LIFE IN DUBAI used to be about as blissful as white-collar expatriate existence gets. The private schools are good, beaches pretty, flight connections plentiful and booze legal (so long as you are not Emirati or Muslim). Expats face no income tax, so no pesky inspections of their finances; no ostracism, so Chinese crypto millionaires and Russian oligarchs can mingle with Western bankers, Arab property moguls and Israeli entrepreneurs; and no rain, so the only thing they need to worry about is the SPF factor of their sunscreen.
