Only in the Bahamas...

[XtremeOCD]

Is it expensive to live there?

Depends...We don't pay any income tax here so what you make you take it all home, but we do pay import duty tax on a lot of things (well almost everything, but at different rates) so just imagine you buying say milk from the foodstore. The milk is bought in the US, shipped here, then import duty is added to that bottle of milk, and then the store adds their mark up so in the end, you almost end up paying 100% more than what the bottle of milk costed in the US. Another example is electricty. Last summer, our electricity bill for one month was ranging about $850!! Typically, it's in the $500 range so some things can get expensive.

lol Ive got decent cooking skills and i'll clean the fuk out of anything. Were you born there?

Haha!! Yea, I was born here...Well in Freeport, Grand Bahama and then hopped over here to Nassau when I was 18. Nassau is the capital.

[tooKOOLforSKOOL]

Haha!! Yea, I was born here...Well in Freeport, Grand Bahama and then hopped over here to Nassau when I was 18. Nassau is the capital.

Would I even be able to find a job down there? I have a bachelors in accounting, but im assuming it'll be useless down there. How much would it cost to buy a small uninhabited island? That would be so epic if a bunch of bros could get their own island to chill on

[Scurzo]

LOL! Hey man...I guess you see we've gone from shark eating people to something a bit better LOL! "Heaven"...Yea sometimes, but no place is perfect. I think I heard on the radio that we were almost up to 30 murders for the year so far! Crazy!! The only re-assuring thing about it though is it seems 95% of them are either drug related or something domestic in nature. Not much random killings here or people being killed after they are robbed etc.

Lol
brb more than 15,000 murders a year here
btw cool thread, looking thick. solid. tight

[Snowman723]

I almost got eaten by a similar sized shark off abaco last year.. was snorkeling with 2 buddies about like.. 500m from shore I turned around and see this phucking 2m beast swimming like a foot behind my bro. FML I could see its teeth the sun reflecting off them

Shark just swam around us a few times then dipped. If id decided it wanted to eat us we would have been done

[TheJoshuaa]

OP How old can sea turtles get?

[cphustla]

Depends...We don't pay any income tax here so what you make you take it all home, but we do pay import duty tax on a lot of things (well almost everything, but at different rates) so just imagine you buying say milk from the foodstore. The milk is bought in the US, shipped here, then import duty is added to that bottle of milk, and then the store adds their mark up so in the end, you almost end up paying 100% more than what the bottle of milk costed in the US. Another example is electricty. Last summer, our electricity bill for one month was ranging about $850!! Typically, it's in the $500 range so some things can get expensive.




Haha!! Yea, I was born here...Well in Freeport, Grand Bahama and then hopped over here to Nassau when I was 18. Nassau is the capital.

Haha electricity is the worst.. I lived without hot water, no AC year round, and no dryer.. basically all we used was fans, and lights... was still expensive..

Not to mention the rolling black outs brb twice a week no electricity for several hours.

Lol
brb more than 15,000 murders a year here
btw cool thread, looking thick. solid. tight

Nassau only has like 300K people.

I've seen my share of violence living there.. lots of gang activity, been in shoot outs etc etc. corrupt police.

[bdub69]

I'm going to the Bahamas this summer. Where is the best place for womenz?

[XtremeOCD]

Would I even be able to find a job down there? I have a bachelors in accounting, but im assuming it'll be useless down there. How much would it cost to buy a small uninhabited island? That would be so epic if a bunch of bros could get their own island to chill on

LOL! I have no idea how much they sell for. I have a friend who's mom had a very small cay not even a mile long that was sold for 4 million.

Lol
brb more than 15,000 murders a year here
btw cool thread, looking thick. solid. tight

15,000 murders???!!! HAHA!! Not that bad. We had 124 last year. Still a lot for a country with only 300,000 people, but the good thing was most were either gang/drug related or domestic desputes.

I almost got eaten by a similar sized shark off abaco last year.. was snorkeling with 2 buddies about like.. 500m from shore I turned around and see this phucking 2m beast swimming like a foot behind my bro. FML I could see its teeth the sun reflecting off them

Shark just swam around us a few times then dipped. If id decided it wanted to eat us we would have been done

My wife's uncle doesn't dive anymore simply because of Abaco (Treasure Cay). He was out spearing and when he looked down, a 10ft hammer head shark was swimming right at him! Got in the boat and never went where he couldn't stand again. Abaco has quite a few sharks roaming there!

OP How old can sea turtles get?

I have no idea LOL!

Haha electricity is the worst.. I lived without hot water, no AC year round, and no dryer.. basically all we used was fans, and lights... was still expensive..

Not to mention the rolling black outs brb twice a week no electricity for several hours.



Nassau only has like 300K people.

I've seen my share of violence living there.. lots of gang activity, been in shoot outs etc etc. corrupt police.

The load shedding has been good lately. Not many outages at all. We will see what summer brings though when everyone cranks their ac units up! That will be the big test. I have my generator on standby all the time

I'm going to the Bahamas this summer. Where is the best place for womenz?

With or without teeth? . Nassau will have the most people anywhere in the Bahamas so it will be your best bet.

[daiawa]

My G-ma used to live on AUTEC, on Andros. Loved going down there although once you left the base it was sketchy, still exciting wish I could go back. I work with charter boats and marinas, and am also a EMT. Might be making a trip down to Bimini a few times this summer as a mate, if I dont get a EMT job by then. Would love to end up there if only the EMS system wasnt so bad!

[TheJoshuaa]

I have no idea LOL!

[zwdog1122]

Which contruction company? I live here in Nassau. May know your uncle!




