OldTart
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Joined: December 4, 2011 12:04 pm
Last seen: December 17, 2018 10:36 pm
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Re: St. Croix is becoming a Caribbean culinary hot spot!

It's nice that it's becoming more widely publicized but both locals and (more often) frequent visitors have been touting the island's culinary excelle...

9 years ago
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Re: Areas to avoid?

Still waiting for part 2 of their series on the gas stations and price fixing of fuel Although this is diverging from the topic, the anti-Arab po...

9 years ago
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Re: Moving Stories

OT - I am curious... Why did YOU move to the VI?/quote] I'd been living in Connecticut for 17 years and friends moved here. I was mulling a life...

9 years ago
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Re: VITEMA to Test Tsunami Sirens 10:15 AM Tomorrow; Evacuation Drills Planned for Ulla Muller School, VI Legislature, WAPA

I did watch or read something recently on the fact that our plates off north drop haven't had a big shift in a lot of years and they're predicting a b...

9 years ago
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Re: Tax Filling - USVI VS Mainland US

I don't think you have a choice. Regardless where your income originates if you're a bona fide resident of the USVI by a certain date you pay your ta...

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Re: Areas to avoid?

The Source and the VI Consortium are both free online newspapers. I would not call the VI Consortium a newspaper. It is more like a personal blo...

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Re: Moving Stories

So I am looking to you all to learn from your experiences. If you just continue to read the forum you'll learn a fair bit. The subscriber ...

9 years ago
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Re: Shark Attack?

The GVI does not like to acknowledge shark attacks under any circumstances. Scares the tourists. That's plain daft and hopefully it was a tongue ...

9 years ago
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Re: Moving Stories

Well before you go all head over heels about moving to the Islands and making it your forever home, don't you think you need to visit for awhile first...

9 years ago
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Re: Shark Attack?

Excerpted from LTJG John W. Gibson, 25 April 20, 1963 Galapagos shark Gibson was attacked at about 1:30 p.m. roughly 33 yards (30 m) from sho...

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Re: Medical Insurance - New info?

I hope this saves any confusion for your fellow expats that you speak to in USVI. If you're a US citizen living in the US Virgin Islands you are ...

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Re: Shark Attack?

Bret Gilliam would probably take issue with that. But that was probably due to unusual circumstances. Cane Bay STX, early 70's.

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Re: Areas to avoid?

What are the local papers? How would you "follow" them! The Source and the VI Consortium are both free online newspapers. The hard copy VI Daily...

9 years ago
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Re: Shark Attack?

What??? What what? There was one reported attack in 2008 off STX (Elizabeth Riggs) but there seems no data to indicate whether this was ever con...

9 years ago
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Re: Shark Attack?

And where has it been confirmed that either of these were shark attacks?

9 years ago
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Re: Moving Stories

The moving stories are timeless. Everybody who moves here has an opinion and those opinions are very diverse. As always, the attrition rate of newcom...

9 years ago
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Re: VI Republican Caucus on MSNBC

It all hinges on whether he met VI residency requirements at time of registration. And the wording on that which is very unclear will have to be ...

9 years ago
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Re: Move & Opening a Business

For what it's worth, I lived here for over 10 years before deciding to open my own business and, as many people as I knew in government agencies, the ...

9 years ago
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Re: Moving

There is a huge amount of advice in the drop-down menus top of this page.

9 years ago
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Re: VITEMA to Test Tsunami Sirens 10:15 AM Tomorrow; Evacuation Drills Planned for Ulla Muller School, VI Legislature, WAPA

Because you admonish people to call. "Admonish" is a harsh term for simply providing sensible information. It makes a heck of a lot more sense ...

9 years ago
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Re: VITEMA to Test Tsunami Sirens 10:15 AM Tomorrow; Evacuation Drills Planned for Ulla Muller School, VI Legislature, WAPA

Why would that make me "happy" or elicit any emotion from me? The whole point of testing the system is (a) to make sure it's operating properly and (...

9 years ago
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Re: Mainlanders With Some Questions Healthcare Career Related

We have not been to the Usvi before. I have spent a fair amount of time in the caymans. I have a general idea of what living in the islands is like, b...

9 years ago
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Re: Broadband on St Croix?

You can easily find comparative stateside prices by area on a quick Google. If you don't need the super highway then don't buy it. I don't have any ...

9 years ago
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Re: Mainlanders With Some Questions Healthcare Career Related

AmandaandJames, have you been here? It rather sounds that you haven't and, if that's the case, I think an exploratory visit (a PMV) is definitely som...

9 years ago
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