FlatBroke,
Secure job in your home city, just stay there.
If you want to experience the Far East then travel during your leave. Want to experience a bigger aircraft perhaps? Don't bother, they're all the same size once the flight deck door is closed and it's only a matter of flaring a bit earlier. Want to get a command earlier than you might at home? Again why bother if you're at home and the pay is okay....it'll come eventually. Current employer annoying you? They're all the same and it's just jumping from the frying pan into the fire.
Single + employed flying + living where you WANT to live, rather than where you NEED to, sounds to me like a winning combination.......the grass is not necessarily greener
PS: It's snowing in NRT at the moment and the weather is crap, so it's not just England
