Forget about job and $$$ for a second. Are you really wiiling to step outside of a society which at least strives to provide freedom and justice for all, to become a slave for an authoritarian regime that can and will do anything to you to enrich themselves?
Wellbeing of expats is not a goal beyond keeping them functioning to get the work done. When they are broken, get the next one.
Because bad news get censored, we only receive good news about Dubai. Thus anybody's picture is utterly incomplete before coming to Dubai. I wish somebody had told me that more clearly before I fell into the trap.
Have a read, this is a pretty good summary.
The dark side of Dubai | The Independent