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-   -   Is the dream dead? (https://britishexpats.com/forum/sand-pit-116/dream-dead-924595/)

Mr Cenary Apr 30th 2019 4:27 pm
Is the dream dead?
 
Lehman was more than a decade ago and Dubai is still there. The oil price crash is five years old and Abu Dhabi is still there. Expats are supposedly leaving and being denied gold-plated packages but 48-year-old British engineers and their 28-year-old Pinay girlfriends are still tearing it up at Friday brunch.

What do we think? Is this the end of days or Expat 2.0?

Millhouse Apr 30th 2019 5:30 pm
Re: Is the dream dead?
 
Originally Posted by Mr Cenary (Post 12677645)
Lehman was more than a decade ago and Dubai is still there. The oil price crash is five years old and Abu Dhabi is still there. Expats are supposedly leaving and being denied gold-plated packages but 48-year-old British engineers and their 28-year-old Pinay girlfriends are still tearing it up at Friday brunch.

What do we think? Is this the end of days or Expat 2.0?
It’s certainly changed. Back in the day the pinay girlfriends were younger and the engineers older and fatter.

Mr Cenary Apr 30th 2019 5:51 pm
Re: Is the dream dead?
 
What’s your age and waist size?

Millhouse Apr 30th 2019 6:01 pm
Re: Is the dream dead?
 
Originally Posted by Mr Cenary (Post 12677686)
What’s your age and waist size?
In no particular order the two numbers are 40 and 30. I'll let you decide which way round they are. As a clue, I don't have a pinay girlfriend though as I still have a modicum of self-respect.

Mr Cenary Apr 30th 2019 6:05 pm
Re: Is the dream dead?
 
The Pinay bit or the girlfriend bit being the issue?

scrubbedexpat141 May 2nd 2019 5:54 am
Re: Is the dream dead?
 
Originally Posted by Mr Cenary (Post 12677645)
Lehman was more than a decade ago and Dubai is still there. The oil price crash is five years old and Abu Dhabi is still there. Expats are supposedly leaving and being denied gold-plated packages but 48-year-old British engineers and their 28-year-old Pinay girlfriends are still tearing it up at Friday brunch.

What do we think? Is this the end of days or Expat 2.0?
Sounds bitter. Is your Pinay girlfriend too old now?

Millhouse May 2nd 2019 6:06 am
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Originally Posted by Scamp (Post 12678245)
Sounds bitter. Is your Pinay girlfriend too old now?
yeh. She passed her use-by date. Fun while it lasted but they go sour faster than the milk here.

scrubbedexpat141 May 2nd 2019 6:23 am
Re: Is the dream dead?
 
Originally Posted by Millhouse (Post 12678249)


yeh. She passed her use-by date. Fun while it lasted but they go sour faster than the milk here.
Yeah and they stop looking like kids...

weasel decentral May 2nd 2019 6:31 am
Re: Is the dream dead?
 
As a western expat I don't believe any region is capable of providing a long term gold plated lifestyle, surely the cycle is that the region improves to the point where foreign mercenaries are no longer required and then the lucrative opportunities disappear.

Dubai 2.0 is the land of opportunity for people coming from India or similar places, the moment has passed for the the run of the mill 48 year old red nosed engineer, unless he is prepared to readjust to that new reality.

Millhouse May 2nd 2019 6:39 am
Re: Is the dream dead?
 
Originally Posted by weasel decentral (Post 12678252)
As a western expat I don't believe any region is capable of providing a long term gold plated lifestyle, surely the cycle is that the region improves to the point where foreign mercenaries are no longer required and then the lucrative opportunities disappear.

Dubai 2.0 is the land of opportunity for people coming from India or similar places, the moment has passed for the the run of the mill 48 year old red nosed engineer, unless he is prepared to readjust to that new reality.
spot on. You’ll always need to move to the next frontier. Not that Dubai was really ever a frontier.

Dubai may revert back for the few if oil prices remain high and the locals get fed up with the Indians mismanaging everything but that remains to be seen. A gold rush for the masses is over - it’s quite interesting to see the marginal westerners get flushed out by the realities of a tough macro environment.


scot47 May 2nd 2019 7:10 am
Re: Is the dream dead?
 
Dubai was never a frontier. Small-town Saudi Arabia - there is the challenge.. Not for softies ! No snowflakes there !

Millhouse May 2nd 2019 7:55 am
Re: Is the dream dead?
 
Heard today that 150 people have been let go from the Burj al Arab, with jumeriah also letting more go from other properties - all nationalities affected not just the expensive ones.

UKCityGent May 2nd 2019 9:11 am
Re: Is the dream dead?
 
Where is the next gravy train for UK expats ?

scrubbedexpat141 May 2nd 2019 9:16 am
Re: Is the dream dead?
 
Originally Posted by scot47 (Post 12678263)
Dubai was never a frontier. Small-town Saudi Arabia - there is the challenge.. Not for softies ! No snowflakes there !
Absolutely correct, Saudi is going to be the land of opportunity for the foreseeable.

Originally Posted by UKCityGent (Post 12678300)
Where is the next gravy train for UK expats ?
Agree with your comments on Dubai. It's KSA next though.

TGFKASE May 2nd 2019 10:07 am
Re: Is the dream dead?
 
Originally Posted by UKCityGent (Post 12678300)
Where is the next gravy train for UK expats ?
In my line, probably SEA. Already putting feelers out in Vietnam, Myanmar.... Been to Thailand and Vietnam working before, but they are still slowly trying to work their way out of the trough...


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