See it really is GREEN, we don't have lawn that green at home in Melbourne. What you cannot see that as soon as you are out of this development is the sand, everywhere! Theres a whole lot of nothing out there until you add water.
inside our apartment looking out, we are on the second floor
looking back towards the kitchen, apartment here are almost always rented without appliances of any sort, so we have no cooker, no washing machine, no fridge. In fact we do not own a stick of furniture apart from a Christmas tree. We will hit ikea.
This is the view from our balcony. We are a short walk to a small mall and supermarket so I will not have to rely on taxis anymore.Forgive me for not updating our blog as fully as we would have liked, its been a tumultuous couple of months.
Bert has changed jobs. He is now employed by a local company doing the same sort of work he was for the Australian company, only now he has support and organisational structure around him. It is a huge relief.
We have been living in the hotel apartments I mentioned earlier since arriving here and just yesterday we secured a place to live.
Berts office will be off the island of Abu Dhabi in a slum errr suburb called Mussaffa. It's a dust bowl that no one willingly lives in. It had always been our plan to live as close as possible to his workplace to try and minimise his work hours and stress load. I am not going to drive here in Abu Dhabi, the driving and congestion is a nightmare, and they put the steering wheels on the wrong side of the cars just to add to my confusion! So to live off the island means isolation for me, only very limited ways of getting into town.
So after a lot of searching, we made the decision to move to Dubai. This is a huge shift in thinking for us, for the past year we have read everything we could get our hands on regarding Abu Dhabi, now we are not going to live here. We have got a fabulous apartment on the very outskirts of Dubai for a third of what it would cost us anywhere in Abu Dhabi. Berts commute will be an hour of freeway driving instead of 40 minutes of heavy traffic. I hate the idea of adding two hours to his work day but it just made sense when we saw how lovely the area we are moving to is. http://www.greencommunity.ae/
Looks like a lovely apartment. I hope that Bert's commute is a stress-free one. I too would rather drive an hour on the freeway than 40 mins in congested traffic.
ReplyDeleteThe freeway scares me, we drive at about 140kms per hour and people still wizz past us. It is rare to see anyone use indicators too.
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