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Trinidad & Tobago: Boarding/hotel/sitter for yorkie dog:

Hello! I was wondering if somebody might recommend a boarding service for dogs, hopefully no crates and a family environment, or a dog sitter that comes to your house. Anybody has used Little Rascals Doggy Day Care? I have the sweetest yorkie dog, gets along great with people, not too well with other dogs. Thank you!

Trinidad & Tobago: Book club in TT? Other groups to meet expats?:

Hi! I just moved to Trinidad two months ago and my husband six months ago. We don´t have kids, so it´s been hard to find instances where I could meet other expats. Could somebody recommend a book club, or perhaps other activities or clubs please? Thanks!

Trinidad & Tobago: Living in Trinidad:

Hello Kawshik! This is my experience so far, my husband and I (early 30s, no kids) moved here 6 months ago. -Crime & Safety: It is not a problem in the parts of POS you will probably be moving around. Just basic common sense: no walking home from bars late at night, no walking alone after dark in parks or hill trails. You don´t really need to live in a gated compound, many realtors will push you on that. Neighbourhoods that are totally fine: woodbrook, bayside, ellerslie, westmoorings, goodwood, cascade, st anns, maraval and moka (these last two have horrible traffic). -Healthcare: I've been to the doctor once, and found it to be quite good, very professional, nice caring attitude. Also had my vision checked and ordered contact lenses and found it all to be very professional. -Finding work: I haven´t started looking yet. The work permit process takes several months, up to 3 or 4 sometimes. -Meeting other expats: it is not too difficult to make friends with other people in your same situation, you might want to consider westmoorings as there are always expats in the parks with kids, walking dogs, working out. Meeting trinis I find can be the hard part. My experience has been overall good. Some points I could share with you: -Sun comes up super early and it gets dark early as well (5:30am-6:30pm) so we find ourselves doing many things before work, you will see people jogging around even at 5am. -Shops close early as well, most furniture and home stores are closed by 5:30, so you have to run straight from the office and you only get to see one per day. As it also gets dark early, at first we had many afternoons when we couldn't find anything to do... you get used to that rythm of life though. -If your internet or air conditioning stops working, don't expect to have it fixed the next days, everything is slower here. -Perhaps you are used to going to lots of restaurants, theatres, art galleries, and there are not that many here. We do a lot more outdoors/sports activities here than back home. -It is very expensive, though compared to the UK maybe not that much. Depends on your reference. Hope it helps!

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