Pancho Villas? Gawd, you’re really dating yourself, 411eh. Pancho’s slipped from anywhere near flavour of the month status with Dubai’s younger Western expat glitterati and clitterati a looooong time ago. Glueball’s assessment is very accurate, but doesn’t include two factors that could have immense and far-reaching effects on the whole region (and especially for expats living there).
Those two factors? Should one (or heaven forbid, both) the King in Saudi or Sheikh Zayed, the highly esteemed ruler of the UAE, die over the next twelve months, the cat could – would – really be among the canaries, so to speak. Both men are very old, neither enjoys good health, (Sheikh Zayed is currently in Switzerland for a check up), and given recent events, the succession in both cases may not be as clear cut and seamless as it might have been before.
Interesting times ahead, I think. But people not living in the area shouldn’t panic over remarks like those of ‘camel trader’. If he works for GF or EK, I suspect he’s hoping the flood of recruits will dry up so he can ask for a pay rise for living in a danger zone.