Port Of Spain - Post Report Question and Answers

What do you wish you had known about this particular city/country before moving there?

That groceries would be so expensive and that the border was going to be closed for so long. - Aug 2021


More about the school situations. - Mar 2019


The extent of the customer service problem. I had a good idea coming in but quickly learned that T&T is unique in this regard. (If you talk with Trinis in the diaspora, they will tell you the same thing.) - Apr 2017


How much it would cost to leave the island. Travel to South America is expensive. Island hopping is still a couple hundred dollars per plane ticket. - Aug 2016


That it is very expensive to travel to other Caribbean islands. That the West Indian culture is VERY relaxed and inefficient. - Jun 2015


that it is boring and although it is a "Caribbean island," you wouldn't know it. The closest beach is 45 min away. - May 2015


How little to do there is here. It's not an island paradise. - Aug 2014


I wish I knew how little people regarded things like consideration, courteousness, niceness, empathy, etc. - Dec 2013


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