When he suggested building a classical arabic city, he stated "with modern elements". He didn't mean using 1:1 old building styles. I think he meant more classical building with arab inspiration. Plus with all that oil money, I'm sure if the rich people on top weren't lazy and greedy they could've built something truly great and sustainable.
Thnx for watching this one. A good, and important video. Puts a much needed light on what's behind the glitter and glam. Adam Something, the name of the account that made the original video, had en explosion of views... think around 9 million, and then he had to take it down due to copyright claims. The revised one, has "only" 1.5+ million views. Still, it's a good one. Really like his sarcastic straight forwardness. His account is worth looking into.
To your surprise, in the semi/suburban areas I am near, they are slowly converting quite a few of the stop sign and stoplight intersections to roundabouts. In my opinion, they work quite well once people understand how to navigate them. Still run into people occasionally yielding when they shouldn't or flying through, but definitely seem to help traffic in most places more than hinder it! - From central Ohio, USA
Definitely but we need better driving education in America, especially for roundabouts. Maybe you guys may know since I never had any education about roundabouts in America, just what I can guess from common sense: I lived near a 2 lane cross entrance roundabout and as I came to it from the east side, I was in the left lane with a car right next to me. We both yielded before entering. We both passed the north exit/entrance and as we came to the west exit/entrance, I tried exiting out from the left lane. Now I know this may seem instantly incorrect, but this is a small roundabout that basically includes a circle in the center of a 4 lane cross. To go straight, which I was doing, you barely even need to bend over the center island. Further, the road lines seem to allow an exit from the left lane, as the solid white line continued from the left lane in the roundabouts into the exit lane. But the person to my right was continuing on, so we had almost come to a collision. My thought was the roles should have reversed, unless she was going to exit, she should be in the left lane if she intended to make what was essentially a left turn at the 4 way roundabout while I should have been on the right. I've heard you should only exit from the right lane. Could it have been a mistake of the people painting road markers to make it seem like you can make the exit from the left lane? Or does it allow for such and if you're in the right lane you should be ready to exit at first opportunity since the left lane may be exiting as well? Hope I explained this well enough and I get an answer. More and more roundabouts are popping up and they seem to be effective. But without any knowledge on how to use them properly, seems like an accident waiting to happen.
Sheboygan, Wisconsin has this big roundabout at one end of a bridge, and we've had it for many years. Smack dab in the middle of the city. Sometimes when walking through the circle to get home after school I have to wait a good thirty seconds to cross each part because so many people are using it.
In my town too, actually suburb, roundabouts are taking over and I hate them in the small, residential streets. I think they belong in the big intersections where you can actually make it round and wide.
You're right about the historic city thing. Here in Colorado, Vail was designed to replicate a traditional Alpine village, but it just seems like Disney World. It's gorgeous but has no character compared to the other ski towns that were old mining towns like Breckenridge and Aspen.
I live in CO too and go up to the mountains regularly during ski season. I don't really understand your criticism of Vail....ultimately it is a ski resort that welcomes tourists and visitors for mountain sports, not a city where hundreds of thousands of people live year round. What did you want them to do.......transport old buildings from Europe? Or build an ultra modern, Dubai-esque town? lol its a newer resort and is beautiful. I think they did a great job in building a new resort that still has charm and fits the Colorado, Rocky Mountain aesthetic..
Because when I think of places where tourists definitely do not want to go, I definitely think of Vial, Disney World, and Los Vegas. Definitely would not bring in any money.
I love Vail, I learned to ski on the back bowls. It’s super expensive, I was lucky enough to have an uncle who could afford a Condo there. I don’t know why it gets so much hate, besides the cost.
Was planning on visiting Dubai back in 2019. Thankfully, I decided against the $3,000 payment. Partially due to the pandemic. Partially because of the prescribed drug restrictions. I'd a been up the creek had I somehow lost the allowed, limited amount of meds.
I don't understand what people enjoy about Dubai. It's got no history at all and is just a playground for the rich and soulless which has been plonked in the middle of a desert.
I think you could probably use the architectural style of older cultures to make modern buildings without making them theme-park in appearance. It would be a fusion of those styles and modern materials and not trying to make it look old, but inspired from the past.
About 6 months ago I had to use taxis for transportation. I got the same driver many times. He was born and raised in Dubai , and said he serviced rich people and worked for rich people. I imagined he was a waiter and did service jobs like that. When he talked of rich people in Dubai, his tone was angry and had hatred. I didn't ask for details, but I thought he must have had a lot of negative experiences dealing with rich people. Even when he talked of people in Maryland who owned more expensive houses, his voice had hatred in it.
Expats usually refers to someone who is living abroad temporarily for a few years and sometimes even much longer, but has no plan on giving up their country of origin citizenship. An immigrant wants to live somewhere else for not just their generation, but their children's generation and gain new citizenship.
Expats are usually a net positive to the area, they don’t use social programs or welfare. Also, expats have the ability to live pretty much where they want.
@@MeanLaQueefa Correlation doesn't equal causation. Immigrants are a net positive as well, usually, as most countries who want to take on immigrants do so to fill industries that are lacking participation from the local population. Saying "Expats are usually a net positive to the area" just implies that you think immigrants are bad and saying "they don’t use social programs or welfare" just tells us everything we need to know on your small brain views about immigrants.
Hey guys! Awesome video as always! And actually, they do build roundabouts in America but they're not as prevalent as the UK. Our roundabouts are usually in the suburbs or just at the outskirts of the cities. But civil engineers just found it much easier with our widened streets to do traffic lights because roundabouts for 6 and 8 lane roads would be a nightmare roundabout disaster. I live in Orlando, Florida and many suburban areas have them! Cheers everyone!
