If you are living in Trinidad and Tobago you know there is much to enjoy but you will also know that there are lots to annoy.
One particular annoyance is the high cost of living and I am not harping on the mundane or important things like food and clothing. No I speak of the high cost of housing.

If you are middle-class (whatever that means) or better earning 100000 a year or better, it doesn't take more than a month or two to learn you cannot buy decent accommodation in this country where a house in a livable neighbourhood begins at 500000 and ends nowhere your salary will ever be able to take you.

Just today I found myself, with a friend -at 4 am- in Dabadie to acquire a number for first preference to purchase a home. The house is valued at 900000!
That alone should tell you that I was not the one purchasing.
What was surprising is she was not even first in line, or twentieth in line, or even thirtieth in line. Indeed there were almost fifty people waiting for a number at 4 am to divest themselves of nearly a million dollars via mortgage.

And the cars they drove to get there tells the tale. No BMWs or Mercedes Benz or Audis, just run of the mill cars -most of them foreign used.
The tale told therefore is one that says the average family earning ten thousand per month have to prepare themselves to devote four to six thousand per month on a mortgage!
Add food, insurance, general expenses and they have nothing.
And don't have children, because you will not be able to afford it.

But, there is always a way, and one way is to supplement your income by sourcing funds in unconventional ways. One way is what I am doing right now; writing on a website with Google Ads, or Yahoo! ads if you prefer.
It won't pay much, it may not pay at all, but if you are lucky -and I have not been lucky yet- you just may be able to earn that few hundred a month that assists your meeting the recurrent expenses.

Google and Yahoo! pay in many currencies and if you choose the US dollar and earn $10 per day you would have added nearly two thousand Trinidad and Tobago dollars a month to your overall income. Definitely something to think about...

If anyone wants my help to setup a website or have further questions on this, let me know.
It has not worked spectacularly for me just yet, but I know many Trinidadians and Tobagonians for whom it has benefited and hopefully in a couple more months I may be singing the same song of success.
Laterz.