We are both still in early 30ss and we do not have children yet ,that is why we thought it will be a good opportunitiy to go to dubai and make some money (we can control spending money as we already saved a good amount of it and bought a nice house )
Well glad to see that you can take a jest... Major Pain seems to have an outstanding issue with me, must be a very frustrated individual so please excuse him.
There is opportunity to make money in Dubai, it is the controlling the saving it seems to be the issue. Congrate on the home, this means that you can rent it out and claim tax deduction for maintenance, improvements, etc. as a rental.
We do not drink that much and we do not like night life so I guess we do not have problems regardign that issue . We like more shopping and traveling around.
Well now you are just going to have to learn to have a drink at lunch... your in British territory now, and nothing bets a good pint before lunch, after work, before dinner, before sleep, another for the road, hey this one is on me, come on you said one more but not which one! 🙂 🙂 😀
Again, this goes back to controlling your monies as there will be one of the largest malls in this hemisphere opening soon. And it can be really easy spending $500 per shopping spree.
We only concern about working environment and being able to save money : 1--He does not want to leave his construction job in usa and then did not like the job enviroment in Dubai (regarding dealing with employer and the employee). If people around him will be nice and they will respect him then we have no problems at all . I know that it is hard to deal with labors (But it is hard to deal with them in USA too.
You see the labor laws here are very weak, and employees in this industry are handled like cattle. They live in labor camps with 6-8 in a room and share a couple of toilets and showers. They work six days a week and are shown little to no respect from the company, only from their immediate supervisor. Many come from a culture where you have a cast/hiarcy (spelling?) system all are the have nots versus the haves. Now with dealing with them it will be a communication gap between your husband and employees but with time you get use to it and accommodate for it. Then you also have the issue of politics as many employees around him might find him a threat to moving forward because he is a western expat and might be favored over them... so he needs to be prepared for that, and as long as he does his job I would think that he will get the respect he is looking for.
2--Regarding saving money: I just checked some employment web sites and it looks like they offer around (30.000-35000 D a month) !!!!!! do you think that number is the normal salary range for the construction manager ??
AED30-35 is an ok salary... but a rental can cost AED150 per year, both of you will need cars; etc. it quickly gets eaten up. AND that puts you back in the tax bracket again, so you have to play the shuffle game.
My recommendation, which most people don't do for some reason is plan a trip out here. Do the ground work, it’s NOT a vacation, and find out cost of living, housing, etc. Meet people in the same field and go to the sites to see what it is like. And the sooner the better as you will experience the heat of Dubai or put it off until Ramadan so you can experience that.
Hope it helps,
Stainless
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