Fivefingers is in town. SD.

[KyleMackey]

Fivefingers, good luck to you. I hope you are able to figure things out.



[all posts must be DR related]

 

[william webster]

following this for the bit I have,

Stickyfingers needs solid internet and job possibilities...
The bigger cities seem to offer that better than other more 'idyllic' locales.

Big Cities? Bright lights?

there are two of'em

SDQ and STI .............. 4M+ people and 1M respectively
The rest is for dream chasers.........

my 2 cents

Stick to your guns girl..... until you run out of powder.

 

[william webster]

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.

I'm done after this..........

I married a Calif girl once ( a la beach Boys) and dragged her to Canada.
She had never seen snow.... never seen conservatism the way it is in / was in Canada 1980.

Me in October:
time to put the storm windows on
Her:
Are we expecting a storm?

She saw the fall as a time of death.
It depressed her - the leaves coming off the trees

sooooo many differences ......
I hadn't anticipated it , nor had she.

The cultural divide need not be different languages, and large distances.
It can happen close to home.

Texans don't transplant well to NYC and vice versa.

best of luck

 

[drescape24]

I kind of enjoy the worry-free type of laid back life..... but i guess its not for all !!

Feed my chickens, play with dogs, swim in the pool, ride the motorbike, surf the net, watch the tour de france on eurosport, pick mangos, water the garden, take a nap.......... seems the next best thing to heaven to me after a loooooong 15 years of work/commute/eat/sleep/go-on-holiday-twice-a-year.....

I am busting my tail to get where your at!

 

[Curacaoleno]

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?

It seems that you are living in La la land.

All this I don't like this and I want this and how would it be wonderful..

There is no such thing like paradise island unless you have millions of dollars in your bank account.

If you have no money you don't have much choice. You need a job and if it is Pedernales or PC it doesn't matter!

In a country where most people make a few dollars a day you wont be making thousands of US for digital marketing.

Go back to Spain and go to the Costa Blanca.. Enough work there.. all those retirees who need help and don't speak Spanish at all.. than you can live near the beach, or just outside in the mountains, and you can make money and live the life! hard work yes!

 

[Berzin]

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.

Not a good idea. The restaurant business in the DR is much to slipshod in terms of quality and level of service for this to be a viable option. Does the DR have restaurants that are internationally rated and have solid reputations for quality year after year?

 

[Commander Ooh La La USN]

It seems that you are living in La la land.

All this I don't like this and I want this and how would it be wonderful..

There is no such thing like paradise island unless you have millions of dollars in your bank account.

If you have no money you don't have much choice. You need a job and if it is Pedernales or PC it doesn't matter!

In a country where most people make a few dollars a day you wont be making thousands of US for digital marketing.

Go back to Spain and go to the Costa Blanca.. Enough work there.. all those retirees who need help and don't speak Spanish at all.. than you can live near the beach, or just outside in the mountains, and you can make money and live the life! hard work yes!

No jobs in Spain. Like everywhere immigrants take them and drive down wages. Would you believe that North Africans and continental Indians have invaded the Spanish resort towns, in fact they are preferred by hoteliers.

No jobs in Spain or Portugal. Angola sends financial aid to Portugal.

Dildo Scroggins, Country Music Star for Middle Earth

 

[Commander Ooh La La USN]

Not a good idea. The restaurant business in the DR is much to slipshod in terms of quality and level of service for this to be a viable option. Does the DR have restaurants that are internationally rated and have solid reputations for quality year after year?

Depends...is there a viable.restaurant that serves sweetened ketchup with every meal or has engristled hamburger meat as their house special?

Dildo Scroggins, Country Music Star for Middle Earth

 

[Mauricio]

Not a good idea. The restaurant business in the DR is much to slipshod in terms of quality and level of service for this to be a viable option. Does the DR have restaurants that are internationally rated and have solid reputations for quality year after year?

What does their level of quality and service compared to the rest of the world to do with it? Most restaurants in SD cater to the local. Most restaurants in SD are owned by only a few people who change name and place of the restaurant ever 4-5 years, knowing how the Dominican public works (everything that is new is good). Their business model is based on it. An bystander might think: another restaurant that opens and will close in a few years, the owner is aware of that possibility and has his calculations done to get his investment back.

What they need is presence online and a clear strategy on marketing in a society where the haves spend more time on social networks than in many developed countries.

 

[donP]

Best Or Else

... i wouldn't recommend anybody marrying someone from a different country.

Many who did (including me) would disagree. :bunny:

....maybe things would have been much easier if i would have married an american.

Maybe... or even much worse. aranoid:

Cheer up!
Now, as your DDD is back in home waters, it might bring out the best in him.
Well, on the other hand...

donP

 

[windeguy]

He did, and I am very stubborn...but I think he should have tried harder and put his foot down.

Even so, and reading everyone, I think it was really our best choice coming here.

Spain no jobs in 7 years. Uk is extremely expensive to live in and it would only be me bringing in good income. DR might not be easy, but if we both get income going we might just be able to make a go of it.

