Was/is...TG a pilot or Emirates ops management?
British, American or what?
Whatever if you can believe the test results he was a user...silly person if he was.

We can always find good reasons to stay in Dubai,or to leave the place...
The main thing is,IMHO,that if you don't like it,which I can understand,don't stay there,pack your suitcases and find a better place to live in...although it's obviously not a perfect world,we must know why we are here,nobody forced us to come!!!!:=

Well said QCM, you just saved me writing it.

6 friends assassinated in Dubai? - who are you? - James Bond? :ooh:

Hi!

I bet if you look at the death rate per 100,000 people in each country, UAE would rank up there pretty high in the "safe" category.

No place on earth is safe:
Hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, accidents, murders, diseases, etc., etc.

I also think if you look at the murder rate per 100,000 people in each country, UAE would rank even higher as a safe country.

cliff
KGRB

Come on now Baron, is this thread not just your way of letting us know that you will be leaving as soon as you can get a job in the next S.H. that will take you?

Moaning on pprune won't change anything, the only way to change anything is the change you youself can bring about.

If you are able to extract yourself from what is causing you stress, then you should leave, for your own sake. If you cannot leave, for whatever reason, then you must try to minimise the effect of the environment in which you are stuck.

But if you are staying (if only for a while), then please try to restrain yourself from these outbursts, they really help no-one, not even yourself.

Good luck for the future.

Vonrichtofen
 

You forgot to mention the shocking case of LOCAL ****** who INTENTIONALY drove over an English mother after an argument. He even reversed his 3Ton truck and drove over her a second time. She died on the spot under the eyes of her husband. The UAE A*hole got 12years and is appealing the verdict. Btw he is a free man as we speak.

The Dubai ship is sinking.... Let them try again in a couple of centuries.

TG
 

What difference did it make whether he was pilot or management? The test result was positive because he DID smoke pot.

Maybe 'e didn't inale...
 

A!
Da guy, 'e 'ad it in 'is blood, but mebbie 'e never smoke it, a? I mean, 'e could 'av been in one of dem splif bars in Hamsterdam, an 'e get it in is blood dat way.
Maybe 'e didn' inale it if 'e try it in a brownie wen 'e was at a buddy's place in a trailer park in Nouveau Brunswick... a?
I tink Clinton got away wit dat, a?
T

Von Richtofen

If you don't like it #iss off.

The "if you don't like it, leave" crowd has to be the most predictable and boring bunch of unimaginative gits on the forum. Their ilk is found in all sorts of locales, unfortunately not limited to the internet. If you can't present an argument or refute facts, just tell them to leave. *yawn*

yeah, if you don't like it, piss off. Don't stay and keep pointing out that raping 13 year old boys is wrong. Instead, let's just keep pouring on the rhetoric about how everywhere else has their problems like, um, earthquakes 'n stuff. Cause that's really relevant and a stunning counter-argument.

But hey, for some it IS a pretty good life in Dubai. As long as I have that great villa in the Greens, a nice big tank-like SUV (fueled with artificially inexpensive petrol, of course) to ferry the kids to their (company-provided) private schooling, a nice Filipino maid to raise the kids (cheap) and can keep banking those tax free dirhams...who gives a ****? If you don't like it, leave. I'm all right, Jack, and I'm gettin' mine...

God I hate it when people remind me there's more to the picture outside of my (V-Cool) tinted windows...life is so much simpler (and easier on my conscience, what's left of it) when I can pretend reality matches that snazzy recruiting DVD....

For all of the incalculable money and effort that is expended to make Dubai seem like the greatest Miracle Of Civilization, (*sarcasm alert*) these types of postings only strike a very small blow towards restoring some balance. So small and probably insignificant that the strident negative responses make one go...hmmm.

I guess one could say...if you don't like these posts - leave. (the forum)

:}

nolim.....Hey I agree with your assesment!!!! Some do always see opportunity as a half empty cup. Go figure!!!

If I can ask.......what area's are new joiners villa's located? Are any allocated around the Greens? Does EK give moving allowance? And one more question...can joiners change villa's after you move and you don't like the area/house?

Mr Shaft, I feel I must warn you of another potentially major pitfall in your (it would seem) inexorable* move to Dubai. Apart from morals police, they also have that most dreaded of all police forces - the Apostrophe Police.

(*”inexorable” because it would seem, as a “glass (glas’s?) half full kinda guy”, you only want to hear positive comments about the place.)

why do you feel the need to point out that raping 13 yr old boys is wrong - nobody around here is going to dispute that and as far as I'm aware it it illegal in pretty much every country including the UAE.

There are many things wrong with Dubai - whinging expats being one - but to criticize Dubai because of the crime when it is has one of the lowest crime rates in the world is just being a bit silly.

All the money and all the oil in the world doesn't change a nations "civility".
They are what they are ,AND were, & if you choose to live there it is by their rules. And if you are a woman, unfortunately your status is not what most of us here would aspire to for our dogs. :}
As someone said earlier on, it is a shame none of us will probably live long enough to see them going back to riding around on flea-bitten camels, just have to hope for re-incarnation to see that one. :hmm:

All I can say Birdbrain is be effing careful who you marry:ugh::ugh: If you're a stupid white chick that is!!!!! Something about "the stars from heaven have fallen and landed in your eyes" kind of balls that they really go for!!

I don't need to argue this point either - seriously, if you don't like it, leave.. I've said this for quite some time now (so I guess I'm not new here, I've had dealings with the police - didn't have any problems there - and my car's been hit 3 times by other drivers - all arabs, I've always had the green ticket). Indeed we live by their rules - end of story boys (and girls):}

Dubai is a SH
 

just as the rest of it. All the sychophants here pretentending it is otherwise, wait until the **** hits the fan. Beside the fact that you as a EK pilot live a pampered life, this place has one of the worlds worst human records in slavery, human trafficking, rape, beatings of maids, sodomy etc. And yes a lot happends in the West, but here the victims have NO recourse to the law, it does not exist. Welcome to the Gulf. :yuk:

"A!"
 

A!
I like dat no limit guy!
'E can play on my team any day.
(say it while sucking in...)
"ffffffftttt... ffffttt. fft."
(now 'old your bret')
"..'ere"
T

Culture shock
 

Stage 1 - Excitement
The individual experiences a holiday or 'honeymoon' period with their new surroundings.
They:
. Feel very positive about the culture
. Are overwhelmed with impressions
. Find the new culture exotic and are fascinated
. Are passive, meaning they have little experience of the culture
Stage 2 - Withdrawal
The individual now has some more face to face experience of the culture and starts to find things different, strange and frustrating.
They:
. Find the behaviour of the people unusual and unpredictable
. Begin to dislike the culture and react negatively to the behaviour
. Feel anxious
. Start to withdraw
. Begin to criticize, mock or show animosity to the people
Stage 3 - Adjustment
The individual now has a routine, feels more settled and is more confident in dealing with the new culture.
They:
. Understand and accept the behaviour of the people
. Feel less isolated
. Regains their sense of humour

Stage 4 - Enthusiasm
The individual now feels 'at home'.
They:
. Enjoy being in the culture
. Functions well in the culture
. Prefer certain cultural traits of the new culture rather than their own
. Adopt certain behaviours from the new culture

You have a choice
 

If you don't like it turn right around and go back to where ever you and your family started from. You have a choice.

I would suggest that you do your research as to how this place has come to be, after we the so called developed world has moved in and inflict our will...


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