Enough for what , Norman? Do you want to spend your entire paycheck each month? Do you want to save? Will your wife be working? There have been many...

I think I shall start using "go scatter yo' ass" up here in the Pac NW - I love it!! Perhaps it will catch on.

I home schooled my daughter in Colorado and there was a "part time funded pupil " status available in the Public School system. It meant that I cou...

Dnt, am I right in thinking that your children are not in the PS system? If not, why not? Just interested.

I have to say that I personally felt that alcohol, bars etc figured way too heavily in the lives of many adults on St X...children tend to mirror the ...

ahem, I think it was me that mentioned the classism...and I have to say that many of the cited examples of "friendliness" are in the service sector - ...

My daughter was highly capable of amusing herself, she nevertheless was overwhelmed by the loss of so many activities. She never was a mall go-er, but...

lol - the young people on St X would be lost without MTV, rap music and the "gangsta" culture - it would be hard to find anyone under 30 who would eve...

Earlier this year John de Jongh and I had a long conversation about this very subject - he agreed that anti white sentiment was somewhat of a problem...

My daughter worked the whole time she lived on St X - without that she would have been even more at risk than she was. I have to say the drug use, dri...

I second St T Resident completely - maybe I am biased being English....but I totally agree with him. Some of the kids that my daughter brought home e...

I think that Daniel has an idea definitely worth pursuing. I am not sure that the teens with no hope or sense of the future are exactly the kids that ...

jeff, we lived on PR for several years - on the North West end - Aguadilla. Definitely has everything that you mentioned. Wonderful beaches (Great s...

ooh, I have quotation marks now!!!! Yay! Actually I think that the board is just about where it needs to be, and that is finally a recognization tha...

Check out Puerto Rico as well - especially the North Western part - great for kids, new experience - lower housing costs. We lived there for 3 very h...

I would add that due to the housing demand on the Islands, many people have their homes "taken care" of by tenants who pay thousands per month to rent...

ah yes, but I am from England. We thrive, nay revel in gray murk. Lol

ok - I wish that I was, but I was not exaggerating. Not one word. My daughter was the ONLY white child at Central and Kent Moorehead, the then Princ...

lol - grey murky skies of the Pac NW - nineties this week and gloriously sunny,sunny, sunny

dear Leila as one of the rare parents who actually sent their kid (caucasian) to a public high school on st croix and then ferrried her off to Count...

I too have experience with Brinker - not my recommendation at all

dear STT You presume too much. I did not hang out with Newbies at all - I was involved in the "community" from day 1 at a grass roots level. In fact...

I believe stx is on the caribbean tectonic plate along with the other Antilles. this is a link to an excellent article on caribbean tectonic geolo...

Thanks to all of you who sent me messages of support - now that the tag team has arrived, I shall give this one a rest. At least we had some good deba...

Linda, you are perfectly free to take what you want from this debate, as I am sure you will. I came, I didn't like it then I left....hmmm. You know ...