Still living in the house we moved to 24 years ago. My husband passed away about 2 years ago and I often look around me now and wonder if I need this much space.

Some years back, when we went to SXM a couple of times each year, we looked into buying a property there. My husband worked for a bank and at one time was manager of a bank on Anguilla. He would have happily moved back to the islands. At the time we were looking, we were told (Not sure if this is true) that if you owned a home and employed 2 Sint Maartenians (could be a gardener and a house cleaner) you could get automatic citizenship.

We even went so far as to moving some funds to SXM so as to be able to make the purchase. Never did see it through. Used up the money there on some great vacations.