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Thanks. Have been offered a maid in my building at AED25. so it seems about right

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Had a look at a 1 bed room apartment in CBD. Nice apartment but didnt want to live on a building site. Ended up taking a studio in Bur Dubai instead.

Rosbif71

Anybody know of a reasonable price Insurance company. Am being quoted over 8% for a 2005 Mustang.

thanks in advance

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to answer my own question Royal Sun Alliance turned out to be quite a bit cheaper than the others.

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They didnt ask but others did. I have a fax from my UK insurance company showing my no claims.

got it at 6%

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Im in what looks like one of the nicer buildings in the Golden Sands area and am paying 60k for a studio. So it does look like you paid well over the odds

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i find that most of the time I cannot even connect to skype to use pc to pc!

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Made the mistake of letting microsoft updates install on my laptop. Afterwards it wouldnt reboot. Had to do a clean install using my system recovery disk, but this means Ive lost a lot of data from that Laptop. Luckily most of it is backed up on DVD back in UK. Will never allow MS updates again!! :x

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Does anyone know anywhere with good range of Bluetooth Handsfree car kits? Am looking for the type that fits onto the sunvisor?

probably not much call for them here as so many people drive whilst using a mobile, but I dont like doing it!

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yes thats the sort of thing I was talking about. Havnt seen anything like it available locally. will probably end up having to order from ebay.

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Just bought a HP Pavilion dv6312ea from Sharaf. decided against one of the little Bur Dubai shops for service backup. Have already had to take it back 1 day after buying it because the casing is coming apart. They say it has to go to the distributor for it to be checked before they can replace it! s...

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was the nationality of these people ever divulged? I would have put money on them being Russian myself!

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you can even afford to eat out regular on that money if you eat in some of the small indian/pakistani restaurants. a good meal will cost you less than AED 20 there.

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go to Royal Sun Alliance. They were by far the cheapest on my 2005 v6 Mustang.

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as a fellow red I must add that the day was further improved that Leeds virtually guaranteed their relegation today

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Hi Newbie,

I dont work in real estate myself but we have a real estate guy in our office. PM me if I can be of assistnce to you.

Rosbif71

Golden Sands area of Bur Dubai would be an alternative for you. You will go in the opposite direction to all the traffic so commuting won't b a problem. You should get a studio i a building with all facilities for around AED60,000

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I work in Deira and originally wanted to live there, but the majority of buildings there are quite old and dont have good facilities. Have a look at the Golden Sands area of Bur Dubai. You will reverse commute so traffic wont be a problem and you'll get better facilities.

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If you will be living in a villa and have large satellite dish your best bet will be to find a way to get hold of a subscription to South African satellite DSTV. Otherwise I think the Premiere League is switching onto Showtime next season and I also think they will have the rugby worldcup. another a...

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I remember studying Socialistology in my 1st year at Uni many years ago. They blamed everything on white middle-class males! As a white middle-class male I dropped the subject as soon as I could

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I would recommend that you buy the Dubai Explorer book. I've found it pretty useful since I moved out here. It does include a guide on Beach Clubs. Make sure you get the latest edition though. You should be able to get it somewhere like Waterstones http://www.the-explorer.com/destinations/index.php?...

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another tv option Ive heard of is http://www.liveuk.tv/ . You get bbc1 to Ch5 streamed onto your PC. Havnt tried it as I think its too expensive at GBP25 per month. I work pretty long hours and have been able to manage on the mainly American offerings on the local free satellite channels ie Dubai1 a...

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I dont know why your residence visa will take months! mine only took about a month.

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Let them know that unless you receive your unpaid salary and documents that you will report their shady dealings to the authorities.

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I assume from his driving licence that he is a yank, in which case Kish will not be an option!

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Air Arabia do cheap flights to Muscat from Sharjah

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I dont know how anyone can live in the marina area at the moment. High prices just to live on a huge construction site.

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would recommend you also post on http://www.expatgossip.com/. They are mainly expat women.

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asc_26 wrote:
Rosbif71 wrote:would recommend you also post on http://www.expatgossip.com/. They are mainly expat women.

Nothing much to that website...

but a lot of them are in similar situations to this poster so it will be a good contact network for her!

Rosbif71

I work on Rigga Road further into Deira and live in the Golden Sands area of Bur Dubai. Traffic is not a problem as you will be going in the oposite direction to all the jams. Takes me 15 minutes. Guess you could even commute from the Trade Centre area of SZR within 30 minutes max.

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