you guys are funny! i guess i'll pick a place on the globe (eyes closed) and make my way there! :driving:

im considering doing the same, just hope i get satelite TV there is all :friday:

Consider Aruba....
cool country...but its hot.

you guys are funny! i guess i'll pick a place on the globe (eyes closed) and make my way there! :driving:

Abiskan Moon-Angel: whats up seventh generation. Hey i need your help, i am looking for Bahamian news papers, and radio on line. A comrad had visited me and told me that there was a way to get the fm station on line and that there is a talk show that comes on there, i would love to have access to it.
Hows the blind fold going, we are giving blind fold chess exibits at the mall today.

Very much entertained...except, when one makes only $16,000 a year and the basic neccessities adds up to $21,000 then you have a problem.

Never said the Bahamian streets were paived with gold. When you do decide to look for a new job with better pay(your current one looks to be unexceptable) you can take comfort in the fact that your hard earned cash isn't being spent by everyone else but yourself.

Never said the Bahamian streets were paived with gold. When you do decide to look for a new job with better pay(your current one looks to be unexceptable) you can take comfort in the fact that your hard earned cash isn't being spent by everyone else but yourself.


But it is, we pay tax on everything we buy. Its included already is all. Plus, we get nothing for it. Cost of living here is much higher than the UK, and here you get no help at all from the government. For example we have some of the most expensive stamps Ive ever seen, being used down at customs.

Then you also have to live locked down like being in jail, and carry weapons everywhere you go.

Lets see - Uk = 1st world - Bahamas = 3rd world - there is no comparison anyway.. Bahamas has its pros, but its not tax.

But it is, we pay tax on everything we buy. Its included already is all. Plus, we get nothing for it. Cost of living here is much higher than the UK, and here you get no help at all from the government. For example we have some of the most expensive stamps Ive ever seen, being used down at customs.

Then you also have to live locked down like being in jail, and carry weapons everywhere you go.

Lets see - Uk = 1st world - Bahamas = 3rd world - there is no comparison anyway.. Bahamas has its pros, but its not tax.

Lets see - Uk = 1st world - Bahamas = 3rd world - there is no comparison anyway.. Bahamas has its pros, but its not tax.

I pay the government £100 ($200) a month in council(housing) tax to be allowed to live in my apartment. This is where the Olympics will be held in 2012. You can't buy a 1 bedroom around here for less than £100,000 ($200,000). It's the only place I can afford to live in London at the moment. Three weeks ago I watched two asian kids stab a guy (apparently for a laugh) as he was coming out of the fast food chicken shop on the main road at the end of my road. I can spot about 3 crack whores at the end of my street as I'm typing this. Thats also where a girls mother, brother and father was murdered in the middle of the sreet with sub-machine guns, in the middle of the day last year over a parking dispute. What do you see at the end of yours? Your'e welcome to come and let me show you around my 1st world any time you want.
Not saying that it's all a loss. I really like alot of things about England (all non-financial) but if I had American citizenship right now, I would probably be making plans to move there.

Who makes these 1st world/ 3rd world ratings up anyway. If I ever meet em' I'd smack em' for all of us Bahamians out there!:bahamas:

Lets see - Uk = 1st world - Bahamas = 3rd world - there is no comparison anyway.. Bahamas has its pros, but its not tax.

I pay the government £100 ($200) a month in council(housing) tax to be allowed to live in my apartment. This is where the Olympics will be held in 2012. You can't buy a 1 bedroom around here for less than £100,000 ($200,000). It's the only place I can afford to live in London at the moment. Three weeks ago I watched two asian kids stab a guy (apparently for a laugh) as he was coming out of the fast food chicken shop on the main road at the end of my road. I can spot about 3 crack whores at the end of my street as I'm typing this. Thats also where a girls mother, brother and father was murdered in the middle of the sreet with sub-machine guns, in the middle of the day last year over a parking dispute. What do you see at the end of yours? Your'e welcome to come and let me show you around my 1st world any time you want.
Not saying that it's all a loss. I really like alot of things about England (all non-financial) but if I had American citizenship right now, I would probably be making plans to move there.


i rather the US also, but since we are on the subject of the UK - Bahamas ..

and you ARE talking about the most expensive city in the UK. I lived on the outside of London and saw no crime like that, wonder where it is you live? I lived in a hostel for alot of the time I was in London for that year, so I guess didnt know about expense, but hey when you have no job its all you can do, at least there are Hostels, and the Dole, here there is nothing. I do know also that the system is not great, I mini cabbed for a while, and even resorted to sleeping in the car, all because it would take 3 months to get on the dole, so i basically decided to work for my money instead, and had to work 15+ hours a day to survive. I had no trade and no experience at the time, and I hadnt lived there for any length of time to get the government help straight away, unlike a UK citizen living there permanently.

