If you think at EK provided accomodation as home, you are mistaken......
Desert will never be home and UAE will always make you feel it's not..... That's why they provide housing with sothat you don't settle down in a country you are just tolerated to work in, coz they are too lazy to work and rich enough not to have to.
Hidden taxes are everywhere ( overpriced healthclubs, restaurants outfits and accurate medical treatments, schoolings etc...) living in the sandpit is a tax by itself.
Travelling a 4 hours timeband in the US is less exhausting than an ULR 22 hours layover in JFK from DXB.
Paying tax to live in a country where a decent justice operates , well why not.....
For those who will answer in a blinking of an eye without even thinking about it: Quote " If you don't like it there, then leave " first it's the wrong way to look at things, the better being trying to improve things rather than quitting, second that's exactly what UAE want, people without self-esteem who can fullfil the local slavery requirements.
The more they can get from any human being, the more they will threaten and harass. They manipulate the worst of us the pilots to bring us down.
Not my thing, and it's a no future attitude. All the civilizations that built trenches with others in the past disapeared in ashes of time. China great walls, Maginot line, Siefried line, Angkor walls, Tegucigalpa walls, Berlin wall..... and now UAE selfishness wall of shame.
Underneath the golden polish, there is nothing but evil and braindeads....