Inside Dubai: Playground or Purgatory?

Inside Dubai: Playground or Purgatory?

A new BBC documentary dives into the lives of the UAE's ultra rich. But does money really buy you happinness? Or just Chanel pool floats?

British expatriate workers in the Arabian Gulf like to tell new arrivals a bleak metaphor. “Living here,” I was once told after arriving in Qatar, “you carry around two buckets. Every day, one of them fills up with money and the other fills up with shit — the shit that you take from being bored and drunk and trapped in a compound. The minute that one of the buckets is full, you leave the country and never come back.”

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