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Originally Posted by emthree
Sick pictures. I hear everything costs an arm and a leg over there. Is this true>?
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Hi Emthree. My perception of expensive may be skewed because we live on an island but I really felt it was extremely affordable and even somewhat cheap there. Obviously staying at the Burj Al Arab was expensive. But besides that we found it to be very affordable. The prices in the mall were on par or cheaper than Miami. The prices at the grocery store were cheaper than Miami. Eating out was about the same price as Miami. Gas is obviously much cheaper.
In terms of cost of a vacation there I'd say it can be expensive but really doesn't have to be. Obviously if you want to stay in 5 and 7 star hotels it's going to cost you but for the most part it was extremely affordable. We went there from London so everything in Dubai seemed like a huge bargain
I would say to live there the cost of living is definitely not expensive one bit. In fact luxury cars are apparently 20 to 30% cheaper than in Europe and the US. Housing is also much cheaper. From the research Beth and I did we really felt the weather and lifestyle is similar to Miami and the price of real estate looked to be about what miami was 10 to 15 years ago. I may be way off that is just the feeling we had.