Kool Aid Drinkers
Keep drinking the Kool Aid fellows. We all know you are trying to justify why you left your home country to come to the sand. Money might be comparble or even better depending on which airline you can from but you can not put a price on quality of life or happiness.
By cutting out the American schools and the maids you are depreving you and your family of two of the basic joys of actually living in the sandbox. Why deprive yourself anymore than you have to. What is next you are not going to eat out either to save money.
If it is so much better in the sand why does not EK have all kinds of apps from all kinds of airlines. By the management own admission they are only getting 100 apps a week and they are from the commuter pilots and we all know how depserate they are. No widebody pilots or top tier airline pilots are comiing.