It’s nice for a week or two, but gets boring pretty fast. You can only eat at L’Atelier so many times.
But it’s surely better than almost every other city in the world.
But it’s surely better than almost every other city in the world.
On which basis?
They don’t even have a working sewage system.
https://dotless.ae/how-does-dubai-manage-its-sewage-water/
From 2016 so Dubai may have had a working sewage system for a year, so I could be wrong.
> Dubai: The emirate of Dubai will get a new deep tunnel sewerage system costing Dh12.5 billion in the next five years to replace more than 121 sewage pumping stations.
Pumping station meaning tankers transport the waste away.
https://gulfnews.com/uae/government/dubai-to-get-a-new-sewag...
It’s not like they’re making residents pay high taxes to pay for the tankers either.
The end user experience of the sewage system in Dubai is no different than in regular Western cities. That’s really all that matters when trying to figure out if it’s “working” or not.
Sure, it’ll lose out to London, Paris, Barcelona, New York, Los Angeles, …
But it won’t lose out to cities like Manchester or Liverpool.
This reminds me a bit of Eddie Izzard's impression of the Queen: "A plumber? What on Eaaarrrthh is that?" Not everyone can eat at a restaurant nightly. Not everyone can eat. And some of the reason for that is designed into the current system.
In this context it makes sense to look at things from that perspective. On reddit it would of course be different.
You’ll find more slaves per capita in the US where prisoners are widely used as actual slave labor.
A decade ago this stuff may have been more common, but the government has cracked down heavily to the point that it doesn’t exist any more than it does in Europe.