12/28/2016 - Continuing our afternoon tour, we stopped by the entrance of the Palace where the first wife of the Sheik lives with her sons. The Sheik got married 7 times, but divorced from 5 of them and is now married to the first and the last one only. With 10 sons from the first wife, he totals 29 sons. His father had 40 sons!
The UAE was created by the initiative of the King of Abu Dhabi, the richest of the 7 kingdoms forming the United Arab Emirates, with only one million inhabitants. Abu Dhabi has 91% of the UAE petroleum and so destinates part of the oil income to help the other 6 kingdoms. The second richest is Dubai, which also has oil, but where commerce and tourism are becoming the main economic activities. Dubai has 250,000 native inhabitants and another 2,25 million temporary foreigner inhabitants. Natives have all support from government, like free school and health care, while all the other inhabitants, even if married to a native, has to pay for all services, although they pay all taxes. Citizenship is only for natives or sons of male natives. By investing in Dubai around 600,000 Dirhams, you get only the right of residence and work, but you loose it when you sell you business or property. Therefore most of the inhabitants are not citizens, although they can live a very rich life as a resident with a successful business.
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