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>>Geeket+(OP)
All I ever hear is horror stories about this place: environmental destruction, structural racism, serious abuse of human rights, culturally hyper conservative, corrupt legal system, plus it's absurdly hot. I can't believe anyone would voluntarily go there, seems like hell on earth.

>>retube+ue
Because almost no one who moves to Dubai for a middle class job will ever experience any of the things you’ve listed except for the heat.

What they do experience is earning lots of tax-free money, and a vibrant city life. Obviously those negatives are all present but less of a threat than one might think from the outside.

Perhaps that seems like too much of a risk to some people. But to others, who aren’t living in “heaven-on-earth” first world countries it’s an easy gamble to make.

(Culturally hyper-conservative is especially hilarious for anyone who has been to a Dubai brunch.)

>>ycombi+Mf
Right, like no middle class person has ever been detained on landing for drinking... [0].

> less of a threat than one might think from the outside.

Until they're not. It's not like the "silly" laws in your country/state where you can duel on sundays and kill a man, these are applied grossly and unfairly to many people.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/10/woman-held-in-...