To Trini's not living in Trinidad? What were the circumstances that caused you to immigrate?

Question

Do you want to go back to Trinidad to live? If you want to go back to Trinidad to live, what is the thing that stops you?

Answer 1

well i just wanted to see how its is out of trinidad but as soon as i pay off for my house i am back in a heart beat love my country even with the crime

Answer 2

Love this question! My family moved because of me. I was born with a medical condition( a birth defect) that the doctors home were not able to correct and they kinda left me botched, so my parents were determined to get the corrective surgery that I needed. They moved to they states, got jobs then sent for me and my siblings. I honestly would like to move back as a matter of fact my spouse and I were talking about it recently. We most def would need good paying jobs or we would start some sort of business. The only thing that scares me about moving back is the crime. I know there is crime everywhere but the majority of these criminals are not being caught in Trinidad and that is scary.

Answer 3

Well my mom is from Trinidad and when she was gonna have me she moved to the states to give me "a better life". i appreciate wut she did but as soon as i can i really wanna go back not just to visit but to live for a while. Our culture is so unique and unlike any other, im glad to say im a part of it.

Answer 4

Good question. For me it was university, but then i had my kids up here. i guess work is the primary reason we would not move...my huband is in a field similar to TS and it would be impossible to find that kind of work in Trinidad. We'll re-evaluate when we retire!

Answer 5

Good question..

I was a hot azz & always in trouble... & my family couldn't deal with me so I get ship out... I would loveee to move back...however I won't move back without a good paying job...or at least something I can live off of comfortably..

Answer 6

I just come to the States to buy some Commodore 64 games and computer parts to take home to sell in '88.  Meh grandfather say while me an meh brother here he might as well apply for we green card.  We reach in June get Green Card in October.

20 flipping years later....well all yuh know the story...

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Is not that I doh want to go back home, and the job I doing I could easily be flying in an out with Trinbago as home base.  But ah ha meh daughter here and wha ever she is I dey....So when she get older if she want to make Trinbago with daddy home base then I gone.....

Answer 7

A master's degree is what brought me here.....absolutely i would love to live back home, but as we all know when you live out here for a couple years you get accustom to basic amenities that are not so basic back home. You have become a product of a fast paced life style, that Trinidad just can't support.......sadly! when you are ready to retire, do it back home.

Answer 8

fortunately, i still live in Trinidad, and i agree with curious.  Yes there is a lot of crime in Trinidad, however the murders mostly affects known gang members...who insist on killing each other,  and as such is mainly concentrated in specific areas.

My aunt left here because of domestic abuse....he being police and threatening to kill her, she had little choise..so she left here and her two children and lived in NY for the past how many years.  Got her divorce, remarried and filed for her kids.

now she's like if it wasnt for her kids going to school, she would sell everything and come home in a heartbeat. lol. cause she's working 2 full time jobs from 7am to 12 in d night.  so she has at least 5 more years as her son is now in the second year of high school.

Answer 9

I went on a  vacation to NY by my sister. She took me on a boat cruise in Manhattan , I saw a cute guy and said to myself he's going to be my husband. We had a year plus long distance  affair.. We've been married for 19 yrs and it still feels like yesterday...He's a great hubby,dad,friend , lover and best of all he loves the lord..... THIS WAS A GREAT QUESTION.....

Answer 10

Well, I moved here initially to attend university. I met and married my husband and the rest is history. I would love to return home some day when I make and save enough money to live there. :)

Answer 11

Lawd good question. If I tell all yuh my story, I could write a book so lemme try to shorten it.

Typical decent pretty indian girl get married to typical decent indian boy, pressure start, licks start to share, he cheat, my parents buy house and car for us. I bounce up in the gas station one sunday morning after I leave him home in bed because he say he doh wanna go market with me, a red woman in he car, mind you my mother buy the car. Well all yuh know how mad trini women does act, I flip out when the heifer telling my so called husband to come on and doh talk to me, I start to beat him, we fight, she come out the car to beat me, I beat the 2 ah dem, all I was cing was blood. Police reach, big crowd, traffic on Montrose junction. I mash up that car, I beat it with a cutlass she take out. After the court and stuff my mudda say I posting you to the USVI. thats how I get out ah trini, now I calm and kool. Me find meself a good Jamaican husband and me happy like a pappy. The fool that my parents married me to committed suicide. HAHAHAHAHA

Answer 12

I move because I wasn't getting along with my stepfather and really needed a change. I was born in Jamaica but I lived in Trinidad for ten years most of my schooling was done there, so I consider it my second home, I know live in the states. I always wanted a house in TnT just so I can return when ever I wanted to but with the CRIME rate now only jah knows. A friend of mine was just set up and got four shots one to the head the others to the body was all over the papers "Kojo RIP". Every year I go searching for cheap tickets to come for carnival but when I see the rake, I change my mind. Now I pray night and day that when the phone ring is not someone telling me my family member got shot. It don;t just affect gang members what about the girl that was going out for her birthday and a guy just rob her and her guy then turn around and shot her in the head. I read the Trinidad express every day and not one day i can hear something good.

Answer 13

Keisha don't let the crime bother you too much - even though some innocent bystanders get caught in it, most of the crime has to do with Gang related stuff (Most of the Gang Leaders / Community Leaders who signed a peace treaty back in Crowne Plaza roughly about two years ago are dead) and Domestic situations.