Is Dubai just a meme city for tasteless rich people, or is there more to it than that?

Is Dubai just a meme city for tasteless rich people, or is there more to it than that?

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the former

>tall buildings bad
>small stone buildings good

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Skyscrapers are fine, but Dubai's don't blend in at street level very well.

There are malls, some beaches and malls and some stores and overprized hotels, malls and overprized restaurants and malls.

You can do all those at your home country 2bh, you don't need traveling thousands of miles and spend thousands of dollars to be a window shopper.

It's all a flashy farce built to entice dumb tourists in a desparate attempt to get some kind of economy going as the west finds other sources of oil.
They don't even have a sewer system:
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building something tall for the sake of it being tall just to throw your money around is pretty tasteless though. At least a small cottage has life and purpose, a family probably lived there and survived and enjoyed their time there. What will some billion dollar skyscraper do? Impress investors and house international celebrities doing drug deals and banging hookers?

Like the other burger said, skyscrapers are fine, as long as they have some heart behind it instead of some spoiled oil tycoon's son tossing his weight

rich arabs literally threw money at the desert
what do you think

London is rich anglos throwing money at a swamp, and it turned out pretty good.

anglos>arabs

those anglos become rich because their grand grand parents buildt factories, or enslaved indigenous peoples on the other side of the world.

the arabs become rich because they allowed your companies to extract their oil.

>soul, no soul
that's a yikes from me

its like a wall, soulless, clean but you 'll never meet real dubaiye, only paki, indians and other asians slaves doing all the work

>your companies
All oil is state owned in UAE, brainlet.

2 people i personally know visited it and didnt like the city

it's a de facto escort service

It's literally a giant air-conditioned mall in the dessert with a few roller coasters.

its just boring, no historical calue like you have in every corner in europe, sure the burj khalifa and other new shit are nice but you get bored quickly

the city doesn't have a middle class, only sheiks, tax dodgers, tourists and slaves
many of the mega projects are on ice. the city lost its novelty and will go down in flames
this just proves that arabs can't do anything with their oil money other than finance wars and buy golden cars. as soon as they run out of it they'll be yeeted back to the stone age and nobody will miss them

yes. come here, make money, and fuck off

Most of the skyscrapers in Dubai are pieces of garbage I can't look at them, but Burj Khalifa is unironically a great design.

Even Americans can understand that, Arabs are truly subhumans.

Make money off of money laundering obviously

Rank interesting countries in Arabia:

Yemen
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Oman
Saudi Arabia
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UAE
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Kuwait
Qatar
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Bahrein

In pic Yemen

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I had to spend 2 weeks in Dubai visiting my expat family
It was terrible. Just sand, malls, and skyscrapers. Fake as fuck, and full of third worlders working there for pennies a day. Huge propaganda everywhere of the great leader.
Unless you like beaches, going to malls, and getting arrested for criticizing the government, you won't like it.
It's quite literally some backwards ooga booga arab princes got a shit load of money to make themselves a city to show off to others. They fill the city with Indians and filipinos because no one else wants to live or work there, and deport them if they complain about anything. Things like the roller coasters and indoor skiing are just novelties used to impress people, but that's pretty much all there is to do there, and there are very few of those sorts of things. They eased up on human rights justttt enough to keep westerners off their back.
I can't wait to watch the city fucking become the next Detroit.

All of these 100%

>dubaiye

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> Burj Khalifa is unironically a great design
> Architecture firm: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (Chicago, IL, USA)
No wonder

But it has got the economy going. Dubai is a major financial center now.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Financial_Centres_Index

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they don't think it be the way it do but it do

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>as of 12 March 2019
damn

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Actually Impressive for the UAE.

I don't think dubai is even populated, its probably an Arabian scam and the buildings are just all paper cut outs to imply some Arabs are actually rich and live well off

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hideout for shady businessmen

visited it 2 years ago, was good so far but i wouldn't imagine myself living there, too boring like the rest of gulf countries.

what the fuck

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is ther such thing as "poor native emirati?"

no such thing

All the Gulf States are horrible. Mixture of tasteless Capitalist opulence and barbaric fundamentalist Islamism. No wonder the Americans and the Brits like and support them.

meme city

Build a city without sewers and natural freshwater supply in the middle of the desert. Burn oil to generate electricity to desalinate seawater and cool buildings, burn fuel in trucks to transport sewage to dispose either to the sea or to further in desert where people won't see. Arrest and deport everyone who ask about how is this shit sustainable.

It's a meme city which doomed to collapse when the oil runs out.

>doomed to collapse when the oil runs out.
Not really, sadly it became a trade hub just like NYC, London, Shanghai or Singapore.

Those are all cities run by smart people, or have a ton of history. No one cares about Dubai outside british rappers.

And instagram whores.

Once oil crashes dubai will follow suite.

Dubai does not depend on Oil anymore, it is a financial center and a trade hub, sadly, it won't collapse.

Dubai poop snake
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And that's just the poop that didn't end up on instathots' chests

>Dubai does not depend on Oil anymore, it is a financial center and a trade hub, sadly, it won't collapse.
Many other countries can do that for cheaper and better. Face it, once oil runs out it's fucking dead.

I agree.
I wish the wars would end and muhammad would come back to attach a rider to the Quran saying, "Be nice to Americans, and don't kill anyone ever" so I can go and hike Arabia.

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>literally making money right now off non-oil-related business
>BUT FACE IT IM A RETARD SO ITS DEAD
How do you not forget to breathe.

Dubai has less oil than India, Egypt, or Vietnam.

>literally making money right now off non-oil-related business
>in a country propped up by trade in oil
>trading hub in in oil
Boy you are right, if there was no oil in the middle east then these buildings would still be here for the lucrative NON-OIL related business they can get anywhere else like London, Frankfurt, new York or Shanghai.

