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peterwells · Joined: 15 Sep 2006 Posts: 1

Does anyone know anything about Fujairah as a place to live and work? What's the climate like? Humid? What's the HCT like there?

Afra · Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 389

There were quite a number of startup problems but people I know who've been there for the last year or so are happy. Fujairah is quiet, popular for a day out of Dubai, and is slowly growing. There are hotels, etc. and a fast road from Kalba, ajoining town, to the Dubai/Sharjah bypass so it's in no way isolated. I'd go, given the chance! If you have school age children, education might be a problem: the people I know there don't have families in the UAE. Climate is better than the Gulf cities.

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

To live in Furjairah, I would think that you would need to be used to a pretty quiet life. After a month, you will know every inch of the place, and most of the people. Laughing

Teachers who end up in these smaller places tend to either love it or hate it... not much in between. If you are into the sea and exploring the desert and mountains of Oman and the UAE, you will like it more than if you are one who likes to hit the pubs a couple times a week and dance the night away. It is just a bit too far from Dubai to do this too often. So you will definitely need a car - probably a 4WD if you want to explore.

Because of the prevailing winds which usually come off the land there, it is not as suffocatingly humid as the other cities can be. But it will have the same unrelenting heat (around 40) for about 7 months of the year.

As far as HCT there, as Afra says... there were a few unhappy people the first couple years or so, but things seem to have settled.

VS

Stephen Jones · Joined: 21 Feb 2003 Posts: 4124

I liked it when I was there a for a couple of weeks ten years back. There were only three bars so you would meet the same people all the time, but you could still get to Dubai if you wanted a change.