Finally, after a lot of to-ing and fro-ing, Michele and I took a big step towards securing our future today by completing on the purchase of a house in Dubai. It looks like this.
It is, at this moment, merely an expensive mound of sand, which we hope the local Indian slaves.... sorry, workers, will be able to mould into something resembling the pretty artist's impression pictures adorning the estate's website. And soon. Scheduled completion is the third quarter of this year, but realistically we hope to be in by Christmas. And yet we have been here long enough to know that the next New Year is therefore most likely to come and go before we move. But no matter. We bought it as an investment as well, and if Dubai property prices continue to escalate at even half the pace that they have in recent years, we should do rather nicely. "Inshallah", as they say (if Allah is willing).
Still, we are still quite excited by having spent so much for (so far) so little. But tell us the pictures look nice. Please!
Of course, we now have that much extra room to be able to house all those visitors who just haven't yet got round to finding the right moment to tell us that they are coming to visit us. Look out for those discounted summer season rates to be published here soon.
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