Half of Dubai is leaving (probably for good) and the going rate for a ticket out of Saudi Arabia is apparently 300K USD.

@trollslayer The number of people leaving Dubai comes from the Financial Times and the cost to get a seat on private jet (the only thing flying) from Breaking Points. One of their anchors lived in Qatar and looked into it.

About half the population of Dubai are just rich "expats" living it up so it figures they would flee. Much like Snow Birds fled Mexico when things kicked off there after El Mencho was killed.


And the comment about the US embassy telling people to hop a bus to the Sinai and that they are on their own comes from the US Embassy Twitter account.

The whole thing is a mess.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Yes. We've got a prominent member of Reform UK who is so patriotic that he spends half his time there with his right wing journalist partner. She writes scabrous stuff about British people too. Looks like we might be getting some more tax after all.

@FreddieUK No surprise there. Many hide their money in the Baltics and then party it up in the UAE.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow I had some friends who had moved to Dubai for work. I havent been in touch for over 10 years so I dont know if they are still there. My wife was an expat working in Korea, and from what she tells me of the expat experience, the motivations of many of these folks don’t entirely seem on the square.

@trollslayer Yeah. The UAE is kind of a place where all that matter is that you are wealthy. They don't care how you got that money.

And it all runs on literal slave labour.