Tens of thousands of residents and tourists have left UAE since the US and Israel started bombing Iran two weeks ago, leaving beach bars, malls and hotels eerily empty

  • mlg@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I’m kinda annoyed that even with infinite oil money, they proceeded to design a compleltly unsustainable city for as cheaply as possible.

    I would have thrown that money into some next gen terraforming and serious civil engineering projects to make a technological hypercity.

    Instead we just got the billionaire’s backyard of concrete, glass, and roads.

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      23 hours ago

      infinite oil money

      You’re thinking of Abu Dhabi. Dubai doesnt really have much oil money which is why they went hard on the “sharia Vegas” thing. Abu Dhabi has actually bailed them out in the past.