Holly Wainwright

Did you guys know that?

I did not.

Well, the go with that, as it turns out, and obviously I'm not going to get deep into immigration law here, but Dubai, I'm sure lots of people know this, and I know that we have a lot of listeners in that part of the world too, so please excuse my simplistic explanation.

But obviously Dubai has a big population of people who are not from there.

They say that about 92% of workers in Dubai are not from Dubai.

They're from somewhere else.

Lots of diversity within that, both in terms of nationalities and of the level and reward of jobs that those people are doing, right?

On the one hand, there have been ongoing lots of significant human rights violations

concerns about the conditions for a lot of workers in areas like construction who live and work in this extreme situation.

And on the other, it's long been a place for white collar so-called expats to go and work in areas like finance and tourism and increasingly things like crypto and tech and all of that kind of stuff.

So all that's happening.

And then in recent years, Dubai have actively courted influencers and content creators to come, base themselves out of there, make content about what an amazing place it is.

They offer these special visas.

They had something called a 10-year golden visa, which gives you, you know, sort of you can stay there and live there.

And most of these visas, you

You just have to prove that you have a bit of a following, you prove what you're going to do, and then you'll pay a small fee.

But while you're living and working there, you pay no income tax.

So that's why it becomes such an attractive place.

And they've set up like working hubs specifically for digital content creators that will have podcast studios and cameras and all these things.

And then people will work there.