I thought it was **** when I moved here and after several years my opinion remains unmoved.
Third-world greedy clowns who couldn't organize a one-car parade. A medieval barbarism that tried to cloak itself in "culture" to hide the fact that it's hopelessly irrelevant in the century it actually exists in.
Fortunately the savings and job situation are nearing the point of exit, but would I do it again? Not on your life.
"Loving life"? How silly. I enjoy life, anywhere, because I choose to. But I do so in spite of the cesspool that is Dubai and it's attendant "culture", not because of it. It's all lies.