Along both sides of the street every other unit has a full terrace on the back. Must be where the important people reside. I'd rather live in a tar paper shack then live there.
Per the answer below "no alcohol" not a very educated person are they? Dubai is flooded with more booze than Las Vegas mate study up before you post stupid.
As far as I saw when I was living in the UAE the only places you could consume alcohol was hotel restaurants/pubs and special clubs like the seaman's club.. No bars that I ever saw, but you're right, booze can be found in any country and the native Emirates in Dubai were pretty lax on their relgious duties
Now come on! There's one roundy on my way home (extremely unusual in Texas, but still) and if I time the traffic right I can scream right thru in my pickup, all four tires squealing and then drop it a gear and nail the exit. Second most exciting part of my day. hitting the entry lane to the freeway at full throttle is the first - I usually hit 110 mph before I'm forced to slow down. I can do even better when I take the motorcycle. Allegedly. In case any cops are reading.
That looks like the city they built in Saudi Arabia to house all of the military folks during desert storm. Nobody goes into the area now even the MPs.
That's Eskon Village. It was used by the military because it was already empty. The Saudis built it for the nomads to move into. They (the gvmt) wanted to stop the nomadic caravans moving back and forth between SA and Yemen. When the nomads saw the completed village, they asked a simple question. "Where do we keep our camels?" When the SA gvmt said, "You don't. You get rid of them.", the nomads walked back into the desert leaving a fully functional but deserted village. True story. I was there during DS/DS.
Exactly correct. We moved into Eskan in October on 1990 and didn't have furniture or potable water, except for what we carried in in bottles. I spent my birthday building a table out of a big wooden wire spool and scrap would that we scrounged up before the rest of the hordes showed up. The place had a very dystopian look about it at the time. Thousands of villas and dozens of high rise apartment buildings and not a soul around, other than us Flyboyz.
It's Dubai out by Motor City. When I lived there and got totally smashed on all you can eat/drink Fridays it was a BITCH to make it through all the correct round a bouts to make it home and more than a few times I went sailing off into the desert = not fun. Imagine drunk off your ass trying to find your home in this dogpile.
Along both sides of the street every other unit has a full terrace on the back. Must be where the important people reside. I'd rather live in a tar paper shack then live there.
ReplyDeleteI would like to see someone who is inebriated find their way home in this neighborhood. Not gonna happen.
ReplyDeleteNo worries - no alcohol in the country where those homes are :)
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Per the answer below "no alcohol" not a very educated person are they? Dubai is flooded with more booze than Las Vegas mate study up before you post stupid.
DeleteAs far as I saw when I was living in the UAE the only places you could consume alcohol was hotel restaurants/pubs and special clubs like the seaman's club.. No bars that I ever saw, but you're right, booze can be found in any country and the native Emirates in Dubai were pretty lax on their relgious duties
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ReplyDeleteWelcome to your 15 minute city
You will own nothing and like it
What do you think they have planned for us pleebs?
ReplyDeleteNot only do they keep their women veiled for concealment, they also hide their homes ! Imagine being a delivery person there.
ReplyDeleteThe roundy bout? I hate those fucking things to. Fag yurapeen design. Put in a four way and take your turn.
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Now come on! There's one roundy on my way home (extremely unusual in Texas, but still) and if I time the traffic right I can scream right thru in my pickup, all four tires squealing and then drop it a gear and nail the exit. Second most exciting part of my day. hitting the entry lane to the freeway at full throttle is the first - I usually hit 110 mph before I'm forced to slow down. I can do even better when I take the motorcycle. Allegedly. In case any cops are reading.
DeleteNo, I'm not fixing her teeth. I'm a tatooist, not a dentist.
ReplyDeleteDaryl
That takes Levittown to the next level.
ReplyDeleteSteve
A 15 minute city.
ReplyDeleteUAE.
ReplyDeleteLooks like something Saudi Arabia would have.
ReplyDeleteA cookie cutter gone wild.
ReplyDeleteIt's from a movie about people kidnapped by aliens. Relax, it's a vision of hell.
ReplyDeleteThat looks like the city they built in Saudi Arabia to house all of the military folks during desert storm. Nobody goes into the area now even the MPs.
ReplyDeleteThat's Eskon Village. It was used by the military because it was already empty. The Saudis built it for the nomads to move into. They (the gvmt) wanted to stop the nomadic caravans moving back and forth between SA and Yemen. When the nomads saw the completed village, they asked a simple question. "Where do we keep our camels?" When the SA gvmt said, "You don't. You get rid of them.", the nomads walked back into the desert leaving a fully functional but deserted village. True story. I was there during DS/DS.
DeleteExactly correct. We moved into Eskan in October on 1990 and didn't have furniture or potable water, except for what we carried in in bottles. I spent my birthday building a table out of a big wooden wire spool and scrap would that we scrounged up before the rest of the hordes showed up. The place had a very dystopian look about it at the time. Thousands of villas and dozens of high rise apartment buildings and not a soul around, other than us Flyboyz.
DeleteAlways remember that you are unique - just like everyone else!
ReplyDeleteThat pic is from Dubai, UAR. - Nemo
ReplyDeleteThat should have been UAE - Nemo
DeleteHey now, they're not all the same. Some are yellow and some are pink
ReplyDeleteIt's Dubai out by Motor City. When I lived there and got totally smashed on all you can eat/drink Fridays it was a BITCH to make it through all the correct round a bouts to make it home and more than a few times I went sailing off into the desert = not fun. Imagine drunk off your ass trying to find your home in this dogpile.
ReplyDeleteI made a wrong turn and wound up wandering around in the desert one time in Saudi Arabia stone cold sober. That was in pre GPS days.
DeleteDubai slave housing.
ReplyDeletePicture says you're just a bug in the hive. No more value than that .
ReplyDeleteAin't Islam great!
ReplyDeleteHey no grass to cut every damn week, which I have to do tomorrow so.....
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"Little boxes, little boxes,
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And they're all made out of ticky-tacky,
and they all look just the same."
--Malvina Reynolds
Not a lot different to Levittown NY in the 1950s.
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