Recently returned from a pmv

Have you considered Puerto Rico? You should do a PMV there as well. Since you're very familiar with the VIs, you might also like PR.

I did find myself driving on the wrong side in parking lots a few times but never when out on the road(not much anyway).
Robert

I have that same problem when I go back to the states!
We really need teachers here. So glad that we are going to get another one. Did you check out the schools? Will your wife work in the public schools? There is a huge demand and dire need for teachers in the public schools.

My wife and I are coming down this April for a PMV and can't wait. We are going to visit STX for 3 days and STT for 8days. I hope to visit and interview at both hospitals, I am a nurse and have talked with the HR departments from both. Thanks for the review of your visit it is getting me excited about ours. Last winter in snowy Central NY.

A whole week?

Have you considered Puerto Rico? You should do a PMV there as well. Since you're very familiar with the VIs, you might also like PR.

What? You don't want us in the VI?

No, really , we have been to PR many times and were originally planning to move there. It was only recently we changed up and decided STT were be better for us.

I did find myself driving on the wrong side in parking lots a few times but never when out on the road(not much anyway).
Robert

I have that same problem when I go back to the states!
We really need teachers here. So glad that we are going to get another one. Did you check out the schools? Will your wife work in the public schools? There is a huge demand and dire need for teachers in the public schools.

Yes, she is planning on teaching in the public school system(elementary level). I did get the feeling that teachers were in demand during our visit to the board of education office. While my wife was discussing the requirements for employment with the person there I was asked if i would be interested in teaching also. I am an electronics tech and it seems that vocational teachers are also needed there. I had never thought of teaching but I am considering it now.

A whole week?

Yeah, a week was enough for us to do what we needed to do.

We are going to come down for interviews at the hospitals as I said. We have been researching for a while now and are in a position where we can try it for a year to see if we want to stay. Everyone does things a different way for different reasons. Life is to short not to try to live the dreams that you have. The worse thing that can happen is we spend a year in the Islands. How long was your PMV a month or a year?

One thing i think people forget is that... this isn't prison.
Plan well money wise and if it doesn't work out you can leave.

(tu)8-)

A whole week?

Yeah, a week was enough for us to do what we needed to do.

You can't squeeze enough into a week to fully experience what island life is like. You had a working vacation not a PMV. Let's agree to disagree. Good luck.

A whole week?

Yeah, a week was enough for us to do what we needed to do.

You can't squeeze enough into a week to fully experience what island life is like. You had a working vacation not a PMV. Let's agree to disagree. Good luck.

Totally disagree with such a blanket statement. With sufficient intelligent prior research, a week is ample time to sample island living and form an educated opinion on whether or not the move can work. I think you will find that most people who do a PMV spend only a week and use their time here constructively. Over three decades ago I only spent four days here and made the move three months later, lock stock and barrel.

There's no guarantee of success when moving to a new environment either with or without a PMV but it's a recommended useful tool.

For the record, our PMV was less than a week. And we'd only been here once before. We had some off island conversations with people who had lived here, and we did lots of research, including this forum, beforehand. Would have liked to have had more time, but it wasn't in the cards. It was enough for us. No major surprises after committing, and no desire to leave.

Good luck crosscr! Our house has been on the market for a few weeks now. Tough time of year to sell a house in the Philly area. But as soon as it is sold, we will be moving to STX.

Certainly a PMV of whatever length you can make happen is considerably helpful to making the big changes that life in the VI require for successfully living here for years - the younger you are, your job skills and expectations, the bigger the nest egg and having less personal baggage involved, are factors that can change that equation as well.

I moved here sight unseen - young and motivated - happily - 40 years ago.

My PMV was 3 days long (and I had to be dragged into doing it). I'm still living on STX 10 years later.

With people's budgets and time constraints, a one-week PMV is often all they can manage. They make it work. There's not much left to learn in week 2 that you didn't figure out in week 1.

Good luck crosscr! Our house has been on the market for a few weeks now. Tough time of year to sell a house in the Philly area. But as soon as it is sold, we will be moving to STX.

Thank You, I was in Philly just a few weeks ago. My aunt who lives there passed away. We were there the weekend the Pope was visiting. Man, that was little crazy.

A whole week?

Yeah, a week was enough for us to do what we needed to do.

You can't squeeze enough into a week to fully experience what island life is like. You had a working vacation not a PMV. Let's agree to disagree. Good luck.

I can understand where you are coming from but we have been to the VI for 7 to 10 day sailing vacations every year for the last 10. We had a pretty good idea what island life was like. A week exploring, visiting marinas, shopping areas and a potential employer was enough. What was really bad was not finding any time to get out the water. 🙁 We will make up for that soon enough.

My bad. I didn't realize you had 10 PMVs.