travel.howstuffworks.com — An odd oasis of fantastical skyscrapers sits firmly planted in the desert. The city sprawls over the sand and even creeps out to sea -- man-made islands coated in luxury villas dot its coastline.
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9a3eediNov 6, 2007
Crime? Corruption? I walk around the streets and 2AM and nothing happens to me. Same goes for the majority that live there.
doctordbxNov 6, 2007
The problem with a lot of laws in Dubai is that they are still selectively enforced. For instance, if you leave (read flee) your employment within 12 months you are charged with absconding, and then if you try to return they will lock you up in a horrible prison (worse than the normal horrible prison) and deport you with a black mark in your passport (never to return). However, the employer can pretty much safely take your passport off you and rarely if ever face legal trouble for doing so.Having said that... people are literally queuing up to come and work in the conditions (which are hot, tough and far from luxury) as they can get paid more than in their home country. What needs to happen is these people need to be educated in their home countries of the realities of what they're getting themselves into and if they still decide to come... who is anyone to step in the path of free will.There are plenty of s**tty jobs in the world, Dubai doesn't hold the monopoly on that.
obliviousfoolNov 6, 2007
Well, slave labor and money laundering.
stevecobalt37Nov 6, 2007
Oh, and if your a woman, don't forget to get your husbands permission to drive a car or drink alcohol!
neozeedNov 6, 2007
so a gay person being open, is worthy of being punished/killed. Yeah, hurray for your 'paradise'.
89992Nov 6, 2007
Simply because you don't get mugged on the street doesn't mean there is no crime. You don't believe that children laboring in sweatshops is criminal? If you want something from the government officials there, all you have to do is slip them some money on the side. You don't consider that corruption? I'm sorry but I do.
observant1Nov 9, 2007
screw dubai ! halliburton moving there on a fat corporate welfare grant, cheney's no-bid contracts to halliburton and its subsidiary KBR for 800 nazi-style concentration camps on American soil for FEMA, combined capacity about 20 million, with the continuity of government plans being held secret from people who should be qualified by their position to see them. screw cheney for dumping about all his holdings in US currency and having a mansion waiting for him in Dubai !! he should NOT be allowed to "take the money and run", which is exactly what he has set up for himself. if the governor of illinois can be imprisoned for "insider dealings" then the same rule of law can be applied to dick cheney. yeah, thats right, cheney-halliburton-dubai.. 1-2-3 connect the dots on this traitor and his "safe-haven" set ups. kucinich is right some ways, and wrong on THIS.. jail NOW, trial later.. as would happen to any one of US if suspected of criminal or treasonous activity! cheney isnt "above the law" or special just because of the office he currently holds, and he should be held accountable to everything he has done in DC over the last 3-4 decades too! if ever was a place harboring REAL terrorists, it is dubai. once cheney leaves office he'd move there and be out of US jurisdiction.. hell with THAT!