. It is dangerous to invest in a country where the locals are too dumb to control their own gold mine, and will let a Canadian mining company come down here and screw them out of their gold. I fear investing in the DR because this country has a dangerous combination of dumb locals and ruthless foreign interests, and I fear the ruthless foreign interests will make things so bad here that the locals explode and violence and trouble starts.ADIOS.
If that's the case you must be making millions of dollars, but somehow I have a feeling you don't..
Also please explain what the real advantage of its 41 to 1 exchange rate with the dollar is?
You should read a knowledgeable post about Barrick on another thread.
It will make you understand the structure of Barrick's investment and the DR governments gains.
You are obviously clueless as your statement indicates.
Dark,
Your voluminous posts indicate to me that you do have a great need to communicate with people.
Your instinct of a heard animal is still intact.
Good luck finding a Dominicana who wants to live as a recluse, or with one.
The nature of a scorpion is that it will sting.:hurt:
Rent in Cabarete which is a nice place, before deciding to buy!
Dark,
Your voluminous posts indicate to me that you do have a great need to communicate with people.
Your instinct of a heard animal is still intact.
Good luck finding a Dominicana who wants to live as a recluse, or with one.
The nature of a scorpion is that it will sting.:hurt:
Rent in Cabarete which is a nice place, before deciding to buy!
Great post man, I couldn't agree more, and this is how I operate in the DR. Much of my income is imported, and I operate in a business where my expertise is a large barrier to entry(I have a unique specialized skill set that took years to learn and I'm still learning). Few people have my skills and I will never share my tricks or tactics with anyone. Plus my ability to manage financial resources are second to none.
The INTERNET is the only real solution. You are correct that starting a biz in the states is getting hard. You are correct that it is even harder in the DR(as I said days ago, the DR ranks 116 out of 185 on the ease of doing business index). The only real advantage of his country is its 41 to 1 exchange rate with the dollar and its close proximity to the USA. Beyond this the country has few advantages for the expat, and without them I wouldn't be here. Making money online makes you extremely mobile. All I need is my laptop and a wireless connect and I can make money anywhere. Not even my landlord can do that, if something happens here politically or this apartment is damaged by earthquake or hurricane he is finished.
Wow and you are clueless on mining companies. The DR has no mining companies!!!! Barrick does work all around the world. They are not exploiting the DR, they want to mine the gold....this is what they do. So Peru, Russia, Africa, Honduras are all been exploited????
Brother,
I got to meet you, man! When are you stopping by Cabarete? You are a fuc&^ing freak, brother! I love that. Listen, I'm a freak too. No offense. You're arguments are very tight in some areas, but too loose in areas regarding the island, the community, the culture, and the economy. On some points, you're right on the money. In other areas, not so much. It's not your fault. you haven't been here long enough; you don't have access to some of the movers and shakers of this country. I have access to some of them, but i avoid them like the plague. I can't go anywhere where i have to wear shoes or pants. I only wear shorts, and I'm usually barefoot--both at work and home. My closest cousin just became the Governor of a big province here on this island and i was invited to the parade and festivities, but was told i would have to dress up for it. No thanks. I don't wear pants, socks, shoes, or underwear.
Anyway, You obviously like to read a lot. I like that. I can get behind that. Your're obviously educated and you've obviously self-educated yourself a great deal. I can get behind that as well. But listen, brother, you're social skills--or what some people refer to as "people skills"--need refined; they need fined tuning a little. If they're not, you will fail and never be able to hold on to a girlfriend here very long. This country is all about family and community. If you can't get the support of the family and friends behind you, you're relationship will run into some major obstacles that will doom it.
Listen, you're smart, you're articulate, you're blatantly honest. These are all admirable, fantastic qualities. But you need to consider socializing more in order to secure the necessary attributes to win over the family, friends and most importantly the girl of your dreams! If you can't socialize and charm to a certain extent, brother, how are you going to win the sincere love, affection, and admiration from a good Dominican female? People are not stupid here, despite any educational handicaps we have, people here are very social and everything is built around family and friends and socializing. Everything! Remember, everyone here has access to neighbors, family, and TV. This is not some mountain community of Quakers or Amish that both refrain and avoid modernity and communication. On the contrary, everyone here has family abroad. Everyone. You have to be willing to socialize with your girlfriend's friends and family. There is no way around this if you want a good, honest, girlfriend and wife. If you don't do this, you're just going to end up with a glorified prostitute masquerading as a good, honest girlfriend. It happens everyday here. I sit at a bar and watch it happen every single day to a new group of naive tourists that arrive here daily by plane.