Regarding the question of using sewage as fertilizer, even if that is true, you would think there would be a better way to transport the poop for a wealthy city with Lamborghini police cars than in hundreds of trucks. Truth is that there doesn't seem to be an agricultural or botanical industry of any kind in Dubai or anywhere near. As for how Dubai treats people who aren't rich, you have to consider the proposition of the city. It was built to attract money ostensibly through new industries but the only new industry is extreme wealth; luxury airlines, luxury real estate, diamond trading, high end shopping and tourism. There are so few cultural, historical, or otherwise interesting attractions in Dubai that they have resorted to building huge resorts on beaches nobody ever wanted to go to until now (Tahiti or barren Dubai? hmmmmm), luxury shopping malls including a huge indoor ski resort... a ski resort in Dubai, enormous luxury horse racing tracks, and super luxurious hotels as destinations. The point is, all this luxurious appeal defines Dubai so much and Dubai's ultimate aspirations that the poorest among them are mere afterthoughts. Most new cities that are built in the world, have at their core some sort of egalitarian humanist goal in their structure and amenities. Dubai, one of the wealthiest cities in the history of the world, never even gave egalitarianism and humanity a second thought in its planning or construction. Out of a population of approx. 3 million, 250,000 of them live in squalor or in labor camps. So it should be no surprise that human trafficking, human slavery, human abuse is rampant in a city of the wealthy. Dubai is a Walt Disney World for the ultra wealthy. Not even sewers? But then again, the ultra-rich probably love the idea that their poop is getting special treatment and that the poop haulers should be grateful to them for the honor of letting them haul away their royal poop.
I live on Lake Michigan, before our sewage water gets cleaned and returned to the lake, the poop is filtered out and made into Milorganite fertilizer. This is all done at the treatment plant.
17: if someone reports on the people that get those "workers" they just sell them to someone else/another family then when the authorities come back around they just tell them that they went back to their country. Since the authorities do basically nothing there is a group that has bought some to get them back to their home country. Almost forgot, if those "workers" do get caught by the authorities they are jailed. Just watched a documentary on this not long ago, believe it was either here on You Tube or on Tubi
Oh man, I'm sure Daz would have had some interesting comments on this one! Too bad he missed it. The part that blew my mind when I saw this video was the poop trucks. Fucking nuts.
We looove round abouts out here. id say they started showing up within the last 5-10 years but they are extremely common in the midwest and surrounding areas from my experience. Great video!
The are a good alternative for smaller and less trafficked intersections, no need for stop lights which means less construction work, allows traffic to flow without stopping, and roundabouts can handle multiple roads convening together.
I’m jealous if they’ve figured it out there. In Auburn AL, we’ve put in 5 or 6 traffic circles and it’s like a 4 way stop from hell. They just sit and won’t enter the circle until NO vehicles are inside! It’s infuriating lol.
In Mass we have always had them, and people still don't know how to use them 😅 I think that has to do with us "massholes" living up to the stereotype that we cannot drive.
@@johncourtney764 Wouldn’t it be cool if all the A holes lived in the same place? It’d just be free flowing roundabouts for days for all us nice people!😂
He's right about all of it. American suburbs - you think you would want them because of the driveways? I am sure you'd change your mind when you found out that you have to drive to work EVERY.SINGLE.DAY, because there is no public transport, and they're 30km or 60km away from your actual work place. Oh, and you'd go through the same highway every single other person in your suburb goes at the same hour, through the same hellish traffic, with no option to get away from that. You'd then miss your nice English old roads close to public transport, even if you can't park a truck outside. Skyscrapers are not the sign of economic prosperity anymore than suburbs are a practice of proper urbanism. They are wasteful, they require much more complex engineering, more expensive construction materials, more destruction of the environment, and the end result doesn't even produce more office or living space than building midrises on that very same footprint. They only lead to alienation if they're used as residences or traffic jams at rush hour and empty districts at night if used as offices. They cost more per square meter of space and only make economic sense when you literally have no room to build, and frankly when you're building in the middle of the desert and there's nothing around for hundreds of kilometers, who's pressed for space? Just go through a simple mental exercise: what's richer, London and Paris or Shanghai and Kuala Lumpur? London and Paris have a lot less skyscrapers than Shanghai or Kuala Lumpur do, and yet don't seem to have a problem with prosperity. No, that's bollocks. And the slave labor... yes, some countries in the world do have exploitative practices, but there is a difference between them and the Emirates: those countries are extremely poor. In extremely poor places, exploitative practices develop because they can't both have some accumulation of capital afford the costs of sustaining fair labor practices at the same time. But is this the case of a rich petromonarchy? Absolutely not, for the Gulf countries it's an actual choice, which is what makes it all the more disgusting. It's not that they can't, it's that they don't care. Thank you for reading. :)
Malls have been closing down for decades as the anchor store concept (Sears, Macy's, etc.) has long been played out. And there's far more to e-commerce than Amazon.
There is no disparity in the US, of course. Slice of heaven. Britain is not built on colonialism and slavery. Their benignity, while not visible from the space, is world famous.
All I think of is it's one of the most oppressive societies on the planet ,with few human freedoms.And hes right about the skyscrapers, there's so much open space you don't need to build anything over a few stories.
We're doing roundabouts a lot nowadays. Hell even my small town of 10K is putting one in at the turn off to the main street downtown and it really doesn't need one at all but that's just because they're all the rage right now.
I've got no interest in visiting the UAE. The only people I know who have been, or are considering going, are people with ideas above their station. The majority are instagram obsessed, shallow people who only want to go so they can look rich while they take a picture in front of a sky scraper. Ironically, most of them work entry level positions in pretty tedious industries, so it's all a big act to look like something they're not. Everything about it just comes off as "I want to look down on other people and act like one of the Real Housewives".
