Its about 20km from Dubai, in the desert between Dubai and Al Ain. If you have a map that shows the Dubai to Al Ain highway, it is about 500m the other side of where Emirates road crosses that highway, from Dubai. As it is in the middle of no-where at the moment, that's about the best I can do. It will be near the Dubai land and all that sort of stuff when they eventually get built. One day it will be a fine place to be. At the moment it is far from schools (for those already with kids established at school already.), shops etc....seems it might be a long drive for a pint of milk or bread etc. I am sure shops etc will follow, but it might be a very long warm wait.
I think its a bit cheeky of the company to expect people to volunteer to move out there at no cost to the company. I think I will just wait to get kicked out of where I am now when the rent goes up, and get sent there. At least that way they give a couple of thousand AED to help with moving expenses.
Don