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Hello, I'm just back from Dubai. What a great experience ! Hope to be back soon. There was this one arabian video clip on the arabian music channel playing every hour. There's this guy driving with his girl in his white volkswagen beetle, quite a romantic song, of cause with a lot of "habibi" in the...

Hello, I'm just back from Dubai. What a great experience ! Hope to be back soon. There was this one arabian video clip on the arabian music channel playing every hour. There's this guy driving with his girl in his white volkswagen beetle, quite a romantic song, of cause with a lot of "habibi" in the...

Hi Sniper, Thanks for your reply. I'm pretty sure it was a new Beetle and it was definitely not a hippie ;-) I really try very hard to get that song. Someone living in Dubai at the moment can hardly miss it by just turning on the Arabia Music channel. If someone can pin-point me the Songname & A...

Hi Sniper, That's indeed difficult to descripe. The guy had a kind of mustage and the girl looked like Nancy (but it wasn't her). Anyhow, before I left Dubai, I bought a couple of CD's. I really can recommend the "Club Arabia Vol 2" to all of you. It's just brilliant. Especially the songs 3 to 7 on ...

Hi Rach,

Thanks a mill for that

I really appriciate this. Do you like his music ? As promised, I wanted to send a CD to the one who helped me !

Greetings

H.B.B

Hi Rach, I've got the feeling that I'm getting quite hooked to Arabian music as well. Since I'm back from Riyadh & Dubai I actually only listen to the CD's I've bought over there (everything else seems boring ?) - Nancy Ajram - Elissa - Club Arabia Volume II (2 CD Album) Especially CD1 of Club A...

Hi Rach,

Hope all is well...check this out

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Greetings

H.B.B

...comparing Dubai with New York ? Personally, I think you either love the West or the East..and if you can't decide, then Dubai has a nice mixure of both. I always enjoy the East better than going West. I love to experience a complete different culture, which you find going East straigth away. By n...

Hi Expats, I'm sure this question has been asked a lot before, so my applogies in advanced. I'm living in the UK with my wife and there are plans that my company wants to relocate me to Dubai. If we go ahead, we're planning to buy property, but surely it must be a (semi)detached with garden. Guess t...

Thanks for all your responses so far. I didn't got the peanut thing with the kids, but that's okay, we don't have them yet anyway ;-) The million dirham post was a bit off I guess, so I take it my initial income question is not that bad. Today I received the awaited offer and it's more than I expect...

I accepted the offer and have to pack all in April, starting in May.

Sorry for the questions I asked. Now reading all the available info on this forum and also the "Income Sticky" I see how many times this has been asked before and are a bit embarrassed.

All the best.

Why is the choice in the Poll so limited ?

Up for Asian woman anyone ?

I also always thought that Indian woman will not really get into relationships with man other than Indian ?
- Okay, I got this only from the movie "Bend it like Beckham"

MAC wrote:wow and i thought arab and indians gurls were asian *looks for globe* or did they change map and no one told MAC

Okay, just for you then ...more preciesly SE Asia, Chinese, Japanese etc.

I don't know, I've got some mixed feelings about that. The past 10 years no one ever has really bothered about my school education, it was all about work related experience I have gathered. I'm now 35 and earn okay/good money, have a lot of skills but not really a college degree. This level in my ca...

Watch Munich tonight kicking Milans A$$

Newbie here! There is a possibility a may be offered a job in dubai in the next couple of weeks. I am pretty much clued up on salary and accomadation issues, the question I have is there many thai people in dubai?? My wife is Thai and the only thing that worries me is her not having much in the way...

Please, don't tell me this forum has not seen this before, it's donkey years old

KeithL wrote:Its my favourite car and I would buy it for sure if i had 1.20K to spend on a car

How much is 1.20K ???

sorry dude, only one car is allowed to be red... and that's above my budget atm. Just a quick FAQ for that... Q. Why are Ferrari's red? A. Ferrari's red comes about due to the way the sport began, where each country was assigned a colour and the red for Ferrari has remained. Red was assigned to Ita...

Must be a heck of a car to go through all that trouble with ???

You can open a current account not a saving account if you're a visitor. The only thing is you have to get a recommendation letter sent from you home country's bank to the bank here. You will need to deposit a certain amount of money as well. HSBC require something like 5000 dirhams. That's interes...

If the company is bringing you on an Employment Visa you won't be able to open a bank account till you get your residence (usually done in less than a month). Some companies have arrangements with banks to open payroll accounts even if you're not a resident. One thing about mortgages, I really thin...

Can't see the $$$ of the package, is that now edited away ?

Just curious...

Hi Paula, How's the move progressing for you ? I've got 2 cat's as well and thinking until smoke comes out of my head whether to leave them behind or not. They have travelled through various countries with me over the past 10 years, but that was within Europe. Hope all goes well for you...

MAC wrote:

Habibi wrote:Can't see the $$$ of the package, is that now edited away ?

Just curious...

yes. it was 13,453,729 turkish lyra/month = AED 36,500/month.

Based on the replies I would have guessed it would be more really.
Anyways, good for him.

Thanks for the info UD, I've sent you a PM regards this.

gtmash wrote:

V-Man wrote:Careful Gtmash...I think you stepped on a few cats tails!

Haha!

Don't worry about that

Sorry to hijack this thread. Just a quick question. From what I've read up about it, for the residence visa one has to send in the certified degree related to their job in UAE. Also, depending on position (executive vs. sales guy) the standarts are higher/lower. Now the quick question. To save mysel...

Concord wrote:

LA wrote:Yeah, that's indeed awesome. But what about the many workers from India? (:

Nothing. They are not Phillipinos!

What a dry response

That's maybe a daft question, but just to double check.

I've got an account running at HSBC in Dubai. I can just bring a check I got from 3rd Party in the UK and get it processed in Dubai ?