As to the comment of "ex-pat" and "immigrant" they do have different meanings, I looked that up when I first saw this video because I was curious. Ex-pat is apparently meant to refer to someone who has temporarily moved to another country. Immigrant refers to someone who has permanently relocated to another country. I think it's probably true that white people don't use it correctly most of the time. I had previously thought "ex-pat" just reffered to British people not living in Great Britain, because that is the only time I have heard it used, or maybe Australians too. I could be wrong, but I don't know that I have heard an American refer to themselves as an "ex-pat", so I had thought it was just a language thing until I looked it up.
Dubai needed to build another industry in preperation for when the oil would run out, the Burj Khalifa and Burj Al - Arab were built because tourism was the industry Dubai chose to expand
Our western countries also saw why slavery is wrong. With Americans even fighting our most deadly war over it. Slavery in the Middle East on the other hand has never stopped
@@Baughlin ottoman empire saved britian in 1571 when queen begged infront of ottoman sultan to protect them spainish catholic empire then it was ottomans who warned spain not to mess with britian but guess what british backstabbed the ottomans in world war 1
Another way of looking at the slavery happening in Dubai is that it could be planned. A little conspiratorial but hear me out: They don't want a worker/labor/low-to-middle class in the first place. So, to make sure they keep getting to build for the ultra rich only and have all their "fancy" buildings, just import the workers, use them up, then demolish the slums when they're gone -- ta-da, immaculate city. Or maybe that's just a "benefit" the mid-to-upper classes figured out along the way.
If I was to compare Milton Keynes to US development, most of it looks more like the often failed 60s urban renal projects than suburbs, granted the edges start to look like US suburbs.
Slavery is still legal in the United States as punishment for any crime. And with private-for-profit prisons, many of them operate factories and assembly warehouses for common products domestically and exported.
Except the "slaves" are literally criminals who broke laws. Slaves in the early US were innocent people stripped from their homes thousands of miles away in different countries
@@DarjeelingEnjoyer Unfortunately, being in the wrong place at the wrong time can also be deemed a "crime". Add that factor to the unpredictable "justice system" and you've got slavery.
@@DarjeelingEnjoyer not exactly. Slaves in the early US were already there. Capitalism increased importation later, but slavery didnt end after the civil war or 13&14th amendment. They found a new way to acquire slaves. The south was literally rebuilt with slave labor well into the 1900s.
@@DarjeelingEnjoyer "criminals who broke laws".. the average person breaks several laws every single day. Lets not pretend slavery is okay, even for those who break laws.
Correction, they didn't do roundabouts, the bastards have finally started installing them, akl over the place...I mean, I don't like them but at leazt when you get hit by a drunk at an intersection they aren't going very fast, and they tend to put them at the end of roads that lead to schools and parks so I see the need. I guess I see the need, it's the people that make it horrible. The same type of person that stops short at the entrance of a grocery store also seems to be the same kind of person that forgets how to drive az soon as they get on a roundabout.
I much prefer those boring @ss suburbs as opposed to the neighborhoods in some areas that are supposed to imitate some old English/European towns in the states. Winding one-lane roads for no bloody reason isn't quaint it's infuriating when placed next to a city like many of them are. Also, immigrants are taken advantage of in every country even if it's not to the same level. Here in America, even die-hard conservatives don't deny we "need" a certain influx of immigrants here in the states every year. Because we'll pay them like 2.50 an hour while working some of the hardest jobs and no one bats an eyelid.
Try to hire an immigrant for 2.50 an hour in the states. lol Going rate for immigrant workers is 16- 20$ an hour in L.A today. I agree though city's suck.
@@maheshhardasani787 I think both are bad . They take advantage of the hard work of the lower classes . We’re just meat robots to the 1%. Maybe we’ll figure out a new economic model that works for everyone.
same all over the world thou including in the US, that is why so many employer want mexican immigrant to come to US because they can pay less and works them to death.
Rich people has a lot of money made from oil, they made a luxury utopia. They had no talent to do build that so they brought people from around the world. Also they didn't have workers so they brought slaves from poor countries. But luxury does not make a city beautiful.
U guys have done some really long reactions lately, if that trend is gonna continue I highly recommend Brad Upton boomer triggers gen z snowflakes... its like 40 minutes long but can split it into 2 or 3 reactions, his stand up bit is his, definitely worth a watch
American suburbs are the worst urbanism practices? 🤣 Clearly he's never lived in a suburb. People spend their entire lives working just to fulfill their dream of living on a quiet cul de sac in the suburbs.
Yeah, I think he just has some kind of hipster fantasy of living in a city like Rome or Istanbul drinking coffee out of a tiny cup, and looking at all their architecture and history. Ignoring the fact that those cities are only interesting BECAUSE of their 2000 years of history.
@@rmr5044 you realize everything you just said comes down to opinion and personal preference, right? I'm sure you do, it was just written with such gusto and matter-of-fact-objectiveness (at least how I interpreted it). City centers, walkability, and independence from cars is actually some people's idea of hell, believe it or not.
@UC9I7u6Su0P1wTPP0a_ELGzw You're just mad because you can't drive lol. It's really not that difficult to spend 4 minutes to drive somewhere. I grew up in a rural town surrounded by fields and forests and had to rely on driving to get anywhere. The nearest stores were in nearby cities that you had to drive to. It wasn't bad at all. You just drove down a road for like 6-8 minutes and bam, buncha stores and shit. I don't see the problem with driving anywhere. If you solely rely on public transit then you won't have any experience with actually driving a vehicle yourself. Not every place on Earth has the same level of transit. I hope you enjoy only sticking to one place on Earth
@@emobx02 Independence from cars is absolutely not a matter of preference given their prevalence, impact on the environment, the inherent danger of how roads are currently designed for them, and the combination of how important it is to have one and how expensive they are to own and maintain. You should be able to drive if you want, I agree, but you shouldn't have to drive to get food or go to work if not everyone can have a car and driving is much more dangerous than it needs to be.
the poop truck problem has since been solved. It's just really the tower wasn't connected to the pipes originally cos they couldn't handle a building that size or something.
