I wish they stayed in NYC & further developed the stories they merely glossed over in this movie. New York was always such a great character in the series and the first movie -- I missed it. In the Abu Dhabi scenes, it was offensive to all smart, sophisticated, 50-something women for Samantha to be so out of control in her public displays of sexuality in the face of a culture where that behavior is unacceptable. And, while the other characters tried to get her to be more modest, they themselves wore clothing that would have probably been also considered unacceptable in that culture, which made no sense as well. Why do this? There were some really nice moments in the movie that involved conversations amongst the women, there were just too few of them.