Jobs in St. Croix and other stuff I'm curious about

I know you want opinions from folks on STX and I'm on STT, but I think someone with your husband's skills will find work, and a month long pmv will be sufficient time to secure work and housing. However, if you were planning to live on just your husband's income, I think you might struggle.

I was reading the articles on the difference in salaries there compared to here and I was a little concerned. Now I'm wondering what an average family of three would cost themselves to live there.

To give you an idea for a single person who lives pretty basic. I don't go out to eat - cook at home, don't drink, don't drive much.
I was paying $750 for an efficiency apartment plus electric - which ran about $150 if I ran the A/C. The apartment was 15X18 ft (I counted the 1ft tiles)

I lived very close to the core.

When my young adult kids were here living with me I paid $1600 + utlil (300/mo) plus lawn care at about $50/each time mowed. I had both cistern and city water. On top of that is car insurance (expensive), gas, food, what ever you do for fun. Child care if you both end up working.

It's not cheap.

That's definitely not cheap. How does the water thing work? Does everyone have a cistern that they keep filling with trucked in water and rain water and then some also have access to city water or do only certain people have one or the other? Did your $300 for utilities a month factor in the cost of water or would that be a whole additional cost at certain times of the year?
It's killing me to not be able to just get on a plane and come live there for a while to see exactly what it would be like! We're so tired of living here with all the same run of the mill crap that goes on every day. We came to St. Thomas and St. Maarten as two of the places we went on our cruise for our honeymoon and we absolutely fell in love with St. Thomas. We're really excited to come visit for an extended period so we can really get the feel of the life there. Something we read from someone who posted a story about life there was so perfect for how we hope it really is for people. They said that they used to work all year and then take a vacation to the VI's but when they moved there they worked all day and were on vacation every day at 4. You are so lucky to be able to look out your windows and see the views you see every day!

Life is not perfect here, but you;re right, the views are spectacular. We live in a much simpler fashion here than we ever did in the states. As a general rule, people don't tend to care what kind of car you drive or what your house looks like or how fashionable your clothes are. We actually spend about half what we used to spend in the states, but back then, we used to buy lots of new clothes, go out all the time and take trips. I would say we are making about half of what we made in the states, or a bit less.

And Tabra is in construction, so send me a PM if you want her email to talk to your hubby about what construction work is like here.

I'm so glad you said that! My husband was telling me the same thing about it being more simple there so even though you don't make as much you don't "need" as much so it evens itself out. 🙂