Why would u dislike this video? Did u dislike the blokes reaction or the video they reacted to. If it's the latter rather than damage this channel go find the video they watched and leave your disdain and comments there. Keep it up guys.
Please don’t believe everything on TH-cam, if you want to know the truth come and visit Dubai, I know that he didn’t even visit Dubai , many people hate some countries cause they only made some achievements in there country,, please don’t compare anything by only hearing, you’re welcome here
i grew up in the united states and have spoke english my entire life, there was a section in this video were dave and mike were talking and their accents were so thicc i literally could not follow what the fuck they were saying...i think when daz is around the english become more clear. lol
Not really comprehending the environmental and human rights atrocity (and values) that this is Deconstructing. You guys have a lot of misconceptions about these politics. American suburbs are indeed exactly that as well....classicst, racist, caste monuments to greed, inequality and selfishness. Parking space be damned.
@@thSpeedyTurtle simply a less urban highway. By-passes and increased public transport infrastructure with pedestrian friendliness paramount. Go check out the YT channel ‘Not just bikes’
@@sheepsky That sounds fucking stupid lmao. Please show me a single major city in Europe that doesn't have cars driving in it. If you're going to have a city full of buses then I hope you don't mind being crammed in a bus with people going 8kmph down the bus-filled road.
I stayed in the most beautiful 4 bedroom apartment, it had the most disgusting servants' room attached though. It looked like a mudroom with a toilet and no windows.
It’s really interesting to see how white people respond to that immigrant part. There’s really no trying to reason. It’s just a reality that many white people think immigrant is a word reserved for brown people. And no I’m not saying they’re racist. It’s just interesting that they tried to reason why that was the case. POCs I’ve seen react to this video have never done that.
Hmm ya partly the word is associated for the most part with status. Technically anybody can be termed the word, Chinese have been termed as it etc. Its mostly to do with status. BTW am a POC so don't come at me lol.
@@crusadeelectronics2444 did I say ALL white people? No, I said many white people. Otherwise there would not be a separate word to describe white immigrants. I live in the south of the US, so I’ve encountered plenty of white individuals that feel that way.
The term expat has come to mean people of means that have moved to another country that has a lower standard of living. Most are retired and their savings wouldn’t be enough in their home country, but it goes further someplace else. If they are rich, they could move anywhere. If it weren’t beneficial to have them move to the country they chose, they wouldn’t feel welcome! Everyone involved usually benefits. One thing that separates them from the usual immigrants is they don’t require government assistance where they are going.
When he suggested building a classical arabic city, he stated "with modern elements". He didn't mean using 1:1 old building styles. I think he meant more classical building with arab inspiration. Plus with all that oil money, I'm sure if the rich people on top weren't lazy and greedy they could've built something truly great and sustainable.
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This is what we get for reaction videos that are half assed, when adam mentioned expats, he explained it but they disregard it
@@angelochile8103 you know what's half-assed is your comment. Traitor.
@@angelochile8103 Yeah if you look at the population of Dubai more expats live there than locals.
The more the world changes, the more the world stays the same.
Amen. It’s just repackaged.
no it just stays the same but time will change us and things will get better even if that means extinction
Seems like the world is getting worse and more evil by the day
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@@JAY60z Empirically untrue but whatever
Thnx for watching this one. A good, and important video. Puts a much needed light on what's behind the glitter and glam.
Adam Something, the name of the account that made the original video, had en explosion of views... think around 9 million, and then he had to take it down due to copyright claims. The revised one, has "only" 1.5+ million views.
Still, it's a good one. Really like his sarcastic straight forwardness. His account is worth looking into.
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no weed, no booze in Dubai? Hard Pass.
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There is booze for non Muslims but no drugs
Wtf is wrong with you. It's against religion and weed is basically free lung cancer. You will be beaten up for smuggling any sort of drugs
Seeing real emotion in officeblokedaves face as he learned about these slave conditions really does make reaction vids Meaningful.
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To your surprise, in the semi/suburban areas I am near, they are slowly converting quite a few of the stop sign and stoplight intersections to roundabouts. In my opinion, they work quite well once people understand how to navigate them. Still run into people occasionally yielding when they shouldn't or flying through, but definitely seem to help traffic in most places more than hinder it!
- From central Ohio, USA
Yeah, roundabouts keep traffic flowing instead of just gridlocked at a stoplight, we have quite a few in my city but we honestly need more
Definitely but we need better driving education in America, especially for roundabouts.
Maybe you guys may know since I never had any education about roundabouts in America, just what I can guess from common sense: I lived near a 2 lane cross entrance roundabout and as I came to it from the east side, I was in the left lane with a car right next to me. We both yielded before entering. We both passed the north exit/entrance and as we came to the west exit/entrance, I tried exiting out from the left lane. Now I know this may seem instantly incorrect, but this is a small roundabout that basically includes a circle in the center of a 4 lane cross. To go straight, which I was doing, you barely even need to bend over the center island. Further, the road lines seem to allow an exit from the left lane, as the solid white line continued from the left lane in the roundabouts into the exit lane. But the person to my right was continuing on, so we had almost come to a collision.
My thought was the roles should have reversed, unless she was going to exit, she should be in the left lane if she intended to make what was essentially a left turn at the 4 way roundabout while I should have been on the right. I've heard you should only exit from the right lane. Could it have been a mistake of the people painting road markers to make it seem like you can make the exit from the left lane? Or does it allow for such and if you're in the right lane you should be ready to exit at first opportunity since the left lane may be exiting as well?
Hope I explained this well enough and I get an answer. More and more roundabouts are popping up and they seem to be effective. But without any knowledge on how to use them properly, seems like an accident waiting to happen.
