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What are the most affluent areas of Dubai and why are they considered so?

I would assume there are ares to avoid as well could you suggest where they are?

Difficult, it doesn't really work like that in Dubai, as most of the residential areas are all newly created; it would be a good project for some urban planning students to investigate.

In the past the sections on the periphery of Dubai would have been considered "suspect" (from a western perspective), however as Dubai has become built-up and expanded outwards many of these areas are now within the general "city limits" - what tends to happen then is a process of structured urban re-generation where the older dilapidated portions are torn down. The people who previously resided in them simply relocate again further away from the centre to the cheaper land at the edges of the development.

You also need to pay quiet a lot of attention to traffic and access, a “good area” may have terrible congestion problems; as is the case with most developments in Dubai.

The easiest way look at issue is in relation to where you will be working, use this as an indicator as to where you’d like to stay – try and keep transit time down as much as possible.