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hey guys. good to see some torontonians here. i just got here as well, and will be starting work soon. spent the past few weeks doing the essential tourist stuff: desert safari, dubai marina walk, madinat jumeirah, etc. now i'm tired of gawking at new buildings and really need to see some greenery f...

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gotta love the canadian govt. for setting up things like that. good to know they take care of us abroad

hey uas, i'm from richmond hill.. close enough?

i saw a listing in the yellow pages about a "club for canadians". wasn't too sure what that is? anybody know?

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well, i see it as a black and white issue. there's no shades of grey inbetween. it's like asking if someone is pregnant.. either they are or they're not.. there's no "sort of' pregnant. in the same way either the guys raped the girl, or they didn't. now if they didn't why are they getting a 2 year s...

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^ touchy!

i was just commenting in general about my view on the sentence. it has no reference at all to your comments

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just to play devils advocate, it seems that this 5500 is for the whole apartment, vs 3500 for a room in his other post.

btw, i gave shangrila a call: 140,000 Dirhams for 6 months for a furnished 2 bedroom! wtfffff

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I found an interesting pdf at the Dubai GIS site.

seems to be a pretty through listing of them:

http://www.gis.gov.ae/en/downloads/pdfs ... tments.pdf

anyone know of specific serviced apartments that are good/reasonably priced.

terranova

they didn't look at my ticket when i showed up.

however, personally i would never get a one way ticket to a place i don't know and don't have a job in. just to be sure i have a way to get outta dodge!

terranova

thanks for the advice!

luckily, i have place to bum at my sister's apartment for the near future, but i need a place by the end of march or she'll kick me out

i'm cramping her style!

terranova

oh come on X, 16,500 dirhams is quite enough to live on here. Example: Rent 5,000 (simple studio in a simple building) Car 1,500 Fuel/Maintenance 1000 Food 1,000 Entertainment 2,000 Total: 10,500 of course you'll have some upfront furnishing and settling costs, but that still leaves you with about 6...

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really? does the residency matter?

what if you have a local sponsor?

or even if you incorporate in the free trade zones?

terranova

arniegang's right. it's all relative. for the price of some 2 bedroom apartments here, i can buy a very nice house in a very nice suburb in toronto. in fact, 2 bedroom condos in downtown toronto can be had for anywhere from 400K - 600K CDN (1.2 million - 1.8 million AED). and trust me, as nice as th...

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where exactly can i buy AED 1900 sunglasses, and even more importantly where can i get the AED 20 copy. joking aside, i've been surprised by the expectations of a lavish lifestyle that many on this forum seem to have. in particular the assumption that in the "home" country, everyone lived in a 1 bed...

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i have some friends who live together and haven't had any problems. you just can't be too obvious about it. and try to avoid sharjah! they're stricter there about these things.

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ziyara (szr)

marina walk

golden hall (deira) (sounds shady, but it's a very nice sheesha joint)

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seriously arniegang, maybe you need to leave the confines of the marina once in a while and explore dubai :roll: my friend just moved into a decent place for less than that near burjuman in the meantime, live it up at the marina and make fun of the people who built it for you sweating it in a labour...

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you're not making any sense. anyways, no point arguing. let's agree to disagree on this subject.

terranova

awesome pics.

didn't know there were so many villas on that thing!

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that, my friend is a VERY good package.

terranova

hi,

is there a website where i can get approximate prices for audis in dubai?

or maybe someone knows off hand

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Where else in the world do people treat others misfortune like a circus show?! In the UK most people just drive past if they see that the emergency services are there doing their job. Answers on a postcard pls!!!! :? ever heard of the term rubbernecking? it wasn't invented in, and nor is it an excl...

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SheikhaS wrote:... but pls just keep your feet on the ground if you know what I mean! ...

lol!! that's the best comment i've read on this site!!

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I know it's DubaiForums, but can somebody recommend a good place to stay in Fujairah for the weekend.

also, to all the smart alecs who'll tell me to "search" ---> go suck an egg

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so what happened with the shirts? any decision taken by senior management?

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why am i not surprised you two popped up here and did exactly what i thought you would.

btw, thanks constantine and baratisundowner for sharing the info.

terranova

Hey, good to see another person from Toronto (or so I assume from your name) coming down here. I just moved here about 2 months back and trust me, this place is great but also gets to you in many small ways. On the level, everything is very "first world" but in the background things are to...

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The following is a list of things I hear all the time in Dubai and it's driving me batty. 1. "It's like that, only" - this one can actually throw me into a rage. It seems to be a favourite of mid to low level Indian management types. They mindlessly blurt this out everytime you question th...

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and yeah, there's the drivers. let me stereotype, categorize, generalize and segment this oh-so-important market. The Chinese Crawler - Canadians will know what I'm talking about. Thankfully most Chinese people aren't allowed outside of Dragon Mart. But when they do venture out, they're so scared it...

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i came up with another one while I ate a yummy bbq chicken pizza from pizza express. The Cranky Canadian - Comes from an emotionally sterilized country where people wake in the grey cold jump into 2 hour commutes to hell through the Don Valley Parkway (aka Don Valley Parkinglot) as ethnic thugs rain...

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I know I make a few but it's getting worse and sometimes I get confused as to whether I am right or wrong. Now I know my Bahraini-Pakistani-Nigerian-America-Canadian backgrouind might be messing up my english but I'd like some help guys. For instance, is the plural of shrimp really shrimps? I honest...

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