In most cities, being from somewhere else makes you the exception. In Dubai, it makes you exactly like everyone else. Here, difference isn't something you navigate — it's the culture itself.
You switch languages mid-sentence without thinking. Someone asks where you're from and you pause — not because you don't know the answer, but because one answer has never felt complete. This is what it means to carry multiple homes at once. For some of us, home a feeling that lives in more than one place simultaneously. Here's what that actually looks like from the inside.