Recent content by ChelseaRose

depends on your definition of comfortably. I'm assuming you mean for one person. Do you expect to live in Punta Cana within walking distance of the beach, drive an SUV, go out to eat at decent restaurants and drink something other than local rum? Probably not. Do you expect to live in a...

I am continually confounded why basic traffic laws aren't enforced here. The police would line their coffers with gold and *hopefully* bring some order to the streets. Seems like it would be like shooting fish in a barrel - they wouldn't even break a sweat. Same for illegal parking on...

HOORAY for new green space in the city. Can't wait to go check this out in person. I really hope everyone works to keep it clean and free of trash.

Tax incentives to businesses to create new jobs for the region - but with wages so low a worker won't be able to afford the basic food basket??? Why? Seems like a boondoggle for these businesses, a huge miss for the government, and no good options for the local residents.

I wonder how well the old wood of those two barns will adjust to the intense humidity of the island… not to mention the wood boring insects! I’ve never seen an airstream on the island - must have shipped that too!

(here's the article autotranslated in case anyone want to go to the source) Outcasts of the Caribbean TOUCHSTONE. The ruling of the Constitutional Court of the Dominican Republic on the case of Juliana Regis Pierre is a nonsense that denies nationality to the children of irregular immigrants...

Here's the translation of the line from the opinion piece published in El Pais in 2013 that has everyone's panties in such a bunch: "The ruling of the Dominican Constitutional Court is a legal aberration and seems directly inspired by the famous Hitler laws of the 1930s issued by Nazi German...

Kids need comprehensive sex ed in schools - not just abstinence "education". Especially in el campo - how readily available is birth control to teenagers, really? If young women don't know there's something called the morning after pill available to them, then why would they bother searching...

I recently had to rescue my motorcycle from this place (after my husband was run over in a hit an run while riding it, and couldn't find the paperwork while he was in the back of an ambulance with a broken arm). What a shitshow it was! They couldn't find my bike - had to look all over for it...

soooo.... the quality of education that students receive in public schools is so poor that they fail at the university level and cannot pass the teacher certification for public schools. Therefore they propose to lower the standard for the teacher certification? Sounds like a race to the...

...you can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink...

Connecting at Centro de los Heroes and heading to Hania, that most likely wouldn't go near to Bella Vista. Instead it would potentially serve all of the communities between Parque Mirador Sur and the Malecon unless it's express to Haina. Sounds like an awesome idea to me - even if it is a pipe...

I run or ride my bicycle on the Malecon regularly. The trucks make it uninhabitable, really. Which is such a shame because of all the money the government has thrown into making the Malecon a nice place for pedestrians! The stretch west of Maximo Gomez would be especially lovely if it wasn't...

Wow @Auryn this is all really fascinating - makes me want to find a couple of books and dig into the subject, too! Thank you for posting the information you've found! Are you digging this up from the internet, or other sources?

If you do the math with the numbers thrown out here: the 2,338.68 / month increase, if they're working 4 weeks @ 55 hrs/wk comes to about 10.5 pesos per hour raise. That's US 20 cents.