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[Keith R]

Re: Keith: Mirador Sur/Cacicazgos

Pib,

I know which street you're talking about -- used to pass through it on foot (yes, Dominicans thought I was crazy for walking so much when I had a car!) or car -- gave up on using my bicycle on such streets (nearly hit too many times). Between Privada and the former SuperDominicano supermarket I sometimes went to (now bankrupt).

The loud music at colmado Jose Nepo (on Enriquillo between Caonabo & Rosario) was from the vehicles stopping there, not from the colmado itself. Nepo at least respected the neighbors enough not to encourage loud & rowdy behavior, but he could only control his patrons so much...
Regards,
Keith

 

[Natasha]

Re: noisy Santo Domingo...

My family lives on Ernesto de la Masa (parallel to Bolivar/Betancourt). In the "old" days, that area used to be called simply Mirador Sur, but now some people prefer to call it, ahem, "Bella Vista". For as long as I can remember, we used to have a family owned corner colmado on our block of the street. It has not turned into a colmadon...yet.

Regards,
Natasha (who thinks SUVs are a nuisance )

 

["The Tourist Watcher"]

Re: Tony, Cmon Down!

Tony: I thought my elementary school economic disertation concluded that you could live in DR and that in some circumstances it would be a good income. Just check the chart I showed where it places people in different categories and it will give you some idea of where you would fit. Cmon down and try it. You might like it. Plus you may find a way to subsidize your income with other ventures.
TW

 

["The Tourist Watcher"]

Re: noisy Santo Domingo...

Dominicans create their own problems. For instance, they complain about noise by colmados and colmadones, yet they patronize them. They order their groceries and water from them and have it delivered. They do the same with farmacies. I have never bought a product from a colmado or colmadon and never will. I do not have anything delivered to my home by these people. Even if I order a pizza, I do not let the pizza man into my doorstep. I meet him outside.

I do not want to see weird people around my place, nor let them walk into my house. I see how people let these water delivery boys enter their homes as if they were members of their families. Then one day, someone cleans their whole apartment and wonder why.

I have never lived in a neighborhood where there is a colmado or colmadon within five blocks around. This is my first requirement in seeking housing. I would not move into a building where people hang their clothes in balconies. I have blocked out every single parking space around my building with metal poles. I fenced in areas where stragglers, chauffeurs and passersbys would sit under the shadows. I cut a tree that offered shadows so no one could sit there. If everybody protected their properties this way we would have no colmados or arrabales.

TW

 

[Angie]

Re: noisy Santo Domingo...

i know what a colmado is, but what's a colmadon?

 

["The Tourist Watcher"]

Re: noisy Santo Domingo...

Colmadon is a big colmado blasting bachata music almost 24 hrs. a day with many people sitting outside on the sidewalk in cheap plastic tables drinking beer, playing dominoes and just looking for trouble. Women who pass by will get harassed to death and might get their behinds nipped. Drugs are easily available, they have slot machines. They are mostly low class joints.

There are some "high class" colmadones for upper income people, like the Dume Colmadones, the colmadon at UTESA University and La Venganza. But the effect is all the same. Bad taste all the way.

TW

 

[Angie]

Re: noisy Santo Domingo...

oh ok, i know what you're talking about. i kinda like them, they add something unique & zesty to the city experience. and the one on ortega y gasset near the park has some mighty fine tostones (i guess that's the stand outside it, not the colmadon.)