" I have applied for a job in Yap. Can anyone tell what to expect, what to bring, etc. Would appreciate any input. Thanks. "

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FORGET IT! I am an american and moved to Yap from Guam . I met nice people there and was given land by a nice family. I drew up a legal contract to build a house and got my friend that I met to petition me to live there. Everything went fine and I built a 2-story house. upon completetion the owner of the land retract her statement and was jealous of the house I built saying I built it to look down on her (she lived in a tin shack). Further, her relatives were planning to get drunk and chase me off the land or throw me in the jungle to take my house. I had wonder why I would see throughout the island newly or handsomely built housing resembling the united states left unoccupied. I found out the reason is because these people will treat you nice and allow you to build house for them to dwell in by chasing or scaring you off! Some believe the "gods" or evil spirit will get them if they move right away into the house they chased the builder away, so they wait until who knows how long and then move their families into the house built with visitors money.

Yap is very poor and the hospital needs to be condemned. the pay for nurses (which my friend was) is only 80 cents per hr. Yap do not have any money and the people live off the land. My friend was educated in the united states, and I was shocked to see her intelligence and hard work rewarded with only 80 cents per hour.

This information is true, you are taking a big chance if you go to Yap, I would never reccommend it to anyone. it should be an island where the united states send crimminal to do hard hard labor!

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You are an idiot! I can't believe you would be offended to be chased off land which you (presumably) did not pay for but tricked some islander into letting you build a house on. By the attitude that comes across in your post - it is no wonder you got thrown off the island. A person with no understanding of or respect for the Yapese people or the culture attempting to freeload and build some "hansomely built" house on someone else's traditional land! If the tables were turned I am certain you would never let a foreign person build a home on your land without properly compensating you for it first. Further, your friend who was working at the hospital as a nurse was probably getting paid far more than many other people on the island. Shame on you for feeling like a nurse in an impoverished island nation should be paid as much as a nurse in a wealthy country! Yap island was colonized by the United States and is still under US jurisdiction. If you have a problem with the poor condition of the infrastructure (hospitals, schools, water, electricity, roads etc.) then you need to write a letter to the White House complaining about the conditions for it was the United States that was charged (by the UN after WWII) with occupying and developing these island nations.

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