Like Living_the_Dream, Negril gives me "perspective" but not in the same way. Living in a rural, laid-back communtity, I get sort of treated like a local and (for the most part) often just taken for granted but in a good way.
When I drop into Negril for a day or two, I re-experience what it feels like to be a tourist again. Not that any foreigner is not always a "tourist" but from my perspective the difference is quite striking. I have a lot of friends in Negril and they treat me like I am treated in Accompong Town but the hustlers and higglers still try their best to make me and my money part company. Actually, I sort of enjoy that too!
Those of us who have been going for decades to Negril have really experienced a dramatic change in how a tourist is approached but it is still (for the better part of the experience) "all good". It would have to be good or I wouldn't bother to come down for those couple of days.
I have acquired a healthy amount of skepticism and lost a lot of naivaty traveling and living around Jamaica but there is still no other place I would rather be.
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