storolaf said:. I also think there is something burning beneath the social fabric of the population and I am only feeling a hint of that. The insurance caps, the government abandonment, the general inertia via Euro rules and regulations, the bad government locally for decades, the well-meaning but demeaning tourists...but at some point, the population will erupt and I do NOT want to be there then as the frustrations will boil over and the tourists will be targeted and hurt.
That is the most succinct expression of what I have been feeling.
There is (was?) a social economics professor who used to post here. He would interview SXM rappers, locals, etc. and then post regarding the very fragile thread you mention.....and that was BEFORE Irma!
I cannot imagine what is happening now.
