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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.
I agree, however you need to be aware that if you are Sydney based its not cheap, secondly with bases on the 737 in most capital cities there are many day trips with long drives to affordable housing, for some flight attendants 2 1/2 hours driving a day in Sydney plus $20 in tolls is not unusual. Because of the demise of seniority based bidding commuting is a lot harder and family and partner career balance a lot more difficult to achieve. Lastly, superannuation was C scaled about 15 years ago, if you are lucky and wise enough to avoid divorce to have reasonable super will entail flying till 65/70.