Hating Dubai is such a Reddit thing

>you can get the same type of service in many places so this particular place will be dead because I, Cleetus Flyoverson, said so

>rich and modern city bad
>poor and old city good

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This is the place of where the half of your taxes goes, rest goes for israel.

>I muhammad ali beheadanotherchristcuck know all and will defend these rich oil barons with my life!

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>middle east
yikes desu

Yeah, it does look really cool ngl.

>Cleetus thinks exports alone represent the economy
>Cleetus doesn't know 80% of oil is in Abu Dhabi and not Dubai
>Cleetus doesn't know aluminium refining had larger footprint in Dubai's budget than oil already 10 years ago
Stick to fucking your sisters and yelling at Fox News, bubbaleh.

>Muhammad thinks Exports have no impact on the economy
>Muhammad thinks Dubai doesn't benefit from oil in Abu Dhabi
>Muhammad thinks these trading centers would pop up from the ground if there was no oil in the first place.
Go back to molesting children and stuffing your face into a rug ,Muhammad Al-brainlet.

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Im not meaning ro quote you, but in lazy sorry.
Burj khalifa is a nice structure atleast. But still kind of a dickswing. Chicago, the birth city of the skyscraper, refuses to build something over 1400ft tall, even the 50 or so skyscrapera in building/planning phase are around 700/1000 ft with shorter attachment buildings to smooth things out. Dubai built some 2000+ megashit to take a world record but it is kind of disturbing. Idk, ive never been to dubai so i cant say anythung but chicago is a masterfully built city, the best in America atleast. Everyone smart copied the grid/address system from chicago for cities post 1899 atleast. Pretty cool how a non coastal city became so influential and prevalent. Id like to move there some day

That's not what he said you fucking idiot.

Dubai doesn't have sewers?!!

You can take out the 3rd world out of a country but the 3rd country mentality never leaves the country

they should try reforesting the desert with all that money.

I love Chicago too. My mom and sister live there and I always look forward to visiting. One of the quickest ways an Jow Forums poster can out themselves as a retard (at least regarding the US) is to regurgitate insulting memes about Chicago.

>ur muhammad and brainlet!! brainlet.jpg
Solid arguments as usual, retard.

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God, Germoids suck at bantering lol

>ardently argue some idiotic position
>get fucking destroyed
>lumao dood twas definitely just bantering bro
Jesus, fuck, it's like talking to a sentient amoeba. Get ass cancer, imbecile.

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>Trade in oil with manufacturing and transportation.
Well done Muhammad you defeated your self better than anyone could

>Dumb """German""" can't tell 2 American posters apart.
Color me surprised.

This. Be fucking awesome to have that much Jew (Arab) golds to put into an afforestation mega project.

LOL why so salty Claus? Ahmed didn't fuck your sister today?

This would be awesome, and actually new and original unlike a new meme tower. And normal people (as opposed to other rich spergs) would actually like you for it.

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Just shut the fuck up.

ACH EIN BEIN! MEIN SISTER NEEDS HER MUHAMMACUM

>everything is actually oil!
Thanks for playing, illiterate negroid.

Stop turbo autistic son.

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Not him. But Dubai is more of a trade port now turning into a financial hub. And then there is some tourism and luxury mall Gas and oil might have been used to start this but aren't the main income anymore.

But beyond that it's irrelevant. It's just as tasteless and bland as modern day London - just without the history.

>n-n-o there is no oil!

If you could have been fucked to read the thread before posting, you'd have seen that we've been over this already. Not him btw.

>An American shilling for the Europeans who hate America with all their hearts
Typical, love that German cock, right !/8th German pals?

Not the mutt he was arguing with, just joined in to talk shit.

I'm an individual. I don't shill for anyone. Spend some time off Jow Forums.

>American prime time
>US flag gets -30 IQ debuff to all posts

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At this point it's shit posting anyways. So I hoped for some more banter by stating the obvious - again.

>Not the mutt he was arguing with, just joined in to talk shit.
That's what I came for either.

>you are your flag and your flag dictates a stream of meme posts that you're not allowed to deviate from
Dumbest, cringiest, most cancerous mentality on Jow Forums right here.

>At this point it's shit posting anyways
Good call I guess.

If I went to Dubai, could I make money?

Not that this discussion could be anything else in from the start.

>you are your flag and your flag dictates a stream of meme posts that you're not allowed to deviate from
Cringe

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If you are cute twink willing to partake in scat play and other bizarre fetishes.

Does this really happen there?

Lived there for 5 years. Loved it and would move back. It's a hard place to live though.

How so? Pros and cons? Also what are your ethnicity and religion? Not that those should matter but sometimes they do.

A lot. Just look at the occasional surfacing stories and combine this with what you know about places with lots of money and homophobia in general. I.e. the Catholic Church.

>Pros
Great street food
Vibrant varied neighborhoods
World class museums
Lake Shore Trail and surrounding parks downtown

>Cons
Public transit service is not very wide serving, and needs to be supplemented if you are going somewhere that doesn't pass through downtown. I biked a lot, it can get quite cold.
Generally on edge walking down the street, there is lots of druggies, its not likely to be harmed but there can be a lot of confrontation involved in just going outside. You're going to have to turn people down for money and then bump into someone on a crowded sidewalk or in line or whatever. It stops being awkward but never stops being tiresome.

I am white and not religious. This didn't matter too much but living in the city it is a white minority and some places felt like that more than others. I was definitely discriminated against at times. Frustrating but nothing major.

most trade hubs don't have the disadvantage of being resource sinks.

>is there more to it than that?

Nope. It's Arabs. That's the best they can do.
(only if someone else does all the work for them of course)