No tax, highest GDP per capita, safe. The list goes on. I have no qualification, no experience, i'm 24, and i earn more in 6 months than most Americans do in a year. I haven't had the need to lock my door or my car once in the 8 years living here. [bleep], i wouldn't care if it was a sewer then. Unfortunately, many people who live here take the U.A.E. for face value only. Focusing on its pretty skyline & GDP per capita. No one takes into account the thousands of laborers that are trapped in the country as their passports have been 'confiscated' and their only option is to keep working there, even that sex before marriage is a punishable offence. Quality of life, I agree. Liberal? I am skeptical. I am not a criticizer of the nation I am living in, I just evaluate nations based on the same means and I take it as an insult that this kind country of called 'liberal' not deserving that title. :S Hell of a lot more deserving of the "liberal" title than Qatar, at the very least. You folk have a lovely airport though. ;)