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dbxsoul

hi again, that's about 432,000 AED pa. without your bonus. your highest overheads are a) housing and b) schooling (if you are married and have kids). the housing depending on your requirements and standard of living can set you back between 25% to 40% (110,000 - 180,000 pa); make no mistake it's exp...

dbxsoul

well, seems like you'll have it pretty easy then. vehicles are pretty cheap if you factor in they only have a 5% import duty. not sure what the comparison is though from a uk perspective, but from my part of the world they are between 50 and 60% cheaper in dubai (factoring in the exchange rate)!. an...

dbxsoul

try the conventional approach in the interim, when you get to dubai, you'll see that its sometimes a matter of who you know .. not in every instance, but certainly in some.

dbxsoul

The revenue now consideres all offshore accounts for those "resident" in the UK are taxable , this includes the Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey etc. Yup 40% is the top rate of tax that some of us have to pay here Chocs. Not forgetting the additional 11% national insurance contributions. ...

dbxsoul

Congrats Fayz!

dbxsoul

you don't say whether the amount 12,150 is per month or per annum. did they give you a break down of the package as it may be easier to put it into context. at first glance if it is 12,150 per month and your'e staying in sharjah, yes you could get by quiet comfortably on this - and a simple lifestyle

dbxsoul

Annual leave is 25 days/annum and they will pay for airfare (as well as hubby,if I had one) once a year to my point of origin. standard perk, although leave by law is calculated at 2 days per month for the first year of employment (24 days) and 30 days per calender year thereafter (not the 25 they ...

dbxsoul

okay, say for arguments sake that someone was resident out of the country for two years, and sold his/ her property during that period, would it still be taxed as if he/ she were resident in the uk? same applies to their bank accounts, if hey had say, an NBD account into which their earnings were pl...

dbxsoul

Hi there, the topic of tattoos and body piercing has been covered at great length before on the forum. Here are some of the links, for the rest use the search function . http://www.dubaiforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=2448 http://www.dubaiforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=9432 http://www.dubaiforums.com/viewtop...

dbxsoul

A station allowance is similar to a "hardship" allowance and is normally paid to members of the UN or other aid organizations when they are posted in difficult areas. The idea is to compensate the workers financially for the “hard living environment” as well as being removed from friends a...

dbxsoul

the tattoos you could possibly get away with; you'd have to loose the visible piercing they wouldn't go down to well here, particularly at a school. the only piercing that i have seen here which seem to be acceptable is the Hindu women who sometimes have nose piercing, but this is more acceptable as...

dbxsoul

Dubai is not the type of environment to bring a long haired dog to in any case. I had a Persian cat which had to be shaved at least 4 times per year because she overheats. This is in an apartment with the air-conditioning running (no I didn’t have permission to keep her, but cats are generally quiet...

dbxsoul

ok, well if it's included in the contact it would normally be to your benefit. i would suggest getting them to add it to your basic salary, instead of it being a "perk" - as a perk it would not form part of or be calculated in your final gratuity payment (gratuity = a bonus that you are en...

dbxsoul

i think it is more complicated than that, at an old employer one of our indian women staff married an indian man, they had to go through quiet a process at the indian consulate, apparently it has to be advertised in the local papers as well as the papers in india? (not sure if memory serves me corre...

dbxsoul

have a look at

http://www.bechtel.co.uk/Opportunities/VacancyList.asp?strBusUnit=civil
as well. contruction/ oil industry positions in the ME

dbxsoul

can you elaborate a little on what an automation engineer is? i'm sorry i have no idea, i tried looking it up on the web though. is this like an electrical engineer? are you qualified? i'll be able to give you a more accurate assessment if you can provide a few more details, but off the top of my he...

dbxsoul

well, if it were for a qualified electrical engineer (with 4 years experience), i would expect more than the 12,800 - 16,500. I'd say it should be in the line of 20,000 - 26,000. the housing is an issue; yes, the difference in the salary they are offering could account for this - but what are they o...

dbxsoul

have a look at the following site: http://www.tecom.ae/law/law_11.htm in particular items 4.7 through 4.10. this is for the MEDIA CITY FZ, other FZ's may have other articles regulating them. ultimatley you are sponsored by the FZ authority and not the company who employs you. it may be better to tak...

dbxsoul

:) I wish I had a Dirham for everytime someone asked that question. Give me a day and I'll put some basic figures together; you answered your own question in fact, it does depend on your definition of normal. i'll try and come up with something though. have a look at the salaryexpert.com website. it...

dbxsoul

hi chiroamir okay, i've managed to knock something together, which i hope can form the basis of a "sicky" posting on the cost of living. you can be the guinea-pig and send me your feedback. unfortunately i can't post it at the moment as you loose the formatting when you copy and paste here...

dbxsoul

is that other department still working, i can't remember what it was called, but it's where you can phone tips to on the sly.. you know to shop your brother, mother or sister .... they have posters up all over town and in the malls ...

dbxsoul

p.s. i forgot, the other obvious consequence of having them reported/ arrested/ beaten/ "lost" .... they will probably try to implicate you as well, as you are all living together .... in which case you'll all still be room-mates, but the room will be a lot smaller, cheaper and the food le...

dbxsoul

you in a provactive mood today

dbxsoul

that's the one,

thanks

dbxsoul

reminds me of that old graffiti
“my mother made me a homos.xual” and the response
“If I give her the wool will she make me one to? “

dbxsoul

aahhhh, now youv'e edited your post...

when you started with "stiching things together", i thought you were going to go off along a hemp tangent

dbxsoul

i'll leave it at that, before i say any thing stupid

dbxsoul

Thanks for the feedback! I'm certain that it will help others in a similar situation. That's quiet odd, as my understanding was that it is not a problem to transfer within free zone companies, as essentially you are sponsored by the FZ authority and are not in fact changing sponsors (which the labou...

dbxsoul

They are stronger and lighter than traditional materials as well as being non-flammable, waterproof and hurricane resistant.

wow, and it'll be up just before hurricane seasons starts!

dbxsoul

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