Kem,
Couple of differences. After the "thrill" wears off of the big planes, etc. you will feel very similar about the company as you do at Useless. The difference will be, you will go home to a somewhat normal lifestyle. Here you will fly 90 hard hours a month, mostly on the backside of the clock, no duty rigs, no union or organizational protection, and flying 10 plus hours with no augmented crew. Don't count on commuting, don't count on numbers of days off in a row to allow anything but recovering from turnarounds to the subcontinent. You are flying in a "normal" ATC enviornment, ie, radar contact, even if you are flying international at Useless. You have jumpseat priviledges througout the country for commuting.
You will see your extended family very infrequently. You will get very little US sports coverage (if that means anything to you), you will spend a number of hours online trying to keep up with what's going on back there. A lot of the normal daily things in life that you take for granted will suddenly disappear. You will be dealing with 115F heat for half the year. The cost of living is higher here than in MCO.
If you have no choice, please come here by all means. It's an ok job. But if you are living a normal life, with a normal family (is anybody's), able to commute with not too much trouble.......think twice, three times before making the call. Here at EK the upgrade is probably minimum of five years now.