The domestic competition is too intense, and the Lanzhou ramen owner actually plans to work in Dubai!!?

I happened to overhear the owner talking with a friend about working in the UAE while eating at a Lanzhou ramen restaurant.

Although I didn't catch everything, there were a few sentences like this:

Owner: I can earn 10,000 RMB a month in China, and I can earn 10,000 USD a month in the UAE.

Friend: Can the math be that simple? How can you be sure you can really earn that?

Owner: My friend said so.

Friend: Is that true? What if you can't earn it? I have friends in Dubai, but I haven't heard of anyone earning that much.

Owner: I'm planning to go there for 3 months first, earn enough for the work visa's 150,000 investment, then work for another 3 months to bring my wife over, and then bring the whole family over.

Friend: What if you don't earn anything? And what about safety? You, a big man, can live in bunk beds and not be afraid of being extorted, but what about your wife? It's really competitive in the country, but you can still live a laid-back life. Your shop is doing well, why do you have to go work elsewhere?

Owner: It's more free over there.

Friend: Free? Is going out to work like a donkey really freedom? Look at me, I would rather lie down every day than go out and be a donkey.

That's about it.

I'm quite curious, can earning 10,000 RMB a month in China really turn into 10,000 USD in Dubai?

Based on my last experience in Dubai, the cost of food and accommodation is about 1.2 to 1.5 times more expensive than in China.

Water is even more outrageous; bottled water that costs 2 yuan and cola that costs 3 yuan in China simply don't exist there. I remember seeing a bottle of water priced at 50 in a restaurant, thinking it was some special water, but when I ordered it, it was just ordinary mineral water. At that time, I thought I had encountered a mineral water scam, 🤣

Personally, I feel that going to Dubai can't really turn an income of 10,000 RMB into 10,000 USD.

Unless you're a driver scamming customers; for example, I was hard-pressed by a driver in Dubai who charged me ten times the fare!