Four years in a city that keeps building itself. About life, districts, schools, cars, coffee, and what it means to make the UAE home.
Harmony 3, Tilal Al Ghaf: a tenanted single-row 4BR villa with a study and driver’s room. Current rent is AED 420,000 per year. A private investor opportunity.
Four years ago they let us out of Dubai Airport: Ira, three children with matching backpacks, and me — still a designer. Only now I've realised the escalator never stopped: all this time it has been carrying us through homes, careers, bills, cars and an entire sea towards a new version of the family
Bekki came to us as a reward for Alexander Jr's jiu-jitsu victory, but quickly became something bigger: a friend to all three children, a guide through our move, and our little shepherd who now walks with me to Project 80 every morning
I launched Project 80: a path from 97.5 to 80 kg without magic or heroics. Every day I send ChatGPT my weight, walks, sleep, and photos of what I eat, and it helps me see the system rather than individual slip-ups.
Elysian Mansions, Tilal Al Ghaf: Muse residence No. 10 facing the lagoon is offered for AED 65M. Approximate readiness for move-in is about four months.
For 1,360 days an old Arab villa in Umm Suqeim raised our children, let rain into the bedroom, broke its air conditioners and sent me onto the roof to retrieve the electricity. In the end it summoned an army of cockroaches and kept half our deposit. We moved to the Palm — grateful, but exhausted.
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Elysian Mansions, Tilal Al Ghaf: 5BR mansion Villa 091 with about 10,472 sqft BUA and a plot of about 9,918 sqft. Owner expectation — AED 28M.
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