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| *Travel Tips>>>Bermuda Travel Tips |
Anyone out there from Bermuda? Or currently liveing there, tell me about it.? |
Travel Info Preparing to relocate there. Travel Tips Good luck! For me it was the first time that I terminated a contract earlier and left. It's a beautiful island - for holiday, it's mad expensive to live there. Everything is imported and gets a big import tax on top. It's no big difference if you buy your stuff in the supermarket or if you go to the restaurant as everything is really mad expensive. So just go there if you really earn the big, really big money. If you really decide to go there, take as less with you as possible. Customs there for expats is really a pain in the a... They go through everyhting and you have to pay import tax for any kind of electronics and even for clothes if they look new or the customs guy has a bad day. Try to slow down, worst thing you can do to be too fast. Practice already to say "good morning" and "good afternoon" to everybody you meet at work or on the street - it's the biggest (and for me oddest) thing there - greet everybody all the time. You meet somebody 20times at work? Say "good morning" 20times. If you are white, be prepared that you will get the discrimination **** with every staff member or colleague you forget to greet. You wear contacts? Bring them with you - no tax for that, but they are mad expensive on Bermuda. ...I could write forever, but I hope it's a little help. But - it's not the island paradise it seems to be and....be prepared for the massive amount of cockroaches EVERYWHERE! Source(s): I lived there for the last 9 months, I just left Other Travel Tips I am a Bermudian living in Toronto. Bermuda is a very beautiful island. The cost of living is very high. If you are relocating, there are several ways in which you can reduce costs: live in a house with roommates for example. It also depends on how you want to live. Do you have a young family? Are you hoping to be partying every night? The nightlife is a bit slow sometimes. If you like the beach- it's a great place for young families. It is a very small community. Practically everyone is known. There is a divide between Bermudians and Foreigners and blacks and whites, but it can be very subtle. I think it's more noticeable because it's such a small place. There are no fast food chains (except KFC)...Each household is only permitted one car...there are many other interesting 'rules' :) |
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