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For the Brit bashing fools here, you seem to like to believe anything so here goes, written by Indians, for Indians:

from www.daijiworld.com

SOURCE : N. RAGHU RAMAN - DNA

Indians flee Dubai as dreams crash

Mumbai/DUBAI - JAN 14: It's the great escape by Indians who've hit the dead-end in Dubai.

Local police have found at least 3,000 automobiles -- sedans, SUVs, regulars -- abandoned outside Dubai International Airport in the last four months. Police say most of the vehicles had keys in the ignition, a clear sign they were left behind by owners in a hurry to take flight.

The global economic crisis has brought Dubai's economic progress, mirrored by its soaring towers and luxurious resorts, to a stuttering halt. Several people have been laid off in the past months after the realty boom started unraveling.

On the night of December 31, 2008 alone more than 80 vehicles were found at the airport. "Sixty cars were seized on the first day of this year," director general of Airport Security, Mohammed Bin Thani, told DNA over the phone. On the same day, deputy director of traffic, colonel Saif Mohair Al Mazroui, said they seized 22 cars abandoned at a prohibited area in the airport.

Faced with a cash crunch and a bleak future ahead, there were no goodbyes for the migrants -- overwhelmingly South Asians, mostly Indians - just a quiet abandoning of the family car at the airport and other places.

While 2,500 vehicles have been found dumped in the past four months outside Terminal III, which caters to all global airlines, Terminal II, which is only used by Emirates Airlines, had 160 cars during the same period.

"The construction and real estate industry has been hit following the global slowdown and the direct fallout is that professionals working in the realty industry are rapidly losing their jobs," said a senior media professional, in-charge of a realty supplement in Dubai. "In fact, my weekly real estate supplement usually had 60% advertisement and ran into 300-odd pages. In the last seven weeks, it's down to 80 pages and with fewer advertisments," he added.

Mumbai resident D Nair (name changed) had been living in a plush highrise in Sharjah for the past four years. However, the script went horribly wrong when his contract was terminated. Nair used all his credit cards to their maximum limit, shopping for people back home. He then discarded his Honda Accord before returning to India for good. Nair, who stays in a rented apartment in Navi Mumbai today, has a Rs15 lakh loan with a Dubai bank.

Another such victim of the meltdown said he bid goodbye to his car in a small bylane near the airport and hailed a cab. "I was scared because a number of us were doing the same and did not want to be questioned by the police. There was no way I could afford to pay the EMI of 1100 Dhirams for my Ford Focus," he told DNA on condition of anonymity.

When contacted, the dealer for Asgar Ali cars in Sharjah said, "We are helpless and do not know how to tackle this issue. A large number of such owners are from Indian, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and other South Asian countries."

Funny how some Indians seem to be defending their countrymen's actions in the comments section of that article.

well, yes, agreed.

I was just trying to point out, all the brainless morons that love to jump on any news article that is anti-UK also love to ignore articles like the above which must be as wholly unfactual as the one in the UK press about British ex-pats. It is as though a news article was just reprinted with the word British taken out and the word Indian inserted at the relevant points. It can't be that the 3000 dumped cars were left by 'Anglo-Indians', which would have been necessary to make both UK and Indian stories correct

People always want to believe whatever makes them happy (or currently, least sad!) and will cheerfully ignore factual evidence to the contrary as far as they can.

Speedhump wrote: - overwhelmingly South Asians, mostly Indians -

Now, why was I led to believe those cars were mostly owned by Europeans in general and Brits in particular?

Del wrote:

Speedhump wrote: - overwhelmingly South Asians, mostly Indians -

Now, why was I led to believe those cars were mostly owned by Europeans in general and Brits in particular?

Oh really

sage & onion wrote:

Del wrote:

Speedhump wrote: - overwhelmingly South Asians, mostly Indians -

Now, why was I led to believe those cars were mostly owned by Europeans in general and Brits in particular?

You tell me then. I only quoted verbatim from an online Indian news source! I don't judge, apart from to point out to you that the world press print what they think will sell newspapers or generate online advertising. Some people here seem to want to believe every piece of bad news that the UK press print in their fervour to discredit Westerners.

Sorry I should have said they 'want YOU to believe', which is why they spew their garbage here every day.

Speedhump wrote:

sage & onion wrote:

Del wrote:

Speedhump wrote: - overwhelmingly South Asians, mostly Indians -

Now, why was I led to believe those cars were mostly owned by Europeans in general and Brits in particular?

You tell me then. I only quoted verbatim from an online Indian news source! I don't judge, apart from to point out to you that the world press print what they think will sell newspapers or generate online advertising. Some people here seem to want to believe every piece of bad news that the UK press print in their fervour to discredit Westerners.

It's just that when this story first came out, I was given the impression that it was mainly people flying in western and north-western directions out of here.

20,000 Indians are being shipped out next week. Air India is putting on extra flights

I noticed not many cranes are moving on those buildings along SZR...

Del wrote:

Speedhump wrote:

sage & onion wrote:

Del wrote:

Speedhump wrote: - overwhelmingly South Asians, mostly Indians -

Now, why was I led to believe those cars were mostly owned by Europeans in general and Brits in particular?

You tell me then. I only quoted verbatim from an online Indian news source! I don't judge, apart from to point out to you that the world press print what they think will sell newspapers or generate online advertising. Some people here seem to want to believe every piece of bad news that the UK press print in their fervour to discredit Westerners.

It's just that when this story first came out, I was given the impression that it was mainly people flying in western and north-western directions out of here.

I know. As I said, the UK press love to pull down success stories. 'British doing well in Dubai, then it all falls apart and they come crawling home. Believe it or not people in the UK would love to read it, it doesn't actually have to be true....I think Captain Autralia in another thread accurately described it as 'tall poppy syndrome'. Sad really. I have no idea if it is more British than Indian leaving. Don't really care to tell the truth LOL !