Only in the Bahamas...

[XtremeOCD]

Phuck bro I went to that same restaurant too! The conch fritters were

Twin Brothers rock!! Got one of the conch man there making conch salad!

I'm afraid life doesn't work that way.

Bummer....I tried!

[miscterFLEM]

OP you are the BOSS

[XtremeOCD]

srs question brah, whats the cost of living where you live and whats the job market like?


could i move there with 0 savings and live comfortably? srs question is srs

It's a bit costy in some ways, but not too bad. We don't pay any income tax so what you make you take it all home. This is why so many foreigners move here...To get away from paying taxes LOL! However, we have import duty tax on basically everything that is brought into the country, but at different rates so say a motorcycle you pay high duty rate on (75%) but something like a boat you only pay 15% to import it. Stuff like computers etc are all duty free so it depends. With the majority of stuff having some sort of duty rate, it jacks up the prices a bit. Something you can relate to probably is we have a GNC here and a 2lb container of ON Whey is $99! You can buy two 5lb containers for that in the US! So you are paying for the intial cost of the way, the import duty and shipping, then the company's mark up so it can get a bit expensive. 3 pc meal from KFC is $7.99 LOL

[XtremeOCD]

OP you are the BOSS

LOL! I wish!! I'd be out in the boat all day everyday relaxing!!

[FFX]

K..Here's the top of the slide going down through the shark tank


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Shot from the front showing where shark jumped from



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Shark going down slide LOL.

Repped you OP.

Aware me on this slide though?
Sharks slide down it often? WTF

Is it a good place to visit? I'm looking up holidays for next year.

[midniteOG]

damn that sharks insane!!!!!!!!

but ya brah, love the carribean... especially the cayman islands.. stay there alot



lol @ the shark slide.......

[XtremeOCD]

Repped you OP.

Aware me on this slide though?
Sharks slide down it often? WTF

Is it a good place to visit? I'm looking up holidays for next year.

LOL! No, this was the first time this happened. Something must have freaked out the shark. As for visiting, I think it's really a nice place! I have friends that live in the US dying to come back. One thing you can do to save a few bucks is to stay at Comfort Suits right across the street from Atlantis which means you pay a lot less, but seeing they are affiliated, you get wrist bands that allow you to use all of Atlantis's facilities. They have a huge water park there with water rapids, slides etc and then they have a really nice beach. I mean, you basically only sleep in a room so why pay a lot of money on a room, when you can stay somewhere decent for less, but still enjoy Atlantis. Here's a link to Atlantis. Check out the activities and just the place alone. Pretty sick!

http://www.atlantis.com/

[XtremeOCD]

damn that sharks insane!!!!!!!!

but ya brah, love the carribean... especially the cayman islands.. stay there alot



lol @ the shark slide.......

I heard Cayman is really nice! A friend was transferred there last year and loves it (moved here from the US then to Cayman). Guess he loves the girls there too because he left his wife for a local down there and wife and kids moved back to California.

[FFX]

LOL! No, this was the first time this happened. Something must have freaked out the shark. As for visiting, I think it's really a nice place! I have friends that live in the US dying to come back. One thing you can do to save a few bucks is to stay at Comfort Suits right across the street from Atlantis which means you pay a lot less, but seeing they are affiliated, you get wrist bands that allow you to use all of Atlantis's facilities. They have a huge water park there with water rapids, slides etc and then they have a really nice beach. I mean, you basically only sleep in a room so why pay a lot of money on a room, when you can stay somewhere decent for less, but still enjoy Atlantis. Here's a link to Atlantis. Check out the activities and just the place alone. Pretty sick!

http://www.atlantis.com/

Cheers, looks pretty good.

I think I'll book that Bridge Suite in the Royal Towers for next summer. (I wish).

What's the beaches like?
Does it have snorkelling there?
Jet skiing?

[XtremeOCD]

Cheers, looks pretty good.

I think I'll book that Bridge Suite in the Royal Towers for next summer. (I wish).

What's the beaches like?
Does it have snorkelling there?
Jet skiing?

They said Michael Jackson use to rent that suite. It's really huge if you stand underneath it!

As for the beaches, if you look at the pictures in post one, that is what the water looks like and the beach itself stretches from Atlantis I'd say atleast a mile if not more down and all along the shoreline you can rent anything from jet ski's, banana boat rides, Para sailing, go on snorkeling tours or even you can go seep sea fishing etc.

