Living in apartments is part of Dubai life for many. We have so many towers, and villas are SO expensive that many of us end up living in our flats for many years.

There are plenty of benefits to living that apartment life – no garden to maintain, no maintenance of rubbish removal, 24hr security, having a pool without paying the DEWA for it.

But there are also a few drawbacks, like these 10…

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1. The 15-minute drive just to get out of your building’s car park

Your parking is either four floors below ground level, in the basement, or it’s four floors up. Either way, you spend your life winding down the drive just to get onto the street.

2. Your upstairs neighbours constantly thumping and moving furniture around at 5am and 11pm

WHAT are they even doing up there?

3. Peak hours at the lift, where you have to queue just to get into your flat

Who knew so many people even lived in your building!?

4. Not knowing whether to chat to your neighbours in the lift or avoid eye contact all together

And if you chat, what do you even talk about? “Oooh it’s hot out there today…”???

5. You burning toast setting off the overly sensitive fire alarms

Because the smoke detector is directly over the stove, every time you cook, there’s a near-evacuation.

6. And subsequently, daily fire alarms going off when your neighbours burn their toast

Who’s even toasting at 1am!?

Oh wait no, it’s an idiot throwing a cigarette butt down the trash chute. Well done you.

7. The shame in ordering Deliveroo three times in one day

You know those home-bound days, where you didn’t even change out of your pyjamas, and order food in all day.

The next day you usually get a knowing smile from your security guys – they don’t miss ANYTHING.

8. AC= arctic freeze or a sauna, no in between…no matter how hard you try

AC on means snowing inside, and your teeth chattering, but the minute you shut it off, your apartment becomes the burning depths of hell.

Nothing else to do but have the AC on, and snuggle under a duvet. Ammirite people?

9. Smelly and misused garbage chutes

Bruh, you gotta put the trash IN the chute, not just dump it in the tiny trash room.

10. People parking in your spot or WAY too close to your car

Tight quarters in carparks mean it can get dog-eat-dog out there, and there’s always that one lunatic who parks wherever they want, and basically diagonally across two parking spaces. Well.done.you.

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