Trash and Seaweed Luqullio Beach

Psych2 wrote:

Can someone provide an update regarding the trash and seaweed on the beaches, in PR, inclouding in Luqullio Beach?

Also if possible, how does retiring in Puerto Rico compare to retiring in Florida? I am strongly considering Luqullio Beach, (living this winter 2017 in Luqullio Beach) but I love Panama City Beach Florida, especially along 30a (Seaside). Your thoughts are greatly appreciated. Thanks much

Seaweed is seasonal there are volunteer groups that organize to clean particular beaches of trash and seaweed.

Renting in PR is a lot cheaper than florida. See Clasificados http://www.clasificadosonline.com/UDRen … -+Busqueda this is for Luquillo you can switch to other towns. For example in Luquillo there is a 3 bedroom 2 baths house for $595 and another for 550.

Florida is getting quite expensive everyone wants to retire there so housing is becoming a big deal.and so its property tax. But Spanish is not required, yet it helps unlike in Puerto Rico where Spanish is needed more.

Nanraughley wrote:

My husband and I just bought a house in Humacao as our retiement home. We moved here from the Gainesville, Fla., area, but I lived for a number of years in Panama City. I loved the beautiful sugary-white sand beaches there, but North Florida does get quite cold in the winter -- and property near the beach is too expensive for our retirement budget. I prefer to be warm all year in a house I can afford. Of course, your circumstances could be vastly different from mine.😃

Where is your place in Humacao?

Psych2 wrote:

Here's an article about the Trash

http://www.abroaddreams.com/2015/09/19/ … erto-rico/

Very true, people need to do their part.
DNR does little, it should not be their responsibility, it should be the responsibility of the municipality, they get money from taxes and the beaches are in their municipalities. They should be fining people, specially during the weekends when the large groups are there.

Some of the beaches are charging for parking, they should be cleaning the beaches with that money.

I don't think it is awareness, they know how bad that same trash would look on their front lawn, it is that they don't care because they don't live there. They will start caring when they get a nice big fine $100.00 per incident.

Nanraughley wrote:

Hi, Rey. Our house is in Barrio Mariana about 900 to 1,000 feet up on the side of a mountain. The view is spectacular! We can see Vieques and El Yunque. However, the house is a real fixer-upper, but it has character, and my husband likes projects -- perhaps not this many.😏

My lot is also 1,000 feet up, sounds like similar tastes, except I want to build a new house not deal with the headaches of a previous owner. I am too freaking lazy for that.

My house MA has been a money pit, it dates to 1960 and the previous owner did a lot of his own work, most of it not up to code. Since I am not handy I had to hire pros to fix the stuff.

Psych2 wrote:

A couple of years ago, I visited Luqullio Beach and I was very concerned about the volume of trash and smelly Seaweed on the beaches. Hopefully the clean-up is underway, the beaches are too beautiful.

We visited a couple of summers ago as well.  I think what you experienced (certainly what we experienced) was the sargassum seaweed.  From what I gather, it was the largest "bloom" ever. 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/mor … 6f10ac92e0

Marion-Olga wrote:

Trash everywhere I go. Streets, beaches, woods.
Puertoricans are either totally uneducated, lazy or stupid, sorry.
And now they are starting to charge for the trash. How that is going to end up I don't even want to imagine!

Stupid, Lazy and mostly DON'T GIVE A DAM attitude, they are educated, they know. Same with the music blasting everywhere specially from all the boats anchored by the beaches. What I want, how I want it and screw anybody else attitude likes or dislikes, you have a problem with that come tell me so I can break your face. THAT IS THE PROBLEM.

Those same people come to the states and pick up after themselves because they are being watched and heavily fined in the states. The government is the problem because they don't go after them, they could send plain clothes policemen to those beaches and rivers but they don't, so people don't give a dam because they don't have a financial incentive on doing what is right.

Since the central government took away about 350 millions from the municipalities, the trash pickup became an issue and the monitoring has gone down even more.

ReyP wrote:

Marion-Olga wrote:

Trash everywhere I go. Streets, beaches, woods.
Puertoricans are either totally uneducated, lazy or stupid, sorry.
And now they are starting to charge for the trash. How that is going to end up I don't even want to imagine!

Stupid, Lazy and mostly DON'T GIVE A DAM attitude, they are educated, they know. Same with the music blasting everywhere specially from all the boats anchored by the beaches. What I want, how I want it and screw anybody else attitude likes or dislikes, you have a problem with that come tell me so I can break your face. THAT IS THE PROBLEM.

Those same people come to the states and pick up after themselves because they are being watched and heavily fined in the states. The government is the problem because they don't go after them, they could send plain clothes policemen to those beaches and rivers but they don't, so people don't give a dam because they don't have a financial incentive on doing what is right.

Since the central government took away about 350 millions from the municipalities, the trash pickup became an issue and the monitoring has gone down even more.

True. And if you tell people that it's horrible and bad and ugly what they do, they want to send you right back to where you came from or they tell you, that there are other places in the world that look worse...
Omg, why not look to the countries that make it better???