mikesjn wrote:My wife volunteered for the CAB, as an advisor for many years, she was then trained as a full time paid specialist for them, but had to leave due to ill health. Oracle she would never lay into people like you do, infact neither would any of her old colleagues, whom all believe in no judgemental advice (perhaps you should remember that), I have pulled out of a purchase in CY because of bad lawyers (recommended by a friend in CY, who is no relation and has no ties other than using them himself), I tried to get redress, cost me £500 in fees and I may as well have beat my head against a wall, a similar thing happened in the UK, I got redress easily using the Office for Supervision of Solicitors. The contracts both here and in CY and they were appaulling, so it is not just CY that has poor lawyers, but the system does nothing about them. We have a place in CY and I know of several expats and Cypriots (In our street alone) who have never got their title deeds, this is a matter for senior officials, it has been going on for decades and if not sorted will cost CY dearly, lets be honest tourism is already crashing through the floor.
I agree that the Cyprus problem is important, but everything else cannot be ignored.
Yes it was the "Non-Judgemental" advice that got to me.
I was warned that the longer you worked for them, the more judgemental you became .... yet you were not allowed to express that ... maybe part of the reason for your wife's ill health ..
Apart from gaining an insight into "Britishness" that I wish I still remained ignorant of, I found it hard to keep people misinformed and instead co-erce them into bankruptcy as a"start-again" measure .... no matter the cost to the Taxpayer / businesses (ask your wife about this policy, it really stinks ...).
A culture of keeping people ignorant prevailed and I through many years of tertiary, quaternary and even "plenary" education was taught to question ...
Which is why it seems as though I give people a hard time ... but I am 1000 times worse on myself ... ... but it is the only way to grow!
I am more comfortable with that critical /analytical way here in Cyprus than in the "ignorance is bliss" UK.