Under the post of is Madagascar a good place to retire. Well, that made me think of how we in the western world are encouraged to have several talents and areas of knowledge or the idea of being a Renaissance Man.
If you plan on living in Madagascar it is best to be able to solve your own problems.
If your car has a problem then either you fix it or send it to one place that just works on motors, or another place that works on transmissions and yet another place to work on electric. If you have all three problems then you will have to transfer your car to three different places and they can be spread out all over town and to search for that shade tree mechanic can take long time.
I was in Score market wanting bread. I was the only person at the counter. I asked the woman there for 5 loafs of bread and she said that she was the cashier and could not turn around to get my bread, that was behind her. Instead she called someone in the back who came after a couple of minutes, put my five breads in a bag and walked three steps to the cashier, where she was now sitting, to have her take about $1 from me.
People here only have specialty jobs such as carry water and only that, that is right- carrying water is a specialty job,
Drive car/chauffeur will clean car but not mechanic or do some sweeping in the area. Guardian will make security but does not want to sweep the area or pick up scraps of paper blown into the area. There are some maids that can only clean clothes not house and vice versa Also there does not appear to me any type of maintenance man that is a Jack of all Traits which makes it difficult to hire one person full time as five different jobs take five different people.
What is your experience on this?