According to them apparently Dublin needs more hotels too. Aye right
Pay wall… anyone ?
The grass isn’t always greener on the *other* side. I see, but this woman went to Dubai. That Dubai is not a good place should not be news 😅
Generally the greener grass requires human rights
Well, it *is* a desert.
Grass is greener where you water it
From the article:
“Fined for being late, fined for particular dress codes or they ended up living on the outskirts in the desert and having to spend all this money on taxis.”
“It’s a very expensive country to live in, but there’s very cheap elements to it. Petrol is cheap, buying a car is cheap, you’re tax free, you’re given your accommodation, or you’re given an allowance.”
Dubai is a kip. The last place on earth anyone should be going.
The grass is only greener where it rains.
Bell X1; Eve the Apple of My Eye
The grass is greener she just couldn’t make it and chose the wrong country
“I didnt research where I was going and assumed it would be better.”
go to a country that doesn’t have slaves maybe.
Well, it’s in the desert. What’d you expect?
It’s Dubai. You know exactly what you’re getting
Dubai is essentially where you go to make a few pound and come home. That’s it. Anyone I know of locally that went out they all were back within 3 years. Not really a place you’d put down roots.
OK Aisling.
Friends of mine moved to UAE for a few years ago. Their plan was to make as much money as possible and come home once they had a lump sum. Their lives there sounded miserable. Everything is highly controlled and expat life gets irritating after a while. They were able to buy a house in Dublin for cash last year so it paid off for them but nothing about their experience would tempt me to go.
““To save, you have to sacrifice some of the experience, partying, all of that, and some of the travel. ”
Jesus.. stop the presses!!!
Dubai is just a weird place. It’s marketed as a desert paradise and as some display of a completely wealth driven society achieving greatness, but it’s all just so… fake.
Feels like it’s the exemplar of the techno feudalist society we’re increasingly going into, and it’s just a very unnerving thing.
Woman goes to. Islamic country. Also where grass doesn’t grow. Picachu face after
Dubai? Well, yeah.
Dubai is the last place I’d want to move to! The very last!
*Moves to absolute shithole*
See Ireland, this proves that emigration is not the answer. You should stay, rent in perpetuity, never retire.
Of all the countries to say it about, I mean that’s predominantly a desert right. 🤣
Someone told me Dubai is like living in a big shopping centre.
A Slave state that promotes the worst excesses of materialism. Of course Leitrim is better.
Moved to Poland for 5 months and absolutely loved it, but there’s always something missing when you’re not in your home country. Though if costs keep going up I’d rather have that something missing than have no future lol
Sure you went to the desert like
Breaking news not 100% of people who move abroad prefer it
who in a sane state of mind would voluntarily go to an islamic country? even worse for a woman
The sand is golder though
No grass in the desert
Yea because you went to a country in the desert……
Only a fool would move to Dubai for ‘greener grass’ the primary issue here is cost of living. Why in the hell would you think it’d be any cheaper there? As others have pointed it out already I won’t even *start* about the cultural differences and the shock you’d get from that. Move somewhere normal, mind your notions.
She went to a kip
Tried it but it wasn’t for me, and how quickly Irish people lost their decency when talking to waiters and taxi men over there really shocked me. People who I would have considered thoroughly well mannered people when living at home. Whole place is a Kip.
Basically it’s like being employed in a luxury shopping mall and resort, run by conservative, religious authoritarians without any democracy that’s funded by sticking a pipe in the ground to extract oil.
You’ll never be anything other than “the help” in what is quite literally described as a “tribal autocracy.”
God help the kids this idiot is teaching. She doesn’t even understand the metaphor.
It has to be said it’s hard to out-green the Emerald Isle.
Grass isn’t greener in Slave City? :O
Sounds like a very poorly educated teacher.
The grass is green in Dubai but it’s also plastic
Wait, Dubai has grass?
If you’re white you’re basically the upper crust elite who happen to get treated better solely because they need western skills to keep afloat and they are very racist to Indians and Africans. Don’t delude yourself if you go there. You’re perpetuating an slave like city state.
I think this article should highlight one of the current shifts of why home ownership is so difficult for people. This girl simply stated that she saved nothing in dubai as partying was so expensive.
If people want to get a mortgage then they need to save, save, save. And one of the easiest areas to do this is when it comes to nights out.
btw im not talking about the cost of living crisis and housing crisis. Which makes saving next to impossible for most.
Wanting to expeirence everythign you can, holidays, travel, ectera and still expecting to be able to put money money into your savings account is just pure entitlement.
Lived and worked abroad in quite a few countries, will be moving back to Ireland soon. Most of my friends who emigrated way back are also either back or planning to come back. Ireland is lovely, moreso when you’ve been away a long time
From Dubai, 90% of us that grew up here spend our free time chilling in a cafe or in the desert, drinking tea / smoking shisha.
The whole “Las Vegas” side of Dubai is made for rich short-term tourists who usually stay for a month or two at most. It gets old really quickly if you live here and try to do that on a weekly basis.
