Jihad at Carlos is great. Ahmad at Best is also good, although there's a little more haggle required there. I've had some difficulties with both, mi...

Prices have gone up since 2006 due to the increase in the price of oil. Wapa is headed toward .50/kwh. This affects your home electric bill, but mor...

This opening date reminds me of when HD opened their first store in Puerto Rico. A hurricane went through the island weeks after opening and they sold...

As others have said, Mango sap...many, many people are super alergic to it. Sean

Wow, this just reinforced my political leanings towards libertarianism 🙂 God forbid someone be free to start an honest business, working hard to...

I've had black friends here tell me that "they've never felt so white" since moving here. They just share more in common with white continental's tha...

I am not sure that Dish has "authorized" use of any satellite down here. I do know that I have been a Dish HD subscriber for many years. HD has only b...

Seems like a ton of movie channels disappeared in the last week from 61.5 HD feeds. When I left for a business trip on 4/8 I was recieving most of th...

And remember, Sprit charges you for CARRYON luggage in addition to checked luggage! By the time you take all your stuff with you, pay to get to STT f...

Someone once posted on this board that lots of small quakes was a good thing, energy being released slowly over time versus a massive amount of energy...

I second the opinions recommending Carlos furniture and Best furniture is also good. You can usually get as good a deal or better from them then tryi...

I thought you were going to say this was coming to St. Croix at the Home Depot shopping center. I've been hearing this rumor for a while...I hate Mar...

I think this infrastructure is of vast importance to the VI, but I do have to wonder would they not get better results by giving Verizon $20 million, ...

Good point on the packages...no one but DirecTV has the NFL package, stateside or here. They have that locked in for now. The Redzone is a decent al...

Dish is now done on a 3 foot Dish and is not very expensive to install like it used to be. Alan can tell you the price but I think its like $200-300 ...

Dish still rules if its the same as on STX. DirecTV is the latin feed. Innovative is just starting to do "HD" with a DVR but it's 13 channels and kn...

I'm all for slowing down the enjoyable times. But I think anyone, stateside, islander, or martian tries to avoid drawing out mundane and irritating t...

JRF, awesome post! You hit the nails on the head and reading your post was like seeing in writing some of the thoughts I hadn't been able to verbaliz...

Wow, I was just thinking last week of how annoying it is here to not be able to get the flyer's online. What's worse, many of the stores have flyers ...

Getting back on topic, here are 2 positive things that one wouldn't necessarily think of until they live here: 1) The parks. VI Public works do...

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JRF, I am a product of a public school system that was always denigrated as being one of the worst in the area I lived in (PG County public schoo...

JRF, we agree on things and disagree on others: I enjoyed reading your posts. You compared St. Croix to New York which probably has the highest c...