dragon man - that is a very big plus for the family of a pilot.
For that many will sacrifice even more conditions and soon the C scale exists - this will probably be B scale minus many favourable conditions + many unfavourable conditions but with the carrot on a hook to poach trained folk from other airlines (by way of signing bonus) that are recently trained but not very senior.
A shyt job with average pay and poor conditions in a cheap non polluted country, trumps the same shyt job with average pay and conditions in an expensive and polluted country every time.