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Jumeirah and Umm Suqeim

These are two neighborhoods between Sheikh Zayed Road and the water. Some of the housing is really spectacular, new villas, and some if it is beautiful old and sort of run down. It's more what you expect Dubai to look like: the oil kingdom look. I meant to ride through the neighborhoods more, but I just got too enthralled with the beach front stuff and then I got too hot and had to come back home before I died of heat stroke.
Classic Dubai mansion
Classic Dubai mansion		 More
More		 Indian workers, walking in the shade of the wall surrounding a ruler palace
Indian workers, walking in the shade of the wall surrounding a ruler palace		 Villas
Villas		 Cash
Cash		 Rather more modest accomodations
Rather more modest accomodations
Public beach, on a holiday. There are miles and miles of this.
Public beach, on a holiday. There are miles and miles of this.		 Beach front
Beach front		 Beach front
Beach front		 Few houses are not sandstone colored
Few houses are not sandstone colored		 Mosque, w/dumpster
Mosque, w/dumpster		 Beach front
Beach front
Indian grocery, also beach front
Indian grocery, also beach front		 Jumeirah Beach Hotel
Jumeirah Beach Hotel		 Nice little house
Nice little house		 Driveway to the Burj al Arab w/expat
Driveway to the Burj al Arab w/expat		 A hotel they are building right next to the Burj and the Jumeirah Beach
A hotel they are building right next to the Burj and the Jumeirah Beach		 The Burj al Arab, in all its glory. (Burj, I've learned, means 'tower' in Arabic. So, the Arabian Tower)
The Burj al Arab, in all its glory. (Burj, I've learned, means 'tower' in Arabic. So, the Arabian Tower)
Slightly less gloroius seen through all the construction
Slightly less gloroius seen through all the construction

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spoonbender27-Nov-2004 05:27
i don't particularly like either one of them, as far as a place to live. they are like the suburbs. jumeirah less so, but only in certain parts. umm suqueim is a rich, expat, villa ghetto with nothing much of interest to offer, unless you enjoy walled compounds and meticulously maintained roads with terrible traffic. jumeirah has some areas where you can, gasp!, actually WALK places. but again: villas and compounds and traffic. but the traffic is teribble everywhere. the authorities have recently announced they will begin working on it,and we can all expect it to be absolutely nightmarish until 2006.

if i was going to move here, as your question implies, i would look at Satwa and Karama. Deira if you REALLY don't mind traffic.
Guest 26-Nov-2004 22:41
which place did u like the most
Guest 26-Nov-2004 22:41
thanx
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