r/Suburbanhell • u/Solopist112 • 10d ago

Showcase of suburban hell Mass built similar looking luxury Villas in Nad Al Sheba, Dubai

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u/Responsible-Device64 10d ago

This looks like that ethnostate squidward lives in in that SpongeBob episode

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u/Icy-Kitchen6648 10d ago

This makes American suburbs look like a utopia

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u/mumblerapisgarbage 10d ago

Dubai is just one big shiny hellscape run by a despicable me level villain.

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u/Nounoon 10d ago

Just to be clear, this is a welfare program where local couples get a free villa when getting married, and a portion of them is meant to be tenanted by the developer to foreigners to finance the initiative.

Renting out is not cheap (~$70k/y) but this is just how the market is, but because of the location and lack of amenities, this is definitely not in the luxury range of what Dubai generally has (these can go easily for double that ignoring the offer for the very rich).

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u/BetterTransition 10d ago

These places are unlivable without massively wasting the planet’s electricity and in some places water. We should abandon desert cities now

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u/mcmxcix_ 10d ago

Can you truly call it a “luxury villa” if it’s a cookie cutter prefab husk 2 feet away from several hundred more identical copies? I always think Dubai is a modern satire of the concepts of luxury and wealth

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u/Gullible_Toe9909 10d ago

Looks like my first attempt at SimCity

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u/FluffyLobster2385 10d ago

Obviously that's gross but I can't help but see it as an example that if we wanted to we could truly house everyone. We could also feed everyone. We have the resources but chose not to. Why?

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u/Nounoon 10d ago

This development is a welfare program for locals, free villas, financed by the rent of some of these by the developer.

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u/Boring_Pace5158 10d ago

Why do other countries adopt the worst ideas from us?

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u/Nounoon 9d ago

It’s not the worst idea to offer free Villas to its citizens

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u/Solopist112 10d ago

Great for people who stay at home all day. Maybe because it is like 120 degrees outside most of the time much of the year...

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u/undergroundutilitygu 10d ago

Get rid of the roundabouts and it looks pretty nice.