[Denver]

Certainly doesn't give you a warm and fuzzy or welcoming feeling about the whole situation.

I guess if we want to take advantage of living and enjoying the LOS for what it is and offers us then we will have to take the rough with the smooth!

I have experienced this in several countries, trying to get work permits, business licences etc being ordered to the back of a queue I had been in since six in the morning when I had gotten to the front of the queue at ten o'clock because, I am guessing, I was the only white bloke there or the lack of language skill on thier or my behalf.

I have been in ex-British Dependancies (Cyprus, Botswana, Sierra Leone, Pakistan, Kenya) and see all the protocols and regulations they have in place for the expat community there and realise most of those 'hoops' to jump through were put in place initially by my country. I can't then complain when I am stood in 100 degree heat with 23 different pieces of 'official' paper in my hand waiting to be served.