AK74,
You've obviously got your own agenda and even though your posts make almost no sense, to me anyway, I guess you're entitled to your opinion...but it would be really nice if you could actually support it.
Perhaps you should start your own thread instead of hijacking other's threads.
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On the other hand, the OP hasn't even come back yet to answer my question from post 4 in this thread.
Clearly, AK47 feels slighted by some hotel/rest. owner who allegedly raised his prices too high for his liking.
Although his arguments are completely invalid, I do see how they make sense to him, like the part about the rooms that "doubled" in price without the hotel owner having improved them or changed furniture, so he perceives it as gouging.
What few people from the outside know is that this increase had been anticipated and expected, you might even say prayed for by all who wanted the country to survive.
At the end of the Hippo's reign in terror, those of us who were living here, knew full well that the next President's job was going to be really tough, to repair the damage left behind.
We weren't even sure if it could be done and seriously worried about the country bankrupting and being followed by a revolution and becoming another Haiti.
All of our governments in the past have been corrupt and will surely continue to be so, but Hippo's gang took it to a new level, with "expenditures" grossly surpassing "incoming money".
Anyone who wants to argue that point, need not bother.
We know it happened, we lived through it, we saw the pesos go crazy and we watched the collapse.
Now we are trying to recover and are paying and will continue to pay, to save the country.
Sosua is cheaper than any other tourist town in the country, further negating AK's arguments.
Furthermore, his assessment of the economy in the days of the Germans "controlling" Sosua is so far off base that it is quite apparent that he has little info on the matter.
I was here in those days and I still remember the prices, and I can tell you this.
It cost more to rent a motorbike 20 years ago than it does today, and that's not even taking the dollar's devaluation into account.
Real estate still has not reached the highs we saw back in the "days of the Germans".
Imported goods were substantially more expensive in those days too.
Again, anyone who cares to dispute these facts, need not bother.
I was here and I still remember the prices.
I can even tell you how much my first TV cost, what brand it was and what it was worth in Canada or the US at that time.
We proportionately paid more then, than we do now.
Furthermore, Sosua had fewer services in those days, so the operating costs were far lesser than they are now, which helps to explain AK's hotel example of the rising room price.
What has shot up in price is fuel and everything related to it, but that's an international thing.