Georgetown probably wouldn’t exist today if it hadn’t been founded by the Dutch. This is because the city is located on flat coastal plains, and is either surrounded by a flat cane fields, marshy swamps, or savannah lands. To make the location even more interesting, the elevation of this area is one metre below the high-tide level. To keep the city from eternally drowning, three things have been developed to keep it safe: canals with kokers that help drain the city of any excess water, a seawall along the ocean, and random canals/ditches within the city itself. So yes, packing mosquito spray is probably a good idea.
Maybe there is no loving or hating it in the end! As you said it seems to change so much just going around the corner that maybe it just can’t be judged as a whole.
So many towns and cities DO cater to tourists and rely on them for good chunks of income. Georgetown seems more unique in that not being a focus, it might be nice to live in a place that doesn’t put much emphasis on that…
that is a very good point, actually. and there is something to be said for visiting a place with very little tourists, especially in the Caribbean (in my opinion) – the atmosphere is just very different from places that do cater to tourists…