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Cost of living in the United Arab Emirates

u01by New member

Member since 09 May 2010

u01byNew member18 June 2010 03:30:09

#41

Food/cars/fuel are cheap and I understand that rent is now down around 60% from about 18 months ago....so I guess you could say relatively 'cheap'.聽 I find alcohol and going out generally fairly expensive.

Chris G Member

Member since 03 July 2010

Chris GMember03 July 2010 09:23:52

#42

HI, I am will be moving to Abu Dhabi mid July, the office I will be working from is on Hamdan street. Can anyone please tell me what areas are close buy for accomodation. I have found some within a 5 minute walk to the office, but it is very exspensive.

Thanks

Chris

silver fern Active member

Member since 22 February 2009

silver fernActive member04 July 2010 06:34:32

#43

Hi Chris, Hamdan is right in the centre of town ,so any accomadation around there is relatively expensive.
It really depends on how much accomadation allowance your company is willing to pay. Try and negotiate to get as much as possible.
If your single you can try on Dubizzle and see if anyone has a room to let.There are studio apartments going for around 85k aed but thats with parking ,gym and pool located 1 street back from Hamdan
If you have a Family moving over you can pic up 3 bedrooms apartments for around 160k aed per year.Thats also 1 street back from Hamdan.

Tip: Landlords here are always ready to negotiate so you may be able to get a bargain.

Good Luck

rajuraj59 Guest

rajuraj59Guest21 July 2010 03:33:44

#44

all this is crazy, i have my own appartment in jbr and this is my cost of maintaing a appartment, minimum, whether i stay or not :
1) community maintainence : aed 1700 per month, aed 17000 per year, aed 15.50 per sq ft per year.
2) aircon bill to empower : minimum aed 270.00 per month, use or not, plus as per meter.
3) 2 tv, lanline and internet to DU : aed 500 per month plus international calls a s per usage.
4) dewa : ae 50 to 100 per mnth.
so thsi is basic = aed 2600 per mnth.
then there is car maint, petrol, groceries, mais cleaning, chemicals, laundry, plus plus.
not a easy story.

Alyas chumpy New member

Member since 08 September 2011

Alyas chumpyNew member11 September 2011 19:49:32

#45

ok what is ideal salary to make good living in fujairah.. i am planning聽 to take my wife soon..

vold3 wrote:
Hi everybody

my nationality is UAE .
I wanna 2 tell us about what people said in this page it's correct , BUt what u don't know is that the UAE have many areas , and who's live in Dubai is different between who live in Abu Duabi or sharja , RAK , Alfujaira , om alkaiwain , ojman .

The cost is different between all these areas .
the live is expensive in Abu Dhabi and Dubai but in the RAK cheap .

If anybody have any question about UAE ask me .