i have just been browsing on various dubai sites(cronic insomnia) and came across this one,i noticed this thread re:- smell from the sewage treatment plant on international city,anyway i thought i would share my expierence with you.
our company set up a branch in dubai some 4 years ago,we have a factory on the ras al kor industrial estate ,i go out there twice a year and have always stayed in hotels in bur dubai or deira,but because of high costs of hotels now and travelling during rush hour from the city ,and no hotels outside the city, we rented an apartment in international city for one month for our stay in april this year,this was a tester to see how it would work and because the purchase costs were cheap by dubai standards we chose international city,it was our intention to purchase the apartment.
i am not sure which sector it was in but, if you came off the hatta road and drove around the one way road system to the back of the dragon market and carry on round the roundabout and back in the hatta direction there are some new warehouses about 500 meters from the dragon market itself the apartment was just off the main perimitter road here.
the smell from the sewage treatment plant was awful every night,even if we kept the windows closed the smell was always in all the lobby and public areas,the worst thing though was,we are engineers actually working and therfore used the apartments washing machine to was clothes and hung them on the balcony to dry,this was the problem our clothes stank to high heaven it was really bad during all of our stay, to this effect we have decided against purchase here and are now buying a house in mirdif instead,the other thing that struck me about it was when 60,000 + people move in here it will become a slum for migrant workers and resale values will suffer accordingly.
i hope my little input helps you.
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