Interesting points, thank you. Milk is a little more than $6 a gallon here. It is less than $3.00 a gallon in GA where my kids live. So we end up spending 100% more for it. Of course, everything costs more in PR since virtually everything (except milk) has to be shipped across 1,000 miles of sea. And it has to be on expensive US flagged ship — a monopoly forced on the colony by the imperial government in Washington.

Well, I chose to live here and certain things balance out. Here is something i posted yesterday: “Summer bounty! The local mango tree near our gate drops scores of goldren fruit on the grass every day. We froze some for smoothies, we made a pie (nobody liked it so the chickens ate it) and we feast on the juicy fruit. Bounty is the word: mango trees pour forth relentlessly. Every tree in the area is bearing tons of fruit. One neighbor gave us half-pound mangos from her tree, then another came by today and gave us a 4.5 pound monster. One of our trees bore a single (delicious) fruit, but the other has two or three dozen large ones almost ready. The papaya have been plentiful this year, too, and the avocado tree is about ready to give us its fruit. The bananas are also bearing. Seems like the earth is apologizing for the famine last year after Hurricane Maria.”

My wife and I plant and we harvest, but we are in the minority. Puerto Ricans import virtually everything that they eat. Fortunately they produce coffee and rum. Now that is worth living here for!