it certainly looks beautiful - at least i think so.
I can appreciate the old architecture as well as the new modern archietecture.
i haven't gone to Dubai yet, would like to one day. my dad and brothers went and they seemed to rather like it, but they were just there for a week so, i dunno what it's like after you've been there for a long enough time.
from what i know the Emirati's are horribly outnumbered even by the neighboring Arabs living and working there as well. Nevermind the huge labor force they have there, and the foreigners from around world living and working in their sky rises.
In one sense alone is it something to be proud about, however the use of labor force (which is a huge problem in all of the Gulf) it still shows what an Arab country can build in a very short amount of time -relatively speaking. sadly a lot of it has to be outsourced to accomplish it.
All of the Gulf should strive to limit their stupidly over-reliance on cheap foreign labor.
Rather like how Saudi has tried approaching the problem so far, trying to build quality education universities, like the Princess Noor Universities, or KAUST (which again has mostly foreign professors teaching there). have an educated base to build the country organically. The tricky part is how do you get to employ the uneducated to do the manual labor task, a job that is almost exclusively done by the huge foreign labor force.
Dubai looks fantastic, but what i see is beautiful gleaming towers and lots of toys. in other words, it's beautiful skin, but it has no bones or muscle to support it.
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