What Visitors Usually Notice About the UAE That Residents Stop Seeing
Every place has little things that the locals end up ignoring.
The buildings they see daily. The landscapes they drive through without noticing. The small characteristics that seemed nice at first but then became a normal part of their environment.
But visitors notice every little thing.
In the UAE, new arrivals quite often highlight things that locals hardly pay attention to anymore.
The abrupt change from the desert to the city’s tallest buildings. The variety of languages heard in public places. How traditional buildings sometimes are standing quietly next to ultra-modern ones.
These features are so striking to someone who is coming here for the first time.
They take pictures of the things the locals don’t even see the first time. They inquire about the traditions that the locals find very normal.
Sometimes these comments prompt the old residents to see their environment as if they were newcomers.
What used to be the ordinary ceases being ordinary and becomes interesting.
