Living Costs in the Dominican Republic

[yapask1]

There are lots of campo built style furniture.. both in pine and rattan and even fine woods. Mattresses, furniture, and used everything is available. The Dominicans can keep things in service forever it seems. Which is amazing to me.

Driftwood, coconut shells, dried gourds and other fruit, coconut shells make great ornamental furniture and fittings without contributing significantly to the cost of living. People also make other conrete furniture, sinks, drainers at low cost.

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Wood for moulds can be used again and again.

yapask1

 

[DRob]

Driftwood, coconut shells, dried gourds and other fruit, coconut shells make great ornamental furniture and fittings without contributing significantly to the cost of living.

yapask1

Thanks for the insight. Please tell Ginger nothing personal, but I'm just more attracted to Mary Ann.

As we return from the world of liver and semolina sandwiches from the kids, solar cookers and personal nuclear reactors, can we focus on realistic, mainstream living expenses? For people who do NOT enjoy living in huts and waiting all day for the sun to finish cooking their coconut soup?

Again, this extremist/survivalist stuff really belongs in Chip's http://www.dr1.com/forums/living/102930-living-dr-cheap.html thread.

Yapaski/yannadu/pi2/whatever, you're not making any headway in posting the same old stuff over and over in here. I mean, we get it. Coconuts make good bowls for seaweed soup.

 

[keepcoming]

I always thought of "ornamental coconut" things just those cheap, tacky souvenirs you bring back to friends and family.:classic:

 

[MikeFisher]

I always thought of "ornamental coconut" things just those cheap, tacky souvenirs you bring back to friends and family.:classic:

think Seaweed, as Yapask or what ever it is named now.
you can hang it around your neck as ornaments to look perfectly funny to the rest of the world, and afterwards you can make a great soup or fantastic rissotto a la Weedy out of it.
think Seaweed, it's cheap, specially when cooked on a solar driven ricecooker and for the best taste After my chihuahua had fun in it as every morning when I walk her for her "stuff" on our beach, can collect some for ya if you need more.

Mike

 

[PeterInBrat]

I like the wall sconces and table lights they make out of gourds, but the Gilligan's Island furniture has got to go. I wouldn't mind the Mary Ann/Daisy Duke's on some of the local girls though..

 

[yapask1]

Sorry, I was just following up ma's point. I am sure I have not mentioned concrete furniture before. $500 a month per person is well within the range of expendiures quoted by various people on this thread once a condo or villa is purchased.
My opinion is that it is not cheap good food etc.



Some gringos working nomal jobs in the DR do so on $250 a month.

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Concrete furniture is not attacked by insects and is very heavy and difficult to steal. My 10 foot 3 cupboard sideboard is concrete and it takes 4 men to lift it.

It has a nice polished surface.

Also my sink and cooking area is concrete. In addition to ma's furniture well reccommended for someone setting up in the DR.

Furniture that lasts a long time makes a contribution to saving the planet.

Also use coconut in place of hardwood.

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yapask1

 

[Criss Colon]

Maybe if you switched from a "Tin Foil hat", to a coconut palm hat you would would lower your "Carbon Footprint"!
Don't think the reception from deep space would compare to "Foil" however.
Those First world web sites don't say much about the DR??????
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[MikeFisher]

Gringos working NORMAL jobs for $250.- per month??
well, they darn sure cook on a solar cooker, run a private miniAtomPowerplant and of course they On the place where they try to live without starving to dead. sure they watch movies on a cocnut fire driven big flatscreen, sound slike the Caribbean Gringo dream to me.

Mike

 

[yapask1]

I have cookeed eggs and salami with a hastily constructed aluminium foil solar oven and it tasted great. With ground corn bread.

As for the night and sunset - somone strumming guitar or playing a mouth organ while dusky maidens frolic in the waves with a backdrop of the srtting sun and pour homebrew ... sounds way above the average Hollywood movie.

Yes a normal bar job pays 8-10,000 peso a month plus tips. Free main meal. Tips. Many gringos from Colombia, etc. take this as first job up the hotel management ladder.

yapask1

 

[dv8]

(...) playing a mouth organ (...) dusky maidens frolic in the waves (...)

i am pretty sure you cannot afford a dusky maiden to play your organ or to frolic anything anywhere near you...

anyway, i cannot help to quote:

I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.

I do not think that they will sing to me.

I have seen them riding seaward on the waves
Combing the white hair of the waves blown back
When the wind blows the water white and black.

We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.

 

[yapask1]

I have found that a large bottle of rum bought with some gringo friends goes a long way in joining a Dominican beach party.
Let's dance the night away......

Still no ninja mermaids - sorry!

