Dubai

_Will_ · World Chat Champion Joined: 16 Jan 2006 Karma :

My other half's brother and wife moved out there last year - he is doing quite well and they want us to go and try it out there.

How difficult is it to get work out there? I don't have the full bachelors degree which most seem to ask for, just a HND.
Has anyone or does anyone know people who have relocated or moved to dubai for a few years, would only be a year or two to test the water then see if we like it for the long term or not, but we will be coming back eventually.
This country is starting to piss me off a bit so a break might do us some good.
I am a bit worried about career prospects in a foreign country such as dubai when i cant even find anything half decent here though Sad

Thoughts?
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colin1 · Captain Safety Joined: 17 Feb 2005 Karma :

I dont know a lot about it, but I have heard that Dubai got hit by the credit crunch more than most places. I think its something like the bubble has burst. Probably worth researching it on the net, to see if that is the case.

If that's the case, there might be quite a few people without jobs with experience working there, who are looking for jobs.

I don't know what you would be leaving here. Could you do it so that you went as a holiday, and if you found a job, you could stay ?

A lorry driver I knew through a previous job, sold all his stuff, to go live in Canada, he stayed a short while, didn't like it, and came back.

I guess the better way, would be to not burn your bridges somehow, and not commit yourself until you have been out there.
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Itchy · Super Spammer Joined: 07 Apr 2005 Karma :

Marky Mark just came back from Dubai his 24 month contract was ended just like that as his company pretty much went bust and due to not having a job he was told he had to leave pretty sharpish.

Kurt also got offered a job out there and it was rescinded because the company was in severe financial trouble.,

Whatever you do DO NOT rack up debt there as much as possible , bankruptcy is NOT an option debtors are thrown into prisons, you seriously don't want to be in prison in the middle east.
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Kwaks · I'm not a fast rider Joined: 28 Jan 2006 Karma :

I grew up there, and although a lot has changed since then it was common practice that you went there TO a job rather than looking for one.

That way visas' etc were sorted in advance by the company and housing was supplied.

As stated there does seem to be a lot of people returning, and some pretty tasty cars simply being abandoned at the airport as people skip out on their debts. I know I wouldn't go there without a job already lined up, most western companies out there are global so often recruit in their home nation.
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_Will_ · World Chat Champion Joined: 16 Jan 2006 Karma :

Yea the draconian laws there are a bit daunting, defaulting, co habiting with the opposite sex and having a child out of wedlock can get you jailtime and deported Shocked

also no bikes and strict speed limits, we are going on holiday in june and maybe a few more to see what its like, i think she's buying into the glitzy lifestyle idea, personally i'm a bit sceptical.
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Kwaks · I'm not a fast rider Joined: 28 Jan 2006 Karma :

No bikes? What you on? Laughing

Bikes are common out there, although mainly off road Thumbs Up

The laws are surprisingly easy to live with, and most of the examples you give are very very rare, even then only applied to certain racial demographics.

I would move back in an instant, it really is another lifestyle out there Thumbs Up

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MarJay · But it's British! Joined: 15 Sep 2003 Karma :

Also you do not want to get caught with anything that is even remotely a drug, even a lot of prescription stuff on the way in you'll get thrown in jail for five years minimum sentence.

I've been there and I didn't thin it was all that. Its obviously incredibly hot all the time so you just stay in air conditioned comfort. Its too hot to ride bikes most of the year and as has been mentioned the laws are draconian, the internet is censored and if you have no money you get the boot.

Nope, the more I think about it the more I realise that I didn't like it, and don't like it.
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Phoenix · Twisted Firestarter Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Karma :

Yeah and don't have sex on the beach either...

Was an article in the papers a while ago about the rapid demise of contstruction jobs and massive numbers of workers being told to leave the country immediately as they no longer had work, they'd dont really give you a chance to find anything else from what it said.

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MarJay · But it's British! Joined: 15 Sep 2003 Karma :

quacker_boy · Cuddle Bitch Joined: 06 Sep 2005 Karma :

The one about Lemsip is bollocks, I've taken Lemsip back before with no problems. I'd be interested to see your reliable sources of information Thumbs Up

The media in the United Kingdom at the moment is well known for blowing things out of proportion and making it sound a lot les appealing than it is. Fuck it, post all the stories you want, I like it and I'll always be going back for holidays and I have plans to move back out there, Vee should be able to make his own judgements about it though.
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Handsome · World Chat Champion Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Karma :

A woman I grew up with moved out there last year, she's a Spanish Teacher, although I'm not sure wether she moved out there for a job for her or wethere her other half got a job there...

She seems happy enough over there though...
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MarJay · But it's British! Joined: 15 Sep 2003 Karma :

colin1 · Captain Safety Joined: 17 Feb 2005 Karma :

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colin1 · Captain Safety Joined: 17 Feb 2005 Karma :

In defence of the people in Diana's car, I think the thing of not wearing seatbelts, is a standard, with VIPs and bodyguards, the idea being, that if they are ambushed, they can get out quickly if need be.

As for my views on media bias, its only obvious if you agree with my views, not everyone would.

There have to be controls on the media of what they can and can't say, but often those at the hands of these controls, use the controls to suit their own ends.

No one has an evil plot for world domination and keeping the common man down, they are just doing what they think is right and looking after their interests, and trying to avoid being ticked off by someone with a bit of power.

Its a kind of self-censorship, we see what we allow ourselves to see. We interpret what we see, in light of our experiences and beliefs.

I would agree that our censorship is less formal than somewhere like UAE, but I suspect that the more sophisticated methods we have of controlling public opinion amount to the same thing really. We just dont need a sledgehammer to crack a nut. We are British and so handle things a bit more discretely.

They have censors, we have spin-doctors.

Journalists have to say the right things if they want continued access to politicans.
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_Will_ · World Chat Champion Joined: 16 Jan 2006 Karma :

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DXB · Scooby Slapper Joined: 11 Dec 2008 Karma :

Vee, been here 8 years now,its fvcking great the credit crunch has hit hard but its mainly just crushed the building industry and estate agents so no loss there.

I have 1st hand knowlege of what happens if you get caught with any 'gear' all i can say is dont beleive all you read in the press.

As for the biking scene it aint to bad i have a busa and a bandit the only twatter is the fact that it gets to hot to ride,we have a decent track here and they are building a new one in Abu Dhabi.

Plenty of good bars and a fair bit of flange,plenty of decent roads where you can max out anything you ride or drive.

Let us know if you need any more info.

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