I am sorry and embarrassed that you had a lousy experience during your conference here, vette6387, but I happen to work in that business, and every year our company alone handles hundreds of meetings and conventions, with many being repeat business.
I could go on and on about the virtues of living in the Caribbean and in Puerto Rico in particular, but I’ll just repeat my statement: I’ve lived in the states, have traveled around the world, and I wouldn’t live anywhere else. Well, except maybe for Alabama which I consider my second home. I guess like Hawaii, Puerto Rico is one of those places that you either hate or love. You hate it. I love it.
On our government, I’ve already admitted that we have a rotten one, and that is our fault. Our government, from any political party, really is the spoiler. But to change it, you would need to either work your way through the political parties structures (which would mean becoming one of them), a revolution, or the federal government would have to intervene with our finances. It turns out that the latter is actually happening and we’ll see if it works.
I guess there’s no perfect happiness. It’s always the Yin and the Yang with us. But as I say, that’s life in the tropics.
“I could go on and on about the virtues of living in the Caribbean and in Puerto Rico”
My comment have nothing to do with “life in the Caribbean. I am sure that it’s as nice as Hawaii weather wise. I just didn’t find Puerto Rico “welcoming” as a visitor. I speak Spanish so I wasn’t put off by the fact that the people there didn’t want to speak English, but had to in the tourist business. Like Mexico has been for many years, it seems Puerto Rico has places where they cater to tourists, but do it somewhat grudgingly. I don’t know what the major economic drivers are there, but like Mexico, I’d have to bet that tourism is way up on the list. And yet they seem not to like the “intrusion” even though it pays some of the bills. Somehow there needs to be some fundamental change there. The people need to come around to the fact that they are not going to be “kept” by the rest of us.