Alexandra Marshall
@Alexandra_Marshall
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Joined: May 21, 2005 3:00 pm
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Re: Recent College Grad from Los Angeles Thinking About Moving to the USVI

Yes, you have to have been an island resident for one calendar year before beginning to work for an EDC company for them to be able to count you as on...

19 years ago
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Re: For teachers

Hmmmmmm.... looks like they could use some IT help!

19 years ago
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Re: Drivers Licenses/CDL

The USVI don't have a CDL license endorsement. If you beg and plead enough, you can get them to let you keep your mainland driver's license in additi...

19 years ago
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Re: Self-Insuring

When you look at the ridiculous cost of hurricane insurance, it's easy to see why the idea of self-insuring has merit. If you are a home owner and do...

19 years ago
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Re: Number Tires Imported USVI

Many of the tires being imported are used tires. Not even re-treads, but just tires with barely enough tread still on them to be street legal. The r...

19 years ago
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Re: moving to St. Croix

The real estate market depends on what you're looking for. To purchase or to rent? House or condo? Price range? In some categories, there is a lot...

19 years ago
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Re: ANIMALTRANSPORTATION 101

If you can get them to San Juan, I know someone who can fly dogs to STT or STX in a small plane. No problem with crates, either, he'll take the back ...

19 years ago
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Re: Sharks...?

There are Caribbean Spiny Lobsters, Spotted Lobsters, and Slipper Lobsters in the waters around St. Croix. If you dive the popular dive sites, you wi...

19 years ago
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Re: "Mumble talk"

East Ender, I did not say anything at any time about the Crucian dialect being inferior in any way. How does dissecting how the syllables are spoken ...

19 years ago
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Re: power surges

It's a pretty common occurrence on STX for people to lose electronics and applicances due to power surges from WAPA. And there doesn't have to be a s...

19 years ago
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Re: We can understand standard English!!!

No, DL, "Cruzan Mumble Talk" was not meant as a joke. It was also not meant to be an insult. It was more a descriptive analogy. I speak several lan...

19 years ago
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Re: Relocation: Trading in the Hustle & Bustle for Blue Skies & Beautiful Smiles

If you've read many editions of the Avis, you know they could use an editor with grammar, spelling and punctuation skills!

19 years ago
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Re: green flash

Just remember that it is an atmostpheric phenomenon and doesn't occur in all conditions. You have to get lucky and be looking in just the right direc...

19 years ago
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Re: travel agent

What he might try doing is getting in touch with cruise ship lines as they begin coming back into St. Croix. They always need agents on islands to as...

19 years ago
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Re: 1st time user... IM COMING

Other people only call it a pipe dream because they do not have the creativity, vision or bravery to make a change in their own lives. I said for year...

19 years ago
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Re: Any good places to eat out in Christiansted STX?

for Sushi you are typically restricted to the F'sted side of the island. Rhythms at Rainbow Beach now has sushi every Friday night. Previously, Suns...

19 years ago
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Re: DL, Employment Is Not A Right!

Since moving my sons to St. Croix, my youngest son (now 15) has gone from speaking only English to working towards being quadri-lingual. His new lang...

19 years ago
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Re: 3rd world regions ~ Any comparison?

Those preconceived ideas people arrive with about what their new life in the islands will be like are precisely why so many transplants complain about...

19 years ago
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Re: Any good places to eat out in Christiansted STX?

Joanne's list was very good! Also try Cafe Bleu, which is in the location on Company Street where the original Tutto Bene operated until they mov...

19 years ago
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Re: 3rd world regions ~ Any comparison?

Very well put, Islander. I heartily agree! I am constantly explaining to real estate clients on St. Croix that there is no way to make a blanket...

19 years ago
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Re: Language

On St. Croix, some residents choose to use a combination of broken English, slang, and partial syllables spoken with a lazy tongue that does not compl...

19 years ago
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Re: cell phone vs. home phone

No, T-Mobile does not work on STX. I had to switch from them to Cingular when I arrived. STX has Cingular and Sprint available. A few other ser...

19 years ago
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Re: Bringing pet Ferret

I've seen half a dozen pet ferrets on St. Croix. Not sure how the owners got them here, though... unless they smuggled them onboard their airplane as...

19 years ago
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Re: UVI St. Thomas

Depending on where you come from, you might be able to take advantage of the low priced one-way flights on Jet Blue airlines. They fly into San Juan ...

19 years ago
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Re: Shopping in Thrift Stores

I haven't come across any thrift stores on the island, but there is a consignment shop at Peter's Rest.

19 years ago
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