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forgotoldacc 3 days ago

Yep. It's the same reason those tiny oil countries in the Arab Gulf are popular. You can work a few years to save big and go home. There's a underclass of slaves below you that keep the country running, but if you're not a slave yourself, it's easy to ignore that.

America is similar. Ignore the homeless, the people who can't afford basic trips to the doctor, the illegal immigrant underclass, hope the crime problem never affects you, and focus on your own money, and it's fine.

mlrtime 3 days ago | parent [-]

That is hardly the same, the people come to America to stay because it is a nice place to raise a family. UAE ... not so much.

lesostep a day ago | parent | next [-]

>> a nice place to raise a family is it? No free childcare, no free medicine, no free urgent care and almost no third places for children. Add to that almost no food regulation. And, for immigrants, no support from their parents

What's nice about that, getting into debt as soon as one of us gets medical emergency? Or staying in a suburban home 24/7 with a child until they can go to school?

tekne 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I mean, I spent 7 years of my childhood in Dubai, and it was overall decent. Anecdata, et al.