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Fivefingers is in town. SD.
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Oh boy.....
Thanks Sky and Mauricio for the encouragement.
Thanks everybody for your input. It's not as if I can't get residency. All it involves is going back to Spain for a month. Which I will do once the airfares go down again.
But how hard is it for a company to get your residence permit for you without having to travel abroad? Is it even possible?
I am staying in SD because my husband would have to get a job too and I feel most jobs will be in SD. But I will move if the opportunity arises somewhere else. Would love to live the island life by the beach, but is it even possible? Please tell me about areas which might provide beach life at 10.000 pesos a month rental.
I had a look at Punta Cana, but I didn't quite like the vibe somehow. Granted I wasn't there for long, but it felt ackward. I should go back. Once we have a car. But it seemed to me it's one big road with urbanizaciones to each side. Hotels at the front. One would live in a closed urbanizaci?n, buy at the plaza, and go to the beach through the hotels. Without a car it's not very friendly. And there isn't much to do there.
What other area offers a village life by the beach, with good transport, a big super market and a mall, and cheaper rentals with a european standard.
Once we have a stable economy and a car I am sure we will investigate other areas and move to that idillic postcard picture perfect beach life.
But one could take the other approach. Live in the city, have a super salary, spend it on the weekends on great mini trips.
Lot's of questions in the above...summarizing:
How hard is it for a company to sponsor residency?
What areas are nice for living near the beach?
What do you think of PC? is my perception correct?
Thanks Sky and Mauricio for the encouragement.
Thanks everybody for your input. It's not as if I can't get residency. All it involves is going back to Spain for a month. Which I will do once the airfares go down again.
But how hard is it for a company to get your residence permit for you without having to travel abroad? Is it even possible?
I am staying in SD because my husband would have to get a job too and I feel most jobs will be in SD. But I will move if the opportunity arises somewhere else. Would love to live the island life by the beach, but is it even possible? Please tell me about areas which might provide beach life at 10.000 pesos a month rental.
I had a look at Punta Cana, but I didn't quite like the vibe somehow. Granted I wasn't there for long, but it felt ackward. I should go back. Once we have a car. But it seemed to me it's one big road with urbanizaciones to each side. Hotels at the front. One would live in a closed urbanizaci?n, buy at the plaza, and go to the beach through the hotels. Without a car it's not very friendly. And there isn't much to do there.
What other area offers a village life by the beach, with good transport, a big super market and a mall, and cheaper rentals with a european standard.
Once we have a stable economy and a car I am sure we will investigate other areas and move to that idillic postcard picture perfect beach life.
But one could take the other approach. Live in the city, have a super salary, spend it on the weekends on great mini trips.
Lot's of questions in the above...summarizing:
How hard is it for a company to sponsor residency?
What areas are nice for living near the beach?
What do you think of PC? is my perception correct?
Where do you live? Give some ideas of where I could find that kind of life! :nervous:
I agree with you about Punta Cana, I couldn't live there but many do happily.
In sosua I know of a house you can rent for 10,000 but it is in one of the least safe neighbourhoods and not walkable to the beach.
You may like the NC though? You should check it out!
In sosua I know of a house you can rent for 10,000 but it is in one of the least safe neighbourhoods and not walkable to the beach.
You may like the NC though? You should check it out!
i am going to be brutally frank, fivefingers. firstly, let me say that i hope that everything works out fine for you. the saving grace is that you say you do have some sort of online income, so i guess that the blow is cushioned somewhat. however, you are not operating from a point of strength here, and things go downhill really fast in this country, from a financial standpoint. when the finances go bust, you will realize, with traumatic certitude, that without a decent level of survival, the DR is a hellhole par excellence. having to survive on improvised meals, yet deal with the normal state of things, is more than the soul can bear. you are from a first world environment, and even if you are close to being broke, there is someting free, or close to free, that will salve the boredom. if you are broke in Punta Cana, you might as well be dead. it is nothing more than a vacation plantation. there is nothing of interest there for normal residents. rows of hotels, punto. if you are broke somewhere else, it is the same old thing, day in, day out. in a place like NYC, you can get on a subway car, pay your few dollars, and find somewhere exciting at every stop. in the DR, not so much.
so, here is where the brutally frank comes in. try executing the exit strategy while you still can. there are too many uncertainties and conjecture associated with your current state of affairs. your survival here is dependent upon too many rank uncertainties and hopes for fortuitous outcomes. think carefully. this is not the last stop on the railroad.
