The economy

Today on the way home from dropping off the girls at school the radio host was talking about conspiracy theories that the US caused the economic crisis to hurt China and India. Possible, sure, I suppose, but who knows. I guess I don't care much who caused it or why, just fix it already. But that also got me thinking about the situation here. The population is growing every day. More and more people are moving to Dubai to build new buildings and start new projects. But what happens when all that is done? Some day all the building will be done. Of course since things here are not built to last it probably means they will tear down the 10 year old stuff and build new.

Housing here is extremely expensive. Many people would not be able to afford housing if their companies were not supporting them as expats. Once all the building is complete and businesses working well many of the expats (like us) will go home. If all of the support expats go home who will be left to live in the expensive housing? Who will go to the expensive water parks and buy all of the expensive clothing in the 101 largest malls in the world?

Who knows. But I for one will be looking to see what Dubai is like in 10 or 20 years down the road. It would be nice to see all these wondering things here last a long time.