Below is the link to an excellent article about living and working in Pohnpei. It’s quite a long article; below is only an excerpt. Of course, it’s most useful to those considering moving to Pohnpei, but it’s also a good resource for someone considering a move to Micronesia in general, and may be a good supplement to a discussion or module about culture shock.
Life in Pohnpei for Expat Employees
Working and Living in Pohnpei
A Compendium of Views
IntroductionThere is a vast difference between visiting a place and working in a place. From 1984 to 1986 I found West Africa to be a wonderful place to live and to work; tourists, however, experienced problems with the authorities and the near complete lack of a tourist infrastructure. Fortunately Ghana has made a steady and amazing recovery from those hard times. In 1992 I visited the atoll island Mwokilloa and found it to be an incredible beautiful place to visit, I also remembered that I was told in 1984 by U.S. Peace Corps that atolls had the highest early termination rates. That is, they are hard places to live. In my own opinion Pohnpei is a fantastic place to visit and to live.