Personally I prefer the NC also but Harley for them it's different than for you, they HAVE to make a living and then Santo Domingo or Santiago would offer them more possibilities to find employment.
Fivefingers have you checked: Portal de empleo, ofertas de trabajo en Rep?blica Dominicana | www.aldaba.com ?
You're jumping way ahead of yourself. Did the thought of moving to the DR before you landed emplyment enter your thought process, and how difficult it would be to land emplyment in a country like the DR?
It doesn't seem that you planned this move through very well, and have gone about doing everything backwards. You better have some money set aside when you have to go back to your home country. Please tell me you at least have that set aside somewhere.
If you want to give it a shot, open a company in your husbands name and give services as a digital marketing specialist. I don't know exactly what you would mean with digital marketing, but if it's about developing a vision for presenting a company on social networks, advertise online, maintain corporate image equal online as irl, I'd be surprised you wouldn't find customers. I'd start with restaurants for example.
from outward appearances right now, it looks like going back might be a better option. being broke in the DR is gruelling.
going back to a country where we haven't been able to land jobs in 7 years is not an option. especially after giving away all our stuff.
if push comes to shove, then yes, no choice but for me to leave for the uk and find a job there and send money to my family.
i think the first mistake i made was marrying someone from this country.
no money set aside really. invested too much coming here. going to give it a shot.
mauricio: why in my husband's name and not my own? i have a friend offering her services in digital marketing in PC and she is charging cash. thanks for the tip on restaurants.
if push comes to shove, then yes, no choice but for me to leave for the uk and find a job there and send money to my family.
i think the first mistake i made was marrying someone from this country.
no money set aside really. invested too much coming here. going to give it a shot.
mauricio: why in my husband's name and not my own? i have a friend offering her services in digital marketing in PC and she is charging cash. thanks for the tip on restaurants.
Forget It.
You mean send money to your Dominican husband, who'd also have your child?
Don't do it!
donP
You mean send money to your Dominican husband, who'd also have your child?
Don't do it!
donP
I'm not 100% sure you can start a company if you don't have residence. I just started a company a few years ago and I think it was mandatory that at least one of the partners was Dominican or a legal resident. But I could be wrong.
oh boy. this looks not so good. regretting marrying a Dominican , in this situation, is not good. there are some ominous things going on behind the scenes, methinks.
I am starting to hear native drumbeats, whoops and the pounding of dancing feet.
This is starting to resemble Chingachgook and the Last of the Mohicans....
A great story, a moving one..... but The End..... nonetheless
This is starting to resemble Chingachgook and the Last of the Mohicans....
A great story, a moving one..... but The End..... nonetheless
you are right. you need at least one Dominican partner. i know this guy who started a home building venture in the POP area, and he had to get a Dominican partner in order to do it. the Dominican came in with nothing, dicked around doing nothing useful, and when the guy got sick of the crap he had to buy him out. the guy lost his shirt on the venture after the Dominican and his lawyers had skinned him.
be careful, fivefingers. you have enough isues as it is. the last thing you need is some dude and his abogado taking you to the cleaners.
gorgon,
fivefingers may remember the old saying............
count your fingers after shaking that person's hand
a propos , perhaps - in this case
fivefingers may remember the old saying............
count your fingers after shaking that person's hand
a propos , perhaps - in this case
it's just because it has made things so complicated. i wouldn't recommend anybody marrying someone from a different country. things are hard enough. but in the case of DR, even more so. maybe things would have been much easier if i would have married an american.
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