* Not much to report, really. Bought a new hose for the Vacuum Maid ducted system. The old one must have been nearly 30 years old, I reckon (assuming it was the original bought by the people who built the house.) I doubt the new one will last as long.
* Became more concerned that I am losing incentive to actually travel anywhere new, even when we can, because amateur/semi-professional Youtube vloggers do such a good job of documenting destinations. I started watching a channel by young British guy Ben Morris (he seems OK-ish in personality, but a little tending to the shallow "rich kid turned influencer" genre) who has started living in Dubai. Through him I got to see what a 7 million pound apartment in the Burg Khalifa looks like inside (he doesn't live there, but his "friend" Mohammed does.) I was not overly impressed with the apartment, particularly with yet another example of the "this is what capitalism can lead to and it's kind of offensive" world of rich people collectibles:
Apart from the cost of buying the apartment, which is large and I guess the price did not surprise me, the amazing thing was the cost of (what we would call) the body corporate levies. I think he said 100,000 pounds a year ($180,000 AUD). That's about 10 times the highest body corporate levies I have seen in Brisbane, in a nice, large, close to inner city apartment at Kangaroo Point. Of course, that Brisbane apartment was probably about $2,000,000, so I guess we talking an apartment about 6 times lower in cost. Still, the cost of living in the worlds tallest building (with those queasy full glass walls - which I don't trust) is expensive.
I also Ben Morris stay at that expensive hotel in Dubai, the Burj Al Arab (the one that looks like a sail, with a heliport near the top.) Sure, the room is big, and I don't mind the hotel atrium, but the suite itself is Versace tacky in colour and style. (How was Versace ever considered otherwise?)
So there, I feel I have sort of "done" Dubai now!
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