Sheboygan, Wisconsin has this big roundabout at one end of a bridge, and we've had it for many years. Smack dab in the middle of the city. Sometimes when walking through the circle to get home after school I have to wait a good thirty seconds to cross each part because so many people are using it.
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In my town too, actually suburb, roundabouts are taking over and I hate them in the small, residential streets. I think they belong in the big intersections where you can actually make it round and wide.
My biggest surprise about Dubai was the poop trucks for the tallest building in the world not being hooked up to sewage.
iirc, the taller you build your building the harder it becomes to get a working sewage system. so it makes sense
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You're right about the historic city thing. Here in Colorado, Vail was designed to replicate a traditional Alpine village, but it just seems like Disney World. It's gorgeous but has no character compared to the other ski towns that were old mining towns like Breckenridge and Aspen.
I live in CO too and go up to the mountains regularly during ski season. I don't really understand your criticism of Vail....ultimately it is a ski resort that welcomes tourists and visitors for mountain sports, not a city where hundreds of thousands of people live year round. What did you want them to do.......transport old buildings from Europe? Or build an ultra modern, Dubai-esque town? lol its a newer resort and is beautiful. I think they did a great job in building a new resort that still has charm and fits the Colorado, Rocky Mountain aesthetic..
Because when I think of places where tourists definitely do not want to go, I definitely think of Vial, Disney World, and Los Vegas. Definitely would not bring in any money.
I love Vail, I learned to ski on the back bowls. It’s super expensive, I was lucky enough to have an uncle who could afford a Condo there. I don’t know why it gets so much hate, besides the cost.
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I think they mean older than America like 1,400 year old countries
Surprised you watched this without Daz considering he use to live there for a bit. I was hoping to hear his opinion.
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Was planning on visiting Dubai back in 2019. Thankfully, I decided against the $3,000 payment. Partially due to the pandemic. Partially because of the prescribed drug restrictions. I'd a been up the creek had I somehow lost the allowed, limited amount of meds.
I know Covid was being spread and pushed through the public back in 2019, but the public really didn't know about it until about March of 2020.
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I don't understand what people enjoy about Dubai. It's got no history at all and is just a playground for the rich and soulless which has been plonked in the middle of a desert.
Kinda like the Las Vegas of the middle east. Lol
@@John_Redcorn_ Yep. Another place that doesn't interest me in the slightest.
I think you could probably use the architectural style of older cultures to make modern buildings without making them theme-park in appearance. It would be a fusion of those styles and modern materials and not trying to make it look old, but inspired from the past.
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About 6 months ago I had to use taxis for transportation. I got the same driver many times. He was born and raised in Dubai , and said he serviced rich people and worked for rich people. I imagined he was a waiter and did service jobs like that. When he talked of rich people in Dubai, his tone was angry and had hatred. I didn't ask for details, but I thought he must have had a lot of negative experiences dealing with rich people.
Even when he talked of people in Maryland who owned more expensive houses, his voice had hatred in it.
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Expats usually refers to someone who is living abroad temporarily for a few years and sometimes even much longer, but has no plan on giving up their country of origin citizenship. An immigrant wants to live somewhere else for not just their generation, but their children's generation and gain new citizenship.
Expats are usually a net positive to the area, they don’t use social programs or welfare. Also, expats have the ability to live pretty much where they want.
@@MeanLaQueefa Correlation doesn't equal causation. Immigrants are a net positive as well, usually, as most countries who want to take on immigrants do so to fill industries that are lacking participation from the local population.
Saying "Expats are usually a net positive to the area" just implies that you think immigrants are bad and saying "they don’t use social programs or welfare" just tells us everything we need to know on your small brain views about immigrants.
The reason the narrator disliked American suburbs is exactly why I like them. I don’t want public transportation near me.
There’s a good reason why cities are places not to live in
I think American surbubs are nice in terms of comfort but I have seen multiple videos with criticism about how ineffective they are
@@popenashe4767 yeah, because technically mass public transportation is the most effective. Sounds great. I don’t want busses or trains in my suburbs.
Hey guys! Awesome video as always! And actually, they do build roundabouts in America but they're not as prevalent as the UK. Our roundabouts are usually in the suburbs or just at the outskirts of the cities. But civil engineers just found it much easier with our widened streets to do traffic lights because roundabouts for 6 and 8 lane roads would be a nightmare roundabout disaster. I live in Orlando, Florida and many suburban areas have them! Cheers everyone!
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Regarding the question of using sewage as fertilizer, even if that is true, you would think there would be a better way to transport the poop for a wealthy city with Lamborghini police cars than in hundreds of trucks. Truth is that there doesn't seem to be an agricultural or botanical industry of any kind in Dubai or anywhere near.
As for how Dubai treats people who aren't rich, you have to consider the proposition of the city. It was built to attract money ostensibly through new industries but the only new industry is extreme wealth; luxury airlines, luxury real estate, diamond trading, high end shopping and tourism. There are so few cultural, historical, or otherwise interesting attractions in Dubai that they have resorted to building huge resorts on beaches nobody ever wanted to go to until now (Tahiti or barren Dubai? hmmmmm), luxury shopping malls including a huge indoor ski resort... a ski resort in Dubai, enormous luxury horse racing tracks, and super luxurious hotels as destinations.
The point is, all this luxurious appeal defines Dubai so much and Dubai's ultimate aspirations that the poorest among them are mere afterthoughts. Most new cities that are built in the world, have at their core some sort of egalitarian humanist goal in their structure and amenities. Dubai, one of the wealthiest cities in the history of the world, never even gave egalitarianism and humanity a second thought in its planning or construction. Out of a population of approx. 3 million, 250,000 of them live in squalor or in labor camps. So it should be no surprise that human trafficking, human slavery, human abuse is rampant in a city of the wealthy. Dubai is a Walt Disney World for the ultra wealthy. Not even sewers? But then again, the ultra-rich probably love the idea that their poop is getting special treatment and that the poop haulers should be grateful to them for the honor of letting them haul away their royal poop.
yeh that was just weird.....and stupid
I live on Lake Michigan, before our sewage water gets cleaned and returned to the lake, the poop is filtered out and made into Milorganite fertilizer. This is all done at the treatment plant.
