I think most people think that ricardo is only talking about lamas or ochoas etc. He is simply talking about the upper middle class folks. People who own a decent house in a respectable area and own late model cars and hold respectable paying jobs. These people are almost always decently educated thus, no need to be impressed with a dollor spending gringo. They do OK at their own pace.
These are the girls that you would want to hook up with. The girls who work at verizon's main office, tricom main office (not call centers or cell repair shops), the girls who work at banks, in administration offices of companies etc etc. these are the girls you will not meet walking down the street in the afternoon looking for a bola (lift, with thumb sticking out) from strangers or go to bars alone looking available. They will not just date you because you are a foreigner and have a visa to offer her. I can never take a girl seriously if she doesn't work or doesn't have a decent job. The girls who work at beauty salons, Bancas de apuestas are almost all trashy. I say if you can't pin point a trashy girl from a decent classy girl then don't even read any further. You will not know what I am talking about. The trashy girls don't have jobs and are always short on cash. they never have minutes in their cell to call you, they never have money to take cabs, conchos to go anywhere. They have no clue where to even look for a job. They make a date with you then turn off their cell phones and disappear. They never say "no" but always cancel on you the last minute. They have a huge bag with a ton of problems inside. Their lives are a mess. They usually come from broken up families and live with a cousin, tia or a friend in a one room hooker motel. ete etc etc. Do I have to tell more?
these are the types of girls most foreigners hook up with. Then the same foreigners make fun of dominican ways.
Now if you are young enough (not looking like her grand dad), you can at least begin to look in the right direction. Do not go to sleazy bars, carwashes or tourist bars looking for love. The girls who work in tourists areas in small bars and restaurants are all low class bitches. They are nothing but problems.
Now if you date a girl who is from a middle class family and works and lives with a whole family then chances are you will be a happy camper. The middle to upper middle class girls are labeled snobby because they do not pay attention to gringos or their cheap talk. They are in fact, are the most friendliest types you will find anywhere. Just learn to speak spanish and you will be all set. Learn to dress well, behave well in public places, be respectable and show respect to the girl and the customs of the country. Do not act like you are a foreigner and everyone should worship you. This will not work here in santiago.
So from now on, look for girls in banks, big corporation offices ex: verizon, tricom, grupo M (office level girls) etc and find out where they go to have fun. Then go to those places ex: francifol cafe, tribecca bar, ahibar restaurant / cafe, hang out in plaza internacional, shop at super market nacional and talk to girls who are shopping along side to you, join a gym, become friends with respectable dominican families and have them invite you their their social parties, get to know married dominican guys and let their wives set you up with decent girls, go hang out in PUCMM university etc etc, the possibilties are endless. The decent girls are all around you and waiting for a nice guy to take them away from their loneliness.
Now when you are going out with a girl who is a lawyer, doctor or simply holds a good job or from a good family, you will notice, that your life will become 100% more easy. Here is an example: My doctor girlfriend has visa to go to USA, she can talk to people of all kinds of educational levels. She is not impressed with fancy cars, resorts or huge houses. her family has all that so she doesn't need to date a guy who can impress her with wealth. She always comes to me in taxi or family car. I never have to give her a thing ex: buy her family an inverter, send money for this and that, look for a job, send her to school or get her a visa etc etc. She has it all.
Now if I can find someone like that, why is anyone having any trouble? I am a simple average looking guy with average IQ. if I can do it, so can many of you.
AZB