This article is aimed at home buyers, and those looking at rental property. Real Estate agents can also use some of the arguments made in this article when pitching a project to home buyers and investors.

To those new to the local real estate terminology. ‘New Dubai’ has been accepted unofficially as the regions in Dubai where freehold, leasehold and associated new projects are coming up.

With every passing month, ‘New Dubai’ is expanding, but it is safe to say that the original Dubai was around the Dubai Creek, Deira, and Bur Dubai region. This area is where the heartbeat of the emirate of Dubai is!

So why upset the cart? Why suggest to people already well entrenched there to relocate? here’s the top 3 reasons.

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1) Beat Dubai Traffic: …and stabilize your blood pressure! Everyone knows the work hour traffic snarls that take place every day, with vehicles noticeably heading in one direction in the mornings, and the opposite direction in the evening. This is compounded with commuters coming in from the northern emirates as well, headed to their work place in Dubai. Would you believe that there is an entire section of Dubai residents that are un aware to what traffic jams really are? These are the ones who had moved into New Dubai a few years ago, not paying heed to the doomsday advice of others who did not believe in the future of the real estate market here.

By moving to the New Dubai regions, you can effectively deal with the daily traffic situation in a better manner (at best these regions face traffic queues, not hour long crawls). In most cases, you will be driving against traffic, or will be close to your place of work, so you can have a more productive day in the office.

2) This used to be my Playground… As with any dynamically growing city, and a metropolis such as Dubai, Real Estate and land is going to be at a premium and every square meter is worth a lot commercially. It should come as no surprise that regions around the Dubai Creek and areas such as Deira and Bur Dubai will always be at a premium and eyed by businesses, thereby making these areas a commercial success, but a somewhat crowded residential area.

Dubai is not short on land, and with the almost magical way in which sandy areas are converted to lush foliage, there is never going to be a lack of space for growing children. The many projects such as The Gardens, The Green Community, Emaar’s Greens and the newly constructed Discovery Gardens, are a testament as to why moving to New Dubai would be a multiple blessing for family life.
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Are you living in a crowded area simply because you are too ‘comfortable’ in your way of life? If money is not a hindrance, then you really do not have an excuse to not give your children the joys of a community playground. Justifying a weekly picnic to Jumeirah Beach Park or Al Mamzar park is not a substitute for living in an over crowded and pedestrian unfriendly area, only because you are too lazy or afraid of change.

3) Don’t deprive Low Income Residents of good Accommodation: Rents all over Dubai, (New Dubai and otherwise) are more or less the same. However, if your reasoning for contributing toward the over crowding of some areas of Dubai is because the rents are lower where you are currently residing, consider this… you are depriving low income residents of a place to live, and making them suffer longer and harder commutes while they resort to sharing accommodation, because you are occupying homes that they could be living in!

Of course this argument does not hold water, if indeed you are in a financially difficult position. This argument is aimed at many self centered people out there, who don’t seem to care that they are depriving needy people of affordable accomodation by occupying a home that is cheaper in rent, when they very well can afford a better lifestyle for themselves and their families. Many of such people ironically are land lords of property in the New Dubai regions, where they put apartments that they own on rent, and live in apartments that would otherwise allow low income people to have a better life all around.

Not everyone reading this article will agree with the points outlined. These reasons are outlined to serve as food for thought only. We would like to hear your thoughts on this subject.