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Should I move to Puerto Rico?

WavechaserWavechaser Registered User regular
edited January 2007 in Social Entropy++
So I normally don't post shit like this because I understand people don't really give a shit, but I figured I'd ask for some advice anyways.

I just got an offer that I normally would never consider, but after thinking about it, I have never taken any real risks my entire life. I'm seriously considering trying this out.

I went to college down in San Diego, surfed 24/7. It became a very important part of my daily life. 4 years ago I moved to Reno, Nevada and I hate not being near the Ocean. I have a steady job doing commercial property management after trying and hating Real Estate. If I chose to leave, I would be giving up my career that took me a good 4+ years to build, a girlfriend, a nice car, some good friends, and that's about it.

So I have an offer to get a house down in PR on the beach, a job that pays starting in the mid 30's (which apparently is equivalent to 60k+ anywhere else in the US), and it's a two year commitment. I'm 26 years old and could surf year round down there. I have never been to PR, or really ever researched it at all. I have no idea what the living conditions are like or how it would compare to living in the US.

So has anyone had personal experience with Puerto Rico? Any suggestions, concerns, insults, whatever?

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    KusuguttaiKusuguttai __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2007
    no do not move to puerto rico are you retarded

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    FalloutFallout GIRL'S DAY WAS PRETTY GOOD WHILE THEY LASTEDRegistered User regular
    edited January 2007
    If I chose to leave, I would be giving up my career that took me a good 4+ years to build, a girlfriend, a nice car, some good friends, and that's about it.

    for puerto rico.

    fuck that

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    Rear Admiral ChocoRear Admiral Choco I wanna be an owl, Jerry! Owl York CityRegistered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Fallout wrote:
    If I chose to leave, I would be giving up my career that took me a good 4+ years to build, a girlfriend, a nice car, some good friends, and that's about it.

    for puerto rico.

    fuck that

    Seriously.

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    The Otaku SuppositoryThe Otaku Suppository Bawstan New EnglandRegistered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Puerto Rico. You lovely island. Island of tropical breezes. Always the pineapples growing, always the coffee blossoms blowing.

    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!

    Take it away girls.

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    Captain KCaptain K Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Wavechaser wrote:
    If I chose to leave, I would be giving up my career that took me a good 4+ years to build, a girlfriend, a nice car, some good friends, and that's about it.
    I bolded the phrase that seemed... out of place.

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    The Otaku SuppositoryThe Otaku Suppository Bawstan New EnglandRegistered User regular
    edited January 2007
    The Otaku Inquisition wrote:
    Puerto Rico. You lovely island. Island of tropical breezes. Always the pineapples growing, always the coffee blossoms blowing.

    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!

    Take it away girls.

    I like to be in America!
    Okay by me in America!
    Everything free in America!
    For a small fee in America!

    I like the city of San Juan

    I know a boat you can get on.

    Hundreds of flowers in full bloom.

    Hundreds of people in each room!

    Automobile in America!
    Chromium steel in America!
    Wire-spoke wheel in America!
    Very big deal in America!

    I'll drive a Buick through San Juan.

    If there's a road you can drive on!

    I'll give my cousins a free ride.

    How can you get all of them inside?

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    bongibongi regular
    edited January 2007
    Captain K wrote:
    Wavechaser wrote:
    If I chose to leave, I would be giving up my career that took me a good 4+ years to build, a girlfriend, a nice car, some good friends, and that's about it.
    I bolded the phrase that seemed... out of place.
    hahah

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    Riggs BlitzkriegRiggs Blitzkrieg Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Do it

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    WavechaserWavechaser Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Captain K wrote:
    Wavechaser wrote:
    If I chose to leave, I would be giving up my career that took me a good 4+ years to build, a girlfriend, a nice car, some good friends, and that's about it.
    I bolded the phrase that seemed... out of place.

    Yeah I worded that incorrectly. I didn't mean to demean the value of those things I was listing, just saying "these are all the things I could think about missing".

    The general consensus I'm getting here is that even considering it is batshit insane. Good to know. :|

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    fightinfilipinofightinfilipino Angry as Hell #BLMRegistered User regular
    edited January 2007
    last time i was in PR vacationing, i got the impression that if you had even a modicum of self-motivation, you could be king of the whole damn island.







    i'm not saying that puertorriquenos are lazy, but, uh, you'd live like a freakin prince and can get all the cars and womens and bling you want.


    DO IT.

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    StaleStale Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Take the seediest part of San Diego. Little shacks, unattended dirty children, stray animals, garbage....


    Welcome to the nice part of town in your new home.

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    TubeTube Registered User admin
    edited January 2007
    Do they have the internet in Puerto Rico? If not, yes, you should move there.

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    The Otaku SuppositoryThe Otaku Suppository Bawstan New EnglandRegistered User regular
    edited January 2007
    The Otaku Inquisition wrote:
    The Otaku Inquisition wrote:
    Puerto Rico. You lovely island. Island of tropical breezes. Always the pineapples growing, always the coffee blossoms blowing.

    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!

    Take it away girls.

    I like to be in America!
    Okay by me in America!
    Everything free in America!
    For a small fee in America!

    I like the city of San Juan

    I know a boat you can get on.

    Hundreds of flowers in full bloom.

    Hundreds of people in each room!

    Automobile in America!
    Chromium steel in America!
    Wire-spoke wheel in America!
    Very big deal in America!

    I'll drive a Buick through San Juan.

    If there's a road you can drive on!

    I'll give my cousins a free ride.

    How can you get all of them inside?

    Immigrant goes to America!
    Many hellos in America!
    Nobody knows in America!
    Puerto Rico's in America!

