Everyday is an experience. To most Bahamians it is life. As a transplanted American, get used to things taking their time to be accomplished.<\/p>\n
Get used to the sun!!! I didn\u2019t find it as warm as living in Florida, but the sun will \u201cbeat you up\u201d!<\/p>\n
Get used to having a bank customer service representative take two hours to open a savings account.<\/p>\n
Get used to having to stand in line for up to an hour to pay your electric bill because your bank doesn\u2019t have on-line bill pay yet.<\/p>\n
Get used to having to wait two to three hours to be served by a customer service representative at Batelco.<\/p>\n
Get used to driving down the road behind a large truck moving a piece of machinery traveling at 15 miles per hour, and there is no way to overtake the truck for 5 miles without jeopardizing all passengers in your vehicle.<\/p>\n
Get used to being a vehicle with signal lights and brake lights don\u2019t work, be prepared to traverse off the road avoiding trees and shrubs for no apparent reason.<\/p>\n
Get used to having the customer service representative at Cable Bahamas telling you that you can have a premium channel added to your service if you purchase a cable box for $90.00. Then she will tell you they have none in stock.<\/p>\n
Get used to finding out your car needs an alternator for $560.00. Then call around and there isn\u2019t one on the island to fit.<\/p>\n
Get used to flying to Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, or West Palm Beach to pick up your alternator for $220.00, and fly home to the Bahamas to have it installed.<\/p>\n
Get used to planning on a meal with a certain ingredient needed, then running all over the island in search of it. Only to find you spent $15.00 in fuel and it isn\u2019t available today, anywhere.<\/p>\n
Get used to having wet feet right after it rains. The islands flood so severe because they never planned on drainage when building roads or housing developments.<\/p>\n
Get used to driving down a beautiful Oceanside road at high tide and having a wave crash across the roadway.<\/p>\n
Get used to mosquitoes and horseflies the size of Cessna\u2019s.<\/p>\n
After living in the Bahamas for two and a half years, I now find that I would not return to the United States unless dragged there by my heels. Life in this turmoiled world is somehow more relaxed now.<\/p>\n
Excerpted from “So, You Want To Move To The Bahamas: Through The Eyes Of A Transplanted American” in Escape From America Magazine, Issue 59.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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