Meh I used to get impressed by all this stuff but when I visited, I realize it’s just material things.
Most of gulf countries are like this anyways. So are many of north african countries (Tunisia, Libya, Morocco, Algeir, Egypt, etc…)
Old news but check out what Tunisia has in store:
I’ve lived in Tunisia, it’s also very clean and well built. Great weather again. Summer all year long and winter is like a rain season of sorts.
If you want to watch more of these building craziness u can browse through skyscrapercity.com all day long.
Most of these countries are summer all year long, think of them as California minus the taxes, minus the tornados, minus the fires, minus the hurricanes, minus the earthquakes, minus the English, minus expensive.
Just keep in mind UAE is the most show off that is all.
Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi, all of them have the crazy buildings, infrastructures, roads, etc…
Bottom line is we’re getting seriously ripped of by both corporations and governments in the west. When it comes to houses… houses are over priced here, built like wood shackles with drywall and outer exterior decorations, again over priced… no privacy, small, again over priced… You can’t just buy land and build whatever you want, most houses all look alike.
In Jordan you could build a three story house for a good 10,000-20,000… anyway you want as my brother in law and his wife have… houses that will withstand 100+ years and not crumble and need ‘maintenance’ after 10-20 years. Unless of course Israel decides to bomb or bulldoze them by random fly by invasions.
And roads are pretty insane too… I know here in Canada we use every excuse in the book about ‘bad weather’, ‘trucks’, ‘high traffic volume’, ‘low budget’, but it’s the same bullshit all over again on repeat with the infrastructure collapsing/going to the shitter. Countries with a heck of a lot less GDP than us can manage to build better infrastructure :-/ Politicians at the end the day…
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US National debt clock.
