Why Jumeirah Park residents are delighted with their community

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Jumeirah Park is is a popular location in “New Dubai”. Residents here love the space, the green landscape and a sense of community that exists in the development.  This is why despite the temptation to sell their properties owing to a massive price appreciations in the last few years, residents say they don’t like leaving the community.  Read the full story here: https://gulfnews.com/uae/why-jumeirah-park-residents-are-thrilled-by-their-community-1.98931663  See more videos at https://gulfnews.com/videos Read more Gulf News stories here: https://bit.ly/2HLJ2km

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00:00My name is Layal Jabbour, I've been in Dubai for around 10 years and I've moved

00:29five houses living in different parts of the city. Moving, especially with kids, has been tough

00:36so we decided around two years ago to invest in our family home. We were looking at properties

00:43that are very spacious and that are very conveniently located and this is how we decided

00:49to purchase this specific property. We've actually received very attractive offers,

00:57specifically in the last year, that are very high but we decided to stay in this community

01:05because we love it here and we're very happy to be here. What I love is that it's very conveniently

01:11located, a few minutes away from Sheikh Zayed and there's everything in here. It's a few minutes

01:18also away from very highly rated schools, hospitals and there are also different parks

01:26where I can take the kids into different parks and meet different residents in the community.

01:32In Jumeirah Park there are a lot of social groups so, for example, if I need any recommendation

01:39whatsoever I'll just write to on WhatsApp or on Facebook and I'll get very trusted recommendations.

01:57So hi, my name is Melissa and I'm from the UK originally. My husband's from Pakistan and we

02:10bought this house 2013, so just over 10 years ago. So we've been living in Jumeirah Park for about 10 years.

02:16Oh yeah, it's changed a lot. So when I first got here I actually couldn't even find my way home

02:23so it would take me like every time I tried to get home I'd probably get a little bit lost

02:27and, you know, there wasn't much here. So you had the villas but nowhere near as many villas as we

02:32have now and you would have, you know, some open grass areas out the back but they weren't proper

02:38parks. So it was really kind of basic, we didn't have loads of amenities, we always had a big

02:45pavilion over there but you need to get in the car. Fast forward to now and you've got everything,

02:50you've got amazing parks, you've got basketball, you've got football, you've got tennis, you've got

02:54table tennis, you've got literally two minutes walk here and we can go to two different gyms,

02:59we can get one of the nicest coffees in Dubai, then you've got supermarkets, you've got flower

03:04shops, you've got salons, everything's within, you know, walking distance. So it's changed a lot, yeah.

03:09So we paid three and a half, almost three and a half for this house. We are told now by various

03:17agents, we get a lot of calls so certainly the properties are in demand, we get a lot of agents

03:21calling and asking if they can put our house on the market. We're told seven million, I don't know

03:25if that's real, I don't know if that's really somebody would come and actually show you the

03:29money but I mean we never expected to even reach five ever. Six would have been like oh my goodness,

03:37so seven is something crazy to hear. But with all that being said, you know, with these plots

03:42and having lived here for 10 years and we've established our garden and we've done a lot of work,

03:47for me I wouldn't want to move, you know. I think for my husband when he hears these figures it's a

03:52little bit enticing but for me it's a bit more no. Yeah, so I mean again the community's grown,

03:57so we've got several, we've got a couple of Facebook groups, we've got several WhatsApp

04:01groups, we do like an organized walk around now for Halloween, we've got WhatsApp groups for

04:06mums and babies, we've got WhatsApp groups for like wellness and then we've just got a main

04:11Jumeirah Park group. So yeah, there's a lot more here, we've also got like ladies that do Pilates

04:17in the garden, ladies that do yoga in the gardens, I do meditation sometimes in my garden.

04:23So yeah, it's become much more of a community than it used to be. It's really big as well,

04:28so you find communities within districts, so we've got a separate WhatsApp group for district eight,

04:33you've got separate ones for each district, we've got separate parks in each district, so

04:37yeah, and something else that's changed lately is Nakheel never used to do, you know, loads of

04:42events or anything but they started to put on a lot more events, so we will have like,

04:46we had a big party there, I don't know when it was, recently, over Christmas there was a big

04:51one in the park here, next week there's one for Halloween over in district one and they put on,

04:56you know, really nice events, so there's lots of free stuff for the kids, there's a few paid

05:00things, there's food, there's drinks, so yeah, it's become, it's become a nice place to live,

05:05lots of fun.

05:21Hi, my name is Ram and this is my wife Ambika. Hi. We've been in Jumeirah Park since 2013,

05:28we were one of the first residents to move into district seven and we've been here for 10 years

05:33Yeah, when we came in, there were no street lights, you could hear crickets in the night,

05:38it was empty, you know, there were no trees, nothing, so we've actually seen the community

05:43grow from nothing to what it is now, so yeah, it's nice. We had the Spinneys in town centre

05:50meadows, so that was the closest, but otherwise it was Ibn Battuta and MOE, which was equidistant,

05:56so we could choose where to go to, but now, yeah, we have two carrefours, which is like

06:01five minutes away, not even five minutes, two minutes away, so it's much, much better now.

06:06One of the biggest advantages of Jumeirah Park is the connectivity and access,

06:11it's one of the villa communities, which is very close to Sheikh Zayed Road, on the back side,

06:17you have access to both Al Khail Road and Mohammed Bin Zayed Road too, and the other great thing is,

06:22unlike other communities, the lighting is much better, if you see here now, and the parking,

06:27there's ample parking, when we host a party, or when we have guests over, there's ample parking,

06:32which you seldom find in other communities, so that, those are the great aspects of living here.

06:38Definitely, after, I think, Warehouse Gym has opened, that has pulled in a lot of people,

06:44and you, and then there is, you know, the British School, the British International School,

06:51which is here, and you know, you have a couple of other schools around, and it takes me about,

06:56it took me about seven minutes to take my children to school, so that was a big, big, big, big advantage.

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