"Been there, done that"

Copied from Doglover's post:
Hi everyone! Thanks for all your input! Didn't bother to call the post office. I believe Onika hit it right on the head with her comments! And Stephanie at Hassle Free didn't bother to return my call, soooo..... we're hiring a co-worker who has a van to move the boxes for us. I'll take this time to thank all of you for your participation on this board. It's been very informative and insightful, although I personally did not find STT to be the happy, carefree place this board sometimes portrays it to be. It's a matter of perspective and what is important to one in life. For me, it's important to be valued and respected, to feel safe and to have faith in the local government. I could not respect myself were I to lapse into a state of complacency about my surroundings or to develop a "that's the way it is here" attitude. All in all, this has been a valuable, mid-life learning experience which is pointing me now in another direction. I wish all of you the very best life has to offer

I found Doglover's post, buried in a thread about boxes, to be extremely interesting. There have been complaints on this board that "no one told me what it was like there". I think that the reason why one leaves is good information for possible newcomers to have. I am not sure that St Thomas has ever been portrayed as a carefree place, but Doglover is right, it is completely a matter of perspective. Two people can go into a store and one might feel that they received poor service, but the other experiences it differently. I don't feel that I have lapsed into complacency about the way things are done, but I have learned that I can only do my little part to my best ability. I cannot change others, but I can try to understand them. Some friends told me a story (stop me if you have heard this before!) about a visitor who kept asking "Why?" questions about life in the VI and my friend finally looked at him and said, "There is no 'why' it just IS!"