blinkybill So, there's no particular disadvantage for businesses in IC compared to anywhere else in Dubai, in fact there may be some net advantages
well i see it this way
1- not many ppl will come specificaly to IC to do shopping unlike shopping centers or busy high streets or maybe good locations like jummeria
so you are limited by the ppl living in ic
2-spending power of the ppl living in IC will be very low hard working ppl with low salary
3-everything cheap in dragon mart so you have to do something different not sell products
so best thing is to open a service shop and becouse of item 2 above we need to keep things cheap and also make profit
how will we be able to keep things cheap
with so many charges lets say a small shop
fixed charges will be
40,000 rent+ 8000 JAFZA+5000 Nakheel+6000 DEWA+inital registration charges
so you need to make almost 5000 AED a month fixed cost
lets also say you have one person working there with very low salary 3000
so you have total costs 8000 AED per month to open a service shop with small area
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now
what business will that be i wounder with one worker and small footage that can make + + +8000 AED of profit a month
apart from a pub as you mentioned before