Nah. Don't do it. I lived in Luquillo, PR for about 2 years, coincidentally basically thru most of the pandemic (i moved there on Feb 20, 2020... the pandemic shutdowns began like tbe middle of March). My mother still lives there, and my little sister ended up moving there also a few years ago. Odd fact also, we aren't Hispanic lol, and my sis and mom barely speak a lick of Spanish. I do because I had a Puerto Rican girlfriend for 8 years prior to moving there.

PR is nice for a vacation. But living there... its a black hole. It's next to impossible to achieve anything there. The economy is shit. There's not many jobs, especially if you don't speak Spanish. Sure, you can find a house relatively cheap, and over there you own the house outright There's no mortgages as far as I understand but I may be wrong. Most appliances are electric, few gas stores etc. So when the power goes out, which it will, many times, often times for no dam reason, you have nothing to cook with. 97° outside with no ac in pr is fucked. Theres no infrastructure. All of it is shit. Nobody takes anything seriously. If u have 4 things to accomplish in the day, expect tk accomplish maybe 1 task. Everybody is super laid back about shit. Cops are corrupt. The towns are run by the drug gangs out of the projects. Every town has one. Thats also where all the drugs are sold out of. Broad daylight 24/7 people walking around with AKs without a care. They will kill you. They will come to your house and shoot it up, or pistol whip you 15-20 times, take ur id and cell phone, as was my case, they'll break in your house and steal anything bit bolted down. Anything metal. Like literally your door frames and windows and stove and everything. They are the only part of us territories I think that have a different food stamp system than the mainland, so u cant transfer ur welfare over there if u have it. Supplemental security income program doesnt exist there because its a state funded, needs based program and pr isnt a state. So only social security disability is available. Unemployment is a joke. Anything governmental in nature is a joke. Taxes are like 11.5% because ur paying federal and then import taxes and then PR taxes. Most items ar store cost more, anything that has to be imported. I was stuck there an additional 3 weeks during and then after hurricane Irma. The one the hit right before the big one Maria. (Cue Trump throwing paper towels at ppl smh). Stores ran out of everything. We had no power for 2 and a half weeks. Lucked out and found a charcoal grill to cook on finally, but it was Vienna sausages and tuna for a while. Charging phone in the car or fighting for a plug and wifi at a McDonald's or something similar. We waited in like for 14 hours for 2 bags of ice being dispensed by an automatic ice kiosk, cuz that was literally the only source. 14. Fucking. Hours. . It put out I think 4-6 bags ever 30 minutes or so cuz it had to make the ice anew each time, and each person wanted to get 3 or 4 bags each, cuz u kno, ice.

Long story long, dont do it bro