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What's your background (polite way of asking ethnicity)?
I'm caucasian, Finnish by nationality.
Where were you born?
Helsinki, Finland
Why have you moved around so much?
Dad is/was a engineer for a multinational corporation, to get ahead in his chosen career, he needed to travel to a lot of different places. His family tagged along.
Why have you never mentioned this before?
I thought everyone and their grandmother already knew this, it has been mentioned quite a few times :P
Why Dubai?
Why not?
Truthfully, it was emerging as a great market opportunity at the time, and the company decided to relocate its ME branch to Dubai, my Dad was one of the people they hired due to his previous engagements in the region.
What's the Rents do?
Rents do? engrish?
Rents were considerably cheaper when we moved to Dubai then they are now, IIRC annually our rent for a roughly 2400sqft villa was ballpark 175k AED per annum, or 35k USD.
Similarly sized villas are fetching about 250-400k AED per annum atm.
Ever lived in Canada?
No such luck.
Shawarma or Kabobs?
Shwarma, every time...
and Name the countries
Lived in: (2 years or more)
Japan, Hong Kong, Finland, Saudi Arabia, Dubai.
Visited:
Portugal, Macau, China, Singapore, Thailand, S.Korea, Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, Taiwan, Australia, India, Russia, (Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Fujairah, Ras al-Khaimah, Sharjah, Umm al-Quwain: UAE as a whole), Oman, Yemen, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Egypt, Turkey, Greece, Czech Republic, Germany, France, Spain, England, Ireland, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Estonia, Switzerland.
Might be forgetting something, but somewhere along those lines lies the truth...
Dubai was pretty awesome, its going downhill fast though, so god knows how "fun" it'll be in a few years time...
Oh and you can drink in Dubai, go to a club or bar that is attached to a hotel = they have a liquor license, there are also state run alcohol stores, where you can purchase booze with a card given to you by your employer, depending on your monthly wage, you are allowed to spend a certain amount per month on booze.
Plus there is a black market for the stuff too...
It is legal to drink in places with liquor licenses, and on "private property", but you aren't allowed to go to the public beach and get drunk.
I'm caucasian, Finnish by nationality.
Where were you born?
Helsinki, Finland
Why have you moved around so much?
Dad is/was a engineer for a multinational corporation, to get ahead in his chosen career, he needed to travel to a lot of different places. His family tagged along.
Why have you never mentioned this before?
I thought everyone and their grandmother already knew this, it has been mentioned quite a few times :P
Why Dubai?
Why not?
Truthfully, it was emerging as a great market opportunity at the time, and the company decided to relocate its ME branch to Dubai, my Dad was one of the people they hired due to his previous engagements in the region.
What's the Rents do?
Rents do? engrish?
Rents were considerably cheaper when we moved to Dubai then they are now, IIRC annually our rent for a roughly 2400sqft villa was ballpark 175k AED per annum, or 35k USD.
Similarly sized villas are fetching about 250-400k AED per annum atm.
Ever lived in Canada?
No such luck.
Shawarma or Kabobs?
Shwarma, every time...
and Name the countries
Lived in: (2 years or more)
Japan, Hong Kong, Finland, Saudi Arabia, Dubai.
Visited:
Portugal, Macau, China, Singapore, Thailand, S.Korea, Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, Taiwan, Australia, India, Russia, (Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Fujairah, Ras al-Khaimah, Sharjah, Umm al-Quwain: UAE as a whole), Oman, Yemen, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Egypt, Turkey, Greece, Czech Republic, Germany, France, Spain, England, Ireland, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Estonia, Switzerland.
Might be forgetting something, but somewhere along those lines lies the truth...
Dubai was pretty awesome, its going downhill fast though, so god knows how "fun" it'll be in a few years time...
Oh and you can drink in Dubai, go to a club or bar that is attached to a hotel = they have a liquor license, there are also state run alcohol stores, where you can purchase booze with a card given to you by your employer, depending on your monthly wage, you are allowed to spend a certain amount per month on booze.
Plus there is a black market for the stuff too...
It is legal to drink in places with liquor licenses, and on "private property", but you aren't allowed to go to the public beach and get drunk.
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