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On knee-high boots on a tropical island, and other absurdities

11-May-08

“Seriously?” That word, that exclamation, that question-almost-rhetorical, defines my reaction to the Trinidad I have witnessed over the past two weeks. Women wearing knee-high leather boots on a sweltering hot day? Seriously? A Maserati roaring past on the highway? Seriously? Seven dollars for a loaf of bread? Eight dollars for chewing gum? Seriously? And so [...]

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First world habits, third world country

17-Apr-08

In ten days I will be moving back to Trinidad for at least three months, and probably quite a lot longer. I am totally unprepared. First, the basics. I won’t have an apartment of my own (and will be living with one parent or another, which is a regression on all sorts of levels). I [...]

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Expat Guilt

29-Jan-08

I’ve been grappling with the reality of moving back to Trinidad, and of giving up everything I’ve built up over the past six years. My employers are unimpressed, and are making me offers no sane career minded individuals ought to refuse. And at the other end, the Trinidadian end, the powers that be seem to [...]

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