Brooke86

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Latest post on 19 February 2016 - 19:30

HI. A few things to help you; 1. if you get shipping and you have good furniture available at home, you are better off buying from there. Furniture here is expensive. 2. I would recommend Emirates Driving Institute. They do not take short cuts and have the best facilities. Lots of locations and convenient options like "pick from home" etc. If you have a license back home, bring it as it will result in reduced classes which is less expenses as well as less spend. I am assuming here that either you do not have a license or belong to a country that does not have a license exchange facility with the UAE. Because if your country has a license exchange agreement with the UAE, then all you need to do is to visit an RTA office with your country's license and your passport and walk out with the UAE license. 3. I preferred a new car as I was wary of any scams. Not that there are many here but I know nothing about cars. New cars do depreciate heavily in the first year so if you want to save on that go to Dubizzle which is a classified website in UAE and is used heavily for buying used cars. 4. Internet is reliable but expensive. It depends where you are moving from. If it's Europe or US, the speed will be slower than what you are used to. 5. Netflix was recently launched. I personally felt the content was limited compared to the US version so i unsubscribed. People tried to access through VPN in order to access US content, but apparently Netflix banned that for copyright reasons. 6. Finding a job is dependent on your skill set. If you have a specialist qualification then it's easy else too many generalists already around. Hope this helps. :biggrin: Thank you so much for you response, We are coming from the Caribbean, Antigua to be exact, and I have researched it that even though I have a drivers license we will still have to do the test to get the UAE one unless I find a way to convert to an international one before arriving in August. Do you know of the area, Meydan Hieghts by chance. I have been looking up online for it but cant find much on it.

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Brooke86

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Latest post on 18 February 2016 - 22:17

Hello ladies, my husband has just gotten a job in Emirates and as we are excited for the opportunity we are also terrified of the unknown. I am hoping that a few of you can help shed some light on a few things, especially if some of you are pilot wives would be so grateful for your insight. We have 2 kids, ages 4 yrs and the other one is just 7 months. We are looking at all things that will affect us in terms of schools and nuseries, how expensive is it to furnish a home? whats the best place for driving school as we will have to do lessons to get or driving license. It appears that they are putting us in the Meydan Heights area. Does anyone live out there? Is it nice? Where is a good place to get a car? what is the Internet and cable services provided out there and is it any good? Are you able to get Netflix for the US or is a certain something needed to get it to work? How difficult is it to get a job ? Any response would be of great help and hopefully get to meet some of you when we get out there!

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