hey Lambada,
don't worry about the posts number #7 and #9,
like you anyways mentioned Robert took partly care of it (thanks to the really great working DR admin stuff compared to other forums where you have to wait days for a result), and the regulars anyways know how to ignore such.
this is a interesting thread and i think we will make it a long one.
at least the theme is worth it.
sure it is handled from spot to spot different,
my north coast experience is far gone, soi bring in just my actual one here on the east coast in PC from the last 13 years, and just mine and only for our residence.
i live with wifey and son (5) and doughter(12) on the beautiful ocean front of this side of the island.
the residence is a small one, around 50 appartments over all of different sizes.
we are a mixture of everything,
i am myself german with dominican wife,
i know in the same residence 2 more germans(both mostly 'solo'), 5 dominican couples, 10 dominican /expats mixed families, 1 haitian family in the Villa right aside, many Italians(the residence is Italian owned, but surprisingly not italian dominated), we have a great aministration, no association(sp??), the very most of the people live here in the residence since a long while, changes are rare, but til today i think i don't know half of the neighbours.
yes, i know most of the kidies because i am with my own boy nearly every day on the beach and he presents me his friends/neighbours, ha ha, yeap, even a 5 years olds reminds ya sometimes about what you missed yourself since a while just for 'working working working', but we are not organized in any way, and i do not see a reason for such. we have within the residence our rules, they've been made long before i moved in myself, like at what time of the morning the garbage has to be out to get collected, what is a reasonable noise level of your music/TV/friends visit, how to behave when having a 'fun in the sun' afternoon on the 'nearly private beach' with friends.
none of those rules ever semed 'strange' to me, because til today they are very close to what my parents at home teached me about 'behavior in the world'.
i am just a grown up country boy and many may think different to me.
but i def would move out of here the day they start to organize the spot like a "province/gobernor's place' or such, i would hate that.
we have a bit louder 'birthday parties' aso once in a while,
yes, that can bother when you have to get up 5AM like i do often,
but he..,
everybody is invited,
everybody takes care of each other,
so once in a while i don't get my needed sleep.
so what???
it has been stolen by the neighbour who threw last sunday afternoon for 2hrs in front of my house the baseball on the beach for my son while i turned over some fish filets on the BBQ.
should i say "hey Roberto, let's make a asociation" to stop your noise"???
hell,
when people need such to live near to each others i think they stopped living a while ago, or never lived.
when you plan your final destin(who knows how often we will change before reaching the final?), just check who's there and how their way of life goes, if you don't like it you are far from your destin, go on searching.
just the 2 cents of the fisherman
to the theme of organisations.
sorry, but i hate them for their details.
Mike