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Re: Where to live
Originally Posted by W10
(Post 5888022)
Satwa is the best place to live in Dubai.
Tonnes of good and cheap restaurants with all kinds of cuisine (four lebanese, two lebanese sweet shops, two chinese, one thai, two pizza, one italian, two cafes, one korean, one iranian, one indian, salad restaurant, japanese, philipino and more) some upscale ones within 10 mins walk of my apartment. Close to the beach, close to fabric stores and tailors, populated by real people from all walks of life, walking distance from bars, 5 mins to SZR, 5 mins to beach road, it has interesting people, you can walk...it has shops, in a street no less!!! In short...it has character. I couldn't live in the soulless shiny new areas of Dubai. Ex-pat zoos. |
Re: Where to live
Originally Posted by W10
(Post 5888022)
Satwa is the best place to live in Dubai.
Tonnes of good and cheap restaurants with all kinds of cuisine (four lebanese, two lebanese sweet shops, two chinese, one thai, two pizza, one italian, two cafes, one korean, one iranian, one indian, salad restaurant, japanese, philipino and more) some upscale ones within 10 mins walk of my apartment. Close to the beach, close to fabric stores and tailors, populated by real people from all walks of life, walking distance from bars, 5 mins to SZR, 5 mins to beach road, it has interesting people, you can walk...it has shops, in a street no less!!! In short...it has character. I couldn't live in the soulless shiny new areas of Dubai. Ex-pat zoos. Choice phrase. Harsh, yet somehow true..... |
Re: Where to live
Its all a matter of choice.
I lived in Mankhool and was happy to get out. Am now I am in Umm Suqeim which I guess is the middle ground! A Mixture of mainly locals and expats. |
Re: Where to live
I had the misfortune to live in the springsmeadowsgreensjbrmarinavillasgenericexpatzoo area of Dubai for a while.
Hated every minute of it. It suits dull curtain twitchers (read: large swathes of Western expats) obsessed with keeping up with the joneses who think they are superior to the world because they gots themselves a villa, some domestic help and a beemer |
Re: Where to live
Originally Posted by W10
(Post 5888060)
I had the misfortune to live in the springsmeadowsgreensjbrmarinavillasgenericexpatzoo area of Dubai for a while.
Hated every minute of it. It suits dull curtain twitchers (read: large swathes of Western expats) obsessed with keeping up with the joneses who think they are superior to the world because they gots themselves a villa, some domestic help and a beemer |
Re: Where to live
Originally Posted by W10
(Post 5888060)
I had the misfortune to live in the springsmeadowsgreensjbrmarinavillasgenericexpatzoo area of Dubai for a while.
Hated every minute of it. It suits dull curtain twitchers (read: large swathes of Western expats) obsessed with keeping up with the joneses who think they are superior to the world because they gots themselves a villa, some domestic help and a beemer rather nasty-- How beastly the bourgeois is! Standing in their thousands, these appearances, in damp England what a pity they can't all be kicked over like sickening toadstools, and left to melt back, swiftly into the soil of England. |
Re: Where to live
I prefer him when he's writing about shagging gardeners myself...
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Re: Where to live
Originally Posted by W10
(Post 5888108)
I prefer him when he's writing about shagging gardeners myself...
{he says trying desperately to get back on-thread...} |
Re: Where to live
I don't think my gardener (if I had a gardener) would be called Tom.
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Re: Where to live
Originally Posted by W10
(Post 5888177)
I don't think my gardener (if I had a gardener) would be called Tom.
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Re: Where to live
Originally Posted by shakh your bootie
(Post 5888204)
Nay, yaar - Lady Chatterjee's lover goes by the good-name of Suresh...
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Re: Where to live
Originally Posted by jvr20
(Post 5888242)
Chaudry more likely for a Bengali gardner :blink:
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Re: Where to live
Originally Posted by shakh your bootie
(Post 5888267)
Yes, that adds credibility. Excellent. Reminds me - when I was little we had a gardner named "Ghul" - quite apt, really....
i've got a song on my mind now, won't be able to shake it off for the rest of the day! |
Re: Where to live
W10, are you an ex-pat?
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Re: Where to live
Originally Posted by arbroath_abroad
(Post 5893225)
W10, are you an ex-pat?
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