Ah ! Santo Domingo ! Another world.......
I always wonder about people telling me about electricity and cable TV, internet, cellphone bills, etc...... ( in real life, not on dr1 ).
They are always like 9k pesos for la luz ! And i am like, dang you must live in a mansion in the middle of a park with 11 fountains........ nope......
Either its an exaggeration, or
edelsud ( or whatever ede-something operates down there ), charges exhorbitant rates....... or the whole barrio or appartmemt block is hijacking their electricity lol....... or A/C is really a scam by electricity companies.
With edenorte, i am sad when it goes above 2k pesos lol.......and thats with a pool, a water pump, an electric water heater ( not used that much ), a gazillion lights ( even though most of the outside ones are solar now ), a fridge, a freezer, etc....... oh and a battery bank of 8, which thankfullly is hardly in use nowadays. A/C is never used...... it even gets cold at night ! ( thats karma for having acces to a mcdonalds, you get to live ontop of each other and burn in the heat
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