Have You Seen The Oil City

[BINOWGAYLATER]

Looks very impressive.

But i don't like a city with NO trees !!!

step away from the bottle man!! This is SOOOO NOT THE POINT of this thread..

 

[star-warrior]

Visually stunning, but souless. My brother went a few months ago, temperature reached 46 degrees centrigrade, and it is serviced by foreign staff rather than locals. Its glitzy, but I don't wanna live there. Too much money wasted there...

 

[geloge]

But I thought that oil city was Jaen

 

[ChickenGuy]

I've seen a few reports on the BBC, and I'll try to sum up what I've learned about the true Dubai, behind all the glitz and glamour....

Most of the construction workers that are building all this are not actual local Emiratis. Instead, they bring in low-paid workers from the Indian subcontinent. A reporter went undercover to see the living conditions of these workers - it was squalid and unhygenic, with a stench of human faeces from clogged toilets in badly-constructed shacks and cabins. Hmmm, not quite the lap of luxury, is it? The reporter interviewed a few that were brave enough to come on camera, in an isolated location. They told how various charges were being deducted from their wages for everything and anything, and the backbreaking hours that they had to work.

Then there are those who in some cases use their life-savings to buy holiday apartments in Dubai. Some of these people have been duped by fake companies or fly-by-night con-artists. Apartments are sold to people before they are even built, and in some cases, even before the company has acquired the land. People are told a date when they can move in, and then it can lapse by years. Apparently the financial crisis and recession has put pay to many of these get-rich-quick schemes by greedy developers, ready to take your money and promise you anything.

There, that's my rant over with. I just don't like it when ordinary people, both low-paid workers and holidaymakers, get completely scammed and fooled by corporate interests and mega-rich oil states.

Dubai is no paradise.

 

[gsdx]

Then there are those who in some cases use their life-savings to buy holiday apartments in Dubai.

And, from what I heard on one documentary about the Palm Islands, apparently the homes there are a haven for cockroaches. It's impossible to eliminate them, too. The houses are so close together (as seen in the close-up photo above), they simply move to the next house when anyone tries to exterminate them. Then the next house calls in the exterminators who fumigate the place and they move move on to the next house or go right back to the first one.

 

[BINOWGAYLATER]

THIS IS PARADISE:

 

[BINOWGAYLATER]

This was Waikiki prior to 1900 -- see no skyscrapers - then the white man got the Royals drunk - got them to sign over the land - overthrew the Queen - banned the language, etc., etc., etc., -- fast forward to Statehood -- then another 50 years and they paved paradise - put up a parking lot --and 40 story hotels !!
F.M.L.

My house was by the second coconut tree on the left.

 

[calmhunk]

I've actually been in Dubai. My sister works over there and so I visited her for about 2 days. Its so humid that every time I walk outside of a building or a car, my glasses fog up.

They have a great fountain show right outside under the Bourj Arab (the tallest building) and they also designed some streets that branch out in the shape of a palm tree.