As a former "Cathay Kid" and now working for said airline - his facts are valid.
If people aren't willing to look at the basics of a long term career without checking out:
- Rental prices and areas
- Cost of living and tax laws
- Accounting your family, or future family, into the equation (schools, transport etc)
- Recreation, personal interests etc
Then there is a severe lacking in maturity and responsibility that does not reflect well.
All the information is more then easily available. If someone is too lazy or incapable to research moving to Hong Kong then how are they the sort of person that belongs on the flight deck of an airliner?
Current CX crew are not discouraging people due to a perceived mentality "we're in a club that no one else is allowed in". Garbage, if people choose to be ignorant of the facts of our industry then they are not a credit to our profession.
And I think I know what I am talking about better then someone chasing a nice uniform and a big jet they can facebook their friends about.
End rant.