Puerto Rico living

[+ GregM]

WEPA! Has anyone lived or currently living on the island? Minus the last hurricane issue how is it? What areas would be quiet living and affordable for expats? Yes I am aware PR is part of the US.

 

Hugs,

Greg

[+ quoththeraven]

WEPA! Has anyone lived or currently living on the island? Minus the last hurricane issue how is it? What areas would be quiet living and affordable for expats? Yes I am aware PR is part of the US.

 

Hugs,

Greg

I hope this is long-term planning, as much of the island still doesn't have electricity.

[+ MasssageGuy]

I had considered at one point. Now, no way!

 

There is a reason so many citizens from PR are leaving the island... No health care, no electricity (and when there is - cost is obscene), corruption, high cost of living, and the list goes on....

 

Go visit! Stay in a bed and breakfast. Talk to people who live there...

[+ azdr0710]

compare Broadway lyrics to film lyrics further down

America

 

1957 Broadway lyrics

 

ROSALIA

Puerto Rico,

You lovely island . . .

Island of tropical breezes.

Always the pineapples growing,

Always the coffee blossoms blowing . . .

 

ANITA

Puerto Rico . . .

You ugly island . . .

Island of tropic diseases.

Always the hurricanes blowing,

Always the population growing . . .

And the money owing,

And the babies crying,

And the bullets flying.

I like the island Manhattan.

Smoke on your pipe and put that in!

 

OTHERS

I like to be in America!

O.K. by me in America!

Ev'rything free in America

For a small fee in America!

 

ROSALIA

I like the city of San Juan.

 

ANITA

I know a boat you can get on.

 

ROSALIA

Hundreds of flowers in full bloom.

 

ANITA

Hundreds of people in each room!

 

ALL

Automobile in America,

Chromium steel in America,

Wire-spoke wheel in America,

Very big deal in America!

 

ROSALIA

I'll drive a Buick through San Juan.

 

ANITA

If there's a road you can drive on.

 

ROSALIA

I'll give my cousins a free ride.

 

ANITA

How you get all of them inside?

 

ALL

Immigrant goes to America,

Many hellos in America;

Nobody knows in America

Puerto Rico's in America!

 

ROSALIA

I'll bring a T.V. to San Juan.

 

ANITA

If there a current to turn on!

 

ROSALIA

I'll give them new washing machine.

 

ANITA

What have they got there to keep clean?

 

ALL

I like the shores of America!

Comfort is yours in America!

Knobs on the doors in America,

Wall-to-wall floors in America!

 

ROSALIA

When I will go back to San Juan.

 

ANITA

When you will shut up and get gone?

 

ROSALIA

Everyone there will give big cheer!

 

ANITA

Everyone there will have moved here!

 

 

 

 

 

1961 film lyrics

 

ANITA

Puerto Rico,

My heart's devotion—

Let it sink back in the ocean.

Always the hurricanes blowing,

Always the population growing,

And the money owing,

And the sunlight streaming,

And the natives steaming.

 

I like the island Manhattan—

Smoke on your pipe and put that in!

 

GIRLS (chorus)

I like to be in America,

O.K. by me in America,

Everything free in America—

 

BERNARDO

For a small fee in America.

 

ANITA

Buying on credit is so nice.

 

BERNARDO

One look at us and they charge twice.

 

ROSALIA

I'll have my own washing machine.

 

JUANO

What will you have, though, to keep clean?

 

ANITA

Skyscrapers bloom in America.

 

ANOTHER GIRL

Cadillacs zoom in America.

 

ANOTHER GIRL

Industry boom in America.

 

BOYS

Twelve in a room in America.

 

ANITA

Lots of new housing with more space.

 

BERNARDO

Lots of doors slamming in our face.

 

ANITA

I'll get a terrace apartment.

 

BERNARDO

Better get rid of your accent.

 

ANITA AND THREE GIRLS

Life can be bright in America.

 

ALL BOYS

If you can fight in America.

 

ALL GIRLS

Life is all right in America.

 

ALL BOYS

If you're all-white in America.

 

(an interlude of WHISTLING and DANCING)

 

ANITA AND CONSUELO

Here you are free and you have pride.

 

BERNARDO

Long as you stay on your own side.

 

ANITA

Free to be anything you choose.

 

ALL BOYS

Free to wait tables and shine shoes.

 

BERNARDO

Everywhere grime in America,

Organized crime in America,

Terrible time in America.

 

ANITA

You forget I'm in America.

 

(An interlude of MORE DANCING)

 

BERNARDO

I think I go back to San Juan

 

ANITA

I know a boat you can get on.

 

BERNARDO

Everyone there will give big cheer!

 

ANITA

Everyone there will have moved here.

 

Music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.

© 1956, 1957 Amberson Holdings LLC and Stephen Sondheim. Copyright renewed.

Leonard Bernstein Music Publishing Company LLC, Publisher.

[JohnGerman]

West Side Story is such a masterpiece. It’s still 99% relevant to this day!

[rvwnsd]

WEPA! Has anyone lived or currently living on the island? Minus the last hurricane issue how is it? What areas would be quiet living and affordable for expats? Yes I am aware PR is part of the US.

 

Hugs,

Greg

A former colleague retired to Arecibo. She liked living there but likes it less now that electricity is rather scarce. Still, she was able to live steps from the beach for a fraction of what it would cost to do so on the mainland.

[+ GregM]

I hope this is long-term planning, as much of the island still doesn't have electricity.

 

Yes this might be 4 yrs out. So plenty of time to visit, plan and such.

 

Hugs,

Greg