Hey! The primary reason for us wanting to move to Puerto Rico is for our kids to grow up bilingual.
We are currently on the island and are going out of our way to eat at restaurants and practice our spanish as much as possible. Our issue is that as soon as someone hears our poor Spanish they either switch to english or send over the english speaking person at the establishment.
So far we've obliged and switched to english as soon as they made it clear they would prefer that but we are not interested in being on the island to speak english. So before I piss anyone off, I thought I'd check in here.... Is it rude if I just refuse to speak english? I'm not going to get better if I don't get the practice.
The benefit of PR over our other option (Costa Rica) is the fact that if the spanish is preventing us from communicating properly then we *could* switch to english, but we want it as a last resort.