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Beautinow's avatar

Been to Dubai recently, it was wonderful holiday, I agree it wasn't an affordable holiday. What I also didn't like is that the city isn't walkable, you need to take a cab everywhere. That said, as fragrance lover, it was a delightful sniffing holiday too.

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Priyanka Sacheti's avatar

Growing up in sleepy, slow life Muscat, we were always accustomed to being in dullsville compared to glitzier, more happening, and faster Dubai. Every Eid and Oman National Day holidays, there would be an exodus to Dubai because there was so much to do over there as opposed to the same ol road/camping trips in the beaches and wadis in Oman (one vivid memory: the roads in Dubai would literally be filled with the distinctive Omani yellow license plated cars and I bumped into classmates in malls). Years later on, I am so grateful to have grown up in and called the landscape of Oman and I would not exchange it for a day of Dubai. Period.

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Priyanka Sacheti's avatar

Ugh typed too fast called the landscape of Oman *home

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Litrahb Perfumery's avatar

Right?!! I wanted to say something snarky but factual - after 2010, Dubai was the place where the wealthy indian men in Lagos "situated" their fit wives and kids- or they discarded their dull husbands in Lagos with all its problems to life a separate and better "lifestyle". That's when the husbands got uglier and the wives far away got younger LOL. Maybe it's a stress-free place to be an ageing person, but like.,..the lack of challenge certainly numbs the brain.

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Litrahb Perfumery's avatar

Dubai has a special quality of "dullness" attached to its gloss-life, much different from Omani slowness I expect, like being there blinded my eyes and dazzled my ears. i can't see* that the world is burning beyond its gates.

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Snax and the City's avatar

travel more so we get more such dispatches!!

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Litrahb Perfumery's avatar

People need to buy more perfume so that can happen!

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Snax and the City's avatar

lol

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