So true Fire Ball. Everything in this place is one struggle after another. Getting a visa, trying to get a villa, even the upgrade process. Trying to get to your home country once a year on your one measly free ticket a year, if you lucky enough to get any leave, again another struggle. Even trying to get your kids into a decent school, another struggle with endless waiting lists. Pilots are enemy number one here and a massive Inconvenience to the company. The atmosphere in the flightdeck is amazing but once you step off the airplane in Dubai and have to deal with day to day life here it's a fight and a struggle for every inch.