I have a serious Question for those of you that have been in the D.R. for a while. If I was to move to the Dominican Republic and immersed myself in the language and at the same time go to college to take classes for Spanish, as a second language is a one-year time frame a reasonable amount of time to be fluent enough to attend university is Spanish?
My reason for asking is I have 36 months of $1135 a month of GI Bill Benefits I have to use or lose in the first ten years after I retire.
I figure I could leave my assets alone and live of my pension and use my G.I. Benefits to pay for School. If I learned Proper Spanish and at the same time completed a degree in the Dominican Republic I would be much more prepared to be successful in the D.R. Many of the Expats I have spoken with all tell me how they lost a large sum of money the first year or two in bad business ideas and so forth. They all tell to not devote assets for the first few years other then basic needs and let myself acclimate to the system of the D.R. I figure this would be a good way of doing that with out getting too bored with inactivity.
John.
My reason for asking is I have 36 months of $1135 a month of GI Bill Benefits I have to use or lose in the first ten years after I retire.
I figure I could leave my assets alone and live of my pension and use my G.I. Benefits to pay for School. If I learned Proper Spanish and at the same time completed a degree in the Dominican Republic I would be much more prepared to be successful in the D.R. Many of the Expats I have spoken with all tell me how they lost a large sum of money the first year or two in bad business ideas and so forth. They all tell to not devote assets for the first few years other then basic needs and let myself acclimate to the system of the D.R. I figure this would be a good way of doing that with out getting too bored with inactivity.
John.