It is disheartning to read all the comments on how getting jobs is next to impossible et al. But I gave away all our stuff or sold it very cheaply. So there is no going back. We are here to make a real go of this. If it doesn't work out, within a year or less I can go and find work in the UK.

In the meantime, I didn't mention that I do have an online business which brings in some cash.

Please tell me what brought you here and keeps you here. There has to be something good to all this. Let's see....

cheap manicures.
can go to the beach in winter (if I have money)
dr1 forum!
my daughter has learnt to use a broom and "suape" and is proving to be highly adaptable.
we gained a family and their support
my daughter has cousins which make up for no sibblings
we can always leave after a few years
....

I agree with you about the Bavaro, Punta Cana area. Might as well be in Florida. It has nice beaches, but is flat and getting built up.

Do you currently have the funds to survive for a few years? If not, I suspect your time here will be short.

The DR is almost certainly not the "best decision" when you need to work for a living. It is a really bad decision when you come here jobless with children.

 

[the gorgon]

I agree with you about the Bavaro, Punta Cana area. Might as well be in Florida. It has nice beaches, but is flat and getting built up.

Do you currently have the funds to survive for a few years? If not, I suspect your time here will be short.

The DR is almost certainly not the "best decision" when you need to work for a living. It is a really bad decision when you come here jobless with children.

well, we have not been told by fingers what her husband?s bona fides and skillsets are, so we do not know how much he can contribute, financially. i am going to give the readers a little sociology lesson about small, developing countries. guys who emigrate from those places, then come back home after years in Los Paises ,are usually dead in the water. the resentments run deep, and trying to get a job becomes really difficult. do not believe for a moment that they will welcome you home with open arms to share the bounty of your newly acquired first world best practices skillsets. they see you as a traitor who has only come back home because you went bust abroad.

 

[windeguy]

well, we have not been told by fingers what her husband?s bona fides and skillsets are, so we do not know how much he can contribute, financially. i am going to give the readers a little sociology lesson about small, developing countries. guys who emigrate from those places, then come back home after years in Los Paises ,are usually dead in the water. the resentments run deep, and trying to get a job becomes really difficult. do not believe for a moment that they will welcome you home with open arms to share the bounty of your newly acquired first world best practices skillsets. they see you as a traitor who has only come back home because you went bust abroad.

I have seen this type of jealousy first hand. And I have also seen Dominicans who leave the DR for greener pastures take on airs of superiority which guarantees hostility when they return. That hostility is not often overt, but part of the closet conversations that happen whenever their names come up.

 

[the gorgon]

I have seen this type of jealousy first hand. And I have also seen Dominicans who leave the DR for greener pastures take on airs of superiority which guarantees hostility when they return. That hostility is not often overt, but part of the closet conversations that happen whenever their names come up.

it is very difficult to go back to the country of your birth after being away for a protracted period of time. that is the precise reason i did not go back to Jamaica. there is no such thing as welcome home, Prodigal Son. you are the sellout, the guy who did not stay home to fight the good fight. you are getting no breaks. they are going to make it tough enough for you to want to leave again.

 

[Berzin]

What does their level of quality and service compared to the rest of the world to do with it? Most restaurants in SD cater to the local. Most restaurants in SD are owned by only a few people who change name and place of the restaurant ever 4-5 years, knowing how the Dominican public works (everything that is new is good). Their business model is based on it. An bystander might think: another restaurant that opens and will close in a few years, the owner is aware of that possibility and has his calculations done to get his investment back.

What they need is presence online and a clear strategy on marketing in a society where the haves spend more time on social networks than in many developed countries.

If you're catering to the domestic market, the Dominican mindset of setting up restaurants, closing them, changing the name and keeping the menu is great. It works well for them, which is why after a couple of months many new places become ghost towns. It's one reason why Dominican food isn't known anywhere in the world as fine dining.

There's no money in promoting these types of businesses, not the type of money the OP needs to make to live well in the DR, and that's the point. So whether you're considering doing marketing for domestic or tourist consumption in the restaurant business, that'sa losinf proposition.

 

[spmc]

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.

I cannot comprehend two educated adults being unable to find work in seven years. This is unimaginable to me.

I wish you the best and hope you can somehow build a life for your child.

 

[Harleysrock]

I cannot comprehend two educated adults being unable to find work in seven years. This is unimaginable to me.

I wish you the best and hope you can somehow build a life for your child.

I can't either, not even trying ever I get offered jobs all the time, HERE!!!!

 

[the gorgon]

I can't either, not even trying ever I get offered jobs all the time, HERE!!!!

yes, Harley, but you are HERE. they were THERE.

 

[Harleysrock]

yes, Harley, but you are HERE. they were THERE.

yes but i got job offers all the time at home too, I just don't understand 7 years of not being able to find a job. Sure it may not be the one you want but there are jobs out there!

 

[KyleMackey]

I cannot comprehend two educated adults being unable to find work in seven years. This is unimaginable to me.

I wish you the best and hope you can somehow build a life for your child.

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