We are hearing again about how so many people love Saint Martin so much, blah, blah, blah! because of its beauty yada, yada, yada!
Let us look at the rest of the world and its beauty as compared to that of Saint Martin Without leaving the West Indian/Caribbean area, keeping smply to the Lesser Antilles, in all honesty, is Saint Martin more beautiful than for instance, Saint Kitts? Is it more beaure beautiful than Antigua?
The islands of Sarths, Saint Martin and Saint Thomas are so similar in makeup and scenery that they could be triplets! So what does this vaunted beauty of Saint Martin consist of, above and beyond the other islands? Not even its people, since the few natives remaining are most of the time overlooked, and the others are noticed for ways that Saint Martiners did not possess. The beaches of Saint Barths and Saint Thomas are every bit as white and beautiful as those of Saint Martin. Their hills are all nice and green when rain falls, and they all three suffer from drought and hurricanes.
Let us now move to the volcanic islands. Are they not beautiful, albeit a different kind of beauty?
However, there is one thing that is possible in Saint Martin which is not available on the other islads. Saint Martin is very easily taken advantage of as anything goes on this little 37 square mile island. People come from all over the world and do what the natives do not do, and what they themselves couldn't do in their native countires.
Saint Martin's french side and Saint Barths are both collectivities of France, yet what Saint Barths does not want happen, does not happen. How is it that the same laws are applied in such a different fashion? The Saint Barths natives are in charge of their island, Saint Martin has not yet or is afraid to define what its native population is. Non-natives become annoyed at least whenever something happens that causes the few natives left to speak out.
No people, it is not Saint Martin's beauty that captures outsiders, it is what they get out of it, usually at our expense.
