- Thread starter MariaRubia
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Who is going to rent all these apartments in Las Terrenas?
Maybe because we like it when it's quiet and relatively calm. Before the pandemic there were the occasional power outages, the occasional water issue. Traffic during normal week days were not too busy, it would take normally about 5-10 minutes to get to the supermarket from where I live. TODAY, it took 30 MINUTES, and it's only about 3 miles.......... And this is now "normal"... And from the looks of it, it's going to get even worse and the government won't do sh*t to make any changes to the infrastructure to accommodate the tens of thousands of people that are going to come here...
21 years ago and as little as perhaps 5 years ago, but probably about the time the Wuhan Flu escaped a lab in China, I could take a left turn onto RT 5 across from El Rocon in a couple of seconds while just checking for the occasional speeding moto or guagua. The other day it took me 3 minutest to take that left at 10 AM.
While the new American dream is perhaps to fill one of the new condos being built 40 feet from my front door at MAREAL, or to spend millions at EDEN Cabarete, It isn't the dream of those already here that they come. Nor that they add to the growing list of short term rentals. The DR government is also looking into that. I even have a new house on land behind my house on a property untouched in our development until now. That is a Euro/German dreamer, however.
There is the anticipation of the worsening incompetence of the water and power companies being able to provide service to the several dozen new such projects being built from Puerto Plata through Gaspar Hernandez while others languish without water being provided for years now.
I know someone who is leaving the DR solely because there is too much "American Influence" here now. They are heading to check out South American landing spots with less such influence.
Hope that enlightens as to the reason. In Las Terrenas, I always thought that was a "French Dream"....