On Tue, 15 Jun 2021 14:53:16 -0700 (PDT), Bryan Simmons
> wrote:

>On Tuesday, June 15, 2021 at 4:50:09 PM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
>> On Tue, 15 Jun 2021 14:46:10 -0700 (PDT), Bryan Simmons
>> > wrote:
>>
>> >On Tuesday, June 15, 2021 at 11:20:29 AM UTC-5, GM wrote:
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>> >>
>> >> JUNE 14, 2021|12:01 AM
>> >> PETER VAN BUREN
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>> >>
>> >> Hawaii exists as distinct economic microbiomes. The Hawaii most people know is beautiful Waikiki, a place that if the darn Russians had not coined the term Potemkin Village would have taken the name for itself. Waikiki is fake, joyously fake, a kind of mellow version of the Vegas swindle, as if Ikea was the designer instead
of 1950s mobsters. It exists only to separate tourists from their money. The beach is indeed gorgeous (but man-made, even it is fake), the ocean delightful, and prices are kept reasonable enough that it is accessible to a large number of people, as opposed to say Tahiti or Aruba.
>> >>
>> >Aruba isn't exorbitantly expensive. It's cheaper to live there than Manhattan
>> >or San Francisco. We've looked into it. June-Sept/Oct is off season. We've
>> >looked into it because It would be nice to live in Puerto Rico Nov. through
>> >May, then Aruba during hurricane season. You can get a nice Airbnb for $1K
>> >a month.
>>
>Look at this. It's Curaçao, not Aruba, but very close.

It's all the Netherlands.

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Bruce