View Poll Results: How is it for you?
Awesome, we're making hay while the sun shines 360 days a year
5
9.80%
One wasp or two in the lager but going good
8
15.69%
Slowing but surviving
17
33.33%
Slowing and struggling
11
21.57%
Not quite suicidal yet
4
7.84%
I've nothing to do
5
9.80%
I've already dumped the 4x4 at the airport
1
1.96%
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How is business?
Dec 14th 2015, 11:09 am
#76
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Re: How is business?
Things in the UAE are rarely as simple as they appear.
Dec 14th 2015, 11:39 am
#77
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Re: How is business?
Popped by on here to say hi
My FB feed is brutal, so many friends in O&G lost their jobs. I've hung on to mine by skin of teeth. Worldwide phenomenon, projects closing down everywhere as companies hunker down for long term drops.
Amazing considering that in the late 90s when we dropped to 9.7/bbl a 35$ world would have been wonderful.
My FB feed is brutal, so many friends in O&G lost their jobs. I've hung on to mine by skin of teeth. Worldwide phenomenon, projects closing down everywhere as companies hunker down for long term drops.
Amazing considering that in the late 90s when we dropped to 9.7/bbl a 35$ world would have been wonderful.
Dec 15th 2015, 4:21 am
#78
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Re: How is business?
Two short interesting notices in the National the other day.
First is that developers in Dubai are sitting on 6,000 empty villas ready for handover but won't release them due to market conditions. Probably makes the owners of those villas very happy
Second is that Sharjah rents have declined slightly for the first time in two years. I found this telling because Dubai rents have barely budged over the past year.
First is that developers in Dubai are sitting on 6,000 empty villas ready for handover but won't release them due to market conditions. Probably makes the owners of those villas very happy
Second is that Sharjah rents have declined slightly for the first time in two years. I found this telling because Dubai rents have barely budged over the past year.
Dec 15th 2015, 4:51 am
#79
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Dec 15th 2015, 5:02 am
#80
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Re: How is business?
10% tax on F&B sneaking in...
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Dec 15th 2015, 5:45 am
#81
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Re: How is business?
Qatar rents still rising I think, 10% year on year.
Dec 15th 2015, 6:42 am
#82
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Re: How is business?
why would any one want to live in Sharjah.
Dec 15th 2015, 7:05 am
#83
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Re: How is business?
It's cheap.
It may come as a shock to you but most people in this country don't make Western level packages.
And Sharjah, despite being an awful place from western perspectives, is paradise compared to many shitholes elsewhere in Asia/Africa/whatever.
It may come as a shock to you but most people in this country don't make Western level packages.
And Sharjah, despite being an awful place from western perspectives, is paradise compared to many shitholes elsewhere in Asia/Africa/whatever.
Dec 15th 2015, 8:26 am
#84
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Re: How is business?
Dec 15th 2015, 9:34 am
#85
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Re: How is business?
It's a shithole compared to Nuneaton - and thats saying something!
Dec 15th 2015, 10:16 am
#86
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