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To be fair, wasn’t the fancy-car abandonment thing just a result of people taking on crazy debt in a country that still has debtors prison, and then bailing out when they were predictably close to that jeopardy?

Seems like rational behavior from both sides in the end.

For sure. With a healthy percentage of “I have £100k and I can only bring £10k before I need to declare tax and my employer canned the project and my visa. Allow the car”

> getting a drink (alcohol) is a major pain. Either underground, or some elite venue where rules don’t apply - and the jeopardy that goes with that. Really want to spill wine on a Prince? And there are a lot of princes.

In Dubai you can get a drink just about anywhere.

> getting your money home can be troublesome. Check out Dubai airport and abandoned super cars

It’s really not difficult to transfer money out of Dubai.

Those cars are abandoned by people who couldn’t make their payments and fled the country.

those who left their supercars at the airport didnt have any money to send home - they were virtually bankrupt.

also, "there are a lot of princes" sure youre not mixing saudi with qatar here?

4000 Princes, over 10k members of the royal family, Saudi.