Well, supermarket and even local shop are opened 7 days a week, sometimes 24 hours a day where I live. The stuff that I never understood is the administration.

Well, supermarket and even local shop are opened 7 days a week, sometimes 24 hours a day where I live. The stuff that I never understood is the administration. Opened from 9:30 to 11:30 then from 15:30 to 16:30 on appointment only. ( Embassy for those wondering, although, recently, they have started to process most of the shit via email and scan ) In my home country when you have difficulties paying your electricity bill they install you a token meter. You need to buy those special token in 1 location of the city (200K inhabitants) in a 2 hours period in the middle of the afternoon 3 times a week ( not the week-end of course ).You need good planning skills to be poor.