Europilot,
Whilst I agree with most of your observations regarding KNX, ease up on the locals.
If you pigeon hole them as a pack of un-educated, Perth failures, it just shows how few of them you got to know. Next time you sneer at the "working class", try fixing your own septic system. There are people in town who earn far more and own more city real estate than you ever will, just because they spotted a market that happened to be in KNX.
If you consider that you have an excess of knowledge and experience as a 200 hr, mid 20's CPL then you are dreaming.
Do you understand why locals avoid the pubs in season? Because they're full of large mobs of shiny CPL's fresh from the city, full of beer and bad manners. Take a look at it from their perspective, a pilot licence doesn't make you a better human being than them. How many locals did you ever have a beer with?
As for having few excitements, an hour of two wheel driving will take you to many beautiful spots locally. Open you eyes, open you mind.
As for the General, he battles on, learning like the rest of us.
You wont be missed, dozens like you pass through every year.