Just for the hell of it I'll attempt to tell you how this might go down in Campo. I call Jarabacoa Campo because it is rural living, the engine that keeps the town ticking over is run on those who believe in hard work, have old fashioned values and are far less opportunistic. I also lived in Jarabacoa, and to take a walk through town you will find yourself saying hi to at least every 20th person, waving to someoe you know in every other car, and popping down to doa spot of shopping can quite easily turn into taking up half of your day, by bumping into people,having a chat,being invited for a beer or coffee, or making plans with someone about who is having a BBQ this weekend, swapping kid run plans generally being a part of the machine that makes the town work. Yes there is a tiny amount of crime, there are a couple of areas that you will find those who are not good people,but even they tend to head to the city to do their bad things to earn some cash and then head back up to their little corner to lie low for a while and you rarely see them out and about, during the day and even less at night. Jarabacoa is one of the last places you will still find people living in new houses without security bars on doors and windows. People know each other are involved in a community and generally keep an eye out for each other. People will go out of their way to help you out, or even just do something nice like invite you round for dinner for no reason other than a good old fashioned chin wag and spending time together as friends. It's odd getting invited to a strangers BBQ just because you live in a nearby house,or you have kids the same age. You'll walk into a colmado and the local dustbin man who earns 3,250pesos per month will offer to buy you a beer, and just sit down and chat about something trivial. We had a place on the outskirts and when my wife was ill,people would turn up with cooked food for me every day as if I couldn't cook and to clean the kitchen up a bit as if I had no housewife skills at all. When our local Colmado guy was ill, my wife went to visit,and see ifshe could collect anything from the pharmacy while she was in town, things like that. You are part of an oiled community up there, if you want to be. You can also go weeks without seeing anyone if you want to,but people will pop around to check all is okay and yo are not unwell or in need of help.
It doesn't get much more different than Campo and city people,like aliens and robots.
One thing that both the city and the campo have in common I have found out over the years is that those with the real bad hearts, the nasty people, those that will take advantage not out of desperation but because they can, those that will be the ones to let you down, talk about you behind your back, those who really don't care and spend more time scheming and talking dirt about the very people who are twice the people they are, these people usually tend to be Expats, and not the natives, a sad finding, but so true from my experience over the years.
So there's my sense in diversity, make and take from it what you will,it has been a different journey for us all.