Two Dogs,
Not sure about some of the points brought up.....
Dress code in Al Ain must be more strict than than Dubai, else all the hookers would be behind bars (Not those sort of bars).
Hotels serve booze only to their guests seems like a long bow with so many pubs here in dubai, unless anyone one who stumbles in is a guest.
Can't drive a hire car on a standard foreign licence. My wife and l drove a hire car for three months on Oz licences without a problem. No international licence required and drove straight away.
Small story: A mate of mine had a few beers at his local and drove home in Victoria, Australia. A more pissed bugger walks out from behind parked cars and mate hits him at 40kmh. Pister bugger ends up in hospital with minor abrasions
Old mate ends up in lock-up for the night as he was DUI, and is raped several times by some regulars.
Whats so different between there and the ME?
No gilding the lilly but if you have nothing to hide or worry about then life is fine.
Rathouse,
Maybe Aus mate has no better offer at home than to come here.
"Free and democratic", like branch stacking the Botany ALP candidate run to get some weird outspoken green in the seat after some pathetic has-been retires! Whats democratic about that!
All the other points by both contributers are quite salient though!!!
halas