Like I said "from experience
Just wondering because eventhough I speak spanish my fiancee does not. And we are planning on moving to the DR in December. I have narrowed my choices down to Santo Domingo and Santiago but people are telling me that they speak more english in Santo Domingo.
I used to date a Dominican Young Lady that spoke perfect English and worked in one of those call centers off San Isidro; at first I thought she was the exception. However the more I hung out with her the more we kept running into people just like her, they either went to the university with her, worked with her or learned English together.
In addition to that there are a whole bunch of " deportees" that worked in that place as well, they not only spoke English, but very Americanized English, a good number of them had lived in the States for many many years.
So wherever I went, Boca Chica, the Jaragua, the Hilton, most of the malls, we ran into people that spoke very good English. On Fridays there's a gathering at Domino's Pizza on Maximo Gomez, it's a good sampling of some of the educated university students that speak English. I've run into retired Policemen from N.Y. City, Buffalo etc..
I find that the more educated the Dominican the higher the likelyhood that they will speak English or another language. In Las Terrenas, I've found French speaking Dominicans and in Bayahibe, Italian; I've experienced a good bit of that.
I think that once you move to the DR it will take you no time to you find an English speaking circle. Just hang out at "HERMANOS VILLAR" on the corner of Indepencia Y Pasteur.
" THIS HAS BEEN MY EXPERIENCE AND MY EXPERIENCE ONLY"