I’m a white, Canadian born male.

Top gear have been to Dubai and Abu Dhabi before. McLaren F1 vs Veyron drag race. They’ve done desert thing too.

It literally took me 30 minutes to transfer my license to a dubai one. In 10 years I have never gotten a traffic offense. Follow the laws, don’t go 22 km/h over the posted limitlimit (cameras snap then) and you’ll be fine...

I think you came into this with a negative attitude unfortunately. Dubai isn’t as bad as people make it out to be. I’ve travelled and lived between Dubai and Canada a few times now over the past 10 years. I feel like the western media creates a paranoia about the UAE because it’s Arab.