely until l and unless your skills are in high demand. But that does not mean its impossible you have to keep trying again and again. If you are earning 150k and not saving then you will not save even if you are earning 200k. Remember Warren Buffet “Do not save what is left after spending; instead spend what is left after saving.”
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Re: Looking to relocate to Dubai for a few years
I recently got job in Dubai from London through a recruiter who contacted me out of blue just because i applied for a different role a year ago. I think its not easy to get job remotely until l and unless your skills are in high demand. But that does not mean its impossible you have to keep trying again and again. If you are earning 150k and not saving then you will not save even if you are earning 200k. Remember Warren Buffet “Do not save what is left after spending; instead spend what is left after saving.”
Thanks all for your suggestions, been very helpful!
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Re: Looking to relocate to Dubai for a few years
So would you rather have a better quality of life or have enough savings? Would you rather live the moment at Kite beach in Dubai or save for a rainy day in London? The two are mutually exclusive unfortunately.
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Re: Looking to relocate to Dubai for a few years
Moreover, we did the hard grind and saved up last several years, so touchwood, we've got something to show for it and to use on a rainy day (nothing major, couple of houses here but not in London obv, clearly couldn't afford that! )
I'm guessing if we earn around 50-60k between us (so say 30k per head which I think isn't overly ambitious) should still be decent enough to get by comfortably hopefully? Clearly, what I don't know is how realistic that is to achieve and how to go about it.
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Ask about quality of life in July. Or during a sandstorm. Or better a sandstorm in July .
That said, it's better here. But not everyone sees it that way.
That said, it's better here. But not everyone sees it that way.
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Re: Looking to relocate to Dubai for a few years
Are you talking in pounds or in dirhams? And do you mean 60k yearly or monthly? It depends on what you consider a ‘good standard’ of living.
Probably Millhouse would be better able to tell you how far 60k would go over here in Dubai and if you think that’s good enough for you, then definitely go for it if you’re not worried about savings.
Our family income (2 adults, 2 school aged kids) is around 100k GBP per year and my partner is utterly depressed because he can’t save at all due to the high costs of living in Dubai (such as the school fees and rent). We have a mortgage in London and we aren’t paying enough to cover it. So if we had to downgrade we are better off living London -or so he says!!!
Probably Millhouse would be better able to tell you how far 60k would go over here in Dubai and if you think that’s good enough for you, then definitely go for it if you’re not worried about savings.
Our family income (2 adults, 2 school aged kids) is around 100k GBP per year and my partner is utterly depressed because he can’t save at all due to the high costs of living in Dubai (such as the school fees and rent). We have a mortgage in London and we aren’t paying enough to cover it. So if we had to downgrade we are better off living London -or so he says!!!
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Re: Looking to relocate to Dubai for a few years
Are you talking in pounds or in dirhams? And do you mean 60k yearly or monthly? It depends on what you consider a ‘good standard’ of living.
Probably Millhouse would be better able to tell you how far 60k would go over here in Dubai and if you think that’s good enough for you, then definitely go for it if you’re not worried about savings.
Our family income (2 adults, 2 school aged kids) is around 100k GBP per year and my partner is utterly depressed because he can’t save at all due to the high costs of living in Dubai (such as the school fees and rent). We have a mortgage in London and we aren’t paying enough to cover it. So if we had to downgrade we are better off living London -or so he says!!!
Probably Millhouse would be better able to tell you how far 60k would go over here in Dubai and if you think that’s good enough for you, then definitely go for it if you’re not worried about savings.
Our family income (2 adults, 2 school aged kids) is around 100k GBP per year and my partner is utterly depressed because he can’t save at all due to the high costs of living in Dubai (such as the school fees and rent). We have a mortgage in London and we aren’t paying enough to cover it. So if we had to downgrade we are better off living London -or so he says!!!
@ Millhouse - Would you say based on your experience, 30k per person salary is reasonably achievable? I know it's pretty subjective and vague, sorry, but just want to understand if that level of salary is average for someone coming from here etc..
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Re: Looking to relocate to Dubai for a few years
See it from an employer's perspective " Why shoulkd I hire you when for a third of your salary i could hire a Filipino or Pakistani who would be just as competent and much more subservient ?"
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Re: Looking to relocate to Dubai for a few years
Alternatively , Charisma and Chutzpah? That'd seal the deal no? ;-)
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