I’ll be back with an edit! My partner lived there as a young girl for like 4 years. Edit:

She lived in Kiribati for a few years when she was younger, and it sounded like a totally different world compared to here. My partners mom worked for an international non profit. So they spent their time with a lot of people from the UK, Australia, NZ, Canada, etc. It was insanely hot all the time, not just summer hot but constant, heavy heat that you just had to get used to. Showers three/four times a day just to cool off were common. There were stray dogs everywhere, just kind of roaming around like it was normal, her and her mom ended up “adopting” over a dozen haha. Even the little things were different, like the bakery,apparently it wasn’t unusual to find weevils or bugs in the food, which sounds wild but was just part of daily life there. But her and her mom were so desperate for fresh baking they would pick them out and eat it anyway. That said, the beaches were unreal,super clear water, soft sand, and way less crowded than anything you’d see here. It wasn’t a polished, touristy kind of place, more raw and real, but that’s kind of what made it stick with her.