![]() A one bedroom flat in a top apartment block in the Dubai Marina is usually around 800 square feet, or 74 square metres. The same grandness of scale applies to housing. It all depends on your qualifications, experience and field. This mythical figure of AED 25000 per month is not an indication of a suitable salary. That’s not quite enough for a Lamborghini Aventador, but it will comfortably buy all the top of the range Mercedes Benzes, BMWs, Audis and Lexuses. So if you’re earning AED 25000, then you could be good for up to AED 500,000. You’ll probably have to take a car-loan from your bank, if you’re fresh off the plane and as a new customer, the bank will probably be a bit cautious about how much they’re prepared to loan you for a car, but in general, you can usually expect to be offered around twenty times your monthly income, repaid over five years. You can have pretty much any car you want, brand new off the shop floor in Dubai. And all the above, Dubai-style, become the new “normal”. We forget about the smallish houses we used to live in, the age (and size) of the cars we used to drive, the furniture and trappings we used to live amongst. Fair cop! The point is that living and working as an expat in Dubai all too quickly normalizes the extraordinary. ![]() Oh come on! That’s being a bit ingenuous, isn’t it?Īll right, yes it is. If it is a bit cooler, perhaps a swim and a picnic somewhere. If it is too hot, do I want to re-watch the whole first series of “Mad Men”, or “Game of Thrones”, with breaks to graze from the cupboards or the refrigerator, as the urge requires. These activities may be no more exotic than getting up a bit later than the days of the working week, spending longer over breakfast, and maybe having a second coffee and deciding if the weather is too hot to do anything outdoorsy. We get up and go to our workplaces five or maybe five and a half days each week and we engage in a variety of recreational activities in our spare time and on the weekends. You live in Dubai? Wow! What’s it like? It must be like living in a dream.Īctually, for myself, and all the people I know and mix with, living in Dubai is, well, normal.
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