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by NomDePlum 701 days ago
Depends on your circumstances.

My cousin worked there quite a while back so things may have moved on but 2 experiences he told me where reasons I wouldn't ever work there.

1. His wife was involved in an accident with an immigrant worker. She was fine, they weren't. She tried to insist on the Dubai police calling an ambulance. They flatly refused as they didn't value the immigrant workers life and threatened her with arrest and jail if she didn't leave immediately, on the basis if she hadn't been in the country the accident wouldn't have happened.

2. They and their other friends had pacts that if either couple both died they would immediately take their children out of the country, as otherwise they became wards of the state, which is almost impossible to reverse.

Corruption is rife too but the cultural differences and consequences are if anything more significant.