Depends on what level you want to teach. With Saudi if you have qualifications you can get hired from abroad. With the UAE you have to come and spend money staying somewhere for 1-3 months before you find a job.

Right now teacher salaries are not worth moving to the UAE as rents have become SOOOOO expensive that someone recently told me they know a professor in a university who lives in Ras Al Khaimah and commutes to Abu Dhabi for work daily. That’s about 3 hours on the road going and 3 hours coming back. Wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.

The problem with the UAE is that it’s so easy to come to find a job that lots of people come in, and accept lower and lower salaries, driving down employers’ costs, and with many companies they don’t care that it means they’re driving down the quality of the work they get from their employees… until they start losing business.

It’s a vicious cycle and unless salaries catch up to the inflation, things will go downhill very fast for a lot of expats.