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Capricorny
Joined: 08 Mar 2006
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 Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 8:33 am Post subject: Unaccomodating |
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If anyone is seriously considering or is being considered for a position in the Emirates I strongly recommend that the salary not be looked at as money in the bank.
Research the accomodations packages. Since 2004, rents have risen by 50% while allowances have not.
Today's Gulf News
http://gulfnews.com/nation/Society/10025827.html provides recent the stats.
Often residencies (furnished flats providing in-house services) are still within the accomodation allowance but too often these convenient options are disallowed.
I like my current post. I would like to remain in it for some time. Life in the UAE has, for me, more plusses than minuses.
However, at the same time, I am unwilling to shell out 2 - 3 months salary in order to subsidise the insufficient accomodation allowance and I am currently looking for a position in this country or elsewhere which provides housing. |
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Sheikh Inal Ovar
Joined: 04 Dec 2005
Posts: 1208
Location: Melo Drama School
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| Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 9:18 am Post subject: |
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| Capricorny wrote: |
| If anyone is seriously considering or is being considered for a position in the Emirates I strongly recommend that the salary not be looked at as money in the bank. |
... unless the housing is included within the package ... that is ... as others have pointed out ... and as Capricorny himself / herself later goes on to 'qualify' ...
| Capricorny wrote: |
| I am currently looking for a position in this country ... which provides housing. |
It's not all doom on the economic front ... after a ding-dong six months which saw the price of a packet of 24 Weetabix fluctuate almost weekly by as much as 25% ... you can now pick up a pack for what it used to cost ... in fact there was a 50% extra free offer running in most stores last month  |
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