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People in Glasshouses................
Cheap shot, may I suggest you read my comment 15FEB at 2258.
Who's in the glass house?
A380-800 driver
You wouldn't say to the bangladeshi expat - "I pity you coming from Bangladesh out of your tin shanty/cardboard home with no electricity and no water, to your airconditioned flat with electricity and water and sanitation.
How many of the workers from the Indian subcontinent have airconditioned flats with electricity and water and sanitation?
I've seen a couple of the places in DXB where such workers live and whilst I can't say how they compare with what they have back in Bangladesh, they are squalid, filthy, smelly, and overcrowded and certainly not as you describe.
I'm not talking about people doing skilled jobs, I'm talking about unskilled labourers, and I maintain that they are seriously exploited, even if they may have a better life than 'back home'.