"I took a quick trip up to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates 3 weeks ago in the midst of the annual Shopping Festival. Thirty years ago this was a local regional city. Today its an international nightmare, depending on your perspective. Perhaps it is a city that will cause you to have a strong visceral reaction. Lots of craziness with the terrible traffic, inability to get taxi's, frustrated drivers, construction zone garbage dumps, and high prices. It is a city for exclusivity, a city full of money, and ground zero for service oriented jobs. Compared to other Arabian area cities, Dubai is remarkably open. Clothing is a mix of Islamic and western, depending on where you are from - shorts are fine to wear in the city".

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