Broadly speaking, outsiders putting down roots in Antigua do so to become either a somebody or a nobody.
There are various ways to cut the cake, but this particular distinction between the individuals that settle here is significant, and perhaps never more so than during the present pandemic.
For those who are here as a retreat from ambition tend to be coping a bit better than that other group dedicated to making this city their theatre of dreams.
Amongst the retreaters, so to speak, you might expect to find the bulk of those who are literally on the run, people who in their previous existences have been a serious disappointment to themselves, or more awkwardly, to others.
Yet in practice there appear to be just as many of their sort striving away amidst the more goal-orientated gringos.
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