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Safety in DR
Sounds like we'll be new neighbors soon.
All of the above exellent advice.
I've been here for three years permanently now. Visited twice before but then just jumped and never left. Spent about 1-1/2 years renting at various places before I found the place I wanted to buy and live in permanently.
Never had any trouble opening a bank account I personally, and I and my Dominican wife together have several both in dollars and pesos with both Bancredito and Banco Popular. All I had to do was show them the money and my passport. No problem. But I don't use those accounts much today because of the instability of the peso. We use other foreign accounts for the money and then either write checks to exchange houses or ATM cards.
As to safety, we're out in the hills between Sosua and Cabarete and really don't feel threatened here. The local girls can be a problem sometimes but generally only if you're in a bar or disco late at night. The local guys bother my wife, too, a little, but as was said it's just nothing more than a few comments easily ignored. Dominicans a generally very friendly people - when they're not behind the whell of a car that is.
Enjoy and Welcome!
Tom & Alba
All of the above exellent advice.
I've been here for three years permanently now. Visited twice before but then just jumped and never left. Spent about 1-1/2 years renting at various places before I found the place I wanted to buy and live in permanently.
Never had any trouble opening a bank account I personally, and I and my Dominican wife together have several both in dollars and pesos with both Bancredito and Banco Popular. All I had to do was show them the money and my passport. No problem. But I don't use those accounts much today because of the instability of the peso. We use other foreign accounts for the money and then either write checks to exchange houses or ATM cards.
As to safety, we're out in the hills between Sosua and Cabarete and really don't feel threatened here. The local girls can be a problem sometimes but generally only if you're in a bar or disco late at night. The local guys bother my wife, too, a little, but as was said it's just nothing more than a few comments easily ignored. Dominicans a generally very friendly people - when they're not behind the whell of a car that is.
Enjoy and Welcome!
Tom & Alba
Re: Cabarete Marmite Factory
I don't know how much marmite expat Brits can eat but expat South African's can eat 8 HUGE JARS!
with no problems! Sound like one of those jokes - A brit, a south african and an australian met in the pub ......
cadaha, I think your thread has encovered a stash of marmite right here close to me. I will certainly help Peter & Alex eat theirs if they are in a sharing mood.
Be sure to pop in at the reunion on the 18th - if you need someone to show you where it is, I'm sure it can be arranged. Have a good flight.
Peter & Alex said:
I don't know how much marmite expat Brits can eat but expat South African's can eat 8 HUGE JARS!
with no problems! Sound like one of those jokes - A brit, a south african and an australian met in the pub ......cadaha, I think your thread has encovered a stash of marmite right here close to me. I will certainly help Peter & Alex eat theirs if they are in a sharing mood.
Be sure to pop in at the reunion on the 18th - if you need someone to show you where it is, I'm sure it can be arranged. Have a good flight.
Eddy's
We'll be there, especially if there is anyone kind enough to show us how to get there - <b>hint</b>
You can't miss us, we'll be the pasty white folks in the corner unless we've been in the sun the day before and then we'll be the luminous red ones in the corner. So no back slapping!!!!!aranoid:
We'll be there, especially if there is anyone kind enough to show us how to get there - <b>hint</b>
You can't miss us, we'll be the pasty white folks in the corner unless we've been in the sun the day before and then we'll be the luminous red ones in the corner. So no back slapping!!!!!
aranoid:Re: Eddy's
Enter Sosua at the Texaco station. Turn right at the first corner 1/2 block away. Turn left two blocks later on the corner with a BanReservas and SuperSuper Liquor store on the left side of the street. Eddie's is just past the Sosua Muncipal building on the right side of the street about midway through the block.
cadaha said:
Enter Sosua at the Texaco station. Turn right at the first corner 1/2 block away. Turn left two blocks later on the corner with a BanReservas and SuperSuper Liquor store on the left side of the street. Eddie's is just past the Sosua Muncipal building on the right side of the street about midway through the block.
Jan, I'm a dominican that grew up around zona colonial and barrio San Anton in STDGO. I live in USA now, but after reeding many posts curious myself to find out what foreigners -specially americans- think about us dominicans and our country in general, I think you and some others long time residents talk about things the way they are and not "the way the State Dept say they are".Jan said:
I live in USA now and there are a lot of places I wouldn't even think of going. The best way, like you say, is to make lots of dominican friends and realize that there are good ones and bad ones in every country. Also I would advise not to compare your own country with DR. Just learn about DR as much as you can and don't forget that things are done in a different way and there is a lot of room for improvement. Don't act like a tourist or foreigner, do like dominicans do and you'll be fine.