Prolly a lower % than Americans who use extreme debt to keep up the appearance of success.... and "how many" of those Prado owners are financing, paying just enough to pay the interest on the loan?
Prolly a lower % than Americans who use extreme debt to keep up the appearance of success.... and "how many" of those Prado owners are financing, paying just enough to pay the interest on the loan?
The DR is NOT "third world."First of all you are in a third world country. What do you really expect?
Many, but many can flop cash down too. I do deposits twice a day, and the amount of people I see depositing large sums of money daily is amazing. This is one small bank in one small community so unless this is an anomaly confined to Jarabacoa, therre are a lot of people in the DR with money.
If I showed you 5, would you swear to never post on DR1 again?Please show me how many regular Dominicans drive such vehicles and I'll show someone that knwos someone with party affiliation and government connection at higher places.
If I showed you 5, would you swear to never post on DR1 again?
No answer to my question?Wow, seriously, do you like own this board?
Wow, seriously, do you like own this board?guys/gals if I may ask to keep the replies DR related please. Thanks
By this I'll take that those walking miles to get back and forth or those whom rely on a paid concho or those who just drive a bycicle or a concho themselves do it just because they like it?
Really Mr. Bob?
Without a doubt there are millions of poor people in the DR; many that can't afford three meals a day and the price of an old moto. That doesn't mean that there isn't a growing class of people that can afford a house, or a car or both. If you are even the least bit observative you can notice this. Where are you living that you can't notice that there are quite a few midle class Dominicans. Remember the governments poverty level in less than 4 dollars per day per family member. Many of the kids going to our school, whose parents are not rich by any means, still give their kids 50 to 100 pesos per day snack money. Poverty stricken people can't afford to do that.
And I could stick my neck out of the window and smell and see misery all around me?
Some people would like you to believe that the grass is green and flash quick numbers and statistics, these are the ones that are totally disconnected from the reality of daily living by the millions.
Those are the ones with the positions, the big vehicles, the big paychecks, relations, visas and the ones that get to go overseas to study and get PhDs, while the common Dominican sucks wind!
I will answer.Does that equates to 240,000 getting out of poverty every year Mr. Bob?
JasonD
You seem to either have a very low opinion of the DR or as evidenced by your join date are very new or have been lurking for a while.
I have been here since 1989 as have a few others or they have been here longer. I don't know what part of the the DR you live in but I'm hoping its not in Ciudad Nueva Santo Domingo. Over the years this country has grown a lot. I remember when the autopista to Santiago was a 2 lane. No elevados in the Capital. road to SDQ was a 2 lane. Was an all day trip from SD to Samana. There really was no Punta Cana resort area.
No the DR is not preparing for war, but they are beefing up border patrol.
I remember gas rationing and sugar rationing, gasoline was 32 pesos a gallon, exchange rate was 6rd to $1. Platino was a peso. Would believe that hillbilly would know of when the exchange rate was 1 to 1. Electricity averaged around 6 hours a day in the citys. Hotels like the jaragua, Plaza Naco, Santo Domingo Hotel, ran their generators almost 24 hours a day.
We used to only have Plaza Central for a shopping center. now there is blue mall, acropolis, sambil, downtown center, agora Ikea and others.
no metro, no OMSA. just big red painted school busses that had died in the US, an the everpresent guaga and conchos.
Practically speaking no middle class.and an illiterate rate of around 70%.
So yes over the years there has been a huge improvement all over the country.
Can it improve, should it improve, is it improving answer to all is yes.
'
JasonD
You seem to either have a very low opinion of the DR or as evidenced by your join date are very new or have been lurking for a while.
I have been here since 1989 as have a few others or they have been here longer. I don't know what part of the the DR you live in but I'm hoping its not in Ciudad Nueva Santo Domingo. Over the years this country has grown a lot. I remember when the autopista to Santiago was a 2 lane. No elevados in the Capital. road to SDQ was a 2 lane. Was an all day trip from SD to Samana. There really was no Punta Cana resort area.
No the DR is not preparing for war, but they are beefing up border patrol.
I remember gas rationing and sugar rationing, gasoline was 32 pesos a gallon, exchange rate was 6rd to $1. Platino was a peso. Would believe that hillbilly would know of when the exchange rate was 1 to 1. Electricity averaged around 6 hours a day in the citys. Hotels like the jaragua, Plaza Naco, Santo Domingo Hotel, ran their generators almost 24 hours a day.
We used to only have Plaza Central for a shopping center. now there is blue mall, acropolis, sambil, downtown center, agora Ikea and others.
no metro, no OMSA. just big red painted school busses that had died in the US, an the everpresent guaga and conchos.
Practically speaking no middle class.and an illiterate rate of around 70%.
So yes over the years there has been a huge improvement all over the country.
Can it improve, should it improve, is it improving answer to all is yes.
'
Peso was 1-1 with dollar when I came here in 1975. By 76 it was 1-1.18 in the street only.
JasonD
You seem to either have a very low opinion of the DR or as evidenced by your join date are very new or have been lurking for a while.
I have been here since 1989 as have a few others or they have been here longer. I don't know what part of the the DR you live in but I'm hoping its not in Ciudad Nueva Santo Domingo. Over the years this country has grown a lot. I remember when the autopista to Santiago was a 2 lane. No elevados in the Capital. road to SDQ was a 2 lane. Was an all day trip from SD to Samana. There really was no Punta Cana resort area.
No the DR is not preparing for war, but they are beefing up border patrol.
I remember gas rationing and sugar rationing, gasoline was 32 pesos a gallon, exchange rate was 6rd to $1. Platino was a peso. Would believe that hillbilly would know of when the exchange rate was 1 to 1. Electricity averaged around 6 hours a day in the citys. Hotels like the jaragua, Plaza Naco, Santo Domingo Hotel, ran their generators almost 24 hours a day.
We used to only have Plaza Central for a shopping center. now there is blue mall, acropolis, sambil, downtown center, agora Ikea and others.
no metro, no OMSA. just big red painted school busses that had died in the US, an the everpresent guaga and conchos.
Practically speaking no middle class.and an illiterate rate of around 70%.
So yes over the years there has been a huge improvement all over the country.
Can it improve, should it improve, is it improving answer to all is yes.
'
I will answer.
YES!
240,000 is around 2% of the Dominican population. I'm surprised it's not double that number...
This kind of makes people who study abroad, have the visas, the relations, etc., sound so unfair and kind of mean. My sister, for instance, studied abroad on a scholarship. Out of the applicants in her group she got the highest TOEFL score. She alway had excellent grades and worked very hard while many her friends were having an army of babies. Is that unfair? We're talking about people who had the same opportunities as her.