Dubai is the fastest growing city in the world and is a dazzling,
cosmopolitan destination complete with gleaming skyscrapers,
amazing weather, thousands of foreigners and some of the most
luxurious hotels in the world. In the late 1960s, it was simply a
pile of sand with only one large building built upon it and a
dozen cars circulating the land. Over the last 50 years, the rate
at which Dubai has developed has astounded people around the
world and created some of the most fascinating cultural norms
on the planet.
Camel-riding robots? Check. Indoor skiing? Double check.
And that’s barely scratching the surface of the crazy things
you’ll find in Dubai. What did you expect from a bustling
metropolis surrounded by a desert wasteland?
Because it is so high profile and expensive, few people actually
get to experience the wonders that Dubai has to offer.
However, its shrouded nature only increases the mystique
surrounding the city and makes people want to know more
about the secrets that it holds. That’s where we come in. Follow
along as i outlined 10 of the most unbelievable facts about
Dubai.

10. Dubai Has A Crime Rate of 0%
Due to the city being ruled under strict Muslim law by Sheikh
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Dubai boasts virtually a
0% crime rate. In a city inhabited primarily by foreigners,
people know that they can easily be imprisoned or deported for
the slightest of criminal acts, making Dubai one of the safest
cities on the planet. The Sheikh takes great pride in Dubai’s
police force and makes a conscious effort to show off how
classy it is to tourists coming to visit. As a result, each police
car in Dubai costs as much as sending one person to college in
the United States. The various models of police cars include
Ferraris (valued at $500,000), Lamborghinis (valued at
$400,000) and one Ashton Martin, priced at $1.79 million. Chai those cars actually do nothing at all and been a policeman is lucrative as working for an oil here in naija

9. Dubai’s Population is 83% Immigrants
Most of the workers building Dubai’s hundreds of skyscrapers
immigrated to the United Arab Emirates from India, Pakistan
and Bangladesh. As a result, they comprise over 50% of the
city’s population, followed by 17% Emiratis and the remainder
being foreigners. The class divide is huge, with many of the
immigrant workers living and working in the most squalid of
conditions while Emiratis have their rent, education and
medical bills paid for and upper class foreigners earn
extremely attractive salaries. There has been lots of outrage
from various human rights organizations who are trying to
change the way immigrant blue collar workers in Dubai are
treated. Many have their passports taken away upon arrival
to their city, until they can prove themselves to their employer
and pay back the cost of their ticket to the UAE.

8. Dubai Has Zero Debt Tolerance
Dubai is avidly against the concept of its residents incurring
debt and not being able to pay it back. If you fall into default
on your credit cards and miss payments, you can be sent to jail
or deported. The prospect of a well-paying job, tax-free salary
and up-scale living conditions can be attractive to many
expats, but several of them live beyond their means and are
sent back home shortly after. The debt repayment and
prosecution issues are such a serious problem here that many
luxury cars can be found abandoned in airport parking lots, left
behind by indebted foreigners fleeing back to their home
country.

7. Everything in Dubai Needs to be
Cooled
Logically, Dubai’s structure makes no sense from an
environmental standpoint. Its land is smack dab in the middle
of a desert, with sand storms constantly being a concern and
temperatures soaring far above 120 degrees. If it weren’t for
the city’s excessive air conditioning, buildings would quite
literally begin to melt and the sun constantly beaming down on
the residents’ glass windows would cook them alive. As a
result, construction engineers install vertical cooling systems –
which use crazily strong pumps to push water upwards
through buildings to cool them down. These pumps often have
to be installed on several levels of the buildings, as many of
them exceed 100 stories. Because Dubai is a desert, the
engineers then have to drill extremely deep and far out into the
ground in search for the pumps’ water – which they use
millions of litres of annually.

6. Dubai is the Fastest Growing City on
Earth
20% of all cranes operating on the planet can be found in
Dubai. The city is growing at such a rapid pace that economists
are concerned that a financial and housing collapse is
impending. Dubai’s metro system was completed in 2009,
features 42 stations and was built in a shocking 18 months – a
small fraction of what it would take other cities to accomplish
such a task. Dubailand is also under construction, an
amusement park that will be twice the size of Disney World
and will be the largest tourist magnet on the planet, with
200,000 visitors expected daily. The city features several man
made islands, the largest of which is the Palm Jumeirah. The
island features a resort and countless mansions, requiring 94
million cubic meters of sand to be imported in order to build it:
twice what the entire Empire State Building could hold.

5. Dubai Has No Standard Address
System
Due to the rate at which Dubai is growing, it doesn’t have a
standard address system in place. Instead of an address line on
a mailing label, there is a space where residents can draw a map
or write out specific instructions such as: “After the white
mosque, first street to the left, gold door.” Foreigners arriving
to the city from the airport are advised to have maps on hand to
show their drivers where they’re going, if they won’t be
visiting one of the city’s many luxury hotels.

4. Dubai Hosts Robot Camel Racing
Camel racing is an extremely popular sport in Dubai, similar to
what football is to the US and what hockey is to Canada. Given
the camel’s size, only children can participate in racing them.
Instead of allowing Emirati or Dubai residents’ children to
participate, there has been a problem in the past with having
children illegally trafficked into the country for the sole
purpose of racing camels. The rest of the world eventually
caught on to the issue and has since put a stop to it for the most
part. Leave it to Dubai to come up with a solution. Now, child-
sized robots are being built and are racing the camels. They
cost anywhere from $300 to $10,000.

3. Dubai is Building a City Within
the City
Constantly on the quest to impress the rest of the world with its
extravagance, Dubai is in the process of building a climate-
controlled city within itself that’s 2.25 times the size of
Monaco. The as of yet unnamed city will be within Dubai’s
limits and will feature air-conditioned walkways that get you
from street to street and building to building for visitors’
maximal comfort. In other words, you’ll be able to shop, eat,
walk around and explore without having to be bothered by the
sweltering desert heat.

2. Dubai Wants to be the Biggest And
Best at Everything
Dubai’s apparent main goal is to constantly have the biggest
and best of everything. Its hotels are the most luxurious of any
other place on the planet and it boasts being home to the best
hotel in the world: The Burj Al-Arab. The hotel bills itself as
seven stars, doesn’t let anybody without a reservation walk
through its doors and is comprised of 39% empty space, which
is purely for height and show. It also features 1,790 square
meters of gold leaf adorning its interior. In addition, Dubai
built the tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa, which
can be seen from 95 km away and is 163 stories high. Beyond
that, the city has the largest indoor mall on the planet, the
biggest aquarium, the tallest hotel and the grandest indoor ski
park – yes, you read that right.

1. Dubai Forbids Premarital Sex
Premarital sex is illegal in Dubai and can get you imprisoned or
deported. Public displays of affection are very much frowned
upon in the Muslim country and it is advised not even to hold
hands with your significant other in public – let alone kiss. Of
course, the government can’t control what happens behind
closed doors, and in that regard many foreigners and Emiratis
do whatever they’d like. There have however been instances of
expats being jailed after it was discovered that they
had engaged in intimate acts with anybody other than their
spouse. Sadly, more often than not, it’s the man’s word against
the woman’s. Several foreign women in recent years have been
imprisoned after bringing it to authorities’ attention that they
were raped.

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xreal:
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February will tell, with Buhari as the president.

#FeBuhari

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