Abu Dhabi is very expensive and the move-in costs are very high -- you have to pay a year's rent (and we're talking NYC prices) just to move into a place, though it's easy to borrow the money. And Anu Dhabi is boring and the entertainment options are few and pricey.

I will say that as America sinks into its own sense of self-entitlement (it now owes as much as it produces, and it still thinks of itself as "exceptional," in a good way) it's sad to see the crass sterotypes that American liberals and conservatives are so good at farting out of their mouths.

Here's a clue: Not everyone living between Morocco and Burma south of Russia and north of Kenya is a member of the Taleban, and the UAE has more expats living there than Arabs, and not all Arabs are misogynistic terrorists.

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