King, being from PR my impression of Jamaica was never that of Fleming of Noel Coward, but that of schoolmates whose parents had moved from Jamaica to Puerto Rico in search of better opportunities.

As for your visiting Cuba realizing it's not a place to live in yet declaring superior to other places you have not even seen, well, that speaks for itself. A true intellectual who prizes ideas over facts. I can respect that.

King, that is because of the simple fact that having lived there (Puerto Rico) myself and having relatives and friends who have lived there (Cuba, Jamaica), I do know a lot of it therefore feel quite free in sharing my knowledge confident of its veracity, whereas you, who knows nothing of it persists in giving reasons based in opinions of how you wish the world would be rather than on fact or knowledge.

So my know-it-all dismissiveness hews very close to reality, however offensive to you, whereas your intellectual reasons don't. But I understand you fancy yourself an intellectual and in your world crafting a well worded argument about a subject counts for more than a dismissive attitude reflecting direct experience with the subject.

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York Terrace is a very nice place indeed to live!

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To reiterate, I am not sure where you get the idea I am a leftist

Minor spelling correction from an Hispanic does not bother me either.

Apparently the contraction of Hispanic is now verboten on this site.

So much for Clint Eastwood or "West Side Story".

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