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Latest post on 19 May 2013 - 11:02

I don't live there but had some local friends who lived there so went to the area evening time. It's very very crowded. There is a lot of traffic as you're not far from the airport free zones. And there is this tunnel, don't remember the name, gets busy too. This is a very misleading post. I have been a Rashidiya resident for five years now and love it. The traffic in the early evenings is Sharjah-bound and goes through Airport Tunnel. If you know the area well you would know what I'm talking about. Rashidiya will be on the side with many service roads leading into it and the Airport Tunnel congestion is all the way leading to Sharjah. As for inside Rashidiya itself, the only times I have experienced traffic is when Gitex and the like used to be held at the Airport exhibition (no longer the case as that has been moved to Dubai Convention Centre now). There is also always a busy atmosphere on the eves of the two eids as families are busy and out and about. I agree with Anon that it is not an expat-centric community as it's mostly inhabited by Emiratis so it might have a different feel to what Westerners are used to. It's literally 1 minute away from the Rashidiya metro station, 5 minutes to the airport, 5 minutes to Mirdif and MCC, and around 8 minutes drive to Festival City. There is a Spinneys in Bin Sougat centre, quite handy. Another Spinneys at Uptown and yet another smaller one somewhere inside Mirdif. I frequent Mirdif and Festival City for almost all things I need and I rarely venture out to the other side of Dubai. To conclude, I love it here :) Where in Rashidiya are you looking DubaiCat? <em>edited by Coffeebean on 19/05/2013</em>

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Latest post on 03 April 2013 - 14:08

Irooni, I have the Philips one and use it almost everyday, no problems so far although cleaning it is quite a chore. Babylons, thank you so much for your detailed explanation! Quite an informative post!

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