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Remember, if you're an American citizen it doesn't matter where in the world you live, you still have to pay your US income taxes. The US is the only developed country that requires this from its living abroad citizens.
Everyone else from developed countries can live in say Dubai and earn tax free income, since the UAE doesn't have income taxes and other developed countries don't charge taxes to their citizens living abroad.
Remember, if you're an American citizen it doesn't matter where in the world you live, you still have to pay your US income taxes. The US is the only developed country that requires this from its living abroad citizens.
If you earn over $70,000 abroad, than you pay taxes to the US.
I've lived abroad and earned incomes in foreign countries for a long time, and never been anywhere near 70K for an income.
So, I guess it depends on what kind of income-earner potential a person is capable of making.
Go work in Dubai and enjoy the benefits of slave labor. You can live like a Pharaoh off the backs of Indian, Pakistani, and Bangladeshi slaves. Enjoy a city of empty gaudy mega skyscrapers, beaches full of sewage, huge malls, no culture, debtors prison, and somewhat authoritarian Islamic values.
Funny comparison, that's not comparing apples and oranges, but apples and headphones
I have never been to Dubai, but nearbai, Arabs down there seemed pretty cold, superficial, materialist, conservative, and simply arrogant to me. As if they had any reason to be arrogant. The oil is just there for them like a lottery win and without the army of foreign workers and experts the whole Gulf would collapse anyway.
I could not imagine living there permanently, the separation of society into male and female sub-societies is hard to bear for someone used to our Western freedoms.
Stay in New York
I'd only move to Dubai if i was an Emirati
Stay in the land of the free i remember hearing a story of a couple from Australia (i think) who visited Dubai during Ramadan so they couldn't eat or drink in public, the wife was in the rental car and got caught drinking a juice box and got thrown in jail
I'd only visit Dubai for tourism, but work and live? no thanks.
I'm not a workaholic type of person. I work 5 days a week and make sure I always have time to have fun and hangout with friends. And my most common type of having fun, is drinking in the pub with friends. From what I've heard, nightlife or drinking in Dubai is overpriced, lame and not fun.
I got a friend working in Dubai, and she can not wait for her contract to end.
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