What does living in base matter if you have less hard days off, make less money, and very little schedule flexibility? So you don’t have to wake up a couple hours early to commute? Cool.[/QUOTE]

Couple hours? To some means you commute day before, stay in crashpads, hours of sitting at the airport to get on flights, loss of ability to pick up last minute premiums, the headaches of constantly looking which flights to shoot for. I’d rather loose a day or 2 off and not commute than have to commute and have 2 extra days off which I’ll loose by commuting lol