It's a little more difficult than what you say Harry. Those of us that came here in the better times uprooted families and children to move here while the children were young. Now those same children are in school and it is more difficult to uproot 3 or more people and alter their lives rather than just you if you are single. It's sad to see what used to be a good place to be start to head the way of Gulf Air because of people like AAR and blind followers like TCAS, who try to do everything in their power to create arbitrary rules to make our lives difficult and our schedules complete crap, take leadership roles directly over a group they hate.
Furthermore, the pay and benefits at EK has not kept up with inflation, the nonchalant attitude by management towards pilot concerns coupled with an total disregard for cost neutral quality of life improvement suggestions, and the punitive shake-the-stick and threaten to beat you if you screw up attitude, totally make Emirates undesirable. Couple all that with all the mental anguish that comes with worrying about passing a PPC every 6 months that is administered by some anal retentive kangaroo who will try to fail you for farting the wrong way because you didn't follow the OMA farting procedure, makes everything even worse. During TRAINING here, people are even afraid to ask to practice things they know they are deficient in because they are afraid they will be failed and pulled offline. Isn't that the purpose of the sim? To practice? Not at Emirates.
It is certainly better to just stay at home at a marginal job rather than to uproot everyone to live away from your home country for what you get in the COMPLETE EK package as it is now.