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According to them apparently Dublin needs more hotels too. Aye right
Pay wall… anyone ?
The grass isn’t always greener on the *other* side. I see, but this woman went to Dubai. That Dubai is not a good place should not be news 😅
Generally the greener grass requires human rights
Well, it *is* a desert.
Grass is greener where you water it
From the article:
“Fined for being late, fined for particular dress codes or they ended up living on the outskirts in the desert and having to spend all this money on taxis.”
“It’s a very expensive country to live in, but there’s very cheap elements to it. Petrol is cheap, buying a car is cheap, you’re tax free, you’re given your accommodation, or you’re given an allowance.”
Dubai is a kip. The last place on earth anyone should be going.
The grass is only greener where it rains.
Bell X1; Eve the Apple of My Eye
The grass is greener she just couldn’t make it and chose the wrong country
“I didnt research where I was going and assumed it would be better.”
go to a country that doesn’t have slaves maybe.
Well, it’s in the desert. What’d you expect?
It’s Dubai. You know exactly what you’re getting
Dubai is essentially where you go to make a few pound and come home. That’s it. Anyone I know of locally that went out they all were back within 3 years. Not really a place you’d put down roots.
OK Aisling.
Friends of mine moved to UAE for a few years ago. Their plan was to make as much money as possible and come home once they had a lump sum. Their lives there sounded miserable. Everything is highly controlled and expat life gets irritating after a while. They were able to buy a house in Dublin for cash last year so it paid off for them but nothing about their experience would tempt me to go.
““To save, you have to sacrifice some of the experience, partying, all of that, and some of the travel. ”
Jesus.. stop the presses!!!
Dubai is just a weird place. It’s marketed as a desert paradise and as some display of a completely wealth driven society achieving greatness, but it’s all just so… fake.
Feels like it’s the exemplar of the techno feudalist society we’re increasingly going into, and it’s just a very unnerving thing.
Woman goes to. Islamic country. Also where grass doesn’t grow. Picachu face after
Dubai? Well, yeah.
Dubai is the last place I’d want to move to! The very last!
*Moves to absolute shithole*
See Ireland, this proves that emigration is not the answer. You should stay, rent in perpetuity, never retire.
Of all the countries to say it about, I mean that’s predominantly a desert right. 🤣
Someone told me Dubai is like living in a big shopping centre.
A Slave state that promotes the worst excesses of materialism. Of course Leitrim is better.
Moved to Poland for 5 months and absolutely loved it, but there’s always something missing when you’re not in your home country. Though if costs keep going up I’d rather have that something missing than have no future lol
Sure you went to the desert like
Breaking news not 100% of people who move abroad prefer it
who in a sane state of mind would voluntarily go to an islamic country? even worse for a woman
The sand is golder though
No grass in the desert
Yea because you went to a country in the desert……
Only a fool would move to Dubai for ‘greener grass’ the primary issue here is cost of living. Why in the hell would you think it’d be any cheaper there? As others have pointed it out already I won’t even *start* about the cultural differences and the shock you’d get from that. Move somewhere normal, mind your notions.
She went to a kip
Tried it but it wasn’t for me, and how quickly Irish people lost their decency when talking to waiters and taxi men over there really shocked me. People who I would have considered thoroughly well mannered people when living at home. Whole place is a Kip.
Basically it’s like being employed in a luxury shopping mall and resort, run by conservative, religious authoritarians without any democracy that’s funded by sticking a pipe in the ground to extract oil.
You’ll never be anything other than “the help” in what is quite literally described as a “tribal autocracy.”
God help the kids this idiot is teaching. She doesn’t even understand the metaphor.
It has to be said it’s hard to out-green the Emerald Isle.
Grass isn’t greener in Slave City? :O
Sounds like a very poorly educated teacher.
The grass is green in Dubai but it’s also plastic
Wait, Dubai has grass?
If you’re white you’re basically the upper crust elite who happen to get treated better solely because they need western skills to keep afloat and they are very racist to Indians and Africans. Don’t delude yourself if you go there. You’re perpetuating an slave like city state.
I think this article should highlight one of the current shifts of why home ownership is so difficult for people. This girl simply stated that she saved nothing in dubai as partying was so expensive.
If people want to get a mortgage then they need to save, save, save. And one of the easiest areas to do this is when it comes to nights out.
btw im not talking about the cost of living crisis and housing crisis. Which makes saving next to impossible for most.
Wanting to expeirence everythign you can, holidays, travel, ectera and still expecting to be able to put money money into your savings account is just pure entitlement.
Lived and worked abroad in quite a few countries, will be moving back to Ireland soon. Most of my friends who emigrated way back are also either back or planning to come back. Ireland is lovely, moreso when you’ve been away a long time
From Dubai, 90% of us that grew up here spend our free time chilling in a cafe or in the desert, drinking tea / smoking shisha.
The whole “Las Vegas” side of Dubai is made for rich short-term tourists who usually stay for a month or two at most. It gets old really quickly if you live here and try to do that on a weekly basis.