Not necessarily. With rigs and average min days, the lines are blurring more and more. In many cases you can hold domestic trips higher per day credit than many international trips. By the time you can hold the tiny percentage of deep Europe or whatever on a wide body, you could have already been holding 7-8+ hour day turns (or other higher power trips) on a narrow body, and in some cases be home every night, on 9 to 10 days of work a month. With no off circadian anything.

Lots of EU trips are right at or maybe very slightly above the daily average already, right along with 100% of all narrow body trips. All without the incredibly punishing circadian flipping schedules that, I don't care what anyone claims, takes a heavy toll on human health.

International can be more fun, and certainly has some soft perks like always being fed first class food, etc. along with the aura/lifestyle/prestige that for many brings a lot of value. And as a rule international *tends* to be more commutable and its definitely more logistical to have a second wife in Prague than Des Moines. But the glory days of "Paris, First Class, International" are highly exaggerated from a QOL standpoint. Yes of course there's exceptions, but for the most part its really not as amazing as the old and persistent stereotypes suggest it is.