Leaving in 2 days and it looks like I'm "getting out" JUST IN TIME! I really don't know what's going on, well I do, and I definitely don't agree with it! Here is the current situation over here in the Gulf: Dubai has become this "vacationland" for adults (and children) but for both vacation and work it's been a thriving paradise. Foreigners have been moving to the UAE to work with excellent pay and full packages (return airfare home, ridiculous amounts of vacation time, no tax, luxuries - drivers, nannies, maids, etc.) until this economic crisis and in the year that I have been over here Dubai has just been falling apart! http://www.thenational.ae/article/20090122/BUSINESS/869184936/1042 Workers have left and lots are coming here to Qatar where the world economic crisis hasn't affected even an ant - why? That's
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