Most everyone I know drinks bottled water and uses it for cooking, but does as Dominic stated and uses their cistern water for bathing, brushing teeth...

Thanks, afriend and Jim -- your collective $0.02 on this subject is worth a million bucks (probably more!). And I appreciate your correction on my ...

Here's the definition of VI resident for tax purposes, excerpted from an article on taxes published in the VI Bar Herald "For United States citiz...

Marianna, Bubble burst aside, thanks -- the devil is really in the details, and definitions can make or break anything. Molly, the definitio...

Marianna, We arrived at our decision to move to STX following your same path (going through Hawaii first, then deciding on STX for the same reaso...

Necessary gets my vote -- I haven't had real luck in catching the tradewinds while driving around, so I find it pretty hot in the car during the midda...

Everyone who has recently relocated here who is already a US Citizen should at least be able to vote in the federal election by absentee ballot under ...

~~Whispering discreetly~~ Um, Bou'ya , STX is St. Croix.

Rio, Internet access and cable access were two of my must haves -- I work in politics and need my CNN and CSpan almost as much as I need net acce...

Rio, I am doing it now from STX (my office/employer is based in Washington DC) -- we moved here a few months ago and I started teleworking in ear...

JIm, Sorry to hear that you had a bad experience with Felice acting as the agent for the seller, where you're right -- taking a bulldog approach...

Iris, You should really put up a warning in the title of any post in which you describe what you're cooking so food lovers who might already be h...

mg... I don't see any problem with the plan for dual accounts at all. We kept a number of mainland-based investment accounts, a credit union acc...

movingguy, If you haven't done this already as part of getting your affairs together, I recommend that you get a mailing address down here and t...

Stu & Janelle, I found that a lot of furniture companies that I found online when planning for furnishing our house in STX that don't ship direc...

Dave, Search old posts on shipping cars -- there have been quite a few discussions about companies that will handle this and the costs involved. ...

Bou'ya, You can download a US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Fireams PDF of all of the laws and regs regarding guns in the USVI at: Hap...

Scott, Without a picture, it's very hard to tell, but I can tell you there is a house that appears on the STX real estate preview program that ha...

There's another one atthat is a bear to load with dial-up internet service and doesn't have a key to symbols it uses to designate places of interest, ...

bob, As my DC-based staff member just discovered, not all US-based cell phone companies/plans include the USVI in their in-network calling area....

Hey Katie! Glad to hear my post was useful for you -- I hope to give back as much to this board as it gave --and still gives - to us. I was...

Melissa, If you like jazz, Sand Castle on the Beach in F'sted also features live jazz on Saturday nights between 7-9:30-ish. Call 800.524.2018 t...

Scott, Flagstar Bank, a national lender that I believe is the only national (i.e. not USVI or Carribean only) sources for a mortgage, is another...

Dominic, Innovative's DSL isn't available in all STX Estates (like mine!) Even though they told me I could get DSL when I went in to Innovative ...

Short and simple, Welcome! We all know that craving you feel -- it's irresistable and once you start thinking of that move, it becomes all consu...