United Arab Emirates is the name on everybody’s lips at the moment. Whether it requires launching buyouts for football teams or headhunting British workers for booming industries, everyone has noticed of the blossoming seven-state nation about the shores of the Persian Gulf.
Most individuals think of Dubai once they think of the UAE. The glittering skyscraper-filled skyline and hugely ambitious developments have drawn a flock of home investors and raised a raft of headlines within the UK press and abroad.
But hardly anyone thinks – or has even heard – of neighbouring state Ajman, just minutes away from Dubai, exactly where other savvy investors are now beginning to put their cash.
Ajman may be the smallest UAE state at just 260 square kilometres in size and is providing property traders of any nationality completely transparent freehold ownership on real estate.
The city, originally a tiny fishing village, now borders Sharjah and Umm al-Quwain, laying claim to 16 kilometres of unspoilt Gulf coast.
Nearly all of its 37,000 population live in the capital city of Ajman, but the booming construction industry has attracted a huge number of international traders, keen on creating cash.
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March 12th, 2010 at 9:37 am
how did they get so rich?
March 12th, 2010 at 10:28 am
I was in Dubai this winter. It was amazing.
March 12th, 2010 at 11:11 am
Poor! What makes them poor? A new oil field was discoverd las month called Jalila. And for the record, Dubai is a city smaller than your county.
March 12th, 2010 at 12:01 pm
They discovered a new oil field last month called Jalila ha ha ha
March 12th, 2010 at 12:44 pm
but by the way every single island of the world will hav a cost between 7 -37million …
March 12th, 2010 at 12:51 pm
I visited duabi last week … this was amazing ….
Lots of projekts are already done ….
But the view from the burj Khalifa was epic …. i never seen so much land at once …
March 12th, 2010 at 1:16 pm
Muslim Nation
March 12th, 2010 at 2:01 pm
much of this isnt actually built yet. and may not be because dubai is broke.
It may recover, i think it will, but i think a lot of it will be put on hold and some may not ever get built.
March 12th, 2010 at 2:09 pm
HAHAHA they’re banrupt now
March 12th, 2010 at 2:37 pm
wow, thats a beautiful city.
March 12th, 2010 at 3:20 pm
I heard about this place a lot and I think Its a place to watch.Beautiful Video.
March 12th, 2010 at 4:15 pm
well .. this city was built on oil money .. and it is still now being built that way .. I hope they wont have trouble when people are gona stop using oil … cause it realy is a beautiful city !
March 12th, 2010 at 4:34 pm
well… i want to live there
March 12th, 2010 at 5:03 pm
but no body want live there.
dubai is a total bullshit they want too big
March 12th, 2010 at 5:36 pm
the next hell
March 12th, 2010 at 6:09 pm
haha they are poor now.
March 12th, 2010 at 6:15 pm
they are poor the king of the country next to them had to spend billions to save dubai….they have no money……
March 12th, 2010 at 6:33 pm
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March 12th, 2010 at 7:03 pm
heyy.i wouldn’t say that ”The Dark Side of Dubai ” stated by one guy over here is always true..yes these do happen..bu..my dad is workin here for the past 23 yrs.. only recently we got a bit of a problem..those things in the story is just exhaggerated..
March 12th, 2010 at 7:21 pm
@ChrisBarnesMetalGod Hey there! I just read the introduction and I. I understand you feel bad.
Sadly for everyone even if they’re sick…
People want to live expensive lives they can’t afford. It was their fault. They shouldn’t have confused and Arabian country by Canada or the USA. Dubai is amazing as long as you are vacationing and have tons of money. Mistakes have consequences.
P.S: I’ll read the end at another time…
March 12th, 2010 at 7:25 pm
@stefxx68urbana I believe you were replying to what I said and I just don’t get what your farm has to do with that whole thing. I should take that you are American, and if you feel that their oil should be yours, then your wrong. If you aren’t American, then why do you blame travelers on the climate change??? I just got lost. sorry,
P.S: What fat asses are you talking about??
March 12th, 2010 at 7:40 pm
just 1 important thing, i work on a farm and grow corn, last year due to climate changes i lost half my crop, and the counterpart is low quality….just immagine that 1 fuel fill for a big air plane is my fuel consumption for a whole year producing food to feed 2000peoples , this year will be food only for 1 000 when half word will be starving..im pretty sure some poorest will run after those fat asses to kill them cook them and eat them with ketchup
March 12th, 2010 at 8:27 pm
This makes it look like Dubai is heaven on Earth. They must be extremely rich
March 12th, 2010 at 8:32 pm
Right. Well, these people work very hard an make practically no money, and that really is unfortunate. If they didn’t have these jobs to begin with, they’d even be in a worse situation. Am I to blame for vacationing in a place where that happens?I tipped better than I do in America, and I treated people the best I could. I want to visit India and people also starve and work for cheap. Should I not go because of that? What’s your point? I already knew what you just said. I helped the economy grow
March 12th, 2010 at 8:45 pm
una zona totalmente desertica se saca un inmenzo provecho, creando una nueva uptopia…mientras que otras zonas con mejor riqueza natural…simplemente no se les aprovecha en su totalidad, que busca el hombre con estos actos tan contradictorios??…