Thank you all for your input, sounds like nothing has changed over there over the last 6 years and if anything has denegrated somewhat, pity because I believe that the lifestyle is still OK (if you can stand the wailing of the mosques 5 times a day from sparrows fart to dinner time), like you say ASA over here are still as sh.tty as ever.
Guess we can all hope for something better to come up, which will probably never happen.
TTFN