Oh yes, his position was absolutely privilged. It was the stories of how the local powerful people treated women and the fact that all f them had to turn over their passports. And the curfew covering leave from the compound, that bothered me. Pay was very good so. And yeah, the actual "workforce", e.g. manual labor, construction workers and so on had it way worse.

I had a project in Dubai a couple of years ago, and all the people I was inc contact with were foreigners, on all levels. GM of logistics companies, warehouse workers, manaement, everyone was a foreigner. At the higher levels of management that changes, so.