Jeez, I thought I'd listed all the reasons NOT to go!

>You could meet Michael Jackson on the slopes! :o)
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>>I'm put off by the sheer opulence, greed, waste, consumption (They've got a ski slope - with real snow, and a Macdonalds half way down - for Godssakes!) and toffey-nosedness of it all. The average Joe has no place there - it's one of the places in the world that I'd least like to go.
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>>My two-penn'orth
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>>>Another reason I personally would not want to go to Dubai is it is reputed to be one of the worst places in the world as far as forced child prostitution. Most of the girls -- and most of them are girls, not women -- come from other countries like Pakistan and Indonesia. Yuck.
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>>>And a third reason: Dubai banks, including the client of my former company, are believed to be leading money launderers for Al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations.
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>>>Some nice modern architecture hardly offsets all these black marks IMO.