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... and how much you are not bothered reading the email from a tiny screen

I wonder if Etisalat/du provides air card (PCMCIA card with GSM/CDMA card, some also comes as external USB device). It's convenient carrying small laptop and online anytime.

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These could be done in one day:
- Ride along the beach of Jumeira & Umm Suqeim up to Burj
- Visit Madinat Jumeirah
- Options: rent a quadbike at the big dunes on the way to Hatta, or do desert safari, or do skiing
- Cruising the creek at night

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Back to topic.
More participations on the poll would be really appreciated.

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High speed & unlimited, you'll get one with relatively cheap fee (from 149 to 349 AED, from 256Kbps to 2Mbps). If you don't access adult-related, VoIP-related, some file sharing, and some social networking websites, then you'll be fine. If you are techie and know "the workaround" then ...

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From anywhere, get a high speed internet connection, watch FREE live streaming media using one of these programs TVants, Sopcast, PPStream, etc. Then Google for the websites which provides the program/channel list, for example this site for soccer and this one for F1. Also NBA, NHL, NFL, tennis, cri...

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I hold Gold Payroll account from NBD so far I have no issue with the service. - Internet banking for bills payment & outward remittance (100 AED fee, no amount limit, to any bank in the world) - Free for life Gold credit cards - No minimum balance - No administration fee And my friend has HSBC a...

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There's one also next to food court in Lamcy Plaza.

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I don't know in Dubai but my wife had her teeth scaling and braces adjustment in Bahrain for 50 BHD per visit. If that's the standard of Middle East, so expect at least 500 AED. Just a figure.

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Do they just want to see a regular pattern in my account or do they need to be satisfied that I can afford it? I get a AED2000 car allowance per month and I am transferring a decent chunk of my salary from the UK to Dubai every month for cost of living etc... I see that your salary is transferred t...

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Jazeera Sports (1, 2, +1, +2) channels are a-la-carte on e-Vision. Add 8 AED to your existing subscription.

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bschmidt wrote:
xty wrote:Get a Landcruiser.

Yuck!

I agree, not a beautiful car, but most (80%?) use it for off-road on those sand dunes.

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How much AED you would earn? Family/kids (school)? Preference? Lifestyle?

Never lived in HK, but visited once. Foods, clothings, and transportation (taxi) are more or less the same. Hotel is a lot more expensive in HK (about 1.5x for the same class), so I assume the apartment too.

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I shipped 12 medium-size boxes of stuffs by DHL when moving from Bangkok to Dubai for about 7000 AED. I'd suggest you leave big stuffs in UK, just bring couple of big luggages (that fit on the flight) including important stuffs. The rest, you could buy in Dubai. 25000 AED is too much to furnish 1BR,...

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If you can find all those items for 10000dhs Id hire you tomorrow!!!... However must be of a quality that is suitable for living for 5years plus not the usual 6months. First, OP didn't say 3 BR and you mentioned 1BR, so I assume it's for 1BR. My experience to furnish 1BR for my family (2 adults, 1 ...

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Thanks for the info. Useful when we decide to move and settle down somewhere (and Vancouver/Canada is one of the choice) and someday after few years. Probably to get a new/second citizenship/passport.

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There is surviving and there is living!! So far, I'm lucky that I'm not surviving, I enjoy living in Dubai. Dine outside couple of times a week. Go out of town once a week. Go holiday abroad twice a year. I could have afford more, but why spend more. But hey, that's me. You forgot to mention curtai...

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sage & onion wrote:Where are you from?

Does it matter?

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Depends on your work contract. Some don't allow you to join competitor. Some don't allow you to resign in the first year. Some employ a penalty (e.g. 3 times monthly salary). etc

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This is a real gray area. If you're transferring within the same Free Zone, this should be acceptable. If you're transferring outside or to another Free Zone, I believe you will run into problems. In fact, I thought it's the other way around. If we have work contract saying that we can't join compe...

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But it seems to me that there are a lot of other costs associated with moving into a new place. That's true. Believe me, I end up almost no savings when moving around on 4 countries (3 employers) in the last 3 years. All savings were sucked into relocation costs, vacation breaks, and furnishing new...

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I don't know about btinternet but maybe this would work. As long as you have direct Internet connection (not sure if you have proxy/firewall): POP from btinternet (if supports). SMTP through your local SMTP server (example with QkSMTP ). Most of the case it should work, so you can bypass POP/SMTP au...

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Basically, yes.
I don't use as my office is in DIC (no filtering).

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Have you been hammered? Hammered = fake torrent trackers/servers (e.g. RIAA, anti p2p, recording studios, security companies, etc) will keep bombing you once they detect that you're downloading pirated files (which 99.99% are). Sometimes it lasts several days even you've exit your torrent client. Th...

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Concord, that's crazy!

Trips to Al Ain, Abu Dhabi, Ajman surprised me. You must be sooo tired

I enjoyed reading your journal.

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Try to put the water (or boiled water) into a white bowl (for better sight), let it for few hours, sometimes you'll find sands, or worst the water is yellowish. At least in my apartment.

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I've been to Milano for couple of times. Never get bored. The reason? You can tell from my avatar ;) Once I stayed for few days in Baviera Mokinba hotel (Via Panfilo Castaldi 7). Booked through venere.com. It was 3* price (65 Euro) with 4* quality. I think it's increasing now. Not big but excellent ...

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You can get immediate credit card at time of opening at the bank where the company has cooperation with. Else, open a salary account (I got mine from NBD) with a company letter saying that your salary will be transferred to that account.

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As I read it what matters is the country that issued you the license not your country of citizenship but I imagine that since you hold an indian passport they'll give you a hard time :) I don't think passport matters. I used Bahraini license (not my local Indonesian license) when I applied (convert...

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When you say 3 months of bank statements can they be UK bank statements as I wont have any Dubai bank statements ? If the company I work for have an account at a big bank and they are willing to confirm my guaranteed salary in writing would they let me set up an account and obtain finance, ie card ...

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Which bank?

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