Excellent posts Facepalm I was thinking of posting the same exact things that you have stated. I was especially irked by the “Me First statement“ as the poster is the one who thinks they are entitled to change things to suit themselves. Seems like everyday someone comes on these forums and posts things that need to be changed in DR. Well guess what you should have thought about all the things that bother you before you moved to the DR. I guess I should consider myself lucky to have true dominicans as neighbors not like all the whiners and complainer’s on here.
Exactly that.
I live with solely Dominican neighbours at our PC place and of course the same on the Finca out in the wild, lol.
And living in such neighbourhoods is trouble free.
In the large residency of the Condo there are also Expats and mixed marriages foreigners living nearby,
very most are on the same route to fit fine and love what the DR is about, the few who sometimes wanna run a complaint to our Management or Landlord(Thanks God both full dominican, lol) got to feel quickly who rules the DR and by what rules it is run, so they adjusted over time or been moving very quickly, which never been a loss for our DR Neighbourhoods.
And I have to add that we are in my surroundings not some simple always bothering barrio dog kinda people (and even of those I name many a friend and come completely along fine with 'em as opposed to many Expats), we run our own companies, some in tourism, others in constructions, since decades living here as management of hotels etc etc, but what some new to the country "entitled" think they should change to OUR neighbourhood after they moved in here a few weeks ago, well, that's when I always carry a (unloaded) shotgun around when i wander between Condo and pool to get a new fill for the beer fridge by the pool, and my other long time neighbours do the same way. It usually does the trick and our management guy notices right away that complaints get revoked.
Lol, he is also part of the neighbourhood, sure he is dominican.
Before you decide to move to Rome, learn Italian,
before you decide to move into a dominican neighbourhood, do your research homework about how a dominicaan neighbourhood is run/how to live in there, or stay the fock back home in Kansas.
Happy Valentine's to all.
PS, who has not a red or pink shirt or costume on today, did still not arrive in his/her DR neighbourhood.