* * * * * Reflections on My Unfortunate Encounter With a Thief * * * * *

[Bnewb]

Oh lord....... It's obvious the tone of your conversation was in line with whoever you claim used your account.

The backslapping on this site cracks me up.....

Sounds like speculation & assumption to me!

[Dana1]

where did Rob or I ever say that I've had nothing happen to me?.......Rob wrote only in reference to the number of years he has spent here.

Rob did....in his rant! Here is the actual quote...."After living here daily for over 20 years, I have had zero incidents of theft"

[Lola]

I have lived in Negril for much of the last 4 years; I like it (understatement), I make it my home and I will have a business here.

When I decided to sleep in the local community, I started thinking and doing like a resident. When you aren't Jamaican (I am not) there is a LOT to learn, at times it feels like trying to drink water from a fire hose. I really like the neighborhood where I live and once in a while **** has gone down. Situations that had nothing to do with me, but involved people in my area. People have issues and disagreements and they WILL handle them differently than you are used to. I am learning to live in the flow of what is here.

I want to respond to a comment made in another thread about men & women and children. I too came here with certain viewpoints and opinions, and many of them have been busted by what I am learning. At times there have been aspects of Jamaican relationships and family life that really blew my mind and I had to sit with the concepts for a couple weeks until I could absorb it and develop an understanding. Now I can see beneficial qualities here that are absent in the north american style of family I was raised in.

I propose it is our own culture that is rubbing and making us uncomfortable when we are here, not the Jamaican one.

[Bnewb]

Just because you and Rob have never had this happen to you doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

Rob did....in his rant! Here is the actual quote...."After living here daily for over 20 years, I have had zero incidents of theft"

Where did he mention me? You've just proved my point!

[Bnewb]

I have lived in Negril for much of the last 4 years; I like it (understatement), I make it my home and I will have a business here.

When I decided to sleep in the local community, I started thinking and doing like a resident. When you aren't Jamaican (I am not) there is a LOT to learn, at times it feels like trying to drink water from a fire hose. I really like the neighborhood where I live and once in a while **** has gone down. Situations that had nothing to do with me, but involved people in my area. People have issues and disagreements and they WILL handle them differently than you are used to. I am learning to live in the flow of what is here.

I want to respond to a comment made in another thread about men & women and children. I too came here with certain viewpoints and opinions, and many of them have been busted by what I am learning. At times there have been aspects of Jamaican relationships and family life that really blew my mind and I had to sit with the concepts for a couple weeks until I could absorb it and develop an understanding. Now I can see beneficial qualities here that are absent in the north american style of family I was raised in.

I propose it is our own culture that is rubbing and making us uncomfortable when we are here, not the Jamaican one.

Unbelievably brilliantly said, Lola!

I know a lot of people have trouble with Rob and I seeing things in a different perspective...but that different perspective can only come with actually living here.

[Fred Stripe]

Bnewb,,,you leave me no choice but to suspend you from the board for three days !

[TizzyATX]

That makes a lot of sense.....but isn't it a bit unfair? seeing how 99% of the members here are tourists to Jamaica and not residents, we come here to get information and tips about traveling to Jamaica. Being that it's a tourism site......

wait a second.....

nvrmnd, I think I just answered my own question

[Dana1]

Where did he mention me? You've just proved my point!

Seriously?? You've been together for the past 10-12 years so assumed you were a couple.

[Lax1724]

Hummmmmmm, where is Leslie Chow when we need him (her?).

[jamaicarob]

Hummmmmmm, where is Leslie Chow when we need him (her?).

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