Since there is little manufacturing or farming on these shores just about everything we use or consume is taxed. This is not an inexpensive place to live. Subsidence living was once cheap if you had a boat and could fish. Television and tourism seems to have changed all that. The small villages look today as one might imagine they would have shortly after Floyd.
Many roofs have plastic covers to keep out the rain.
What we who have not been here since last fall do not realise is how much restoration and clean up has been accomplished. Most homes have been rebuilt and many of those that were completely demolished by the storm have been replaced. The construction business has flourished as a result of Floyd. Many have been so busy their own homes still are in a state of disrepair. On the way back we stopped at several places along the road and gathered air plants and wild orchids to be transplanted around our villa in Treasure Cay.