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Gated Communities
Have you had any issues with situation you currently have? Was it hard to find good help, did you have to go through many to find the ones you currently imploy?
Sorry to hear about your dogs, losing them has always been hard for me. My old neighbor trained dogs in Vietnam. He told me to train them to only eat out of their bowls only. Was great advice something I would never have thought off. Silly question did you ever catch them?
Did they poison them just so they could rob you? Or for other reasons?
Not really..... this gardener is my 2nd... been here now w/ me 11 yrs or so
His wife does the house
Night watchmen are more difficult but you could always use an agency...they're armed
I don't use them b/c they rotate people.... confuses the dogs
not sure, they barked at strangers, and growled at drunks, but as far as I know never bite anyone. Everyone on the street liked them. Nobody has been robbed. It's a busy and well lite street, even when the power is off.
I'm not sure. It was a couple of Haitian kids a neighbor happened to see coming out of the house. The neighbor chased after them with a shotgun and they jumped in the river. He fired at them but never saw them come back up, so he had no idea if he hit them or not, but he thought he did.
We had a video of the guy throwing salami into the front yard. A clear face shot of him driving a white Camry. No luck there either.
The absurdity of it all was they took mainly electronics; an Apple computer, a Dell laptop, three cel phones and a cordless phone and some jewelry (My fathers gold watch he got when he retired in the 40's, and some gold chains)
Such is life.
Getting robbed is a terrible feeling. Someone going through your shit really gets you pissed off. Sounds like you have good neighbors. We're you able to recover anything?
I wish I could say I did, but unfortunately no. What's funny is they didn't take my Parker Sterling silver pen/pencil sets which is worth more than the other stuff. lol
There are plenty of gated communities in DR where the richest live. I would include most of the towers in Santo Domingo in this, a lot of them have serious levels of security and there is no way to get in unless you are geninely visiting someone. We can then add areas like Casa de Campo and Cap Cana, again both gated and both have serious levels of security. And there are many many more.
Regarding the OP's question, areas like Las Galeras IMO are generally considered safe enough and small enough not to need gated communities. Nice to visit but I cannot imagine why anyone would want to live there, I don't think they even have a supermarket.
Regarding the OP's question, areas like Las Galeras IMO are generally considered safe enough and small enough not to need gated communities. Nice to visit but I cannot imagine why anyone would want to live there, I don't think they even have a supermarket.
People live there for what they DON'T have, like lots of noise and traffic and crime. We also have three small supermarkets. If you want some items, then you need to make the occasional trip to Samana or Las Terrenas. We also have two ferreterias. One of them has a larger store in Las Terrenas and they will ship anything you want to Las Galeras if they do not have it. There is also a Comercial de Leon that has a little bit of everything. We also have a new wood shop that will make anything you want out of wood. They recently sawed some logs for me so I can use the lumber for a few projects. We have high speed fiber internet, rental cars, a few good restaurants, calm beaches with clean water and a new Texaco gas station. It is missing a few things, but it is OK, we will survive. The best advice I got was from a cocky French guy in Las Terrenas the first time I came to the island in 2005. I asked him for a donut, and when I could not believe they had no donuts or pastries he said "here, you need to learn to adapt"
I prefer less crowded areas, rural so to speak. I like the solitude most of the time. Plus those places you mention to expensive for me. Safety is also at the top of the list don't mind traveling a bit to buy stuff.
As long as the walls were far enough away from Your dwelling. So you don't get that feeling of being in prison. Or landscaped in such a way.
Yes I did. I enjoy visiting cities but I would not want to live there. That is my preference but I would not try to convince someone that it is better.
Or just move to Santo Domingo or Santiago. I've always lived in the capital and can't believe how noisy the countryside is compared to living here. And I think if you live in a tower and you use Uber to get around, it's as safe as living anywhere else.
I guess it's "horses for courses" as they say. I get bored on the beach after a couple of days, I cannot imagine how dreary it would be to live in some nothing little place with hardly any shops and just the beach to walk up and down. But some people seem to love it.