Re:Ask HN: What’s your “Everyone has a price” experience?
by UAEbound on Thursday June 21, 2018 @09:05PM
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Spent six months living there. Everything you just said/read is true. A bigger issues for contract laborers than expats, but still an issue.
As long as you are a straight, white, non-jewish, male that has no interest in being in the private company of women, and no interest in politics, freedom, or human rights issues, and are comfortable waking up, doing your work, and going home again - you'll probably be fine in the UAE.
If you're an LGBTQ person, you're gonna have a bad time.
If you're a woman, you might have a bad time.
If you are a smiling person who laughs at a good joke about the administration and likes jokes about administration, you're gonna have a bad time.
I have heard of passports taken away for silly reasons ("we just need it to do some photocopies...") And not given back until the company was "done with you", effectively holding a free person hostage in the state.
I wish you none of the above, but I would read more about UAE and think about it more than twice before boarding that plane.
Good luck, really.