Cyberbird
22nd Mar 2007, 18:55
If been visiting a friend of mine after a flight for a splash opposite his villa in Umm Suquiem 2 this afternoon - and guess what: that lovely stretch of beach beneath the Burj al Arab isn't there to be any longer !:eek:
Massive &ugly fencing is underway, to make the so called "beach front villas" at that 1 mile stretch a backroad of a massive buliding site, for the years to come:*
the colleague told me, that prices have plummeted rightaway and are already some 20-30% down by now, as people don't want to put up with noise, dirt and heavy machinery for the years to come - for now everybody with an own pool there got lucky ...:E
Looks to me, as those selfish "land developers" plus "local municipality" are getting way too greedy -
as Dubai is merely worth a visit without it's beaches -
any shopping mall or live concert can be visited elsewhere, and skiing is only the real thing up in the mountains - where You got not only real snow and long (!) slopes, but also a breath-taking view over the alps or rockies ...:sad:
so, that folks are devinitively cutting the branches, they'r e (still comfortably) sitting on .. that's pretty stupid & short-sighted to me & it will bite them back 4 sure - and it does actually already, as some anoid tennents are already said to be NOT renewing their utterly expensive (ex) beach villa contracts anymore - for a consruction-site location for years to come, and with its noise and dust coming with it ..:=
7 days got the issue already BIG on their frontpage as well - as that "shot in the knee" by the municipality makes big waves already, as nobody was informed in time -and most affected people got utterly disappointed - to say @ least!:{
Massive &ugly fencing is underway, to make the so called "beach front villas" at that 1 mile stretch a backroad of a massive buliding site, for the years to come:*
the colleague told me, that prices have plummeted rightaway and are already some 20-30% down by now, as people don't want to put up with noise, dirt and heavy machinery for the years to come - for now everybody with an own pool there got lucky ...:E
Looks to me, as those selfish "land developers" plus "local municipality" are getting way too greedy -
as Dubai is merely worth a visit without it's beaches -
any shopping mall or live concert can be visited elsewhere, and skiing is only the real thing up in the mountains - where You got not only real snow and long (!) slopes, but also a breath-taking view over the alps or rockies ...:sad:
so, that folks are devinitively cutting the branches, they'r e (still comfortably) sitting on .. that's pretty stupid & short-sighted to me & it will bite them back 4 sure - and it does actually already, as some anoid tennents are already said to be NOT renewing their utterly expensive (ex) beach villa contracts anymore - for a consruction-site location for years to come, and with its noise and dust coming with it ..:=
7 days got the issue already BIG on their frontpage as well - as that "shot in the knee" by the municipality makes big waves already, as nobody was informed in time -and most affected people got utterly disappointed - to say @ least!:{