Dubai starts to look like Coruscant

Comment · Sun, September 30, 2012 · 111 pts

I was just there. I can confirm that many of the buildings are at low occupancy. The really nice ones downtown are pretty occupied, but even some are only half full. Other buildings are sitting half completed with no wor

Comment · Sun, September 30, 2012 · 40 pts

Not trying to be disrespectful to you in any way, but how can you say that? The population is less than 18% Emrati now. In fact, the number of Indian nationals is over double that. The Bedouin culture of the past is gone

Comment · Sun, September 30, 2012 · 3 pts

I can sort of see your equivocation. However, Dubai is way worse. It's very apparent that the gaudy excess is fueled by slave labor. Not actual slaves, but a sort of economic sanctioned slavery that takes advantage of th

Comment · Sun, September 30, 2012 · 6 pts

I don't have a problem with Muslim law and culture (to a point). My point was that they are acting like they are keeping up with the Muslim rules, then going out and breaking them. It just adds to the vapid feeling of th

Comment · Sun, September 30, 2012 · 11 pts

No, not like most cities. Name another city in the world that has risen to the level of modern buildings and luxury in a similar time frame, while at the same time replacing most of it's native population with laborers w

Comment · Sun, September 30, 2012 · 3 pts

I agree, there is not much each of us can do individually about the situation. For some people it is a culture and environment that they can live in and enjoy. I am just not one of those people that would be able to hand

Comment · Sun, September 30, 2012 · 5 pts

But most third world cities have not risen to the level of extravagance and excess that Dubai has. Sure poverty is everywhere. However, Dubai takes advantage of those impoverished laborers, then sweeps them under the rug