MultiChoice's odd Dubai situation

The_Hobbit said:
Markup.
How else do you explain things costing around 30% more than a country like ours further from most suppliers (e.g. electronics etc.).
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Electronics are cheaper here than SA.
 
The_Hobbit said:
Doesn't matter when everything is so bloody expensive.
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That's no difference from London or New York and still you get taxed, yeah it's expensive but not paying taxes and a bump in salary sure helps.
 
The_Hobbit said:
A bump in salary?
I guess that is appealing to some.
Sand and 50C though... nah thanks.
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Eh I had doubts but it's been great live close to the beach, walking distance between two pubs.

Having a pretty good time.
 
abzob said:
You do know Dubai is a major international travel hub? So yes, it’s much easier to travel around Africa from Dubai than it is from SA.
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So you would live in Dubai just to travel to Africa? :laugh:
 
EADC said:
Eh I had doubts but it's been great live close to the beach, walking distance between two pubs.

Having a pretty good time.
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And the african and russian prossies are geat conversationalists
 
abzob said:
That’s not what the post said.
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It's what you suggested, being a hub for Emirates and all. But I understand if you want to take it back, we're all human and we all make mistakes.
 
RonSwanson said:
It's what you suggested, being a hub for Emirates and all. But I understand if you want to take it back, we're all human and we all make mistakes.
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Nope. Nothing to take back. It’s as easy to travel to Africa from Dubai as it is from Africa itself. Personally I’d prefer Emirates over SAA anyway. Don’t see why that’s an issue.
 
abzob said:
Nope. Nothing to take back. It’s as easy to travel to Africa from Dubai as it is from Africa itself. Personally I’d prefer Emirates over SAA anyway. Don’t see why that’s an issue.
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It's your argument that I picked up on. But no worries, if I lived in Dubai I'd also want to travel anywhere else (where they have proper bacon, pork sausage / belly / ribs / neck ), preferably for a very long time.
 
RonSwanson said:
It's your argument that I picked up on. But no worries, if I lived in Dubai I'd also want to travel anywhere else (where they have proper bacon, pork sausage / belly / ribs / neck ), preferably for a very long time.
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I’m not making any argument? It’s a factual statement. Are you denying that it’s easy to travel from Dubai to Africa? I get that you don’t like Dubai (I wouldn’t live there myself) but that’s not what this is about. People should try to be objective
 
RonSwanson said:
It's your argument that I picked up on. But no worries, if I lived in Dubai I'd also want to travel anywhere else (where they have proper bacon, pork sausage / belly / ribs / neck ), preferably for a very long time.
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We do have proper pork products, it's just as good as SA especially the British butcher I get from.

And you get plenty SA meat aswell so don't really have to go anywhere.
 
RonSwanson said:
Wasn't the case when I was there -- twice two years ago.
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some things are cheaper, some are more. Hard drives for instance works out the same, Apple products are cheaper (less the tax etc). I find they don’t have the variety of high end equipment, like they’ll only sell the prosumer headphones, that type of thing.
 
EADC said:
We do have proper pork products, it's just as good as SA especially the British butcher I get from.

And you get plenty SA meat aswell so don't really have to go anywhere.
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At the two establishments where I was living I was served Macon, which is some disgusting stuff that is lying about being bacon.
 
RonSwanson said:
At the two establishments where I was living I was served Macon, which is some disgusting stuff that is lying about being bacon.
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If you stayed in hotel yeah they serve Macon and turkey bacon.

It's just silly to think you can't have bacon, you don't even have to look that hard.
 
EADC said:
If you stayed in hotel yeah they serve Macon and turkey bacon.

It's just silly to think you can't have bacon, you don't even have to look that hard.
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I love hearing peoples reasons for disliking a place! Bacon is hilarious!! I’ve had some pretty decent pork in the Emirates, also camel.
Dubai has a lot going for it. It’s an amazing city, beautiful and huge. Makes coming back to SA really noticeable how we have zero growth here. Literally we are limping along. I saw whole highway interchanges for up in 2 months where we have similar projects here spanning over years.
It’s a place that doesn’t tolerate mediocre.
 
itsme2 said:
I love hearing peoples reasons for disliking a place! Bacon is hilarious!! I’ve had some pretty decent pork in the Emirates, also camel.
Dubai has a lot going for it. It’s an amazing city, beautiful and huge. Makes coming back to SA really noticeable how we have zero growth here. Literally we are limping along. I saw whole highway interchanges for up in 2 months where we have similar projects here spanning over years.
It’s a place that doesn’t tolerate mediocre.
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That's yet another problem with Dubai, miss your turnoff on the interchange and it takes you months to get to the next one to turn around.:mad:
 
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