Sunday, December 25, 2016

LIVING IN DUBAI IS NOT A PIECE OF CAKE

1. Dubai has the cleanest public toilets which you will never find in any other cities (that I have visited). Cleanliness is what makes this city beautiful and they do take it quite seriously. There will be no shortage of toilet papers, bidet and cleaning staff in any public toilets .


2. Getting a job offer from anywhere in the world is never good enough compared to the tax-free salary you get in Dubai (and the rest of Middle East) along with the 30-day holiday per year, paid plane tickets, health insurance, housing and transportation allowance and the list goes on.
3. Seeing a normal Porsche or Lamborghini without any kind of customization does not impress you anymore. If it’s not gold-plated then it doesn’t deserve a second-look.
4. You’re not used to the cold weather because you get sunshine 365 days a year in Dubai. Hence in this case, when you’re out of the city – you’re covered from head-to-toe with warmers in a 17 degree celsius temperature and everyone’s looking at you with a weird smirk on your face like you came from a different planet.

5. The hotel standards in Dubai is very high (in terms of facilities). A 3-star property in Dubai is like a 4-star property to the rest of the world. Needless to say, most of the Dubai people are quite hard to please as they’re used to a high standard of facilities.
6. We go cray-cray when we go shopping when we’re out of Dubai because we realize how expensive that city really is.


7. We get weird looks whenever we’re out of Dubai since our first 2 questions when we meet someone for the first time are “where are you from?” and “what do you do?” For the people in Dubai, those 2 questions are perfectly normal as most of the people living in the city are expats.
8. You’ll miss having friends of different nationalities.


9. Air-conditioning anywhere in the world is never the right temperature.
10. You don’t get what the hype is all about when it comes to signature restaurants as there are a lot of those in Dubai that it looks to you like it’s the most normal thing on earth.


11. You act completely surprised at the sight of how much the gasoline price is outside of Dubai. On a side note, putting gas yourself in your car overwhelms you as you’ve never done it before in Dubai. (But I think some gas stations are going to start it now?)
12. You realize that you’ve taken the Ski Dubai for granted as there’s no other place in the world with such a thing.
13. You miss having anything delivered to you at any given hour. Grocery at 2 in the morning? Possible to be delivered to you if you’re in Dubai.
 14.The metro (train) is so clean which gives you a shock to see the state of other trains around the world BUUUUTTTTT you still wish the metro stops are not in the middle of nowhere in Dubai.
15. There’s always something going on in Dubai – events, fund-raisers, openings – you miss all these.


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