when moving over to dubai / abu dhabi do most people bring all their furniture and stuff......or buy everything after arrival..........cheers

depends, people do both...we brought our furniture because the company was paying for us to ship everything over...furniture is reasonable here, so no issues if you need to buy everything...

MM, xx

we came with nowt but a suitcase full of clothes, we bought furniture, tv's, dvd's, plants, books, a jeep, kitchen stuff,

the only thing I shipped over was my mac as it has all my work on and I use it loads, and it still cost me over £200.

We bought everything over here, cheap as chips!....
And its fun shopping for it all!
Thats not much that you cant get over here really......

Some of us plan to stay indefinitely* so brought everything over....



* at least we have no plans to return to the UK, so no point in leaving anything there.


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Apart from clothes, and a few personal home things (pictures etc) I bought everything out here - you really can get just about anything and it is pretty inexpensive.

Bring money lots of money, setting up here is like paying your tax.....sorry fees... upfront for the year

bring a sense of humour!

[QUOTE=busybee2;6568825]bring a sense of humour![/QUOTE

and a bunch of patience

yep agree patience! and a load of passport pictures. and a cushion for the times when you are sitting down a lot in government buildings (although to be fair its much much much better now than in the 'old' days). and also a 'lady' because they can bypass the queue in the traffic dept, i went yesterday with the 2 boys to register my car, had already done the mot, and so came back to do the paperwork (!) as i had to wait for the company to do the letters etc, anyways went into the ladies section, 5 mins later out i came away with my new gold card, and the amount of people waiting 'outside' for their gold cards, i would have been there ages (lunch time you see I always go at 8am). they have 3 machines that is spitting out cards all the time.

hi and thanks for the info....we have always taken everything when we went to new zealand and canada and uk.......but this time thought we would ditch alot of stuff......many thanks.

anyone know of any good shipping agents to ship stuff from UK to Abu Dhabi. I am not bring a lot, but i am definatly taking my TV, DVD, and some other electrical bits n bobs, esp my alphason TV stand, blasted thing cost me over £400 a few weeks back and am for sure not leaving that here !!!!

thanks ever so much

O i also need a place to live so if anyone has any ideas, let me know - need a 3 bedder pref off island as i dnt think my budget will allow me to get anything decent on island (ard 13K per month) Then again prolly wont get anything off island for that either !!!!

Try GB Liners (google for them)

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We used these guys: www.shipit.co.uk. They managed to condense the entire contents of our lives including a piano, 2 bikes and a child's motorised Mercedes into a 4m square box. The packing was excellent. We also shipped some art with them, again the packing was excellent.

I would highly recommend them.

Really impressive site - allows u to select bits you want to pack and gives a rough estimate.... Super site for a novice shipper like me - thanks Sam - totally awesome