Not a rose tinted view as you call it but a view expressed out of actual experience, something which if you actually have personal experience your posts do not allude to this.
Alpha 06 in his origonal post asked if anyone has experience of FAS Cumbernauld, I have, and so far the experience has been a good one.
My views on FAS Aberdeen are not from experience but from my own thoughts and I admit that I do not have any evidence to either back up or refute what you claim. I wonder if you have this evidence or is it all hearsay.
Alpha 06, why not visit FAS Cumbernauld, you will find them friendly and helpful, make up your own mind and do not be swayed by the prejudiced views of others most of whom probably have no real experience of FAS in either Cumbernauld or Aberdeen.
Liteboy