Easy Meal Ticket my a$$! This is not charity. People work and get paid for their work. Period! Most banks here are nationalized. They gave credit, they invested in the credit boom, they invested in the real estate boom, and then things went sour. I understand interest rates were low because of the dollar peg, but bank lending policies were their own, right?
I do agree disrespect of tradition and culture if present is wrong. And yes the lifestyle here is quite fabulous. But Dubai is what it is because of it's spectacular diversity.That's why the government continues to invite investors and educated capable expats to help build the economy. Dubai's social structure and framework is also evolving, things are not gonna be this way forever.
PS If you still think Dubai is an Easy Meal Ticket, plz direct me to this place π
i agree with MCL. Also i agree with him that SOME not all do show disrespect to the culture & religion.
I appreciate that you said that. The majority of quiet living expats here do not cause trouble. Certainly most of the ones I know do not act offensively in public. because they live quetly you don't even notice them.
MCL you have to be white to get that easy meal ticket π
Generally true, whether that means European, Russian, American, South African, whatever. But even so, it's not so easy now for many of them. Also it's amazing how, despite the country being 'tax free' most consumer purchases cost the same as in a London store (not food and gas though)!