Do you like where you live?

Perfect thread for how I feel today.

I'm on holiday in Dubai for a week.

Honestly it puts the UK to shame.

The place is pristine.

There isn't a single piece of litter on the floor not even a fag end. There isn't a single bit of graffiti anywhere. The main roads are 12 lanes wide and not a single pothole or sunken manhole on any of them. There are even double deck roads in some places, one carriage way on top of another. I haven't seen a single deteriorated building. Not a single dodgy looking chav or group hanging around. There isn't a single broken street sign or non working street lamp. The metro is modern and cheap, they built it on elevated track above the roadway. There's green areas everywhere and not a single weed or flower out of place. Every single sign or building name or business name is jointly in English and Arabic.

The UK will not survive. It will deteriorate and deteriorate because anyone with a choice surely would come here or other places around the world rather than the UK.
 
I couldn't think of anywhere worse to live than Dubai. Soulless, fake, too hot, authoritarian and built on slavery. I honestly don't see what people like about it. Ohh!! Dune buggies!!! Camel Rides!!!
 
Yeh you couldn't pay me to live in Dubai, and not just because of the heat. Lots of good points about it, but that's not the whole story.

Don't forget the UAE is 5 mins old compared to settlements in the UK (and EU etc), so saying oh Dubai is so modern and everything works, well yeh it bloody should!

Oz is where I would move. Known a few people who have, and having visited there for work a number of times, I can see why.
 
danlightbulb said:
I'm on holiday in Dubai for a week.

Honestly it puts the UK to shame.
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Honest question, are you not aware of how Dubai was built, it's ongoing human rights issues, how it is maintained by imported workers who are barely paid (if at all), how badly treated certain minorities are treated, how corrupt the government is... oh and the small matter of ending up in jail for doing the "wrong thing" in the eyes of certain religious laws like this British boy.

I honestly don't understand how people can turn such a blind eye to all of these things just for some sunshine and hot weather. There's plenty of other places to go for that in the European winter.
 
danlightbulb said:
Perfect thread for how I feel today.

I'm on holiday in Dubai for a week.

Honestly it puts the UK to shame.

The place is pristine.

There isn't a single piece of litter on the floor not even a fag end. There isn't a single bit of graffiti anywhere. The main roads are 12 lanes wide and not a single pothole or sunken manhole on any of them. There are even double deck roads in some places, one carriage way on top of another. I haven't seen a single deteriorated building. Not a single dodgy looking chav or group hanging around. There isn't a single broken street sign or non working street lamp. The metro is modern and cheap, they built it on elevated track above the roadway. There's green areas everywhere and not a single weed or flower out of place. Every single sign or building name or business name is jointly in English and Arabic.

The UK will not survive. It will deteriorate and deteriorate because anyone with a choice surely would come here or other places around the world rather than the UK.
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Dubai is soulless and one of the most relentlessly boring places on planet earth. Id choose London over it 100% of the time tbh
 
regulus said:
Yep. I live in a small village in Selwyn, NZ. About 25km outside Christchurch, NZ. Currently back visiting the UK and while I'm enjoying the sight seeing, it's unlikely we'll live here again. The wife and daughter think its a complete dump, but I wouldn't go that far. I could do a year or two somewhere like Edinburgh, but as I said, unlikely at this stage.

Where we live in NZ it's super safe, quiet, decent weather, we know all our neighbors. Downsides is that it's a pain to fly anywhere. Although having spent some time in the UK and Europe the past 5 weeks, I don't see a need to come this way again soon.
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We visited New Zealand and East Australia last year and did north and south islands - I'd move out there tomorrow if I could! Like Scottish Highlands on speed! Beautiful.
Where we live in mid Wales is gorgeous - go back to England to see family but cannot wait to get back to Wales as England is so busy and it's so unclean and disrespected as people just don't look after it.
 
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