The drug usage being talked about is not only regarding tourists. Drug usage by Dominicans is responsible for increases in crime to pay for the drugs.
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A lot of businesses closed in Sosua
The drug usage being talked about is not only regarding tourists. Drug usage by Dominicans is responsible for increases in crime to pay for the drugs.
This right here, cosign..
I cringe when I hear seemingly good Dominican people.. people I kind of respect, just shrug off how a 13 year old they know, got Pregnant, by a much older man, like its no big deal.. " Oh thats just the way it is here. u know"..
People would go APE ***T anywhere else in the 1st word about such blatant sexual abuse..
they just shrug it off..
So please, spare us the Good catholic moral Lectures.
This is exactly the kind of approach they need to think about in Sosua. Worked very well in Cabarete.
Big problem if the lady in question is NOT a prostitute.............................
I know, I know. Her manner of dress, attitude, will be the tell. BUT......................
mmhhhh... coffee shop... edibles... sorry, drifted of a bit
(I don't know anyone either, few of them would not mind a occasional smoke)
It's on the street corners
The other day I was offered marijuana by a motoconcho on the corner next to the Claro tower North of Baileys. Now I'm in my late 60s so no big deal I used pot back in college and since.
But I could have been a tourist and tourists should not be offered drugs openly on the corner - besides we gringos can Network on our own should we want higher quality smoke.
It should not be hawked along with imitation Viagra and currency cambio.
The other day I was offered marijuana by a motoconcho on the corner next to the Claro tower North of Baileys. Now I'm in my late 60s so no big deal I used pot back in college and since.
But I could have been a tourist and tourists should not be offered drugs openly on the corner - besides we gringos can Network on our own should we want higher quality smoke.
It should not be hawked along with imitation Viagra and currency cambio.
When the law was first passed years ago, word spread like wildfire on the internet and the tourist business dropped off significantly in Cabarete. As you observed, most tourists don't even start to go out to the bars and discos until 11pm. Fortunately, the government came to their senses and classified Cabarete a tourist zone and they changed the hours. If they stick to their plan of closing all the bars in Sosua early, they'll turn it into a ghost town.
Sosua has over 80,000 people. They will all turn into ghosts because the bars close up at midnight?
My all time favorite was when I was offered coke, weed and viagara from a guy all while he was taking a pee on the sidewalk.
The government is trying to stop sex tourists from visiting Sosua so the night life will indeed be changed to that end.
The majority of the 80,000 residents of Sosua will some how carry on.
I agree. I know a lovely young Dominicana, law degree and works in that field, but when she goes out at night with her boyfriend I have to SMH at her attire. I could see someone mistaking their relationship.
I think we're talking about two different things(?). If a girl is accompanied by man, there's no problem going into a bar. No one questions their relationship - at least not here in Cabarete.
For those that know and have lived in a successful tourist beach town, Las Terrenas, which is home to a large number of expatriates, mainly Europeans, you will know that especially during weekdays, the main nightlife is restaurants and very few bars stay open late (midnight) in the central tourist part of town. Essentially you have La Bodega, which is a dance hall, and a few small often sparsely populated bars and that is it. Further inland there are a few other drinking/dancing establishments but are mainly frequented by locals and at weekends the two discos near the Fisherman's Village stay open to the early hours.
This model for a small tourist resort, which is full in season and at just about every weekend with visitors from the capital, does work, albeit some of the business community would wish for even better visitor numbers in the off season. It is a fun successful holiday destination for a broad range of visitors. Bar businesses tend to struggle though.
For those that have enquiring minds, it is not difficult to find an accomplice with whom to enjoy some of your vacation , if that is what your holiday plans entail, and you don't get hassled day or night by sex workers even in the dance hall mentioned nor does one see much drunkenness.
Tell me why Sosua cannot adapt to the models of Las Terrenas or indeed Cabarete? You need the middle class Dominicans to come at weekends for sure.
Good example. That sounds like the plan the government has in mind for Sosau.
The whore mongers are certain Sosua cannot survive without them.
Also, I have been told that the primary consumer are Dominicans themselves. They are the smart ones. They go indoors where the ladies are checked and no one would be the wiser.
Plus, I have only been to Sosua once and I wanted to throw up at the quality of whores that were walking and parading their skanky selves.
Even in red light districts in other countries, the ladies of the night do business indoors.