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So looks like all systems go from this end.
The property search is doing my head in to be honest, not to mention how the rents just keep climbing!
At this point, it looks like Motor City offers the best value for money proximity to a school for my daughter (assuming that there do in fact remain places!) and for my non-driving wife to be able to get around.
The other options, albeit a lot more impractical for me to drop my girl to school then back to DIFC to work, are apartments on SZR or in Mirdif which seems to offer a lot for (not) much, provided you can avoid a flightpath.
What with the rising cost of everything there, it seems that if you can save 50,000AED on the rent then that is worth considering.
I am not sure that I could handle a Mirdif - Motor City - DIFC commute in the mornings to drop her off.
Any thoughts gratefully received and IOU's of a cold one when we get there
The property search is doing my head in to be honest, not to mention how the rents just keep climbing!
At this point, it looks like Motor City offers the best value for money proximity to a school for my daughter (assuming that there do in fact remain places!) and for my non-driving wife to be able to get around.
The other options, albeit a lot more impractical for me to drop my girl to school then back to DIFC to work, are apartments on SZR or in Mirdif which seems to offer a lot for (not) much, provided you can avoid a flightpath.
What with the rising cost of everything there, it seems that if you can save 50,000AED on the rent then that is worth considering.
I am not sure that I could handle a Mirdif - Motor City - DIFC commute in the mornings to drop her off.
Any thoughts gratefully received and IOU's of a cold one when we get there
Thanks for the comments.
Budget - we would like to keep to 200K AED - anymore than that and it becomes increasingly less 'attractive' from a financial perspective
3 bed ideally is what we need.
The applications for school are being sent this week. When I was in Dubai last week at GEMS Wellington on SZR, I was told that no places (it reminded me of when Patrick Bateman tries to book Dorsia!) but that she would get into the new one being built and due to open in September at Motor City.
My packed day with an hour stuck in a traffic jam in some Dante-like/opposite to Old Town hellhole meant that I could not get over to see where it was...or Motor City or any other place actually!
As an aside, I have been hassling my wife to learn to drive for 10 years now with no success. Sorely tempted to say "there is a bus, there is a metro and there is Quattroporte that I have bought on the drip" then howl off to work :-)
Budget - we would like to keep to 200K AED - anymore than that and it becomes increasingly less 'attractive' from a financial perspective
3 bed ideally is what we need.
The applications for school are being sent this week. When I was in Dubai last week at GEMS Wellington on SZR, I was told that no places (it reminded me of when Patrick Bateman tries to book Dorsia!) but that she would get into the new one being built and due to open in September at Motor City.
My packed day with an hour stuck in a traffic jam in some Dante-like/opposite to Old Town hellhole meant that I could not get over to see where it was...or Motor City or any other place actually!
As an aside, I have been hassling my wife to learn to drive for 10 years now with no success. Sorely tempted to say "there is a bus, there is a metro and there is Quattroporte that I have bought on the drip" then howl off to work :-)
Tappers said:
What about places such as JLT, Tecom, Al Barsha or the Greens?
Easy access to the metro for your non-driving wife and Motor City is not too much of a detour on your way to DIFC (at least you'll be going against the flow of traffic unlike Mirdiff to Motor City).
I will look at JLT, Tecom and The Greens.Easy access to the metro for your non-driving wife and Motor City is not too much of a detour on your way to DIFC (at least you'll be going against the flow of traffic unlike Mirdiff to Motor City).
I had tried to find an Al Barsha place akin to OilyDan's bargain palace with no success!
Hi all - sorry for the delayed response. I did a response to DXBTIGER on my phone and it would not upload. Bah.
Anyways, we are looking at an apartment rather than villa to try and keep the utilities bills down for that reason, also trying to avoid district cooling).
Had a look at TECOM but only seem to be 2 bed apartments then jump to penthouses. We will need three as my little girl is nearly 5 and little boy nealy 3 but has a lot of trouble sleeping. In the same room, he would keep her awake most nights.
With the rising rents there, we are keen to try and control the outlays as much as possible. We are going into it eyes open in terms of the cost of living but Sydney is far from cheap either, albeit not with the 'red sky at night, triple rent increase is right' approach that DXB is taking due to Expo 2020 or planet alignment in 2057.
Crossing fingers on the schools but at the moment, that corridor from Motor City up to Al Bashra and Marina seems to offer good (!) value for money, close to school, commutable to DIFC and still able to allow my Amish wife to get around :-)
I am already experiencing the paperwork issues as question of whether passport copies need to be legalised for visa and work permit (UAE Consulate in Ireland said that they do not legalise passport copies where UAE Consulate in OZ says that they do). My wife and kids are on OZ passports and I have an Irish one.
Fun and games!
Anyways, we are looking at an apartment rather than villa to try and keep the utilities bills down for that reason, also trying to avoid district cooling).
Had a look at TECOM but only seem to be 2 bed apartments then jump to penthouses. We will need three as my little girl is nearly 5 and little boy nealy 3 but has a lot of trouble sleeping. In the same room, he would keep her awake most nights.
With the rising rents there, we are keen to try and control the outlays as much as possible. We are going into it eyes open in terms of the cost of living but Sydney is far from cheap either, albeit not with the 'red sky at night, triple rent increase is right' approach that DXB is taking due to Expo 2020 or planet alignment in 2057.
Crossing fingers on the schools but at the moment, that corridor from Motor City up to Al Bashra and Marina seems to offer good (!) value for money, close to school, commutable to DIFC and still able to allow my Amish wife to get around :-)
I am already experiencing the paperwork issues as question of whether passport copies need to be legalised for visa and work permit (UAE Consulate in Ireland said that they do not legalise passport copies where UAE Consulate in OZ says that they do). My wife and kids are on OZ passports and I have an Irish one.
Fun and games!
Thanks! I was looking at some of the ads on propertfinder and thinking "wow, 100 pictures of the road and a park and ZERO of the apartments!".
Am looking at the Alsopp website and finally some decent information and prices don't seem to be too bad.
I see that no fridge is commmon but no cooker! Seems odd for what, in some cases, seem to be very decent buildings.
On that note, it is worth bringing our fridge, washing machine and dryer with us? They are only a year old and sounds that we will need 20ft container in any event.
Sorry for all the questions
Am looking at the Alsopp website and finally some decent information and prices don't seem to be too bad.
I see that no fridge is commmon but no cooker! Seems odd for what, in some cases, seem to be very decent buildings.
On that note, it is worth bringing our fridge, washing machine and dryer with us? They are only a year old and sounds that we will need 20ft container in any event.
Sorry for all the questions
Thanks. Being very ineffective at work at the moment!
There seems to be quite a lot of good sized villas in the Springs for under 200K AED. Is there a catch that I am missing since seems a bit too good to be true. Nice size, backyard for the kids, parking space for the Tilda or Japanese import AMG S-Class (grin).
There seems to be quite a lot of good sized villas in the Springs for under 200K AED. Is there a catch that I am missing since seems a bit too good to be true. Nice size, backyard for the kids, parking space for the Tilda or Japanese import AMG S-Class (grin).
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