"Later I met an 18 year old part-time expat at Ahh Bees. You usually don’t meet ‘em that young, but as things happened, his father had re-married a Jamaican, so he’s living here half the time and said he enjoys it a lot, though I wonder if there are many peers that young. The average age in Negril is 40-plus, I would think."

I admit I have only read the first couple pages when they were first posted, and these last three pages or so ... but I am confused by your above statement. "An 18 year old ExPat" not having peers in Jamaica?? I assume this young man was a white American or Canadian, or from some Country in Europe?? If his father had married a Jamaican Woman - is this woman white Jamaican or a black Jamaican, or a Chinese Jamaican? If his father has married into a Jamaican Family - regardless of the shade of skin or shape of eyes, this young man will have scads of new extended Jamaican Family. Heaps of Cousins, Uncles, Aunties, and regardless of what Country a young person spends time in growing up ~ of course there will be "Peers". "Everyone in Negril is 40 years or plus"??? You do not see young Jamaican people around Negril/Jamaica? You gotta realize there is more to Jamaica and Negril than just what you experience as an extensive Tourist ... with the Beck & Call Girls, whatever one smokes or ingests to alter ones moods for the "Tickets to Paradise", & the copious amounts of available Rum & Red Stripes. The opportunity for a young person to have the experience to "live" within another Country & Culture is priceless.

Just saying ~