i was going to post about the non-existence of lots.
The Jardines IS going commercial. There are only 7 families along our street and of the 7, only two live in dwelling with no commercial attachment. When we moved here, there were 22 families...and even the side streets are sprouting offices and shops and restaurants.
Good Luck
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Same thing happening in Villa Olga! The main avenue looks more like Calle del Sol than a residential one...
The last lot left for sale, I think was asking about the same as a house here. What's happening is that many single family homes are being razed to build multiple floor ones. The only people that don't sell to these developers are us the old residents, too attached to the Villa to move to someplace you know nobody around.
But things are changing too rapidly as of late and the trend is to ask as much as your soul feels will satisfy the loss and move on...
I can count old residents like us with my two hands, soon to be done with one and a lot of free fingers while at it.
I'm strongly thinking about using my genius and building that long ago promised home to myself, in our empty lot in los cerros de gurabo. But again, a home is looking too big for me at this point in time for the future. Where the heck do old farts like us live our golden (extra time) years?
Every time we make the trip to Casa de Campo, it feels more like work than rest at a resort. I know many will think I'm crazy, but it does feel like you're living in a hotel and not "home".
Buying land in Santiago is like pulling a perfectly healthy tooth out, that's w/o any pain numbing shot...
I think that the best thing to do for anybody is to rent for some time before you buy and get stuck someplace, which could turn into a nightmare later for your family.
As the poster indicated above, Jardines Metropolitanos is turning into a commercial sector more than not. Hardly a place you want to invest into a home for living a family style.
I can still recall the only commercial stores in Villa Olga! The Supermercado Familiar (or Fello's supermarket as we called it). The farmacia Villa Olga. The Colmado San Martin between Calle 2 and 3. The Colmado El Puntico in between called 10 and 11. Another mini market on Calle 11 going towards the Villa Los Hidalgos and the mini supermarket on calle 10 roundabout with Rincon Largo street. There were two more colmados one in calle 9(going towards rincon largo) and the other one briefly on calle 10.
That's the streets behind the Familiar Supermarket.
Today is almost impossible to count the biz in Villa Olga, they seem to pop up out of nowhere all the time!
Who could forget the "Verbenas" at the San Martin de Porres church!!!
All that nice family living is gone with the wind!
La Zurza has forever been identified as the place for returning Dominicans to settle. So much so that I can recall they nicknamed it "Dominicanyorkland"!!! Some of the early house designs seemed taken from an episode of the hillbillies...
