Originally Posted by
MADPhil
I find I get used to it quite well in the USVI. But I grew up in the UK and drove to the continent a lot. You have to watch the "it's a tropical island so they drive on the left" when you go to Hawaii though!
I'm pretty sure I drove on the right in Puerto Rico too, didn't I? (Nowhere near as away from the Caribbean as Hawaii, in fact is it part of the Caribbean?)
Do they really drive on the left in the Azores?
In Tahiti?
I don't think it's anywhere near as straightforward as "it's a tropical island so drive on the" whichever. It may depend on history or it may depend if it's near other islands which have a different standard than history might dictate. (Could it be drive-on-the-left at the USVI because there are also British VI nearby, and someone once thought it would be simpler to have one standard for all islands that people might frequently travel between via ferries/etc?)
US VI is part of an international cluster. Puerto Rico, the Azores, and Tahiti on the other hand are much further apart from anyone else.