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dbxsoul

Hey DF, I'm going to be visiting Dubai during Ramadan with a tour group. All our meals are provided for inside the hotels we're staying at, except for one lunch. I wanted to use that opportunity to try one of Dubai's "best restaurants" (verre, blue elephant, miyato, or anything else that ...

dbxsoul

I actually started typing this out in response to a thread “feel good factors vs. feel bad factors” in the Expat Help Forum after I had got about halfway through I realised that well, this is cathartic (if perhaps incoherent at times) in a way and helps to get quiet a lot of “issues” off my chest be...

dbxsoul

And the temptations to spend what you earn is all around us. Guess one will just have to be strong i like your sentiments! i think if there is one piece of advice i'd like to leave with everyone is... keep focused on your original reason for moving to dubai, dubai is very seductive and it is very e...

dbxsoul

Touché Brilliant post Arnie, I must admit I did kind of have you in the back of my mind while I was writing :lol: . This is not a knock at the property market, and I distinctly remember one of your first postings taking me to task over this very subject. I’ll be the very first person to admit that I...

dbxsoul

Hi Arnie, no offence taken I promise :) - I appreciate the candour, as from past experience I know you to speak your mind. I was really trying to elicit some response to my (current) personal perspective on Dubai. A lot of what you said makes perfect sense. I agree with you 100% regarding the fluctu...

dbxsoul

"For example a newly qualified teacher with no experience now starts @ £21k pa, that equates to 11,500 AED per month. I see the average wage for the same in Dubai is 6-9k per month. These expat teachers cannot be doing it for the money." Arnie, this is exactly what I was getting at, the lo...

dbxsoul

way to go sage!
keep it up...... Figuratively .... of course

dbxsoul

no bad questions at all.. i'm a little tight for time this am, so will try to expand on it later. dubai = cosmopolatan. there are more expatriates in the uae than local uae nationals! there are some 200 odd nationalities represented in the local schools. that's my expat opinion - there are however s...

dbxsoul

Soul i am not talking experienced teachers in the UK, i am quoting a salary for those newly qualifed out of Uni. They are not even paying the basic UK rate for teachers in dubai, let alone highly experienced ones. :shock: if that's the case - what is the drawcard for dubai? international experience?

dbxsoul

Ramadan Kareem to old and new forum members - and visitors

dbxsoul

I’ve a few questions really that I want to ask about moving to Dubai to work, I’m working in the IS industry at quite a high level, my skill set is quite sort after in the UK so I’m hoping that might be the case in Dubai. I’ve been told (from someone who visited Dubai) that from an employer’s point...

dbxsoul

hi again, i think you nailed it. if your skill-set is in such demand target the companies that you would like to work for. many of the it companys are located in the "internet city" free zone (ibm, microsoft etc..) - the free zone is on-line and the resident companies listed in thier direc...

dbxsoul

Hi Sara... Most of the people on here are for real. Like most forums, we get the usual detritus of spammers and trolls and some dweebs who just like to write drivel or are morons who enjoy sticking pins in dolls, but you will find that the majority of the key posting personnel are genuine. Its up t...

dbxsoul

I disagree with ban of food for none Muslims but does that make the holidays in Ramadan cheaper? well strictly speaking non-Muslims still eat, just not in public (or view of the public), a similar think happens in work canteens where non-Muslim staff still eat luch, but not in the presence of a Mus...

dbxsoul

i think it is pretty simple to sift the wheat from the chaff in forums, unless you have a mulitple-personality disorder it would be very difficult to keep up the pretence of an alter-ego, especially where it is an open forum like this one and whatever anyone says is open to scrutiny. in any case, wh...

dbxsoul

kanelli ..... would you like a sweetie?

dbxsoul

finally (well hopefully) got sorted.....
cat booked and ready to launch

word of advice, find and use and agent - else you have to have the patience of Job

dbxsoul

zounds! i am undone!

dbxsoul

Have you tried contacting http://www.nakheel.ae this is the company behind the project, they may help you if you explain what you are trying to do and why. good one sage, although there are a mirriade of main and sub-contractors involved. the first palm (jumeirah) is almost complete so possibly lit...

dbxsoul

inform your employer in writing that you would like the passport back, if they refuse, then suggest to them that you feel it may have been lost or even stolen whilst in thier possesion - and that the normal procedure to replace the lost document is to report it to the police (which it actually is), ...

dbxsoul

prehaps one of the Muslim members of the forum could eleborate, but i thought that the practicing of "black magic" still carried the death penalty under sharia law.....

dbxsoul

Why not approach tourism companies in Dubai? They can provide visit visa... :roll: this is a good suggestion - although they do sometimes limit the duration of the visa!!!! else try some of the hotels they also provide visa's as long as the person stays in the hotel while they are in dubai. find a ...

dbxsoul

thanks for the info.. what new regulation? please can you give me more info. Also if the contract is only for 6 months does that make a diff? i read somewhere if you work for less then a year you cant move to another company.. and you are banned for 6 months? quiet true you would be banned. however...

dbxsoul

once you have then worked out a full year under the agencies sponsorship, you could find another employer - you would still be banned under the current law (for 6 months), but can have the ban overturned if you pay the department of labour about 5k (AED) but i heard that the ban will still applies ...

dbxsoul

Eid Mubarak to forum members.
Enjoy your holiday.

dbxsoul

new job, new country, but check in when ever i can to see how everyone is doing. also have to keep an eye on arnie, to see he hasn't counjoured up another position for himself

"esteemed one, lord of all forums"

dbxsoul

Khartoum, prehaps better described as "Cartoon"

dbxsoul

5 percent duty on ALL goods with the exception of:

alcohol, pork products, arms and amunition which are subject to 40% duties.

items imported into freezones are not subject to duties until they actually exit the gates of the FZ into the uae

dbxsoul

cheers zoots,

have a good christmas and new year and brilliant 2007!

dbxsoul

import tax is based on the customs invoice of the goods (FOB value), not the size or shape of the container. they also normally require a Certificate Of Origin, issued by the chamber of commerce of the exporting country as well as a Customs Invoice, these both have to be attested at the UAE consulat...

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