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arniegang

Thanks everyone for your advice.

arniegang

Another thing that a lot of "expats" forget, is that someone like me who has puchased property in Dubai, can apply for Residency as an "investor". Now that i have done this i can live there without actually having to work :). Expats who dont own propery have to work to live there -ie "no work - no D...

arniegang

Hi Jag Respecfully i am going to have to disagree with you on many of the points you raised. Firstly i will address the "build quality" issue. I have an Emaar Property in the new district 4 on the marina. I am a property developer and own many properties both in the UK and Dubai. I have to say for w...

arniegang

WOW thanks for the useful info,really appreciate that u took time to explain in great detail, Agree with arniegang about the UK market , I will be selling my two bedroom terrace house to raise some funds for dubai,Im looking at around £55k for it, average price now is £170k for a 4 bedroom, so what...

arniegang

Hi Jag Good debate i agree with you. With regards the 99 year lease you mentioned, yes that was the case back before May 2002. Emaar's first phase which is the 5 towers on Marina Walk, Murjan Maesk etc were all sold initially on a 99 year lease. People like myself walked in the sales centre and then...

arniegang

can i have access to fight club please

arniegang

A tourist visa is valid for 60 days now not 30. Loads of people do this and just keep going out of the country and re-entering to renew the tourist visa for another 60 days, but obviously if you stack up a load of stamps in your passport then immigration will get suspicious. only for certain countr...

arniegang

Hm OK some good points raised and no disrespect taken. But I've looked into the propery market here quite a bit, there was a recent big article slating several of the big construction companies for the finishes on their properties, particularly in the Spings/moeadows area and the Greens Community. ...

arniegang

yes u really did ur homework. gj Thank you sniper, yes i did my my homework, and i'm sucessful because of this. Unlike a lot of the "old time expats", who thought all this construction was a "flash in the pan" and all thought ewwww this will go wrong" and are still winging about it, some of us, in ...

arniegang

I'm usually against banning people. But in this case, I wanted to never see his posts again. It doesn't matter how "different" his opinion is, as long as he articulates it in a way that is constructive to the discourse. But his posts are nothing like that. First of all you can never make out which ...

arniegang

Chocoholic wrote:Jumeirah beach park isn't bad. Wollongong where all the kite surfers hang out is quite cool.

Al Mamzar park just into Sharjah can be quite nice or head over to Fujeirah.

Choc

Where is Wollongong?

arniegang

Linda By the way you write, with an element of aggression and "with attitude", i am not surprised you and your b/f arn't terribly popular. Take that huge "chip off your shoulder" please. If you cant resign yourself to life in Dubai or come to terms with how it is, then DXB airport is always less tha...

arniegang

ok lemme break down what you said: 1-you're a princess. 2-Get the hell out if you don't like our racism. Well that's your opinion and you're entitled to it. But how about something constructive to the issue at hand? :) The reason this thread has an "attitude", which I do not deny, is because I'm fr...

arniegang

as far as i know, none of the local banks offer 100% morgages, most require a 30% deposit and the balance over 13- 15 years. i do seem to remember seeing a posting at one point saying that hsbc would finance 100%, but can't remember the details. prehaps someone has some first hand knowledge of this...

arniegang

Jumeirah beach park isn't bad. Wollongong where all the kite surfers hang out is quite cool. Al Mamzar park just into Sharjah can be quite nice or head over to Fujeirah. Choc Where is Wollongong? choco meant the old Wollongong build... theyve moved, it doesnt say 'wollongong' anymore but its next t...

arniegang

Once again. I'd like to stick to the issue at hand, and have no desire to turn it into a personal vendetta between me and you or anyone. If you have anything pertaining to the topic, you're welcome. If you don't and would like to give lessons on "attitude" and on how to "project" one's self .... th...

arniegang

Linda_Stuiv wrote:That's the point: I don't care.

and......................."Ironic quote of the year" goes too...........

LINDA

"dont care" indeed - it sounds like it to the rest of us

arniegang

eeeeeeekkkkkkkkkkk i just noticed "I'm a 26 year-old Dutch lady,a psychologist" :lol: :lol: ewwwwwwwwww i think Linda cheated in her final exams god help her patients/clients :lol: :lol: she doesnt seem too brillaiant at psycho analayising herself either :lol: :lol: Linda, if i were you i would ask ...

arniegang

Sadly bias, bigotry, prejudice and misunderstanding are to be found in the four corners of the planet. I don't really know whether Dubai is any worse than anywhere else. Maybe it's given a sharper edge and more focus because of the incredible mix in one place. Your particular case is probably a per...

arniegang

Linda_Stuiv Dubai Forum User Joined: 03 Jan 2006 Posts: 23 Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 10:11 pm Post subject: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Getting there is kind of hard. It's pretty big, and I think that people furnishing/completing their hourses/vill...

arniegang

Linda,

We / i have never gone "off topic". I have chosen to bring into the current debate, your rather agressive and over reactive attitude.

It is most relevant

arniegang

Next !!!

arniegang

Linda,

You really do yourself no justice. The majority of us totally agree with you, it is the way you respond to people like Choc that is becoming the issue.

If you want good constructive debate Linda, lighten up and dont be so over reactive, curt and rude in your responses.

arniegang

Agreed but one has to know the forces of demand and supply to really predict and think ahead i.e you need to have some experience in real estate business to know nitty gritty of buying and selling which I guess you are knowlegable. But one last thing- yah you can never really correctly predict the ...

arniegang

I agree D - Unit. I voted no for 2 reasons 1. There is very little point because as DU just said , he will just log back in with a new user and 2. it is down to the moderators to delete his offensive posts and up to forum members to alert the moderators of such. On a side issue some of the moderator...

arniegang

Example of Jamal, and you lot want to ban HP !!!!! Geez talk about dual standards you know wats really fucked up in dubai ... the women ... and u know why they got such big heads an attitudes up in this place is cause of the fools ... i mean in other countries when the guy is driving some 70000$ car...

arniegang

i always know where i am, i bought a "navigator"

arniegang

I'm usually against banning people. But in this case, I wanted to never see his posts again. It doesn't matter how "different" his opinion is, as long as he articulates it in a way that is constructive to the discourse. But his posts are nothing like that. First of all you can never make out which ...

arniegang

Linda I think, as much as you have a clear perspective regarding others, i must ask you to just stop, think and review how others may percieve you. I said earlier, you have a good point for discussion and a case to some extent. But if you want people to listen and discuss, then you must not sink to ...

arniegang

I also totally agree with all the posts about Dubai Taxis. Our daughter who went shopping from our appt in the marina went in a DT and asked driver to take her too IBN Battuta malll ( 5 mins / 12Dhs). He took her to the Burjaman Cente 75 dhs. She was upset, she is only 20 and never been Dubai before...

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