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17: if someone reports on the people that get those "workers" they just sell them to someone else/another family then when the authorities come back around they just tell them that they went back to their country. Since the authorities do basically nothing there is a group that has bought some to get them back to their home country. Almost forgot, if those "workers" do get caught by the authorities they are jailed. Just watched a documentary on this not long ago, believe it was either here on You Tube or on Tubi
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Oh man, I'm sure Daz would have had some interesting comments on this one! Too bad he missed it. The part that blew my mind when I saw this video was the poop trucks. Fucking nuts.
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We looove round abouts out here. id say they started showing up within the last 5-10 years but they are extremely common in the midwest and surrounding areas from my experience. Great video!
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We have roundabouts in the US.
Roundyrounds are considered fancy and are becoming increasingly common even in small towns .
The are a good alternative for smaller and less trafficked intersections, no need for stop lights which means less construction work, allows traffic to flow without stopping, and roundabouts can handle multiple roads convening together.
yup I can literally see one if I look out my window😂.
What ever you say Dubai is now luxurious city no doubt about that
The narrator missed the fact that the water in the palm islands stagnates and fills with stinky algae that has to be cleared out at expense.
Gulf countries are the worst places????? Ask all foreigners who lived or worked in any of the Gulf countries on how safe and how life goes there.
Should of waited for Daz with this video. Hasn't he been to dubai?
he's been everywhere xD
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Tennesse, Knoxville and Maryville particularly are using many roundabouts now with good results.
I’m jealous if they’ve figured it out there. In Auburn AL, we’ve put in 5 or 6 traffic circles and it’s like a 4 way stop from hell. They just sit and won’t enter the circle until NO vehicles are inside! It’s infuriating lol.
In Mass we have always had them, and people still don't know how to use them 😅
I think that has to do with us "massholes" living up to the stereotype that we cannot drive.
@@ΒΞΔΝ nah ,we we have our share aholes . Just a much smaller population.
@@johncourtney764 Wouldn’t it be cool if all the A holes lived in the same place? It’d just be free flowing roundabouts for days for all us nice people!😂
He's right about all of it. American suburbs - you think you would want them because of the driveways? I am sure you'd change your mind when you found out that you have to drive to work EVERY.SINGLE.DAY, because there is no public transport, and they're 30km or 60km away from your actual work place. Oh, and you'd go through the same highway every single other person in your suburb goes at the same hour, through the same hellish traffic, with no option to get away from that. You'd then miss your nice English old roads close to public transport, even if you can't park a truck outside.
Skyscrapers are not the sign of economic prosperity anymore than suburbs are a practice of proper urbanism. They are wasteful, they require much more complex engineering, more expensive construction materials, more destruction of the environment, and the end result doesn't even produce more office or living space than building midrises on that very same footprint. They only lead to alienation if they're used as residences or traffic jams at rush hour and empty districts at night if used as offices. They cost more per square meter of space and only make economic sense when you literally have no room to build, and frankly when you're building in the middle of the desert and there's nothing around for hundreds of kilometers, who's pressed for space? Just go through a simple mental exercise: what's richer, London and Paris or Shanghai and Kuala Lumpur? London and Paris have a lot less skyscrapers than Shanghai or Kuala Lumpur do, and yet don't seem to have a problem with prosperity. No, that's bollocks.
And the slave labor... yes, some countries in the world do have exploitative practices, but there is a difference between them and the Emirates: those countries are extremely poor. In extremely poor places, exploitative practices develop because they can't both have some accumulation of capital afford the costs of sustaining fair labor practices at the same time. But is this the case of a rich petromonarchy? Absolutely not, for the Gulf countries it's an actual choice, which is what makes it all the more disgusting. It's not that they can't, it's that they don't care.
Thank you for reading. :)
Damnnnn I feel like this one would be perfect for Daz lol
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Malls are closing down all over the US. Merchants are having trouble paying rent in a huge, climate controlled facility and compete with Amazon!
Malls have been closing down for decades as the anchor store concept (Sears, Macy's, etc.) has long been played out. And there's far more to e-commerce than Amazon.
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Fun Fact: Sea Levels have yet to rise. At all. So go party at Obama's beach house. 😂
Smooth Brain Dictator + Construction = Dumb Shit. Best line in the video. Lol.
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I love listening to a Frenchman trashing someone other than Americans.
There is no disparity in the US, of course. Slice of heaven. Britain is not built on colonialism and slavery. Their benignity, while not visible from the space, is world famous.
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We actually do have roundabouts in America. Just not as often. I go through one on my way to work everyday
All I think of is it's one of the most oppressive societies on the planet ,with few human freedoms.And hes right about the skyscrapers, there's so much open space you don't need to build anything over a few stories.
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I think the point being made should be considered - we build around cars, not public transport.
The City in a straight line I think is a Saudi Arabia project.
Neom yes
We have started doing quite a few round a bouts here in Utah actually. You’ll see them more often than you might think
Same here in missouri
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We're doing roundabouts a lot nowadays. Hell even my small town of 10K is putting one in at the turn off to the main street downtown and it really doesn't need one at all but that's just because they're all the rage right now.
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I've got no interest in visiting the UAE. The only people I know who have been, or are considering going, are people with ideas above their station. The majority are instagram obsessed, shallow people who only want to go so they can look rich while they take a picture in front of a sky scraper. Ironically, most of them work entry level positions in pretty tedious industries, so it's all a big act to look like something they're not. Everything about it just comes off as "I want to look down on other people and act like one of the Real Housewives".
i agree most girls travel to dubai because they perceive it to be heaven on earth and they want to look and act rich .
