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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 (...

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...

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 ...

Then call them - they've been blasting loud and clear for the last ten minutes.

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...