Research of one island complete

This island has given me the opportunity to observe the vibe, the view and the pace I want for my bar

I also learned what I don’t want and had no idea until I visited. They have absolutely no fresh water source. All drinking water is shipped in, or they have “basements” that collect rain water, and then their homes are fitted with a filtration system to make the water “usable” not drinkable. The electricity is expensive it can be more than your rent.

The people here are kind, polite and helpful. Especially once they learned of my journey. A taxi cab driver, genuine and kind gave me his business card and said he could get me a bartending job tomorrow, making 300-500 a night. I appreciate that, but I don’t want to enter into high volume industry

Then taking the tour of the island and actually seeing the devastation from the 2017 hurricane. Here we are, over 3 years later and there are still homes with everything the resident’s owned in shambles. Mattresses, clothes, hangers, toys. It looks like they escaped with their lives and just didn’t return.

Other homes roofless, so they live in the bottom story to be protected. I would expect this type of scenario in Belize or Haiti but not somewhere that homes are 500,000 for a fixer upper and a nice one is over a million.

Then I consider my investment. My bar money. One storm and it could be lost.

So that is what I have learned from island number one. I’m heading to another island less expensive, but still beautiful, while I wait for Covid restrictions to slowly lift.

Island number 2…Bahamas