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Tens of thousands of residents and tourists have left UAE since the US and Israel started bombing Iran two weeks ago, leaving beach bars, malls and hotels eerily empty

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[–] xerxes@piefed.social 23 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Dubai was always an economy built on a bubble. As much as I hate how they treat foreign laborers and as much as I hate their current leaders, I have some respect for how far they were able to get with this model.

But ultimately, they are a country with little land, little water, terrible weather, and surviving on a vast expat population that has no path to citizenship and will always just see it as a destination to milk for as much money as possible.

I don't see how such a model could ever be seen as sustainable in the long run.

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 1 points 46 seconds ago

I'm kinda annoyed that even with infinite oil money, they proceeded to design a compleltly unsustainable city for as cheaply as possible.

I would have thrown that money into some next gen terraforming and serious civil engineering projects to make a technological hypercity.

Instead we just got the billionaire's backyard of concrete, glass, and roads.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

One could say the same about Singapore, yet it seems to be here to stay.

[–] xerxes@piefed.social 13 points 11 hours ago

I've lived in both and while the similarities are there, it's a bit different. Singapore still has a majority non expat population while Dubai has only about a 10% local population. Singapore also invests heavily in local education with one of the highest densities of PhDs in the world.

[–] comador@lemmy.world 22 points 13 hours ago

Dear Iran, please bomb the currently under construction: Disneyland, Abu Dhabi south of Dubai. No one wants that shit.