You are asking a question that is impossible to answer, Tomahawk. It depends on personal preferences.
Some would consider a move from Sydney to the ME a proof of insanity, others as a smart career choice. You will never get an answer from someone else, you need to make your own mind up. What use are other people's opinion on this subject?
The unavoidable uncertainty aside, you actually can work out the numbers for yourself fairly easily. Most of the factual information is on the table. Search for whatever hard data you are missing, but not for irrelevant subjective viewpoints or anecdotes of strangers. Spend your next leave at the potential new base, visit the compound, the school. Check the prices, the labour market, real estate etc. Include your family in the discussion, evaluate factors that are hard to quantify and eventually find your own path.
And don't believe anything you read on prune about guys giving their opinion about their own employer. The information is frequently simply false, exaggerated or misleading. Some just need to vent, and some even blatantly lie to reduce applicant numbers in the hope of more beneficial terms for themselves as a consequence.
Good luck.
Last edited by corporal klinger; 15th May 2024 at 09:45.