{"id":42102,"date":"2021-02-28T16:30:20","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T12:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/en\/?p=42102"},"modified":"2021-02-28T16:30:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T12:30:20","slug":"dubai-friendliest-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/en\/latest\/dubai-friendliest-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubai Just Ranked As The Friendliest City In The Arab World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi ya friends!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The world&#8217;s top friendly cities have been ranked and Dubai sits in the top 10! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roughguides.com\/articles\/the-worlds-friendliest-cities-as-voted-by-you\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rough Guides<\/a>, a Brit travel guide asked their audience to vote for the world&#8217;s friendliest cities, and drumroll please:<\/p>\n<p>Glasgow, Scotland is the world&#8217;s friendliest city!<\/p>\n<p>Glasgow was closely followed by Dublin, Montreal, Liverpool and Tokyo to make up the top 5.<\/p>\n<h2>Amazingly Dubai came in at no. 8! Which means we&#8217;re the top friendliest city in the region and the 8th friendliest city worldwide<\/h2>\n<div style='clear:both;'><\/div>\n<p><!--infeed--><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2021\/02\/28162018\/dubai.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><\/p>\n<h2>Rough Guide followers said Dubai got the vote because &#8220;everyone is polite and friendly&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p><iframe class=\"giphy-embed\" src=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/embed\/q5MDL2XOseMec\" width=\"452\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/gifs\/jennifer-lawrence-oh-stop-q5MDL2XOseMec\">via GIPHY<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>The big 15<\/h2>\n<div>\n<div class=\"links-list-wrapper content-container mb-64 mt-16\">\n<ul class=\"links-list sm:text-18 text-16 two-columns-list\">\n<li class=\"pr-8 py-4\">15. Atlanta, Georgia, USA<\/li>\n<li class=\"pr-8 py-4\">14. 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