hello jumzy,
we went through the same last year. we both got job offers in the UK with my husband, and our son was 3yrs old that time. we accepted the offer and moved to the UK. Neither of us is British. Our expectation was that the education will be better for our son and of course after 5-6 years probably we can apply for the citizenship. We also considered that while in Dubai during the summer you can't go outdoors, in the UK even if it's cold, you can dress up and go out to the park. There are beautiful places.
We moved last September and as of now we are planning to return back to Dubai.
The offer your husband got looks very good and Bristol is not as expensive as London (we moved to London). All I can tell you is that London prices are crazy. More expensive than Dubai. Bristol house-prices are much lower, can be even 50% lower. Bristol is a nice city by the way, we have friends living there.
The life is overall expensive. The nursery/child minder is very expensive until your child is 4 and can go to school, which is free. You may know you get into the school which is the closest to you, you can't really choose wherever you wish to register your child to.
Housing - as I mentioned in London - is very expensive, around Dubai range or even more in some places.
You can't afford to eat outside much - not like in Dubai.
You pay a lot of tax, and lot of extra expenses you wouldn't even think of.
Now, with the issue of visas and EU, it's more difficult for a non-EU to get visa and settle -s o you really need to look into this more deeply.
As others also suggested, if I were you I would stay in Dubai and save as much as you can, because her you won't be able to! We lost lots of money because of the move and with transferring money, etc. Why we want to be back? Because of the financial stability you have in Dubai.
I don't want to scare you at all, I don't want to sound like it is a bad place, but if you really love Dubai and the money matters to you (which is understandable), I wouldn't move now.
If you want more info or discuss, you can always contact me, I can send you my private email address.
Good luck with your decision!
@pdorci please how do i contact you? thank you
Thank you so much for the replies.
Really seems that UK is going to be a good decision. He has the option to pick from the bristol or the wolverhampton office, so its going to be one of the 2.
My daughter is 3 years old, so i guess we would be spending a ton on childcare/nursery. BIg scary steps :), I guess i am very materialistic. My husband plans to set up a visit to both places later this year so we can see and evaluate.
I love Dubai :).
