Housing Prices

For those of you who are curious, here is a table of housing prices in Abu Dhabi (click on it to enlarge). It's a relatively expensive place to live. Abu Dhabi isn't quite London, Paris, or Tokyo expensive, but they're close. If you want to do the conversions, 1 dollar = 3.67 dirhams.

As an example of something in the table, a 4-bedroom house in the Khalidiya section of town - which is nice, but not where the Sheikhs live, not on the water, and not on a golf course or anything like that - will run you $7,940.75 per month in rent. A two-bedroom apartment is $4,991.33 per month in rent. Those are in dollars, people. It's difficult to buy over here if you're not a citizen, and the legal system here isn't that efficient at handling property disputes. So if your employer doesn't provide housing, you would probably rent.