Sorry guys if someone has mentioned this in the thread I didn't read through it all. I haven't been here as long as Don and a few other posters that seen the previous crash and witnessed the allowance/move out option removed for a time. But as far as I know this is the first time EK has invested in a huge housing project that they've built themselves i.e. Meydan. It surely makes sense to the bean counters if they can build a villa for 150,000aed from scratch, (guess no idea the exact figure) then offering 160-190K a year for you to opt out is in there minds a huge drain on $. I think that this might not be as temporary as we'd like to think. I'm renting and obvs didn't receive the email. But if it comes to no allowance for renters then for me and a I think a good few more it would be time to go.
Only my 2 cents