Dubai makes American cities look like trailer parks

You have to understand that the US is a very young nation just like Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. While Dubai dates back to 1095 but developed just in the last 60 years with the oil exploration.

The USA expanded quickly after 1850ies with the discovery of gold. So the US is basically a fancy trailer park. Dubai, skipped that step and went straight from fisher village to glamorous destination in the last 20 years.

Everyone wants to talk about USA. Meanwhile we don’t think about your inferior country at all.

Dubai helps Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas while faking they love Israel.

"The UAE has been described as a "tribal autocracy" where the seven
constituent monarchies are led by tribal rulers in an autocratic
fashion.[105] There are no democratically elected institutions, and there is no formal commitment to free speech.[106]
According to human rights organisations, there are systematic human
rights violations, including the torture and forced disappearance of
government critics.[106] The UAE ranks poorly in freedom indices measuring civil liberties and political rights. The UAE is annually ranked as "Not Free" in Freedom House's annual Freedom in the World report, which measures civil liberties and political rights.[107] The UAE also ranks poorly in the annual Reporters without Borders' Press Freedom Index.
Bertelsmann transformation Index describes the UAE as a "moderate
monarchy". The country got ranked 91 out of 137 states and is far below
the average scoring for development towards a democracy."

American cities were built for the people who live there, Dubai was built for people to live there. You could take a small rural area and turn it into Dubai 2.0 if you had sufficient backing and capital.

Because Dubai invests in infrastructure and the US invests in military.

Why would I ever drop the kind of money to fly to Dubai, dine, hotel, pool, etc…

What more is there to do than that?

I could do all of that in any Florida beach city and save myself the hassle

Actually visit Dubai and see if you leave with warm and fuzzy feelings about what a wonderful city it is. Good chance: You won't. A few things:

- 10 times bigger than it needs to be. No "center." Urban sprawl at its very finest.

- Very, very expensive.

- Those icky Gulf demographics: A small number of rich citizens, none of whom can have dirty jobs, and a massive number "lesser" foreign workers who stand little or no chance of ever becoming citizens. Now, is that a better situation than where most of them came from? Sure. But the Emiratis aren't doing that out of kindness (just greed and haughtiness), and socially, it's creepy and gross.

- But yes, there are a LOT of impressive tall buildings, and it's pretty clean. Does that constitute nirvana?

Hmm, beats thousands of junkies, homeless, urine everywhere and bulletproof glasses in fast food restaurants in L.A.

You obviously haven’t seen the labour camps in Dubai where there are literally thousands of workers living in much worse conditions than trailer parks. These workers are the ones who keep the city running and get paid pittance.

And how many million LA residents disagree with this? It's just your (probably Trump/Fox-convinced) view from non-urban red America.

1) Do you really have a clue about urban living?

2) Could you fix the problem?

3) Do you support politicians who could NOT fix the problem (or probably even try), but ARE playing leading or supporting roles in destroying the political and moral basis of ALL of the country - urban, rural, and everything in-between?

Not really.

Dubai is built on what is essentially slave labor. Folks from poor countries are lured there by the prospect of great pay (relative to where they come from). They are brought to Dubai by agencies. The very first thing that happens when they step off the plane is that their passport is confiscated. At that point, they are stuck and become slaves.

CORRECT!

Dubai is built on slavery. Makes sense that no____deal would think it is paradise.

Propose a solution instead of your daily complaining.

This is basically exactly right. I worked in Qatar for 3 years which is very similar to Dubai and this is what happens. Their passports are taken away. Even for myself as Westerner, although I was able to keep my passport I had to actually pay to have a special stamp in my passport allowing me to leave the country whenever I wished.

It’s nice looking city but this is true. I’ve visited Dubai once but am not interested in returning. There are essentials 3 classes of people in the UAE - the citizens, the “professional” foreigners (finance, teachers, airline crews), and the migrant workers who are heavily exploited and subjected to egregious human rights violations. Many are from Bangladesh, India, Philippines.

So was the US. Slaves from Africa to build on a land stolen from the natives. Or was this long enough ago, that we don't care anymore?