Originally Posted by
SkyHigh
USMCFLYR,
I write from the perspective of the average pilot with dreams of a family. It is inaccurate to present certain aspects of aviation life without bringing to light the difficulties that life entails. What are the lasting consequences? It is safe to say that most people choose to live in their own country among their friends and family.
I do not understand how trading life in your home country to be an ExPat is an insult. It is a fact. Most careers do not ask for you to leave your home land. Aviation often does. People need to know that. It is false advertising to make claims about large incomes without the disclaimer "Must live overseas often in dangerous third world countries".
Skyhigh
This girl I was dating sent me this info off the company's internal website. I'm not sure if you can find it on the net but I'm sure there is something like it out there. It is a 'peace study', notice how the U.S. is very low on the “peaceful” scale, but most of Europe and the countries in Asia that matter, are all mostly peaceful. Ironic, right? Here is a little info............ "goes the first line of the executive summary of the 2008 Global Peace Index (GPI), a ranking of 140 countries according to their peacefulness. So powerful, in fact, that the UK office’s promotion of the index earned more than a thousand articles globally within the first 24 hours after its release last month, with top-tier coverage in a variety of media, including the Financial Times (all editions worldwide), The Guardian (UK), the Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), BBC World, CNBC Africa and ABC Australia."