Excellent reply Scooby.
I look forward to joining you for brunch sometime when I start in July.
We could fill this forum with a thread on 'why work in x' x to be any country in the world that has ATC! Hell I'd like to work in the US, if only they didn't have such protectionist, zenophobic emplyment laws. Yet IMHO the US is the most fu*/ed up country on the planet, huge %age of population locked up, no healthcare for those that need it most......yada yada.
UAE customs aren't exactly playing a blinder, but it isn't stopping the 4 LHR ATCOs who are leaving for the desert this year and the 5 others thinking about joining up early 2009!