# Ste. Anne/St. Croix *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 01 Jun 1998* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Alice Turner *01 Jun 1998, 16:00* There is a tiny template for the relationship between St. Croix and Ste. Anne, and that is the one that exists between the twin American Virgin islands St. Thomas and St. John (it's confusing that there is also a St. Croix, but leave that out.) St. Thomas is a relatively bustling island, a cruise-ship stop, shops, resorts, rich people's houses, a real economy mainly fueled by people from the mainland, but with just about anything that you'd want or need (including, I am sure, at least one fancy brothel). St. John is mainly forest. It has one isolated RockResort for zillionaires that seems to be the island's only real source of employment and three tiny native villages with a few guesthouses and some scratch cafes open at odd hours. A ferry goes back and forth irregularly. There are very few cars and they are restricted by the few roads. The two, so close together, are entirely different worlds. -alga- ---