Since living in Charamicos back in 2013,
I don't travel up there often at all but I guarantee you
I know more Dominicans living up there than you do
who I speak with all the time.
Because you lived up there in 2013 (9 years ago) and even though you don't travel there often...you are the expert.
I will stipulate to that.
I have never lived in Charamicos.
I do not travel Sosua often.
I 8 years, I have been there four times.
When is the last time you were in Sosua?
You start by stating when you were last in Sosua. Cause I'm not playing that game with you.
I see you did not challenge my description of a part of town that was mentioned by me this thread.
You did not challenge it because my description is factually correct.
Has the situation changed on that part of the street since I visited?
Call one of Dominican friends and verify my description.
Then tell me right in this forum that my description is incorrect.
I am surprised you step to me with that DR1 chest out attitude when you know more than just a little about me.
Because you know when I post I am not talking out the side of my neck.
I make it a point to KNOW what I am talking about when I post.
I make it a point to get out and put "boots on the ground" in different parts of the Dominican Republic to build on and enhance my experiences.
We all got opinions.
Drugs are a huge problem and so are the tourist hustling
robberies often committed by wildebeest in Spandex.
Where is the DNCD office in Sosua?
Cause if drugs are a big problem I should have seen the drug boy at least once. (I didn't)
There is a DNCD office in the town that I live in and I know exactly where it is.
Politur is on the street deep in Sosua.
Why are they not protecting the tourists?
That is their job after all.
The Dominicans and Haitians I talk there tell me they focus on a different type of harassment (pardon me) enforcement than actually preventing crime.
I will say that from what I saw, whenever I had to deal with them they were very professional and respectful.
The degenerate "boyfriends" chulos who follow the women up to
Sosua from whichever sh*thole they came out of...
aren't exactly the most upstanding citizens either but perhaps
that is your crowd?
You really gonna go there with the personal insults my man.
It is beneath you. Not really something I would expect from you. But sometimes it is just easier to follow the DR1 crowd now isn't it?
But since you asked the question, no it isn't.
I roll solo.
Not a crowd follower.
And I don't spend a lot of time with degenerate people of any type nor from any location in the Dominican Republic and elsewhere.
So I am going to have to just stipulate to the problem that you present.
You gotta solution for it?
I won't even get into the amount of young Haitian women being
pimped by their fellow compatriots.
Yes, and Dominicans don't pimp. ****** please ‼️
Once again, I don't roll in crowds like that.
So I will have to stipulate and defer to your expertise.
People, this includes hundreds of local Dominicans, do care what
guys like me think and unfortunately for you and yours... there are
a lot of them.
I'm sorry.
I did not know you were a Dominican citizen with a vote on this issue.
I hope you are supporting the political entities within the Dominican Republic that support your views and desires.
But I am more interested to know why you say "
unfortunately for you and yours" another personal insult perhaps.
I never figured you for a player hater.
I did not create the game.
And if the nature of Sosua changes.
I will still enjoy the beach and the many excellent restaurant choices and bars and the company of the owners of those restaurants and bars. They have schooled me on doing business in the Dominican Republic and have welcome me with open arms in their business even though I am Gringo Negro as opposed to just Gringo.
So well I could feel sorry for those who joust at windmills...I don't.
Everybody can think what they like.
And more importantly:
DOWHATCHALIKE
It also wouldn't hurt to remind a few of the foreigners up there we are a
guest while traveling/ living in country other than our own, so act like it.
We are in agreement on this point.
But that is not my job.
From what I observed it appears that promoting an environment where foreigners can come and do what they can't in their countries of origin is the objective.
Let's be keep it real
@CristoRey
You and I both know that if they wanted to make changes
They could make changes.
They are making changes at the beach.
They will in the town.
For most posting in DR1 the problem is the pace of things.
Because they drag their attitudes and biases from their countries of origin and ever after years of living here cannot adapt to the pace and ways of the Dominican Republic.
It is not a matter of morals or appearances...It is a long term money grab, pure and simple.