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From London to Jamaica: The Price of Coming Home

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Jamaica Now
Jul 07, 2025
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Welcome to Jamaica Homes — a space where we speak truth without trimming the edges.
We write with honesty because sugarcoating helps no one.
This piece — part of the From London to Jamaica series — is a love letter and a warning wrapped in the same envelope.

It comes from a returnee’s heart: one that has felt the joy of coming home and the sting of realising that home is not what it used to be.

Because returning to Jamaica — to buy, to build, to live — is not just a journey across miles. It’s a crossing between myths and realities, between nostalgia and truth.

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