[SkyPilot]

My wife likes to watch the TV show House Hunters International.

Whenever they would have an episode of a couple or family looking to purchase homes in places like Nicaragua or parts of the Caribbean, I would always shudder at the naivety of some of the buyers.

I traveled to every continent and scores of countries during my flying career, and I am convinced that most of these people do not understand the Third World or near Third World.

People talk about cities having a "Thin Blue Line" of cops to protect us from crime. Well, in the many of these countries, the veneer of civilization, law, and much else is very thin indeed. I still remember a show where some young blond wife was shown walking through a street with everyone starring at her. She was wearing her fine clothes and jewels, stating she wanted to live "right near downtown" so she could "shop and experience the local culture."

Lady, you are a Gringo or Toubab, and when things go south, you are the first on their list to rob or attack. As in St. Maarten and Barbuda after Irma, the British Virgin Islands, and elsewhere, many whites found this out the hard way.

Looters ‘armed with machetes and guns’ ransack hotels on St Maarten after Hurricane Irma Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2017/09/10/looters-armed-with-machetes-and-guns-ransack-hotels-on-st-maarten-after-hurricane-irma-6916033/#ixzz4tarYEbgc

[usmom]

I always think the same things when I watch these shows. The people are so naive regarding the thin veneer of civilization where they want to live just because it looks like ‘paradise’.
On another note, last spring my son and high school band were supposed to go to Puerto Rico for a trip. Months before the trip was cancelled due to infrastructure and security concerns of protecting hundreds of (at least to locals) well-off white Americans. Since safety could not be guarnteed, they cancelled and went to Disney instead.

[SaveFerris]

I have wondered the same thing about many of their foreign locations.

I’m ready for a tiny house - one that will still accept my bedroom furniture, lol.