Is Dubai back?
Feb 26th 2013, 6:15 am
#16
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Re: Is Dubai back?
I meant nicely failing as in able to be saved, I could go for the hammock on the beach with a rum in hand lifestyle. Lack of sarcasm is a small price to pay.
I think my next move will be back to the misty green emerald swirls of Ireland *wipes a tear from my eye and salutes the flag*.
Then being bored and leaving again
I think my next move will be back to the misty green emerald swirls of Ireland *wipes a tear from my eye and salutes the flag*.
Then being bored and leaving again
Feb 26th 2013, 6:20 am
#17
Knee deep and rising
Joined: Sep 2011
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Re: Is Dubai back?
Its the current plan, I am temporarily working on something else at the moment but the plan was to go to Abu Dhabi.
However lately I am thoroughly sick of the ME so I feel like throwing my toys out of the pram.
However lately I am thoroughly sick of the ME so I feel like throwing my toys out of the pram.
Feb 26th 2013, 6:28 am
#18
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Re: Is Dubai back?
Nah, **** it. Go do that job and when it gets to 2.5 years and starts getting horribly messed up, back away and search for rum and hammocks?
Feb 26th 2013, 6:34 am
#19
Excess Baggage
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Re: Is Dubai back?
Anyway, what can I get to come back now? I need to write "Return to Wonderland"...
Feb 26th 2013, 6:39 am
#20
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Re: Is Dubai back?
Fair enough, but the agent who sold me on Dubai wasn't very honest when he painted a picture of a "tax-free paradise". Hindsight is a wonderful thing, and I should have done better research.
Anyway, what can I get to come back now? I need to write "Return to Wonderland"...
Anyway, what can I get to come back now? I need to write "Return to Wonderland"...
Depends.
Feb 26th 2013, 8:05 am
#28
Lost in BE Cyberspace
Joined: Jul 2007
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Re: Is Dubai back?
In some ways, the bubble is already bursting.......... I have lost count of the number of shops that have closed in Dubai Mall since last summer, apparently because those greedy 'owners' (presumably on the assumption that a business in a boom town could afford it) shoved the rents up so far that occupants were priced out........
........ so now, it's becoming just another place where the big chain stores go. I used to love that 'Deli' place by the bridge over to the Souq - up went the rent, out went the occupants.... and in came Tim Horton.........
........ so now, it's becoming just another place where the big chain stores go. I used to love that 'Deli' place by the bridge over to the Souq - up went the rent, out went the occupants.... and in came Tim Horton.........
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