[XtremeOCD]

I went back and turned the pictures into clickable links instead of embedded photos for those who happen to stumble on the thread, but don't want to see them. I gave them the option to choose if they want to see them or not. Hopefully they are allowed. If not, my apologies...

[camdls1]

i cant stop laughing at that.

[cphustla]

It's a bit costy in some ways, but not too bad. We don't pay any income tax so what you make you take it all home. This is why so many foreigners move here...To get away from paying taxes LOL! However, we have import duty tax on basically everything that is brought into the country, but at different rates so say a motorcycle you pay high duty rate on (75%) but something like a boat you only pay 15% to import it. Stuff like computers etc are all duty free so it depends. With the majority of stuff having some sort of duty rate, it jacks up the prices a bit. Something you can relate to probably is we have a GNC here and a 2lb container of ON Whey is $99! You can buy two 5lb containers for that in the US! So you are paying for the intial cost of the way, the import duty and shipping, then the company's mark up so it can get a bit expensive. 3 pc meal from KFC is $7.99 LOL

Yea food is mad expensive over there... like 6 bucks for a gallon of milk and 8bucks for a gallon of gas or some shet.. I don't remember. Lived in the middle of Nassau.

They said Michael Jackson use to rent that suite. It's really huge if you stand underneath it!

As for the beaches, if you look at the pictures in post one, that is what the water looks like and the beach itself stretches from Atlantis I'd say atleast a mile if not more down and all along the shoreline you can rent anything from jet ski's, banana boat rides, Para sailing, go on snorkeling tours or even you can go seep sea fishing etc.

I have been in it.. it is very large has marble floors and stuff.. grand piano.. gold plated sinks and stuff.

Lotta violence there .. like 110 murders for a small city

[Shreder54]

Haha! You mean this fish fry aka Arawak Cay??

yep lol we went to that little place on the right and that yellow one I believe. We stayed down the road at the Sheraton.

[XtremeOCD]

yep lol we went to that little place on the right and that yellow one I believe. We stayed down the road at the Sheraton.

Nice! Cool little place. If they can get these idiots under control from killing up one another it would be even better, but like my police friend says...""Let them kill up each other over stupid things. Less work for us and you get the idiots off of the streets!"

[eZbreeZe]

I'll be partying at the Breezes in Nassau for a week during my grad trip. So fuarking stoked.

[XtremeOCD]

I'll be partying at the Breezes in Nassau for a week during my grad trip. So fuarking stoked.

Pm me before you go. A good friend of mine works there. I will have him hook you guys up with some passes and stuff for whatever activities they have going on at the time.

[eZbreeZe]

Pm me before you go. A good friend of mine works there. I will have him hook you guys up with some passes and stuff for whatever activities they have going on at the time.

Legit? I'll hit you up with a PM when I do. Have some measly reps for being chill.

[XtremeOCD]

Legit? I'll hit you up with a PM when I do. Have some measly reps for being chill.

Yea 100% legit. Really cool guy who handles activities for the hotel. Probably one of the coolest people you will ever meet (no homo). He use to work with me for a few years. Just let me know when you head down.

[Workout4ever]

Haha!! You know some guys were fishing and caught a tiger shark and when they pulled it into the boat, he threw up a man's arm so the defence force was called in and they cut the shark open on the dock and I kid you not, the shark had an entire man's body in his gut minus the head. Later found out that this guy along with his friend ran out of gas in their baot and tried to swim in and the rest is history. True story. I had pictures somewhere of them cutting open the shark. I need to find them. Crazy stuff!!

i've heard many similar stories to this

the majority of the time they had made it safely ....... but your story just scared me into ever being in a similar situation

[XtremeOCD]

i've heard many similar stories to this

the majority of the time they had made it safely ....... but your story just scared me into ever being in a similar situation

Yea, you always hear stuff about shark attacks, but I never really paid much attention to them. I love spear fishing and have seen sharks from time to time, but they never phased me for some reason. I was more afraid of barracuda's because I've witnessed many times what they can do when they rip fish off of your line and you end up with just a fish head. It wasn't until I saw these pics that I realized I was screwing around so when I'm out, I look out for sharks now. Not paranoid or anything, but if I see one, I'll get out. Usually I'll just stay and watch them swim away.

[MichaelScofield]

How did the bullshark manage to get to that part of the slide? I thought it was impossible to get in there.

