Thanks for the info. So I'd need to fill out the paper work then the next time I visit.
So there's a potential that I can keep both but its not guaranteed for one citizenship to cancel out the other. Still worth a shot.
>Projecting this much
Seriously? That's your argument.
Look Im not gonna take this personally- I got better things to be upset about, but to give context (and because I love arguing at times)... my family wasn't doing all that great in DR either. They were from a solidly working class background. No maids, no vacation, nothing of the sort.
They expected to come to the US to get a better life and well... they didn't. Their college degrees didn't matter in the US; they didn't speak English well and thus had a difficulty acclimating and nor did the American state make any effort to accommodate them. I went form living in a house in Rio San Juan to a tiny apartment in the Bronx. Wages were low too, just like in DR. See, the problem is that living costs were much higher, which leads to a massive decrease in spending power, and in effect, quality of life.
...So why stay?
I'm not trying to make it in the US; I'm trying to get out. I'm not gonna lie, I could stay in the US. I could get a nice job, preferably working in the bureaucracy or the foreign affairs department or some other government thing- you know, things that give me a chance for success (one thats far less likely to happen if I weren't an immigrant or had an Anglo name and assimilated)... but I don't want to. Once I get what I need, I'm out.
You... do realize that the Dominican Republic is the second largest economy (barely behind Cuba; 62 billion vs 68 billion in terms of GDP [1]) in the Caribbean and that its been undergoing an absolutely massive growth in this past decade?
I mean, from 2004 to 2015, the economy has basically tripled and GDP per capita has nearly doubled (just in case you want to argue with the whole "but only the oligarchs have been benefitting line!") and has been having its unemployment rate steadily shrink over these past few years.
Then there's the whole massive improvements in infrastructure that the state's been investing in, attempts to break out of the traditional policies of isolationism, the rise in HDI (we're now labeled as part of the 'high development countries' according to the UN). DR has diplomatic relations with Iran, to give an example!
I don't failure here, I see opportunity. And well, with things getting more difficult in NYC as time passes its just easier for me to move back to DR and bring whatever skills I have over there, where:
a) competition is less
b) the cost of living is far left, meaning any money I earn is worth more, and
c) the climate and the culture is far better for me
As for the whole 'eating our young thing', this is literally everywhere on Earth. Only difference is if the welfare state is enough to cushion the blow.
[1] Basing this on Purchasing Power Parity, not the nominal system here
very nice to read that there are dominican posters who do their research and are really interested in the stuff, not just RFP's who just biach around about everything to cover their complete inability to bring their homecountry forward or manage to be any assett for the own people in any way. sounds to me(i don't know, just my impression by reading rfp posts since a while) like a kid of financially well off mid class family who never managed to do anything of value himself in life.
Florida will welcome that one, i wish him well there, but he may learn some unexpected real things of real life over there.
go ahead Soverihn, as you can read above, you are very welcome here. nobody, dominicans and gringos alike, give's a fukc on rfp postings. he does not even manage to really offend, as nobody here take's him for full, i wonder what americans in Fl will think about that new assett to their High Society. maybe he can become a Caddy at one of the Country Clubs where the spanish speaking real big shots hang out.
Mike
