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Re: Living in the Caribbean
 

Aruba fits your bill to a T.

Re: Living in the Caribbean
 

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Aruba fits your bill to a T.

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Do you live there? You can only stay there on a tourist visa for 90 days.

Re: Living in the Caribbean
 

Nah, I just visited there, and it was amazing. Everyone spoke English, I never felt unsafe, even at night. No one ever tried to bum money from me or anything, etc.

As far as the 90 day thing goes, you could prolly just hop accross to another island once a season, and come back the next day with a new 90 day tourist visa. I used to live in Korea on a 90 day tourist visa, and that's what I did.

Re: Living in the Caribbean
 

Perhaps because I am a survivor of natural disaster related post-traumatic stress disorder, my favorite island nation is Trinidad and Tobago. They are south of the hurricane belt. Mardi Gras, music, beautiful mountains, wetlands with all the scarlet ibis. It is a former British colony, and everyone speaks beautiful lyrical English. However, to give a full report, my husband (who is more clued into interpersonal conflict) was uncomfortable about the class/race conflict between Hindu and Muslim there. It sailed right over my head, I hate to say it. Too busy looking at parrots and toucans playing in the mountains, I'm afraid.

They have oil, as they are offshore Venezuela, and to my mind it is impressive how far a small island nation of this kind strives to be self sufficient. There is good and bad, but as chance would have it, I saw only the good...other than the fer de lance discovered on the trail by one of our guides. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]