My experience ? Lived and worked in DXB ....and never again.
You can't even give "the finger" to some jumped up
[email protected] for cutting you up on the road, fop fear said "
[email protected]" is related to the cousin of the mother of the sister of the brother uncle of .....and so on.... and you get arrested (and that's happened !).
I am glad that you have escaped from "here", without happiness there is no love for what u do the best....and by the way "the finger" is very rude gesture wherever u have been raised