I’m practising my welcoming smile today, ready for all those ex-Dubai expats who are currently “flocking” back to the UAE. They famously left in droves as the recession hit Dubai back in 2008-9 but now, faced with high unemployment, a gloomy financial outlook and the start of a no doubt long and dismal British winter, those with an international mind-set are heading back to the UAE.
And they may just be in luck. While jobs are thin on the ground across Europe, companies here are hiring – and ex-expats with knowledge of the region and an understanding of how things work here are top of their wish-list, says Jennifer Campori of Dubai’s Charterhouse Recruitment.
But those who left as soon as Dubai’s famous boom times crashed will find the city quite different from how they remember it at the height of its silliness. Here are some differences Dubai’s yo-yo expats might notice:
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