The extravagance of life in Dubai is far more extravagant than the world imagines, because they may spend tens of millions of dollars in order to gamble in one go. Recently, a show revealed how willful Dubai's top rich people spend money, spending $9 million (about 57 million yuan) for a license plate, which is 10 times the value of their cars.
According to British media reports on January 8, a documentary reflecting the lives of wealthy people in Dubai has recently gone viral on the British Internet, which introduces a woman who boasts of having a wardrobe worth 6 million US dollars, and a young billionaire who spares no expense to pack her sports car beauty. But the most shocking of them was a local tycoon named Abu Sabah.
Abu Sabah, the owner of RSG, the UAE's most profitable real estate company, has assets of more than $1.9 billion and has a number of top luxury cars such as Rolls-Royce and Bentley, but he was very distressed a few years ago: because although he had luxury cars, he was always stopped outside by hotels because he was told that his license plate number was not "good" enough.
Abu Sabah learned afterwards that only 2 or single digit parking spaces in Dubai can show a noble status, and the price is also rising. To match his identity, he spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on license plates 48, 49 and 27 to decorate his car.
But Abu Sabah didn't stop there, as his best license plate, and probably the most expensive license plate in the world, has only a number "5."
Asked if the license plate was worth more than a car, Abu Shaba replied, "Of course, this Rolls-Royce is only worth $800,000, but the license plate is $9 million." ”
He added that Dubai's most prestigious license plate is Number 1, but no one can buy it because it belongs to UAE Vice President and Prime Minister Al Maktoum.
Netizens expressed puzzlement about Abu Sabah's thousand-dollar behavior, thinking that spending $9 million on a license plate was simply "crazy" and questioning why he did not regularly use it for charity. Some netizens also expressed their disdain, believing that rich people such as Abu Sabah "are obviously so rich, but they don't have any brains."