Not married

• My boyfriend and i are looking to come out and work in dubai, I am a midwife, he is an engineer. We are hoping to do it purely for financial benefit, for six months, in order to return to england and have a deposit to get our first property. It will realistically take us another couple of years in england, renting, to achieve this otherwise. Having browsed through the site I am beginning to realise it isn't possible to save as much as first thought. we hoped to have between 10-20 thousand pounds in this time. Is this ridiculously naive? Most of my job possibilities seem to offer free furnished accomodation, transport, utlities, medical and dental care. My other question is that my boyfriend and i would want to cohabit - is this illegal if we aren't married? Or could we both accept separate accomodation from our employers and "unofficially" live together - or would this be a risk.

  27 Aug 2008, 01:37 emily