We are moving to Dubai shortly.  We have a 9 month old daughter.  My husband will be working on Khalid Bin Al Waleed Road ( there is a green and red line metro station.  I am wondering if you could suggest some areas /communities for us to live.  We would like somewhere that has a good family community, with parks, baby toddler clubs etc.  We would also like for it to be accessible to my husbands work, it does not have to be close but accessible. Our budget is a maximum of 130,000 AED per annum.  We would be looking for an area that has a villa/town-house type accommodation 3 bedroom.   Any suggestions of appropriate communities  are greatly appreciated.

I would recommend that you look at the Mirdif area of town.  Take a look at our community guides on the area.  You will be able to rent a villa or townhouse within this budget and many young families live here.  There are nurseries and shops in this area.  It will take your husband approximately half an hour to drive to work or he could get the metro from the nearby Rashidiya station.  Jumeirah 1 is convenient to your husbands work  but you will find it hard to find a villa in this price bracket.