re: Stupid question about Jamaica.

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don't go off the main travel roads, resorts or restaurants.

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My experience was exactly the opposite. Once I got away from the traditional tourist areas, then people weren't nearly as annoying. Negril, Ocho Rios, Mo Bay and the other traditional tourist areas have populations that have learned to be parasitical with tourists. Go down to the south coast to somewhere like Treasure Beach, and they have self-sustaining populations that don't depend on tourist dollars.. so they don't have the constant hasslers.

That being said, those areas also don't have the infrastructure and niceties of Negril or Mo Bay.. they're pretty rustic but no more so than the countryside of Costa Rica or somewhere like that.