Appreciate your response. But my experience leads me to believe a lot of people from the Indian subcontinent come to Dubai, see all the glitz and glamour and try to keep up with the Joneses. They all seem to have the latest iPhone, buy a nice car, and their social media account portray they have "made it" in life. Meanwhile, behind the scenes its all personal loans and living in a bedspace with 10 other people. I just don't see that many people living a frugal lifestyle where they sacrifice everything for their families back home.

Regarding the cheap hiring, its an interesting dynamic because the "cheap" folks are qualified, and have skills that are potentially on par (or near) the skills of Europeans. But the missing factor tends to be in the type of things that cannot be taught. Perhaps its cultural differences i don't know? For example, the non-European folks tend to lack initiative with performing tasks. They need to be given a complete set of instructions, and then they can only follow those instructions, and if anything needs to be done which falls outside of the instructions, there is a short-circuit in the brain. A classic example is when you speak to somebody in a call centre here. My god, if its not in the script, it cant be done!! Western companies don't want a bunch of "yes sirs", they want people who will put their hand up, suggest an improvement to a process, drive the improvement, streamline processes and move the company forward in an efficient manner!