hats off to them, that it is one motherfunking great achievement. i dont want them to stop spending money! just build more crazy ****** that pushes the envelope of engineering please!
The massive construction projects currently in Dubai have required more construction workers than there are citizens of the city (note: over 80% of Dubai's population consists of expatriates/non-citizens). This has led to massive importation of low-wage workers, mostly from India and Pakistan.[7] Most of these workers are forced to give up their passports upon entering Dubai, making it very difficult to return home. NPR reports that workers "typically live eight to a room, sending home a portion of their salary to their families, whom they don't see for years at a time." Others report that their salary has been withheld to pay back loans, making them little more than indentured servants.[8] The BBC has reported that "local newspapers often carry stories of construction workers allegedly not being paid for months on end. They are not allowed to move jobs and if they leave the country to go home they will almost certainly lose the money they say they are owed. The names of the construction companies concerned are not published in the newspapers for fear of offending the often powerful individuals who own them.".[9]
I don't trust it, and therefore would never set foot on it...even if I could afford to.
This must have come from misappropriated terrorist funding.
:shocked:
This must have come from misappropriated terrorist funding.
:shocked:Deplorable? Where were you when South Asian countries such as Singapore imported cheap labor from Bangladesh and other countries to build their infrastructure.
Its nothing new. Labor is cheap as heck in most of asia.
I am from Dubai but currently in Indiana, at Indiana University in Bloomington studying accounting /finance!
Just visited there 3 months ago. I can provide with some info i guess. Yes, you can say that half the city is under construction because most of what you see there is to be called the New Dubai as the king has ordered an expansion to the city of Dubai to be twice as big as the current Dubai.
No, thats not smog. Morning mist maybe.......don't know much myself. But dubai has mostly been a hot and clean country
Yes, one of the reason, Dubai is doing this is so that they don't have to survive on Oil when it runs out, which is what is expected to happen in the next 20-30 years. But realize this that Dubai is like one of the states in America, and there are 7 of them in UAE, the capital being Abu-Dhabi, which has plenty and plenty of Oil reserves! So dubai has lot of support and backing from the government. Dubai simply chose to not to want its economy to be run by Oil, they chose to build this infrastructure for its present and future.
Thats why living in a kingdom is extremely risky! If you have a good king like the one in Dubai, he will rule until he dies and make the country prosperous and peaceful. BUT but, if you have a bad king, like in some other Middle-eastern countries I wont name, it can turn into a war zone where the government does nothing for the people as they don't have to ,they have oil money! whether good king or Bad king, there is NOTHING anyone can do about getting a king to dethrone.. Thankfully dubai has had some really good kings over the pas few generations.
Fun facts about Dubai: (besides the ones you already know)
NO TAXES, (hehe guess why!)
POP: 2 million...Only 10% of which is Arabs ( over 60% Indians and whites and chinese)
If you are a local arab, and lose in stock market, govt will reimburse your losses. free money to build house
Arabic is taught as a secondary language till grade 8. (Yes you have to recite the national anthem every week which is also in Arabic and is freakin hard..pissed me off when i was in skool.)
Gas is cheap as fvk.
English is the first language in schools.
If US citizens work there for a US firm, You get paid in Dollars! $$
The only free trade zone in middle east!
Drinking age 21, (yes yes, alcohol is NOT banned in dubai like other arab countries.....lots of super classy clubs out there!
it has the only 7 star hotel in the world.
driving license age to be upped to 21, (rumor i heard).
Air conditioned prisons served chicken and kebab for meals, lol
air-conditioned cages in zoos. (live as a king lion in a not so kingly cage)
everyone is a ultra soccer crazy, hukka smoking noob there!
No bars there whatsoever, replaced by Hukka clubs as a traditional hangout place to smoke and drink and watch soccer.
hmmmm........So many more ...
Just visited there 3 months ago. I can provide with some info i guess. Yes, you can say that half the city is under construction because most of what you see there is to be called the New Dubai as the king has ordered an expansion to the city of Dubai to be twice as big as the current Dubai.
No, thats not smog. Morning mist maybe.......don't know much myself. But dubai has mostly been a hot and clean country
Yes, one of the reason, Dubai is doing this is so that they don't have to survive on Oil when it runs out, which is what is expected to happen in the next 20-30 years. But realize this that Dubai is like one of the states in America, and there are 7 of them in UAE, the capital being Abu-Dhabi, which has plenty and plenty of Oil reserves! So dubai has lot of support and backing from the government. Dubai simply chose to not to want its economy to be run by Oil, they chose to build this infrastructure for its present and future.
Thats why living in a kingdom is extremely risky! If you have a good king like the one in Dubai, he will rule until he dies and make the country prosperous and peaceful. BUT but, if you have a bad king, like in some other Middle-eastern countries I wont name, it can turn into a war zone where the government does nothing for the people as they don't have to ,they have oil money! whether good king or Bad king, there is NOTHING anyone can do about getting a king to dethrone.. Thankfully dubai has had some really good kings over the pas few generations.
Fun facts about Dubai: (besides the ones you already know)
NO TAXES, (hehe guess why!)
POP: 2 million...Only 10% of which is Arabs ( over 60% Indians and whites and chinese)
If you are a local arab, and lose in stock market, govt will reimburse your losses. free money to build house
Arabic is taught as a secondary language till grade 8. (Yes you have to recite the national anthem every week which is also in Arabic and is freakin hard..pissed me off when i was in skool.)
Gas is cheap as fvk.
English is the first language in schools.
If US citizens work there for a US firm, You get paid in Dollars! $$
The only free trade zone in middle east!
Drinking age 21, (yes yes, alcohol is NOT banned in dubai like other arab countries.....lots of super classy clubs out there!
it has the only 7 star hotel in the world.
driving license age to be upped to 21, (rumor i heard).
Air conditioned prisons served chicken and kebab for meals, lol
air-conditioned cages in zoos. (live as a king lion in a not so kingly cage)
everyone is a ultra soccer crazy, hukka smoking noob there!
No bars there whatsoever, replaced by Hukka clubs as a traditional hangout place to smoke and drink and watch soccer.
hmmmm........So many more ...
Nope, no gambling! thats the only thing. some 1 tried to defy the law that states that there can be no gambling on Dubai soil! thats why about 8 -10 years ago , they built the only 7 star hotel in the world to be marketed as the first casino in the middle east EVER on the sea ( not on dubai soil, haha) to open a casino over there. But after some time that was stopped too, willingly though!
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What firms are there?
I've heard there are good benefits for forgeiners[/quote]To start with all the big 4 accounting firms are there! and any1 who is any1 in the banking and telecommunication business has setup headquarters for the entire region over there! many more but dont know exactly what kind of firms in what industry are you talking about.
Ohio state university just opened a skool there too! it rocks
Hookers are illegal over there like any other country in the world except Germany! But Oddly, there are many hookers over there, the govt. just turns a blind eye towards them!
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I always converse in English, unless talking to an Arab. All signs in dubai anywhere are in english and arabic as seen in pics!
strictly speaking English is the business language in dubai and all know it (some better than others), there are many other local languages like arabic, hindi, etc!
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