Can Port-au-Prince Haiti EVER Have A Paradise Caribbean Look?

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First, Let's use our imagination a little bit...

What do you think is a major difference between Haiti and most other countries?

I will answer this question with one simple statement:

I pay a hell of a lot more for my apartment in South Florida just because there is a LAKE in my back yard... I had to settle for a LAKE because I cannot afford to live by the OCEAN at this time... LOL...

I can't even afford to live next to a freakin' water CANAL in Las Olas... I think a Yatch is required and I don't have one yet... LOL...

NOPE... That's where Anderson Cooper grew up... That's where Wayne Huizenga lives... Rich bastards... (Just being jealous, that's all :)

Are you beginning to understand what I am trying to say?

In Haiti there this idea of NEG ANWO and NEG ANBA...

Neg ANWO means "the rich" and Neg ANBA means "the poor" but it is more complicated than that...

I don't know if this concept came directly from Port-au-Prince but, in Port-au-Prince Haiti, the rich lives UPHILL (anwo / Petion-Ville, Montagne Noir, Fetmathe, etc) and the poor lives DOWNHILL (anba / Cite Soleil, La Saline, etc...)

Assuming that "the rich" in Haiti is involved in the decision making as far as development is concerned, chances are, unless they woke up and smelled the Cafe REBO, they are going to build NEXT DOOR... ANWO... Right? Not DOWN THERE... No way... 'BODME... ANBA bo Lanme-a' that's where the poor people live! That's where Marche Croix Bossales is... That's where you go to fix a dent in your car for cheap!

Noone wants to be ANBA... Well... No one except tourists with cash in hand!

Ha Ha...

Now let's think about Caribbean tourism for a minute...

When a tourist dishes out his hard earned money to visit a Caribbean Island... Paradise... They are not exactly thinking about sunbathing 1,000 feet above sea level... Oh No... They want to be AT the beach drinking their pina colada, Rhum punch, sex on the beach, enjoying the beautiful Caribbean sunshine on a white sandy beach, and hopefully jet skiing and parasailing half drunk...

If they do go up hill it's only to catch the Zip Line...

Don't get me wrong... they might want to visit the old Fort Jacques and the CITADEL... But they don't want to sleep there... NOPE!

Am I right?

Now we do have some beaches in Haiti but there not exactly easy to get to if you happen to be vacationing in Haiti and staying at a luxurious hotel in Petion-Ville are they?

There aint no expressways from Petion-Ville to Cotes Des Arcadins... There aint No Expressways from Fermathe to Labadee...

Being that Haiti is a Caribbean country... Paradise Island... wouldn't it be nice if one day, as your airplane is getting ready to land in Haiti, the Pearl of the Antilles, Home of the REAL pirates of the Caribbean, to see nothing but Cash Machines (Casinos, Hotels, Resorts, Restaurants, Jetskis, and Boats) all over Port-au-Prince bay ready to take your money with you READY and WILLING to give it all away for one week of "The Good Life"???

Wouldn't that bee cool???

There is only one problem... Port-au-Prince bay is inhabited by poor people (NEG ANBA)

How the hell do we get them to move??? I smell RIOT...

Just a question...

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