[XtremeOCD]

How did the bullshark manage to get to that part of the slide? I thought it was impossible to get in there.

Well that slide isn't fully enclosed. It's only enclosed when it enters the water and goes through the shark tank so there was an opening for him to jump in. Guess they never thought it would happen. Good thing no-one was coming down. That would have been a nice day in court for Atlantis.

[DrFeeIGood]

dude tell us more about living in the bahamas! are you a native? what do you do for work? pros and cons of living there?

[XtremeOCD]

dude tell us more about living in the bahamas! are you a native? what do you do for work? pros and cons of living there?

Yea, I was born here. Lived in Grand Bahama and they moved here to Nassau when I was about 18. For the past 12 years I've been doing auto sound and security. We are authorized dealers for Directed Electronics in the Bahamas during this whole time which if you are into car audio and security, you would probably know some of their brands like Viper, Clifford, Precision Power, Orion, Polk Audio etc. We get into installs in homes, office buildings, boats, golf carts... You name it. Are main thing though is the doing work for the car dealers. We supply quite a few of them with their head units, alarms etc which they order the cars from the factory without to save on cost. Keeps us pretty busy.

As for pro's of living here, no income tax, great climate, nice beaches, people seem to be friendly for the most part etc. Also, laws aren't enforced a whole lot in certain areas. You could drive a car with a beer in your hand pass a police and they won't stop you. I have a friend who took the police patrol car while he was on duty and raced it on the track lol. You can even whip it out on the side of the road and pee and it's not a problem. You will never be approached by a police for doing this so it's kinda layed back here in a sense.

Cons would be we are in an area that is high risk for hurricanes each year although here in Nassau we have been really lucky for the past couple of years. Then there is crime. With the economy everywhere suffering, there have been quite a few robberies. Probably nothing compared to most places, but going on the amount of people per capita, it's pretty high along with the murders. I think we had 125 murders last year in a country with only about 300,000 people. I say only about because that's all that is registered. Another issue would be illegal immigrants that migrate here which pose a bit of a problem for the locals which is said to be probably another 100,000 or more people. Some of the crime is thought to stem from them, but who knows. Looking at who is being murdered, it seems like they are either drug related or a result of domestic disputes.

For the most part, I like it. Elections are this year so we'll see what happens after.

[XtremeOCD]

I have been in it.. it is very large has marble floors and stuff.. grand piano.. gold plated sinks and stuff.

Here's a shot standing underneath this room to give you guys an idea of how big it is. It connects two sections together

How did the bullshark manage to get to that part of the slide? I thought it was impossible to get in there.

Here's a better shot to show you how the shark got in. Easy access right over

dude tell us more about living in the bahamas! are you a native? what do you do for work? pros and cons of living there?

Here's the pics I promised. A little something I whipped up in a day (started that morning and finished that afternoon). Something simple to show customers the kind of work we can do and also something they can listen to to get an idea of how something simple sounds (ie you don't have to spend an arm and a leg to get good sound if it is done properly). I went with the Orion Cobalt line this time for this simple reason.





And the car it was in. A JDM Integra with a few mods I did to it. We can import any right hand drive car here.








My last car was a JDM Evo I with an Evo III kit on it and upgraded turbo etc. This was pretty fast. The guy I sold it to ran into a building with it. He said he popped the clutch coming through the corner and all 4 broke loose and he couldn't control it. Straight to the dump!

[midniteOG]

I heard Cayman is really nice! A friend was transferred there last year and loves it (moved here from the US then to Cayman). Guess he loves the girls there too because he left his wife for a local down there and wife and kids moved back to California.

lol damn!! but ya, its a nice little chill area. been going there with the family for some years now. its popular among cruise ships, but they usually stay in the town area. the beaches are awesome, not to crowded, the water is crystal clear with great snorkeling right off the hotel. (we managed to catch a few sea turtles, saw some sting rays, shrimp, lobster, squid, barracuda, parrot fich, barracuda, etc).. grreat spot and only a 2 hour flight from my state

[CheeseSteak]

XtremeOCD, do you know a guy named Manny? he takes care of me and my brah's when we're in Nassau

[Jallalabadbad]

op lives in the bahamas

i am jelly

[Drew23]

OP I am going on a cruise to the Bahamas in Nov. Freeport and Nassau, 1 day each. I have little kids (3 and 5) What would you do if you were me?