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08-04-2008, 02:39 PM
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Dammmmmmn... seeing those same buildings there makes me think "photoshop" though I'm fairly sure it isn't. That's insane.
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08-04-2008, 02:42 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: In your dreams.
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Goodness.
Makes me think about China's sudden development.
And how I've been living in this small city..what 10 years? And it's not even close to that.
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08-04-2008, 02:44 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: San Antonio, Texas
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I live in a fairly large city and I've seen lots of development but nothing near that. Most of our funds our going towards roads/highways which are a mess here.
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08-04-2008, 03:55 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: elsewhere
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Dubai is putting a buttload of its money into tourism and related development so it will still have a source of income after people drop the whole oil thing. Apparently all the military people angle for a couple days of stop-over in Dubai on their way to Afghanistan.
I have a friend from Dubai. He says there's dust everywhere from building theme parks and buildings and stuff.
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08-04-2008, 04:31 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
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Just think of what we could have built up in the United States had we not traded all of our money for oil. American dollars built Dubai. Well, with a little cash from China and India too.
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08-04-2008, 05:03 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2008
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Originally Posted by HumanePain
Just think of what we could have built up in the United States had we not traded all of our money for oil. American dollars built Dubai. Well, with a little cash from China and India too.
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That's because America as a country thinks it needs to go out and 'do things'. You know what's funny?
Almost everyone hates us the more we do.
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08-04-2008, 06:59 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Philly Region
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Is that one of the communities where they've allowed minute amounts of capitalism through? I was reading someplace not that long ago that there are four cities where they've allowed corporate capitalist companies to build and grow, and now the cities are expanding outrageously. I can't remember if Dubai is one of them.
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08-04-2008, 07:38 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Harlem
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08-05-2008, 05:32 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2003
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Dubai rocks. They have the largest hotel in the world, and soon will have the largest every man-made island in the world (shaped like a palm tree).
I'll find links for it. It's really amazing.
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08-05-2008, 06:46 AM
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08-05-2008, 08:04 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Heaven and Earth
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Whoa...that's incredible! I'd love to visit there. 
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08-05-2008, 12:25 PM
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Location: Harlem
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Apparently, the cheapest room you could get in their best hotel is 2 grand a night.
It's so huge and can really only support 500,000 people supposedly. So exactly what is this city for? How will they keep something like this going? What kind of tourists do they think they can attract? Maybe there's way more rich people than I give credit for.
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08-05-2008, 12:30 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Wisconsin
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Originally Posted by JCC
http://www.dubai-architecture.info/DUB-GAL1.htm
Dubai will be the jewel of the world...
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No kidding. That architecture is beautiful.
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08-05-2008, 12:31 PM
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08-05-2008, 12:41 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: In your dreams.
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That's so pretty.
Forget Florida.
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08-05-2008, 01:12 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Cumbria, United Kingdom
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Pretty, yes, but the money could go to much better causes.
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Pie Jesu domine..... Donna eis requiem - *thwack*
'To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.' - Giorgio de Chirico
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08-05-2008, 01:16 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2008
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Originally Posted by LiUsAiDh
Pretty, yes, but the money could go to much better causes.
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Point there. Like cancer and education.
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08-05-2008, 01:52 PM
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Join Date: May 2007
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It's good for them. Like LaBelle said, it's to get tourism going so they have a source of income after the oil is gone.
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08-05-2008, 06:56 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Harlem
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Have you thought of the social structure that goes on there?
Again, I'll point out. HOW do you afford to live there? I'm doubting there's a middle class in all this. I can't see how there can be.
This city strikes me as the epitome of excess.
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08-06-2008, 01:48 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2003
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It's simple. They are socialised countries. Free healthcare, free school/college, etc.
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08-06-2008, 01:52 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Harlem
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But for who? I know that's true. But I heard that you only get that if you're a natural born "Dubaian"(sp).
Has anyone really looked into who's fronting the labor? And I'm not talking about the rich Dubai dude that's running an operation. I'm saying what muscle is building this city?
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08-06-2008, 01:54 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Harlem
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08-06-2008, 02:13 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
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Originally Posted by KontanKarite
Maybe there's way more rich people than I give credit for.
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Four million people in a seven-billion-people world is like considering your second to last toenail important.
It's not so much that there's a lot of rich people, but that rich people have a lot.
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08-06-2008, 02:26 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Harlem
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Essentially. Did you read the articles, Jillian?
Something about that city just doesn't sit well with me.
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