DuBye

I moved to Dubai last week! Then I got really depressed and moved back to Riyadh two days later.

In 2018 I notably wrote a Quora article that listed all of the things that made Dubai feel so unnatural. I said that it felt like a Black Mirror episode (probably one that I’d rewatch more than once), and that a prerequisite for good cities is maintaining a certain level of unsafety to truly feel real and exciting. I could go on and on, but the truth is…