MOVED TO DUBAI VLOG - FIRST IMPRESSIONS

hey guys it's me i am recording my latest vlog i am right now in Dubai i have moved here just two days ago so it's really really still very fresh um i thought i'll just tell you a little bit a lot of questions asked in my DMs and just wanted to share my experience so far of course i'm sure i will be updating my experience in like a week's time and just wanted to update you all on what's happening and why am i here a lot of you know that i left Mexico and if you don't know the reason i left Mexico because uh my landlord and his partner girlfriend stole all my belongings and destroyed all my basically everything that i left in Mexico to come back to so i just felt like i didn't want to go back to Mexico anymore because it just didn't feel right to me anymore so i decided to go to a new place i was deciding between Thailand and Dubai and decided to go to Dubai i did feel extremely overwhelmed over the last couple of days uh well it's only been two days it's day three now so it does feel like i've been here much longer um the humidity is getting to me like my hair is like getting really curly and puffy um and it's obviously really hot in here it's like 38 40 degrees during the day and even at night when you're going for a walk which i did last night it was like 32 35 degrees which is insanely hot so you're constantly sweating i think i'm also not used to the heat just yet because i did spend a whole summer in Latvia and you know it was pretty cold especially now i left it was like you know three five celsius degrees uh it is a very big overwhelming city uh still i got like i didn't have an amazing day yesterday i got like completely lost i got the wrong taxi i did like so many things just went wrong but it's fine you know it always is like when you move to a new place and usually i don't get like so overwhelmed and i thought i didn't but then i remembered when i moved to mexico i was also overwhelmed for like two weeks i stayed in a hotel and i actually had really bad anxiety back then so i don't even have that like this time it's just like i don't know it's just starting everything from scratch and also i decided to give myself two weeks so i'm not permanently moving here just yet like i haven't made that final decision so i'm only here for two weeks and um in two weeks i will see if i want to stay here if i don't want to stay here so i'm just going to kind of like take it easy and explore you know sort a few bits out as you know because i move a lot i'm always staying in different apartments so i had to order a lot of the kitchen stuff like scales and whisks and everything that i need for cooking i do have a cooking class tomorrow so these kind of things they are a bit annoying because obviously when you have a base you don't need to worry about that you just have everything at home but here i have to like think about all of that stuff get used to the new ingredients um but yeah i'm living off my luggage again i'm moving in a couple of days to a hotel because i had that booked earlier and then at the moment i know that over the next couple of weeks months i'm not gonna have a permanent home so like the idea of that is stressful and it's really annoying but if i know and like i know that's what's coming like i don't feel as stressed anymore because i'm just accepting what it is and i'm just gonna enjoy it you know what it is because there's no point stressing that i'm still gonna be living in luggage uh for a while so i still don't know i think maybe after two weeks i might go to thailand uh or i'm gonna go somewhere else i really don't know yet everything changes so quickly at the minute so i have no idea i might really like dubai the way i felt yesterday i didn't think i'm gonna stay here anymore but today i felt a bit better and i'm meeting a couple of new potential friends people uh tomorrow so we'll see maybe once i get to know people here you know it'd be different but um i wanted to answer some of your questions which you guys asked me um a lot of you asking me similar questions so hopefully i will cover and if not just ask me below and I'll answer it so the moment I rented an Airbnb Airbnb that's the one and it's in Marina area which is I think it's like the central area but it's supposed to be I thought it was close to the beach like the way it described it was like oh it's right by the beach and it took me like 25 30 minutes to go to the beach yesterday and it got dark so I didn't really see the beach either so I'm not sure I think the spaces here are very huge they're like you know everyone's like oh I'm just also in Marina like it's just down the road and it's like a 40 minute walk and you can't really walk in this heat so you have to take taxis everywhere I went to the mall yesterday to meet someone and yeah it was like a 30 40 minute drive so I think I'm a little bit like not used to the distances just yet and also first thing you know kind of comes into the head is that you definitely need a car here it's really hard if you don't have a car especially if you're gonna live here I think if you're just visiting and staying and you don't need it I don't really want to drive I want yeah like yeah so I'm not going to get a car so I'm going to just use Uber and they also have this app called Kareem which was absolutely disastrous the taxi never came five times and you know just just these kind of things you know you got to get a card like so you can use the internet because there's no internet unless you get the local card 3G another thing that stood out to me in just a couple of days was that everything is very very secure and controlled what I mean by that is that you can't even get a SIM card without your passport so I had no idea I went to the shopping mall I'm like yeah I need a card and they're like yeah you need a passport and I was like what I'm just getting a card so there's just like all these kind of things so i know why they say like Dubai is like very safe and secure because it's actually very very controlled city in a sense that they have all your details like if you're ordering anything Amazon packages whatever you do they are tracking you so you can't be naughty here not that i was planning to be what i'm saying is that that's why it's probably a safe country but at the same time it's very very you know futuristic and very very advanced like the buildings are insane it's very powerful energy here um i haven't actually been to