Everyone kept telling me how jealous they were of me. “You’re going to Dubai? That’s amazing! I want to go there so bad.
It almost made me feel guilty, because Dubai is a place that had never really been on my radar. I had always imagined it to be terribly artificial, with man-made islands or the world’s tallest and world’s first and world’s best of everything. It seemed like a city that was its own biggest competitor.