I have rented places as cheap as 2500 RD, and they have been quite nice, the food is cheap if you go to the markets, which I did all the time, (and I never got sick, in fact when I moved back to Canada and my husband and I got pregnant - I had the best iron levels the clinic had ever seen!!) Come on, people - why discuss it, if it is your destination, try it, I have a 4 year old, and I still think of going back every day, and no, I'm not Dominican, and neither is my child!! Live your dream, and if I can't make it back, I'll live vicariously through your life!!!!