anywhere pretty much just yet i mean again it's only been two days i've got work to do so i've been working and i am planning to make like a list of all the places that i want to go to and explore Dubai basically find some people that want to explore it with me you know because i don't want to be the only tourist uh and see how i feel and yeah that's the plan so far right let me answer some of your questions what inspired you to move to Dubai not Thailand i think i thought that Dubai would have a lot more opportunities for networking and business and it's definitely that uh everything is artificial here by the way as well like i found out yesterday that the ocean the sea is fake it's not real not that i thought it was i don't even know what i was thinking i don't know what i was thinking you know you just don't think sometimes about these things but basically they are really good at making everything fake but it looks amazing it's just like it's basically imagine future life and everything is done for you right like i just ordered food on the app online it came to me within 30 minutes like door to door it's just the conveniences like the services top notch in restaurants so there is a lot of basically comfort for life and i think if you're looking for that kind of stuff this is a place you know um and yeah thailand would be a lot more chill definitely none of this type of service i'm sure um rent cost a lot of questions about the rent cost so i'm going to show you my apartment in a minute um i've only rented it out for one week because i didn't know if i like it and you know like i'm not gonna rent anything for more than a week until i kind of go physically see places this was um this is a tiny studio by tiny i mean a really tiny like i'm actually getting frustrated because when i get up from my table i bump into my bed and then my kitchen is right in front of me so for me like you know i just spent three months in my dad's house and it was just like a big nice spacious house so i am feeling a bit like claustrophobic in here um and this place was like around hundred you know hundred euros hundred dollars a night so it's pretty expensive like around 700 and you know this this was like the cheapest option like there are cheaper options somewhere like not in the you know central area of course you can always find but I think now that from from speaking to people I haven't done my rent you know research just yet because i don't know if i'm gonna stay then i do need to find an apartment if i'm not gonna stay then i don't really need to find an apartment i'm just gonna enjoy the two weeks that i booked here because i've only booked for two weeks and just enjoy it and then move somewhere else um but from what i heard if you want to get something like decent normal it varies from about 1500 to two and a half thousand three thousand dollars a month which is insane uh it's definitely different ballparks so yeah you can of course share a house room whatever but i'm talking about if you want to live on your own um in like a one two bedroom apartment these are the rough rent costs so definitely not for people who can't afford that type of rent and you can live again like really far away but it seems that you would spend more money on traveling here so like just to give you an idea my uber was costing me 25 for a 30 minute drive which i know everywhere in the world that that would usually be around you know six to eight dollars so it's definitely you feel it it's spicy uh how difficult was it to find an apartment in dubai again i just used airbnb and booking.com so i'm staying in a hotel from next week uh definitely harder if you need to cook if you don't need an oven and you don't need to cook maybe you can stay somewhere you know faster but i do need all the stuff for work uh try making or eating kunafa in dubai it's one of my favorite desserts i have not tried that yet definitely should try that um why did you pick dubai right answer that one enjoy your time in dubai thank you are you coming back to mexico no i am not Did you find accommodation? So yeah, a lot of the same questions, which makes sense. Why did you move? What's the internet speed like? Internet's really good, very fast, so definitely top-notch. Yeah, so I don't know, I don't feel as overwhelmed as I did yesterday, but I still am feeling very fragile. I don't think it's a good idea to move here on your own, although, you know, I've pretty much traveled to like 55 countries and lived pretty much everywhere So I am I would say I'm an experienced traveler and I'm finding it overwhelming So if you're not an experienced traveler and you are planning to make such a big move, maybe don't do it on your own That's right, you know what I was walking today. I went for a walk this morning and It was boiling. It was like too hot to walk like I felt dizzy. I can't breathe so you definitely need to take electrolytes drink lots of water here but I just realized you know I adapt really quickly just couple more days and I'll probably be like oh loving it here but the minute I'm having a mixed feeling if it's my city like in a way the city is amazing I have nothing to say like it just feels like it's another London just better and bigger and I left London for a reason because I wanted to actually have bigger space like I wanted to live in the house I want to you know have a better higher quality of life and basically i think living here unless you earn ---- loads of money you're not really going to get that you know high luxury standard of living that i probably will get in thailand so yeah it's it's just more about that but at the same time i will see how i feel in a week i might meet lots of amazing people and then want to stay and then open my master classes and become top you know chef here in dubai who knows um so yeah that's kind of my update for now stay tuned if you have any more questions let me know and uh yeah i'll see you all soon guys bye oh ---- i need to show you the apartment wait here it is so it starts here this is the bathroom hello uh bathroom toilet and shower so it looks very modern you know and this is basically the whole apartment the bed and the kitchen and um you know cupboard and this is 700 pounds guys 700 pounds for a week 700 and this is my workstation and i do have a balcony as well um but i don't really go out much because it's kind of hot but look at the view though kind of cool right yep stay tuned i will update you more