As to the comment of "ex-pat" and "immigrant" they do have different meanings, I looked that up when I first saw this video because I was curious. Ex-pat is apparently meant to refer to someone who has temporarily moved to another country. Immigrant refers to someone who has permanently relocated to another country. I think it's probably true that white people don't use it correctly most of the time. I had previously thought "ex-pat" just reffered to British people not living in Great Britain, because that is the only time I have heard it used, or maybe Australians too. I could be wrong, but I don't know that I have heard an American refer to themselves as an "ex-pat", so I had thought it was just a language thing until I looked it up.
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All the suburbs where I live have a bunch of roundabouts now. I love them.
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What do you mean we don't do roundabouts in America - Yes we do.
Dubai needed to build another industry in preperation for when the oil would run out, the Burj Khalifa and Burj Al - Arab were built because tourism was the industry Dubai chose to expand
Oil is only 1%of dubais wealth rn
In Massachusetts we have roundabouts but we use the word "Rotary".
Our western countries also saw why slavery is wrong. With Americans even fighting our most deadly war over it. Slavery in the Middle East on the other hand has never stopped
oh really ottoman empire also abolised slavery well before british
@@hussainashraf5179 the ottomans are no longer the main power
@@Baughlin ottoman empire saved britian in 1571 when queen begged infront of ottoman sultan to protect them spainish catholic empire then it was ottomans who warned spain not to mess with britian but guess what british backstabbed the ottomans in world war 1
I live in FLA...my house is 13' above sea level. That's considered good!
I love roundabouts. They have somewhere I live.
Another way of looking at the slavery happening in Dubai is that it could be planned. A little conspiratorial but hear me out: They don't want a worker/labor/low-to-middle class in the first place. So, to make sure they keep getting to build for the ultra rich only and have all their "fancy" buildings, just import the workers, use them up, then demolish the slums when they're gone -- ta-da, immaculate city. Or maybe that's just a "benefit" the mid-to-upper classes figured out along the way.
too bad the short-sighted
Round-a-bouts are all over here in Portland, OR.
US suburbs are terrible. Imagine having to take the car for everything.. you can't get to a pub without the car.
12:25 Actually roundabouts are getting quite popular in the USA.
15:58 so true 😂😂😂😂
the uk owned modern slavory in many terms....dont try to brush
If I was to compare Milton Keynes to US development, most of it looks more like the often failed 60s urban renal projects than suburbs, granted the edges start to look like US suburbs.
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Dubai has obviously never played Sim City...
Feel better Daz!!!
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Many many roundabouts in the USA
Its so idiotic from the moment he said no sewage system .... just a HATER being brave behind his computer.
I don’t think this guys ever been to the United States
You should really see what Qatar did for the World Cup stadiums.. it's about the same, if not worse. It's a common theme through those areas.
It’s almost like playing king of a pile of crap trying to command respect
Slavery is still legal in the United States as punishment for any crime. And with private-for-profit prisons, many of them operate factories and assembly warehouses for common products domestically and exported.
Except the "slaves" are literally criminals who broke laws. Slaves in the early US were innocent people stripped from their homes thousands of miles away in different countries
@@DarjeelingEnjoyer Unfortunately, being in the wrong place at the wrong time can also be deemed a "crime". Add that factor to the unpredictable "justice system" and you've got slavery.
@@DarjeelingEnjoyer not exactly. Slaves in the early US were already there. Capitalism increased importation later, but slavery didnt end after the civil war or 13&14th amendment. They found a new way to acquire slaves. The south was literally rebuilt with slave labor well into the 1900s.
@@DarjeelingEnjoyer "criminals who broke laws".. the average person breaks several laws every single day. Lets not pretend slavery is okay, even for those who break laws.
Correction, they didn't do roundabouts, the bastards have finally started installing them, akl over the place...I mean, I don't like them but at leazt when you get hit by a drunk at an intersection they aren't going very fast, and they tend to put them at the end of roads that lead to schools and parks so I see the need. I guess I see the need, it's the people that make it horrible. The same type of person that stops short at the entrance of a grocery store also seems to be the same kind of person that forgets how to drive az soon as they get on a roundabout.
Pretty heady episode, but good. Modern slavery, man. Damn..
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No hate for uae🇦🇪🙏
This guy really hates suburbs lol. I'd rather live out in the country personally but suburbs are 10x better than living inside a busy city.
This narrator is hilarious.
I much prefer those boring @ss suburbs as opposed to the neighborhoods in some areas that are supposed to imitate some old English/European towns in the states. Winding one-lane roads for no bloody reason isn't quaint it's infuriating when placed next to a city like many of them are. Also, immigrants are taken advantage of in every country even if it's not to the same level. Here in America, even die-hard conservatives don't deny we "need" a certain influx of immigrants here in the states every year. Because we'll pay them like 2.50 an hour while working some of the hardest jobs and no one bats an eyelid.
Try to hire an immigrant for 2.50 an hour in the states. lol Going rate for immigrant workers is 16- 20$ an hour in L.A today. I agree though city's suck.
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That just sounds like slavery with extra steps.
All modern capitalism is.
@@charlie7mason so u want communism like vladamir Lenin, Joseph Stalin etc used to have in ussr.
@@maheshhardasani787 I think both are bad . They take advantage of the hard work of the lower classes . We’re just meat robots to the 1%. Maybe we’ll figure out a new economic model that works for everyone.
@@olnbgy4444 Nordic countries are happiest countries on earth so maybe it seems that there kind of capitalism is working for everyone.
same all over the world thou including in the US, that is why so many employer want mexican immigrant to come to US because they can pay less and works them to death.
Rich people has a lot of money made from oil, they made a luxury utopia. They had no talent to do build that so they brought people from around the world. Also they didn't have workers so they brought slaves from poor countries. But luxury does not make a city beautiful.
