hello to all I am a newbie to this site and have enjoyed reading a lot of the postings almost all of information is very invaluable some even funny hoped to become a value member of this site in the future now the question at hand just to give you a little information about me I have spent quite a few weeks vacation in the Dominican Republic and have found it to be a very interesting place I have plans on retiring in Dominican Republic in the next two or three years so I have been reading a lot of information given out on this form hopefully to help me and my retirement in the future most of the people on this site seem to be very informative also am doing my own research have spent lots of time and San Pedro and in sosua in which I have made new friends now my focus is on Santiago I have visited quite a few places in the Dominican Republic and still have more to go in the search for the type of place I would like to live as I said before right now I'm looking into Santiago PS I see a lot of postings by this guy call hillbilly he seems to be a very interesting person and also a very knowledgeable person to me I also heard him talk about a B&B would be interested in finding out the phone number of this place it is like I said before I hope to become a active participant in this form