I agree, would not go back. The things that most stayed with me from several years ago....
Houses on stilts obviously occupied, laundry on the porch, leaning 15 degrees
Barefoot children walking home from school
Two guards with machine guns outside the Western Union building “downtown”
Houses on stilts obviously occupied, laundry on the porch, leaning 15 degrees.”
We spent a couple of days there about 25 years ago on our way to Ambergris Caye. I wanted some black coral jewelry. Taxi driver (who spent summers in NYC) drove us to a house-on stilts with tons of kids running around-had $15,000 worth of Craftsman saws, drills and all the tools in one corner of their living room. Hole in floor of kitchen to push garbage to the street level for dogs. Reminded me some of Mexico. Lots of people hanging around doing nothing. Ambergris was still rather undeveloped and electricity at night only if you had a generator-lots of thick jungle. Beautiful island, awesome lobsters and great coral reef. Understand it is totally developed now - too bad.