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Papeete is the last place to stock up on harder to find food items for a while so I'll do some re-provisioning. There are a few small projects left on the boat, but by the time Katie comes to Tahiti, we will be ready for 3 weeks of R&R. We plan to do a lot of diving and snorkeling as we see the rest of the Society Islands. Jon and I did some snorkeling off our boat yesterday.....it's so nice to be back in clear ocean water. (Baie Phanton was brown because it was so inland; fed by several rivers; and local construction projects kept a steady stream of dirt running off into the bay.)
It's expensive here compared to the US. A liter of soda costs about $5. Watermelon costs between $15-20. Yesterday, Jon had an $18 cheeseburger.....not significantly different from one in the US. A hundred dollars goes about as fast as ten dollars. Mostly it's easy to avoid the high costs while staying on the boat, but here in town it's different. Oh well. It's hard to complain when the weather here is so nice, people are friendly and kind, and there's always nice music playing somewhere in the background.
We wish everyone well.
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I would image the locals get along by not buying too many cheeseburgers and by leading a simpler, less expensive life otherwise.
Actually there is cheaper food, if you have access to a car or the buses are running. But salaries are actually quite high here because the cost of living is so high. It's a false economy, heavily subsidized by the French government. A teacher starts out at about $50K. It's a bit like living in la la land, and the local political situation is always in flux, so who knows how long the charade will last.
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