Postby Jeffstclair » Fri May 10, 2019 3:26 pm
You will be fine ...It's all about attitude ..Mostly things here are fairly laid back ..so sometimes people coming from other cultures find it difficult , when they try to get definite answers to questions , to the local council , the police , the phone company , the electric company or whatever and end up tearing their hair out when they get six different answers to the same question..And then later after they have phoned here, turned up there with the documents, photocopied their whole life in triplicate ...its done ...and it was easy and you made a new useful friend ...
When we bought this ruin there was no power connected ...So after we had the wiring done ,we went into town to request a connection at Δ.Ε.Η.
We filled in all the forms and got given the meter and the box it lives in and I asked how long before we get hooked up and got told the engineer will contact you ...I had heard stories of folk waiting weeks or even months for a new connection... but hey we had lived for the best part of a year without mains power, we have a big diesel genny and candles and oil lamps ...no problem .....so we left the office and drove home ...the mobile in the glove box rings ...It's the Δ.Ε.Η. engineer " Oh hi I'm in your area this afternoon are you at home ,can I connect you ?"....We wizz home make coffee open packets of biscuits , they turn up , hook up the power job done ...The other side of that is the phone company ...went in to get a landline installed ..."no problem "they say oh and a broadband connection ?..".ah maybe in two years ".. that was in 2006 ......