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Honestly speaking, Dubai.
Not because of slavery, poop trucks, questionable government policies, etc.
The real reason to me is that it does not offer anything traditional or historical. Yes it has some five start restaurants. Yes it has some big malls. Yes you can do stuff like desert driving or hot air balloons. These are all stuff that could be done anywhere else for cheaper.
Until very recently, Dubai was a desert wasteland with a few Bedouin roaming about. I'm not sure what I would expect for history or tradition.
I know it's unrelated to the thread, but I'd personally never go to a country that doesn't treat, women, gays, apostates etc as equals, I think these countries are absolutely terrible and I'm not fooled by them having "show cities" where they pretend that they're not that way.
A country that still has a medieval mindset in the second millennium is not getting a penny from me.
If you're American, you should pull the ejection seat lever.
Unfortunately the ejection seat lever is a paid DLC I cannot afford.
I understand your concern, but assuming someone looks over all of that, there isn't something genuinely exciting about it.
Not to mention the terrible traffic it is in now due to the Russia- Ukraine war, other unstable countries within the region, the terrible public transport system Dubai has anyway.
The one thing I liked was going over the creek for a few dirhams and strolling through the historical souk.
That's literally the only 'old' bit, but I was still constantly pestered by people trying to get me to come with them to look at handbags and sunglasses, and I do mean constantly, to the point where I just left because I couldn't be arsed anymore.
Yeah, but that is typical of a lot of shops in the Middle East.