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yapask1

 

[dv8]

i think what a large bottle of ron brings you is a deep, deep sleep and a wet dream about them frolicking maidens...

 

[yapask1]

Play cat and mouse....

yapask1

 

[dv8]

or whisper to yourself, quietly:

No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;
Am an attendant lord, one that will do
To swell a progress, start a scene or two,
Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,
Deferential, glad to be of use,
Politic, cautious, and meticulous;
Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;
At times, indeed, almost ridiculous—
Almost, at times, the Fool.

 

[La Mariposa]

I have cookeed eggs and salami with a hastily constructed aluminium foil solar oven and it tasted great. With ground corn bread.

As for the night and sunset - somone strumming guitar or playing a mouth organ while dusky maidens frolic in the waves with a backdrop of the srtting sun and pour homebrew ... sounds way above the average Hollywood movie.

Yes a normal bar job pays 8-10,000 peso a month plus tips. Free main meal. Tips. Many gringos from Colombia, etc. take this as first job up the hotel management ladder.

yapask1

What????????????????????? did I hear you well????????? you have an organ in your
mouth????????????????

 

[dv8]

all i know is that i do not want his mouth anywhere near my organ.

 

[yapask1]

ts was fond of dirges ......

[video=youtube;3tqK5zQlCDQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tqK5zQlCDQ[/video]

good for you to whisper .....

<dd>Full fathom five your Bleistein lies</dd><dd>Under the flatfish and the squids.</dd><dl><dd>Graves' Disease in a dead Jew's eyes!</dd><dd>Where the crabs have eat the lids</dd><dd>. . .</dd></dl>Silently you think to yoursef.....

This is the dead land
This is cactus land
Here the stone images
Are
raised, here they receive
The supplication of a dead man's hand
Under the
twinkle of a fading star.

Is it like this
In death's other
kingdom
Waking alone
At the hour when we are
Trembling with
tenderness
Lips that would kiss
Form prayers to broken stone.



yapask1

or whisper to yourself, quietly:

No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;
Am an attendant lord, one that will do
To swell a progress, start a scene or two,
Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,
Deferential, glad to be of use,
Politic, cautious, and meticulous;
Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;
At times, indeed, almost ridiculous?
Almost, at times, the Fool.

 

[mountainannie]

I like the wall sconces and table lights they make out of gourds, but the Gilligan's Island furniture has got to go. I wouldn't mind the Mary Ann/Daisy Duke's on some of the local girls though..

well I have a rocking chair that I bought on the side of the road near Jimani which is going in the back of the pick up with me to Belledare.. it is a CLEAR and certain work of art.. all hand made. All gorgeous.

Cost me about 4000 pesos..

Not the cheap imitation stuff whic\h is most likely imported from the far east.

but hand hewn bamboo and pine and woven sorta hemp.. what is that stuff?

 

[Criss Colon]

No "Maidens",but at least he can get the "Seaweed" part!
Now I know why he wears the "Tin Foil Hat"!
To make an "Improvised Solar Cooker"!
I prefer to buy a conventional oven, and rent a few "Maidens" for an hour or two.
Beats drinking on the beach with a bunch of screaming Dominican Drunks!
UNLESS, you are a "Drunken Limey", that is!
"If The "Chancleta" Fits, WEAR IT!
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"10,000 pesos a month working in a Beach Bar."
THAT could happen!
On the way up to being a "Hotel Manager"??????????????
"Not-So-Much"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Although many former DR "Limpia Botas"(Shoe Shine Boys) are now managing huge shoe factories in Spain, Italy, and Brazil!
At least in "Xanadudu, Y2, and "PI$$-your-Panski" "Landia"!

 

[yapask1]

No "Maidens",but at least he can get the "Seaweed" part!
Now I know why he wears the "Tin Foil Hat"!
To make an "Improvised Solar Cooker"!
I prefer to buy a conventional oven, and rent a few "Maidens" for an hour or two.
Beats drinking on the beach with a bunch of screaming Dominican Drunks!
UNLESS, you are a "Drunken Limey", that is!
"If The "Chancleta" Fits, WEAR IT!
CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC
____________________________________________________________________________-
"10,000 pesos a month working in a Beach Bar."
THAT could happen!
On the way up to being a "Hotel Manager"??????????????
"Not-So-Much"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Although many former DR "Limpia Botas"(Shoe Shine Boys) are now managing huge shoe factories in Spain, Italy, and Brazil!
At least in "Xanadudu, Y2, and "PI$$-your-Panski" "Landia"!

Kite surfing is good to watch as well. When there are Dominican festivals there are concerts on the beach.

yapask1