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Can someone please tell me what it will cost for someone to live a normal life in Dubai - Well, I guess it depends on my definition of normal. I mean for someone to own/mortgage a house(mortgage payment, car payment, living expenses, clothing, etc.,)

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 does try to equate local earnings to a "cost of living figure", but i think misses the mark a little.

which catagory would you currently put your "status" into, and what country are you using as a baseline?

a). filthy rich and i own my own home and car, and lend richard branson money when he's short
b). pretty well off and have a small morgage and good savings
c). somewhere in the middle, i have a vehicle loan, a morgage and a very little to save at the end of the month
d). to much month at the end of the money, i'm not a churchmouse, but have very little in the way of savings
e). i basically live in a cardboard box under a bridge

sorry, i didn't mean to be "sarcy" when i started typing, it just ended up that way. give me an a,b,c,d or e and a country and i'll try and put in perspective for you

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, and some of it is in a table form.

can you pm me with an email address and i'll forward it to you

soul