Oh yeah sheik has built very modern country and wealth for his people but if you go there will realize that people there hasn't prepared for such facilities and they have poor culture I think. Beside you will see poverty there too, for foreign workers who came from center and south east of Asia. In there you more see such people instead of native UAE.
My wife and daughter like Dubai atmosphere as love shopping but for me not. In there my role is as a porter without any wage! lol
If my wife allowed me to spend the night in discos and night clubs maybe this helps me to change my opinion. When she asks me to travel there for vacation my answer is "you can go there yourself". Her aunt lives there but she don't want to go there alone as don't permit me to travel alone too, maybe she care of her authority.
Dubai is one of best destination for Iranian, in there most of people knows Persian language, a lot of Iranian lives there.