Retire in Jamaica?

[Hortical]

Jamaica's Growing Violence Threatens Retiree Economy

August 11, 2010
COMFORT CASTLE, Jamaica—Two elderly pensioners in this mountaintop village joined hundreds of Jamaicans with a grisly fate: expatriates who spent their working lives abroad, then moved home only to be killed.

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[Bricktop]

Why people retire in Jamaica and choose the most remote places to settle? Get a townhouse in a gated community or sitting nuh...

[HL]

The fact is...folks should be able to live anywhere in Jamaica.

[Bricktop]

No kidding...but why push your luck? Who the hell gonna help you if anything happens in a remote mountaintop village? Elderly couples living on their own in remote locations...what is an easier target than that?

[Hortical]

Retirees who have not visited Jamaica over the years have a more difficult time adjusting to the security demands of living in a dangerous society. I have family who returned, and they were advised to install grill in the most obscure areas of the house, in places where a cunning criminal could take advantage of a potential security flaw.

[Assasin]

The last thing I would want to retire to is a gated community. I would want a remote place. Never lived in a gated community or within a town for a long time. Always lived between 20-40 miles out of the city and that is what I enjoy and would want.

These people are not asking for extraordinary protection, just basic service but I guess "welcome to Jamrock".

[Bricktop]

Well then if unnuh waan dead a fi unnuh problem dat...i don't trust none a dem dutty neiga...they got guns...i got guns...

[Willi]

As long as we change the national motto and stop wear black to funeral, all will be well. What U worried about? Help has arrived!

[Assasin]

I don't want talk too loud but Portland have a lot of returning resident who has intergrated fine in our communities. The people look out for them as they are a good source of income, constantly building, want personal taxi service, and have nuff grand kids and kids coming to visit and spending in local communities.

[Muadib]

lol ! woiee !

tek time nuh..

Garvey in School is the silver bullet !

Is dat save all di Campion students dem..

[Hortical]

Just curious, a wha yuh packing? Mek sure yuh go range once/month fi stay sharp, cause yuh nuh waan a try fire sumtin in a life & death situation and it deh pon safe.

[Willi]

We refuse to get serious as a nation.

[Muadib]

serious bout di wrang tings yuh mean.. yuh nuh tink all like Jawge serious bout him 'Blackness' ?

For self-esteem purposes raise my Children inna Yard before Babylon everytime.. mek dem gwaan..

[TDowl]

At this point I know you are serious...Leaving NYC to live in high density....

[TDowl]

When last you attend a funeral in JA, yuh out of touch, dem backless dress and sports out fit ah su eh gu....