At the end of my street, cant see, its a main road, but right outside my door every couple weeks i see someone trying to break in my house on my camera, with a knife or machete, cant even leave a pair of shoes outside my door, or garbage bin, they will dissapear the same day. I got bars so thats how i stay somewhat safe, I carry weapons everywhere since ive been kidnapped twice so far, robbed at gunpoint numerous times and knifepoint more than I can rememeber. Every traffic light i stop at some druggie is begging for money, little children also, and they also beg outside the stores here. And if you dont give the bums a dollar they try to attack you, verbally and sometimes physically. Crack whores are a dime a dozen here. People urinate right on the main street, in the middle of town where tourists walk by from the cruise ship.

And i dont even live in what is called the Ghetto. As for tax, we pay the government more than they deserve here, cause they do nothing with it. Its all included in everything we buy, food, cars, you name it, the customs is a major tax here. They know they cant collect it otherwise, or they wont, so they are left with that tax, 65% on most things. Thing is, its cheaper in Nassau, than the outislands ...

Since you asked . . :friday:

Who makes these 1st world/ 3rd world ratings up anyway. If I ever meet em' I'd smack em' for all of us Bahamians out there!:bahamas:


Dont know, okay we arent quite 3rd world like other countries, but we sure arent 1st world .. if there is such a rating I guess we would be 2nd world (or 2.5) ... our Utlities are not worthy, government is corupt, and in the main city, crime is huge and the place is a sewar. Regardless of Nassau, the other 2 items clearly make the country not 1st world, but that means there is room for improvement, we need a government party that is serious in changing things, though right now, they are not, neither were the FNM, otherwise the mentality of the country on the whole would have changed also, but so far there is still too few an amount of citizens who want to see change, to see things done right, the remainder dont mind it being slack and backward.

Dont know, okay we arent quite 3rd world like other countries, but we sure arent 1st world .. if there is such a rating I guess we would be 2nd world (or 2.5) ... our Utlities are not worthy, government is corupt, and in the main city, crime is huge and the place is a sewar. Regardless of Nassau, the other 2 items clearly make the country not 1st world, but that means there is room for improvement, we need a government party that is serious in changing things, though right now, they are not, neither were the FNM, otherwise the mentality of the country on the whole would have changed also, but so far there is still too few an amount of citizens who want to see change, to see things done right, the remainder dont mind it being slack and backward.

No Rory, ve far from 2nd world too.. Ve jus sophisticated...its like an uppermiddle class far from being rich, but definately not poor!

I am a network engineer in the US.
I support an infastructure that requires connectivity to Russia & India for certain job roles we outsource.
What I cannot fathom is why US companies are outsourcing call center operations for customer service, directory assistance, and technical support to India, and why they wouldnt use resources much closer to home by building and using facilities in the Bahamas?
Can anyone answer this question?
Why wouldn't I want to build an operations center providing well paying jobs new technology to a country that seems like a huge untapped resource?
Everybody speaks English and I have to train whomever I employ anyway,
and it appears to me that there is a need for jobs and technology that would be better appreciated than it is here in the US and abroad.
What prevents me from doing this?
It seems like a win win for the people, the government, and me!


Same reason Americans are not predominately employed on American-owned mega $$$$$$$$ jobs such as cruise liners! :dancer2:

Americans would not accept the exploitation and low wages cruise ship "slaves" are paid!:sarcastic

Its economics baby! I guess, we learned well from you guys!:usa:

Russia and India as well as some other "third world" people still have not out-grown their "poor and desperate" status as far as multi-nationals are concerned! But, as they become more "mature" in their understanding of unit of production and profit margins, they too will demand a bigger piece of the pie for the amount of labour they put into production...thus, profits!

Keep in mind that most educated Bahamians are American and Canadian trained! I guess we brought back more than academics... :)

The bottom line is: WE WILL WORK...BUT WE ARE NOT SLAVES TO BE EXPLOITED FOR TRINKETS!

Multinationals are aware of this Amerihamian sense of employment equity and fair play demanded by both our laws!

The days of "coolie gangs" are over...at least in this part of the world!

Somolia is a 3rd world country, anybody want to live there?

Somolia is a 3rd world country, anybody want to live there?

and your point is??

Somolia is a 3rd world country, anybody want to live there?

i actually applied for a job there!...not enough experience though :(