FBN
"we will allow you half of housing allowance"
What would you like me to do with the other half? Tell the Company so they can keep it or just keep quiet, stuff it under the pillow and not include it towards paying off my family villa? What bizarre logic you apply when you want to prove a point!
As for surfing, it's not my bag baby but my son really enjoys the beach here in Dubai. Not Manly but there again no pissed up drunkies taunting the lebo gangs.
As for The ex QF F/O, he was not exactly extolling the virtues of his previous employer and was not planing on returning anytime soon. Kept muttering something about senior captains, union reps and self interest, redundancy, and possible command on a narrow body by the time he's eighty. Switched off after 10 minutes. Might of also mentioned taxes, immigration and cost of living but I really was asleep by then even with the occasional profanity he through in!
Keep swatting those pesky flies mate!