You seem to be missing the big issues
If you are single then you will not have to worry about a bored wife, schooling for kids etc. The big issues come when trying to balance your work and being here with the needs of a family. US and Europe are nothing like here, totally different culture with a heavily ingrained class system. UAE nationals at the top, western expats in the middle and Asia/sub continent expats at the bottom. As someone has said this has been done to death on these forums.
If your only real concern is the cost of phones and Internet then it is a no brainer ... come and enjoy the hospitality of the most tolerant Arabic/Muslim country and the biggest, tallest, widest, largest, bestest, most wonderful place on earth ... no wait that's Disneyland isn't it?
Most of what you have in US is here consumer wise, there are bigger malls being built all the time. Cars are cheaper to buy and run, labour is cheap so you needn't ever have to clean your apartment, wash your clothes or iron your laundry whilst you are here if you choose.
Once you get used to the god-awful driving, perpetual road works, manual paper based systems and dealing with the various cultures you'll be fine.
Last edited by Macaroon; 18th Dec 2007 at 17:04.
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