From an economic standpoint, I think things will get much worse when the financial collapse occurs in the US soon. As Bernanke keeps printing 85 billion a month in new money with no new serious job growth to show for it, we are screwed. It's mathematically inevitable, we are pretty much headed for financial collapse soon. When that happens, the DR and everyone else will definitely feel the shock wave. The worst the DR will likely see is much higher gas prices and alot of resorts in Punta Cana getting hammered financially.
High Speed Internet access sucks in the DR?? That could throw a wrench into my plans to move there. Any thoughts on that. i am scoping out around Sosua.
The United States is in trouble. No doubt. That is one of the reasons I moved here, because I'm very concerned with the direction the U.S. is headed in. Be that as it may, geographically, the USA is still a very rich country, regardless of the foolishness of its politicians. I think the DR is already feeling fall out from the U.S. and Europe as well because its tourism industry is directly affected.
Regarding the Internet, I must be honest and admit that the service here is terrible in comparison to the U.S. At this second, the connection is doing fine, but there are moments(almost daily), where the connection drops every five minutes. There are times when I can barely get work done, and forget about playing online games. You can play them, but there will be times when the connection drops or slows so much that you won't be able to play any games online. You will get used to the Internet here. I've learned to be patient with it. Sometimes when it goes down for a time I just do something else or go out and when I return it is working. But the internet connection/speed in the DR is not that great. On a scale of 1 to 5 I would rate the ISP here a 3, and that is being very generous. Since I've been here, there was one day a couple of months ago when the Internet was down all day long.
Here is a piece of advice. When you move here, and the internet working properly, download a lot of books, movies, and games, you want to know why? That way, when the Internet goes down, you'll have something to do!
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