Some items, like milk for instance, are quite expensive. Other items were priced very much like back home and some things were even cheaper. Instead of the 10 most wanted on posters at the post office there was only one poster and it was for a lost dog. Crime is not tolerated in the Bahamas. One of the couples we were with left their expensive camera at a restaurant there.
Abortion is completely illegal in the Bahamas.
Gambling exists on the island for tourists, but Bahamian natives who are not working there are forbidden to even enter the casinos. Public education is free to residents and their students score much higher on tests than ours do. My only complaint about our experience in the Bahamas was that taxi cabs are very expensive there. I think it would have been cheaper to buy a small car than to take a taxi everywhere for four days. We even asked one of the taxi drivers if he would mind telling us how much money he made.