A return to the desert? Only with mod cons
 

http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs....704149864/1040

Seems some locals are returning to live in tents in the desert, rather than live in a city with us awful foreigners. But only with aircon and televisions.

Apparently some are put off by the 'scarcity of mosques' in certain parts of Dubai and Abu Dhabi. Plenty of them near me!

Recently one poster (Spugsy?) claimed that Dubai would be better without locals. Looks like their hopes are getting closer if this article has any accuracy...

Your thoughts?

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some of them never really left I guess...just outside Mirdif there's always loads of people in the sand, just sitting there in the evening, and there are quite a few tent type things, complete with sofa's and carpets etc, where they spend the whole weekend, quadbikes parked outside, campfires...

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I kind of understand where they are coming from. I used to work in the city, but lived in the village I grew up in. It was great coming home every night, peace and quiet, people I know since I was born.
It is nice to have everything a city has to offer available, as nice as it is to have peace and quiet if you want it.

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Weekend camping isn't really the same a full time ldesert living which is what some of the interviewees are claiming.

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oh well...sorry for posting.

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:rofl:

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Yeah...You should have known better...

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saw a fella at the back of Mirdif a couple of weeks back with a 42" telly and a sofa watching the football, 4x4s whizzing all around him

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but if he only does that during the weekend, it doesn't count...apparently

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that'll be Spugsy Al Reet Laa's - he's well known. Local type. Canny like. Did he have a striking black and white strip kundura?

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what are your thoughts?

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Sofas watching football? What were you smoking?

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"In the sizzling heat of the day, he and his family can lounge in a Bedouin tent, decked out with a television, air conditioner and trays serving fresh camel milk, pitched in front of his villa’s entrance."

I used to sleep in a tent in the back garden of my family house, back when I was six...

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Wasn't that more Base Camp Everest climes?
Unless of course you are talking about the Crieff Brownie Jamboree:)