Originally Posted by
Omniscient
Many people don’t live in base and have great quality of life. Not everyone wants to live in 6 possible cities, wondering when/if you’ll have to uproot the family to move to another base, if/when yours closes.
Hardly a false narrative, it’s a fact.
Some pilots just dont obsess on the negative as much as others. You clearly are not cut out for commuting, which is fine; the irony will be IF they ever close your base, you’ll be the first on here to complain about the base closing and how it affects your life.
Absolutely. My life absolutely blows living where I want (and am happy) - sarcasm...
Commuting doesn’t suck when you have close to a dozen flights and they are short ones at that.
I tell everyone to live where they want. It is an amazing benefit. There are almost no other careers (outside of remote IT work) that can allow this.
With all that said, you do have to be somewhat cognizant of airlines and domiciles. If you live in Miami your gonna be hating life commuting to SEA.
To end: I actually “lived in base” once. It sucked. Big time. I had hardly any friends since I didn’t know anyone in town (outside of work) and no real connection to a city that, honestly, wasn’t great.
3 months later I started commuting “home” on days off. To each their own.