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Re: Just got back
[Re: storolaf]
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12/14/2017 08:39 PM
12/14/2017 08:39 PM
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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.
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