Mate... for a start and to make it clear nobody showed me any door out.
Facts are:
The reputation of EK as an employer is horrible..too many horror stories gossiping around...
Dubai reputation as a place to live is even more compromised and the situation in the ME is getting bad due to the progressively intensifying rightful reaction to idiotic and out of time regimes like the one of Dubai and the UAE.
Increasing number of opportunities out there in countries where democracy and rule of law exists and where you can say what you think without being jailed.
The number of desperate individuals is reducing. Not so many SA guys escaping form the the bad black guys, not so many AU guys left, not so many pilots without any other options. Still unfortunately quite a bit of idiots believing what they are told in interviews, unable to see the **** underneath the fake gold plating and to put the place and the job in right perspective....