>It boggles my mind that any westerner would choose to live and work in Dubai. Their laws and rules are very different from ours.

As long as you're not borrowing money from local entities, you're almost certainly not going to run into any trouble like that in Dubai. In practice Dubai is more libertarian than the UK; the government generally doesn't bother you or care what you're doing, as long as you don't get on the bad side of someone well-connected.

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barbazoo 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> In practice Dubai is more libertarian than the UK

Even for women?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_the_United_Arab_Emira...

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KaiserPro 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> in practice Dubai is more libertarian than the UK;

> as long as you don't get on the bad side of someone well-connected.

Thats a huge fucking caveat. given that the law is very much stacked in the favour of citizens, then if you do get into trouble, you're in deep shit fast.

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logicchains 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Yep, but if you're moving from the UK you've probably got some kind of international business or clients so are unlikely to have much interaction with the locals. This is even formalised in the business system there; if you're not doing business with locals, you can open a free-zone company, which are much easier/cheaper to open, but restricted to primarily doing business with overseas entities.

	▲	hermitcrab 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		>so are unlikely to have much interaction with the locals. You really aren't selling it.
	▲	KaiserPro 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Yeah, you're also pretty much at the whim of your sponsor.