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People I know who’ve done it: • getting a drink (alcohol) is a major pain. Either underground, or some elite venue where rules don’t apply - and the jeopardy t

People I know who’ve done it: • getting a drink (alcohol) is a major pain. Either underground, or some elite venue where rules don’t apply - and the jeopardy that goes with that. Really want to spill wine on a Prince? And there are a lot of princes. • feeling of underlying state level threat if you mess up • some workers are treated as literal slaves openly • getting your money home can be troublesome. Check out Dubai airport and abandoned super cars People who tend to fare better are very career focused and can ignore the above. Also if you or your partner are into the five star life. Edit: formatting

aliswe 5y ago
those who left their supercars at the airport didnt have any money to send home - they were virtually bankrupt. also, "there are a lot of princes" sure youre not mixing saudi with qatar here?
- chanc3e 5y ago
  4000 Princes, over 10k members of the royal family, Saudi.
rosndo 5y ago
> getting a drink (alcohol) is a major pain. Either underground, or some elite venue where rules don’t apply - and the jeopardy that goes with that. Really want to spill wine on a Prince? And there are a lot of princes. In Dubai you can get a drink just about anywhere. > getting your money home can be troublesome. Check out Dubai airport and abandoned super cars It’s really not difficult to transfer money out of Dubai. Those cars are abandoned by people who couldn’t make their payments and fled the country.
biztos 5y ago
To be fair, wasn’t the fancy-car abandonment thing just a result of people taking on crazy debt in a country that still has debtors prison, and then bailing out when they were predictably close to that jeopardy? Seems like rational behavior from both sides in the end.
- chanc3e 5y ago
  For sure. With a healthy percentage of “I have £100k and I can only bring £10k before I need to declare tax and my employer canned the project and my visa. Allow the car”
  - rosndo 5y ago
    Unless you mess up really badly, such a situation really doesn’t exist. If you had 100k, you’d presumably spend a few of them to get an investor visa. That would give you a plenty of time to find a foreign bank to accept your money.

aliswe 5y ago

those who left their supercars at the airport didnt have any money to send home - they were virtually bankrupt. also, "there are a lot of princes" sure youre not mixing saudi with qatar here?

chanc3e 5y ago
4000 Princes, over 10k members of the royal family, Saudi.

rosndo 5y ago

> getting a drink (alcohol) is a major pain. Either underground, or some elite venue where rules don’t apply - and the jeopardy that goes with that. Really want to spill wine on a Prince? And there are a lot of princes. In Dubai you can get a drink just about anywhere. > getting your money home can be troublesome. Check out Dubai airport and abandoned super cars It’s really not difficult to transfer money out of Dubai. Those cars are abandoned by people who couldn’t make their payments and fled the country.

biztos 5y ago

To be fair, wasn’t the fancy-car abandonment thing just a result of people taking on crazy debt in a country that still has debtors prison, and then bailing out when they were predictably close to that jeopardy? Seems like rational behavior from both sides in the end.

chanc3e 5y ago
For sure. With a healthy percentage of “I have £100k and I can only bring £10k before I need to declare tax and my employer canned the project and my visa. Allow the car”
- rosndo 5y ago
  Unless you mess up really badly, such a situation really doesn’t exist. If you had 100k, you’d presumably spend a few of them to get an investor visa. That would give you a plenty of time to find a foreign bank to accept your money.