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Living in the DR is cheap
I'm afraid my budget no longer permits me to drink the expensive stuff. I drink Bohemia or Brahama.
Living here in the DR is still a lot, lot cheaper than it would be in the States for us so that's all that matters to me.
I estimate my monthly expenses now with three girls in school to be around RD48,000. The tuitions, phone, internet, power and water run me RD21,000. Church 2400, beer same(good grief I need to work on that), gas 2000, dentist 5000, salon 500, cable 700 which would leave around 14k a month for food and supplies. We don't hardly eat out but the kids snacks, cereal and juice add up. BTW, I don't eat imported food but eat lots of rice, beans, plantain and ham sandwiches. Here is a newer picture of us with me sporting a smaller panza
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I estimate my monthly expenses now with three girls in school to be around RD48,000. The tuitions, phone, internet, power and water run me RD21,000. Church 2400, beer same(good grief I need to work on that), gas 2000, dentist 5000, salon 500, cable 700 which would leave around 14k a month for food and supplies. We don't hardly eat out but the kids snacks, cereal and juice add up. BTW, I don't eat imported food but eat lots of rice, beans, plantain and ham sandwiches. Here is a newer picture of us with me sporting a smaller panza
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you're just a step away from mabi...
seriously, there IS a price difference? after all it is the same company makes nearly all dominican beers apart from quisqeya (which happens to be the one i like the most)...
Easy to make your own ginger beer or other flovours with yeast, sugar etc. About 80 pesos per gallon or less for the strong stuff. Or pineapple wine!
Pineapple - Maui's Winery at Ulupalakua Ranch
winemaking: requested recipe (Pineapple Wines)
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i could make you moonshine at the price of a bag of sugar or a bag of grains. easy peasy. and not illegal here.
even cheaper: nick some sugar cane, squeeze the juice, add yeast, ferment until bubbles stop, boil the liquid in a kettle with a copper pipe firmly attached to the neck. alcohol comes out of the pipe. ready to drink.
even cheaper: nick some sugar cane, squeeze the juice, add yeast, ferment until bubbles stop, boil the liquid in a kettle with a copper pipe firmly attached to the neck. alcohol comes out of the pipe. ready to drink.
In Canada where I live, rent for a two bedroom one bathroom apartment is around $800. Canadian a month, on top of that is electrics of about $225 a month on equal billing. Cable and internet and two cell phones run you $250. a month. Food is expensive here. 15 lbs potatoes is $9.00 whole Chicken is on sale right now at $5.25 a pound, boneless skinless breasts are $7.25 a lb on sale. Green Peppers $1.99 a pound and the red and yellow are $4.99 a pound. Rice is $7.50 for 4 pound box, milk is $6.30 a gallon soda pop is $2,50 for 2 liters. 750ml of water is $1.19 plus 10 cents deposit or no name water is $1.10 a gallon. Bread is $4.00 a loaf for good quality and $3.25 for cheap. bananas are 89 cents a lb oranges are small and tough and $8.00 a dozen, grapes are $3.99 a pound beef is $3.99 a pound for regular ground beef (fatty) can of tomato soup $1.19 chicken noodle is $129. i liter of peanut butter is on sale now for $4.80 this is in Canadian dollars which are running 40 RD to 1 Canadian dollar. Gas is $1.21 a liter so that works out to $4.60 for an american gallon! Then there is car insurance car payment home owners insurance or tenants insurance etc etc. I have a small mortgage on my home I own my Harley and have a new Subaru (financed) so all in it costs me $3,500 Canadian a month to live her or about $140,000 Dominican a month. I live good and I save a lot each month so I can travel to the DR for winter! iI my wife was not so attached to our son (29 yrs old) I would move there permanently. Oh well winters in heaven are better than our hellish winters.
They make and sell moonshine right across the street from our house in DR. Decent size bottle is 60 pesos. Never tried it myself, but the locals love it.
Yes, it makes DR at about $500 a month per person living costs plus outright purchase of a condo or villa near the beach for 50,000 - 150,000 dollars with small investments in solar etc. very good value. Rice is about $2.00 for 4 lbs.
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