    I'll bring a TV to San Juan.

    If there's a current to turn on!

    I'll give them new washing machine.

    What have they got there to keep clean?

    I like the shores of America!
    Comfort is yours in America!
    Knobs on the doors in America!
    Wall-to-wall floors in America!

    When I will go back to San Juan.

    When you will shut up and get gone!

    Ev'ryone there will give big cheer!

    Ev'ryone there will have moved here!

    Ok, I'm done.

    Move to Puerto Rico.

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    suttbeckssuttbecks Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    what the fuck does anyone stand to gain by going to puerto rico

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    WavechaserWavechaser Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Stale wrote:
    Take Oceanside. Little shacks, unattended dirty children, stray animals, garbage....


    Welcome to the nice part of town in your new home.

    Yeah, figured as much. Living on the beach sounds pretty nice, but not if it means i'll be worried about disease/crime everywhere I go.

    Fuck that.

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    babyeatingjesusbabyeatingjesus Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    suttbecks wrote:
    what the fuck does anyone stand to gain by going to puerto rico
    hep c?

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    TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Yeah, that's not a very good idea.

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    Riggs BlitzkriegRiggs Blitzkrieg Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    its an awesome idea

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    J. GrantJ. Grant Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited January 2007
    Yes. Fucking leave. Bye.

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    WavechaserWavechaser Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Cardboard Tube wrote:
    Do they have the internet in Puerto Rico? If not, yes, you should move there.

    I see what you did there.

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    NucshNucsh Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Riggs Blitzkrieg wrote:
    Don't do it

    Seriously, even the nicer parts of San Juan are still sup par compared to the US. The rest of the territory can't rise above the already low set level. There is culture, lots of it, but it's not worth giving up the good thing you have going in Nevada. If you're just doing this for the surfing, don't. If you actually want to experience moving away to an entirely different environment and learning/immersing yourself in the culture, do it.

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    StaleStale Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Of course.... you would be treated like a God by the local sluts.


    Double wrap it and try to shave all your hair off and it could be fun I suppose.


    "Half these gook whores are serving officers in the Viet Cong, the other half got TB..... make sure you only fuck the ones that cough."

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    CrossBusterCrossBuster Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    You refer to Puerto Rico and the United States as two different things. You are aware that, technically...nevermind.

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    NucshNucsh Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    CrossBuster wrote:
    You refer to Puerto Rico and the United States as two different things. You are aware that, technically...nevermind.

    Yes, I'm completely aware. It is a completely different culture, however.

    And I went back and edited country, that was a mistake.

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    WavechaserWavechaser Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    CrossBuster wrote:
    You refer to Puerto Rico and the United States as two different things. You are aware that, technically...nevermind.

    Yes I am aware.

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    Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    edited January 2007
    Do you know Spanish?

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    StaleStale Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Keith wrote:
    Do you know Spanish?

    He knows how to wave a $5 bill in front of his pants zipper.


    Thats all he needs.

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    Riggs BlitzkriegRiggs Blitzkrieg Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    nevada is gay anyways

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    CrossBusterCrossBuster Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Riggs Blitzkrieg wrote:
    nevada is gay anyways
    Especially Reno.

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    WavechaserWavechaser Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Keith wrote:
    Do you know Spanish?

    I should, considering I lived in SD; but I don't speak it at all.

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    Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    edited January 2007
    Wavechaser wrote:
    Keith wrote:
    Do you know Spanish?

    I should, considering I lived in SD; but I don't speak it at all.

    Well considering that a lot of Puerto Ricans that live in the United States don't know English, you might want to think about the language barrier

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    Riggs BlitzkriegRiggs Blitzkrieg Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    surf is the language of the beach

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    SlungsolowSlungsolow Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited January 2007
    Puerto Rican chicks are hot.







    and hairy.

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    GABBO GABBO GABBOGABBO GABBO GABBO Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Hey, it's snowing in parts of Malibu.
    I think this means that the end times are upon us.
    Dogs and cats
    living together
    mass hysteria

    yadda yadda

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    The_Indigo_ApocalypseThe_Indigo_Apocalypse Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    CrossBuster wrote:
    Riggs Blitzkrieg wrote:
    nevada is gay anyways
    Especially Reno.

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    his shorts are so tiny

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    BogeyBogey I'm back, baby! Santa Monica, CAModerator mod
    edited January 2007
    Manifest wrote:
    Hey, it's snowing in parts of Malibu.
    I think this means that the end times are upon us.
    Dogs and cats
    living together
    mass hysteria

    yadda yadda
    Santa Monica too! :o

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    DrHookensteinDrHookenstein Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    FYI, houses on the beach suck in Puerto Rico as the beaches are all public, so you'll have random folks walk up to your window and peer around inside.

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    SlungsolowSlungsolow Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited January 2007
    some drunk asshole just hit 7 cars parked on the side of my apartment. My car was in the middle of the 7. It didn't get a fucking scratch on it.

    I AM AWESOME.

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    The Otaku SuppositoryThe Otaku Suppository Bawstan New EnglandRegistered User regular
    edited January 2007
    DrHookenstein wrote:
    FYI, houses on the beach suck in Puerto Rico as the beaches are all public, so you'll have random folks walk up to your window and peer around inside.

    Then they break in the windows and steal stuff?

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    StraightziStraightzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Bogey wrote:
    Manifest wrote:
    Hey, it's snowing in parts of Malibu.
    I think this means that the end times are upon us.
    Dogs and cats
    living together
    mass hysteria

    yadda yadda
    Santa Monica too! :o

    Goddammit you bastards stop stealing our weather!

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