??? Want me to pm you the picture of the shark cut open?? If so, let me know and I can. Gross stuff though LOL

How much is waterfront real estate there? Condos or houses

[XtremeOCD]

My G-ma used to live on AUTEC, on Andros. Loved going down there although once you left the base it was sketchy, still exciting wish I could go back. I work with charter boats and marinas, and am also a EMT. Might be making a trip down to Bimini a few times this summer as a mate, if I dont get a EMT job by then. Would love to end up there if only the EMS system wasnt so bad!

You know, I've never been to Andros or Bimini. Where we go Mutton fishing though, you can actually see Andros in the distance from here. Pretty wicked!!

He's about three fiddy!

How much is waterfront real estate there? Condos or houses

It varies depending on island, location and what you are buying, but my wife's cousin who we bought our current house from is a lawyer and he sold us this house and bought a house on the water here in Nassau and paid $950,000.

[lebronjames]

OP seems chill as fuarkkk

woulddrinkbeerwith/10

[cphustla]

How much is waterfront real estate there? Condos or houses

millions

[XtremeOCD]

OP seems chill as fuarkkk

woulddrinkbeerwith/10

Haha!! Thanks dude! I don't drink alcohol, but would definitely have a soda!

[WinVar]

What's it like price wise out there brah? what currency do they use?

[XtremeOCD]

What's it like price wise out there brah? what currency do they use?

Either our local currency or US money. Both are 1:1 here

[deeds]

One of the best misc threads Ive read in ages.

Thanks OP, you are a cool dude. I am definately jelly and mirin your lifestyle.

[XtremeOCD]

One of the best misc threads Ive read in ages.

Thanks OP, you are a cool dude. I am definately jelly and mirin your lifestyle.

Thanks man and all of the positive feedback!

[PGSPCB]

A Barracuda! These guys don't play around! If you see one a reasonable size, get out of the water especially if you are wearing something that sparkles. They are also very dangerous out of the water. There have been many cases here where someone caught a barracuda and was bitten from the barracuda while the barracuda was on the boat. Some even swear to it that they are more dangerous out of the water than in. As for size, the great barracuda can get up to about 6 ft!

That's odd, because when I was in Key Largo I went out on a boat that took us to a spot to go snorkeling. I was out for awhile and swam back to the boat, and when i got there there was a 5-6 foot barracuda just floating under the boat. It looked so mean and menacing, but they assured us it wouldn't do anything when I got back on the boat. They said they always bring people to that spot and he likes to float under the boat.

The thing was seriously huge and its teeth looked massive. I couldn't believe when everyone was like "eh no big deal"

[XtremeOCD]

That's odd, because when I was in Key Largo I went out on a boat that took us to a spot to go snorkeling. I was out for awhile and swam back to the boat, and when i got there there was a 5-6 foot barracuda just floating under the boat. It looked so mean and menacing, but they assured us it wouldn't do anything when I got back on the boat. They said they always bring people to that spot and he likes to float under the boat.

The thing was seriously huge and its teeth looked massive. I couldn't believe when everyone was like "eh no big deal"

Yea, places like that will have these things kinda tamed if it is frequented enough. You can go diving with actual bull sharks etc here in the wild. They have a certain area (Stuarts Cove) where they take tourist and they feed the sharks etc and the sharks don't mess with the people because they are use to them. Crazy! Here is a video of it. First one I found on youtube and didn't watch it so hopefully I no-one got eaten on this dive

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLFCMDqzYeY

[XtremeOCD]

Also, the question of junkanoo just came up on another forum I moderate which I posted a few links to, but here is what the real authentic junkanoo beat sounds like in the first link. The drum beat, cowbell shaking and whistle blowing is a set thing thing making it authentic junkanoo music and then you can add in your own songs with trumpets etc to the junkanoo beat so you will have pop songs in the us being played to the junkanoo beat.

One Family Emancipation Day Junkanoo 2009 Part 8 - YouTube



and click here to see what some of the costumes look like

junkanoo costumes - Google Search

[shreddedmass]

do they have a gym at the bahamas

[XtremeOCD]

do they have a gym at the bahamas

Haha!! Yea man! We have gym's...Bally's, Gold's and a few others! We also have McDonald's, Wendy's, KFC, Burger King, Schools, Hospitals, and all that good stuff. I once had a guy ask me on another forum if we live in huts in the woods LOL! Almost like when people think of Africa they only think of the people with painted faces throwing spears and stuff, but forget about South Africa that is a beautiful built city.. Only a few islands have these luxuries, but if you visited some of the other family islands, some don't have electricity, internet or any of those things. That's the real island living right there!

[XtremeOCD]

And some more pics!


Solid 40ft Powerboats with three 300HP Yamahas which is a custom built boat. Only eight of them made so far which belongs to a really good friend of mine from Freeport where I am originally from. My buddy had his own boat when he was just 12 years old and was allowed to go out by himself! His dad was incharge of BASRA




















Think he's natty??

[XtremeOCD]

Last few for the night

[crzymama08]

Awesome pics! I just spent the last hour reading and looking at the pictures. My parents went there on a cruise a few years ago. Seeing the pics they took made me wanna go, but after seeing yours I wanna go even more! Hopefully someday i'll be able to.

[XtremeOCD]

Awesome pics! I just spent the last hour reading and looking at the pictures. My parents went there on a cruise a few years ago. Seeing the pics they took made me wanna go, but after seeing yours I wanna go even more! Hopefully someday i'll be able to.

Haha!! Thanks! It's a great vacation spot for sure. It does have its faults like any other place, but all in all I like it here!

[ilovekayaking]

i would love to reach dat status

[XtremeOCD]

i would love to reach dat status

LOL! Status of living in the Bahamas? Marry a Bahamian. Quickest way in without needing to try and obtain a work permit.