U guys have done some really long reactions lately, if that trend is gonna continue I highly recommend Brad Upton boomer triggers gen z snowflakes... its like 40 minutes long but can split it into 2 or 3 reactions, his stand up bit is his, definitely worth a watch
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American suburbs are the worst urbanism practices? 🤣 Clearly he's never lived in a suburb. People spend their entire lives working just to fulfill their dream of living on a quiet cul de sac in the suburbs.
Yeah, I think he just has some kind of hipster fantasy of living in a city like Rome or Istanbul drinking coffee out of a tiny cup, and looking at all their architecture and history. Ignoring the fact that those cities are only interesting BECAUSE of their 2000 years of history.
@@rmr5044 you realize everything you just said comes down to opinion and personal preference, right? I'm sure you do, it was just written with such gusto and matter-of-fact-objectiveness (at least how I interpreted it). City centers, walkability, and independence from cars is actually some people's idea of hell, believe it or not.
@@rmr5044 Suburbs rule. No one goes to the city in less they have to for business. Downtown is literally the definition of hellish.
@UC9I7u6Su0P1wTPP0a_ELGzw You're just mad because you can't drive lol. It's really not that difficult to spend 4 minutes to drive somewhere.
I grew up in a rural town surrounded by fields and forests and had to rely on driving to get anywhere. The nearest stores were in nearby cities that you had to drive to. It wasn't bad at all. You just drove down a road for like 6-8 minutes and bam, buncha stores and shit. I don't see the problem with driving anywhere.
If you solely rely on public transit then you won't have any experience with actually driving a vehicle yourself. Not every place on Earth has the same level of transit. I hope you enjoy only sticking to one place on Earth
@@emobx02 Independence from cars is absolutely not a matter of preference given their prevalence, impact on the environment, the inherent danger of how roads are currently designed for them, and the combination of how important it is to have one and how expensive they are to own and maintain. You should be able to drive if you want, I agree, but you shouldn't have to drive to get food or go to work if not everyone can have a car and driving is much more dangerous than it needs to be.
Tourist go to Las Vegas to see the replicas... Isn't tourism the reason they were doing all this in the first place?
the poop truck problem has since been solved. It's just really the tower wasn't connected to the pipes originally cos they couldn't handle a building that size or something.
Why would u dislike this video? Did u dislike the blokes reaction or the video they reacted to. If it's the latter rather than damage this channel go find the video they watched and leave your disdain and comments there.
Keep it up guys.
Yes rich people very dangerous hmm... very bad .
All dictatorships and like this also socialist countries, end, this way, poverty and slavery basically
Bruh dubai ist not a socialist country also you measuring socialist countrys with Dubai is a insult to the acually good cummie housing
Please don’t believe everything on TH-cam, if you want to know the truth come and visit Dubai, I know that he didn’t even visit Dubai , many people hate some countries cause they only made some achievements in there country,, please don’t compare anything by only hearing, you’re welcome here
i grew up in the united states and have spoke english my entire life, there was a section in this video were dave and mike were talking and their accents were so thicc i literally could not follow what the fuck they were saying...i think when daz is around the english become more clear. lol
haters will always hate,, keep on hating we will keep developing
Not really comprehending the environmental and human rights atrocity (and values) that this is Deconstructing. You guys have a lot of misconceptions about these politics. American suburbs are indeed exactly that as well....classicst, racist, caste monuments to greed, inequality and selfishness. Parking space be damned.
I love that criticism of modern city design is becoming a trend. Fuck urban highways!
Curious, what would be a better solution?
@@thSpeedyTurtle No cars in city centres. Public transportation, walking and bikes only (emergency services exempt)
@@sheepsky FU
@@thSpeedyTurtle simply a less urban highway. By-passes and increased public transport infrastructure with pedestrian friendliness paramount. Go check out the YT channel ‘Not just bikes’
@@sheepsky That sounds fucking stupid lmao. Please show me a single major city in Europe that doesn't have cars driving in it. If you're going to have a city full of buses then I hope you don't mind being crammed in a bus with people going 8kmph down the bus-filled road.
Been there twice. Beautiful place with lots to do.
All built by slaves!
I stayed in the most beautiful 4 bedroom apartment, it had the most disgusting servants' room attached though. It looked like a mudroom with a toilet and no windows.
@@sheepsky It worked tho
@@SilverFang95 Something working doesn't automatically make it right
And he didn’t mention sharia law!
More of just Dave and Mike please!
They give great reactions.
It’s really interesting to see how white people respond to that immigrant part. There’s really no trying to reason. It’s just a reality that many white people think immigrant is a word reserved for brown people. And no I’m not saying they’re racist. It’s just interesting that they tried to reason why that was the case. POCs I’ve seen react to this video have never done that.
I don't think these two were trying to justify it in any way. Just that they noted it was a point of interest.
Hmm ya partly the word is associated for the most part with status. Technically anybody can be termed the word, Chinese have been termed as it etc. Its mostly to do with status. BTW am a POC so don't come at me lol.
I'm White and I don't think that. In fact I don't know any White people who think that. Sounds more like non-White people assume that's what we think.
@@crusadeelectronics2444 did I say ALL white people? No, I said many white people. Otherwise there would not be a separate word to describe white immigrants. I live in the south of the US, so I’ve encountered plenty of white individuals that feel that way.
The term expat has come to mean people of means that have moved to another country that has a lower standard of living. Most are retired and their savings wouldn’t be enough in their home country, but it goes further someplace else. If they are rich, they could move anywhere. If it weren’t beneficial to have them move to the country they chose, they wouldn’t feel welcome! Everyone involved usually benefits. One thing that separates them from the usual immigrants is they don’t require government assistance where they are going.
Jazz rendition of Take Me Out to the Ballgame is an interesting choice
This was annoying. He's complaining about a really cool city.....choose better next time
The video was crazy
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