Yankees .. go home!!!!

In response to the highly amusing letter in 7Days by Sharjah resident Mansoor Riaz (I nearly fell of my chair laughing, Mr. Riaz) and his threat to ‘sue’ Dubai residents (LOL) for congesting Sharjah …

Do you live and work in Sharjah? If you do, then my apologies to you. But if you don’t, then the only difference between you and the ‘Dubai residents shifting to Sharjah’ is that they are doing now what you did a few years ago.

Just like you have your complaint of ‘our rents are high because of Dubai people living in our Emirates’, we have ours which goes ‘our roads are clogged because of Sharjah dwellers working in our Emirates’.

To Mr. Mansoor Riaz, and to everyone else who lives in Sharjah but works in Dubai … face the facts … the only reason you live in Sharjah and work in Dubai is so you can earn Dubai salaries and pay Sharjah rents. The only reason you live in Sharjah is to save money.

The reason WE live in Dubai is to NOT be caught in two hour traffic jams (which, Sharjah residents seem to be bringing further into Dubai these days) and we pay a very high price for that. We pay TWICE the rent you guys pay. Why? It’s a price we pay for the convenience. That convenience, sadly, is severely marred by Sharjah cars in the hundreds that come into our Emirate twice a day, five days a week.

YOU choose to live in Sharjah because you want to save money. To save money, you need to make some sacrifices. Heard the ‘cake’ adage? The Dubai-Sharjah commute is a price you pay for the low rents. Soon hopefully (and thank goodness RTA for this!) the tolls will be another way that the abuse of OUR roads by people from other Emirates will be discouraged.

And what really are you complaining about? A two-bed flat in Sharjah costs around 50,000 ... the same in Dubai costs at least 90,000.

Surely, out of the 40,000 you save, you can fork over a few thousand in toll fees? Or are you just that greedy?

While we’re at it, I have a request to RTA … do please increase the toll to at least 10 Dhs each way so that it makes a more significant difference.