Listen, i'm not smart, but I work in a bar and restaurant on the beach, so unfortunately, i'm privy to some of interactions of foreigners and expats that try to secure a Dominican girlfriend here. Some of the people that come down here looking for a good, honest girlfriend to take home are misfits, outcasts, anti-social, and dysfunctional at best. They get into these volatile relationships with the girls here and then when things head south, they never take any responsibility for the relationship's failure. Instead, they place blame everywhere else except on themselves. Don't get me wrong, everyone does this to a certain extent. It's human nature. But the more anti-social you are, the more dysfunctional you tend to be. Some people tend to fall down and sink into their own world; they retire into their comfort zones. They lock themselves in their condos and apartments and avoid people like the plague. I see this all the time...some people are introverted to a fault.
If you want to secure a good, honest Dominican woman, you're going to have to be able to socialize with not only her family and friends, but also outside in the real world...in the community where Domincans like to congregate and be among their own culture and people.
Yes, you can take a Dominican out of the country, but you will never, ever take the country out of the Dominican.
Love Frank
Why....don't.......you......read my posts? Where did I say the DR has mining companies? Find the post where I said that. I said the opposite, I said the Dominicans are too dumb to control their own mine, and allow themselves to be played by foreign mining companies. You ask if Russia, Africa, or Honduras is being exploited? Honduras has been exploited for decades, ever heard of the United Fruit Company? The fact that Africa is being exploited shouldn't even have to be discussed, if you can't see that then you're either ignorant or stupid.
Russia? I don't know much about the Russians, but what I do know is this.......they are ruthless when it comes to business, and if you try exploiting them on their turf they will eat you alive. Ever heard of an American business man named Paul Tatum? Well, Tatum was doing business in Russia back in the 90s, and the Russians decided they wanted to control his operation. Well, Tatum tried to fight them, despite their warnings for him to leave the country. Tatum refused, and the Russians set him up, and had him gunned down in a Moscow metro station in 1996..........11 bullets to the head with an AK-47. The Russians are exploited by no one, they control their turf. They will allows foreigners to make some leeway their but ultimately the Russians wisely run their turfs. Dominicans do not. The U.S. has invaded the DR twice.....how many times the USA has invaded Russia? That is what I thought.
Paul Tatum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
You are so shallow and narrow minded. You just don't get the mining industry, so it's not worth arguing with you about it. Educated yourself about what exploitation means. You may think those countries are being exploited but without the mining companies those countries would have far less. Barrick being in the DR is a damn good thing...so is Unigold and Everton.
Mr. Dark Scorpion, with all due respect its not cool to call dominicans "dumb"...who do you think you are? what makes you so special? You go on rambling about not needing to socialize with anybody. what are you doing here? obviously you need interaction. If you think that just because you have some coin some girl is gonna fawn over you here, think twice... a "dumb" dominicana will pimp you to death. You seem to have a big mouth brother. Take Franks invitation and chill out, get out there. Humans are like their cells .... if they don't let nutrients and light IN...they get brittle, dried up and Die.
The person who calls himself the smartest, the wisest lives in a bubble... get out of it before its too late. Its very lonely in there my friend. YOU need help, seek it before its too late. You are probably a good guy, it is your fear, or anger or despair doing the talking. Get help.
so now the truth comes out, you do not fit in anywhere because of you, not the Dominican republic or Dominican people or the US, and you are just here to bitch and whine and complain while you sit in your own little cyberspace world..
you , my friend are a square peg, you will not fit in anywhere because you do not like people and people sense that
I am guessing this thread is no longer about Cabarete.
one: it's dudette, dude. thank you very much.
two: no matter what happens people will always eat. agriculture will never go out of style, know what i'm sayin', dude? DR has no infrastructure or a know how to run operations like car building or whatnot.
stop with your terminator fantasies. DR has to work with they have.
You brag on how successful your internet business is, but yet mention that your internet connection sucks. How successful would my business be if my electricity wouldn't work???? So before you come on here and tell us expats how to get "rich" you should get yourself an internet connection
