Where to live
Feb 5th 2008, 12:05 pm
#16
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Re: Where to live
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.
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.
Feb 5th 2008, 12:05 pm
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Re: Where to live
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.
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.....
Feb 5th 2008, 12:10 pm
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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.
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.
Feb 5th 2008, 12:11 pm
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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
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
Feb 5th 2008, 12:15 pm
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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
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
Feb 5th 2008, 12:16 pm
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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
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.
Feb 5th 2008, 12:25 pm
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Re: Where to live
I prefer him when he's writing about shagging gardeners myself...
Feb 5th 2008, 12:32 pm
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Feb 5th 2008, 12:40 pm
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Re: Where to live
I don't think my gardener (if I had a gardener) would be called Tom.
Feb 5th 2008, 12:46 pm
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Feb 5th 2008, 1:01 pm
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Feb 6th 2008, 9:46 am
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Re: Where to live
W10, are you an ex-pat?