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08-17-20 07:05 #15432
Posts: 15925Originally Posted by JohnClayton [View Original Post]
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08-17-20 05:20 #15431
Posts: 746Originally Posted by Prtyr2 [View Original Post]
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08-16-20 21:51 #15430
Posts: 4026There are long time thriving money lending businesses in Dominican neighborhoods. Their peak periods are the school vacation and winter holiday seasons. There is enormous pressure for ex-pat Dominicans to come back to the island as conquering heroes to show off their prosperity. Relatives feel slighted if they don't receive some sort of token gift from abroad. It is sometimes something as useless and readily available locally like a bottle of Jergens lotion or tubes of Colgate toothpaste. The money lenders fund everything from airline tickets to cash to throw around at discos and rental car agencies. Believe it or not, some of them still operate as "travel agencies" in Dominican neighborhoods. The rates are of course rapacious. It's hard to get unsecured credit at fair rates with a spotty or non existent credit record or a low wage job.
Originally Posted by Prtyr2 [View Original Post]
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08-16-20 19:07 #15429
Posts: 340Originally Posted by MrEnternational [View Original Post]
Can not count how many times a chica chatting with me will ask where I am from. I will say some random state or city then say buy I live in santo domingo. 20% of the time they ask "cuando vuelves a tu pais". I repeat "vivo aca". They of course say "yo se pero cuando vuelves". After 8 times repeating the same crap, they say "dijiste que eres de miami". LOL one more time slooooooow "VIVO ACA". If and when they finally get it they ask why I want to live here. I say either because I can or "porque me di gana".
They are programmed to think other countries and any country are better. Hence lawyers working as cashiers or waitresses.
Years ago they announced cruises leaving santo domingo which required no visas. Great! Dominicans would get to see other countries! One of first cruises 40 dominicans left ship and never came back. Ship was in guadalupe. WTF is there in guadalupe that there is not in DR? Ruined the cruise for all the rest.
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08-16-20 05:26 #15428
Posts: 15925Originally Posted by Prtyr2 [View Original Post]
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08-16-20 04:48 #15427
Posts: 340Originally Posted by MrGogo [View Original Post]
I know a girl that was lawyer in Santiago and now cashier at supermarket in the Bronx.
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08-16-20 04:13 #15426
Posts: 340Originally Posted by TripleDarknes [View Original Post]
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08-16-20 00:32 #15425
Posts: 644Originally Posted by Knowledge [View Original Post]
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08-15-20 23:14 #15424
Posts: 4026Eating places? You won't find any of those joints in gastronomy guides to the Dominican Republic. What you find there is appropriate for the hard drinking hard partying crowd that frequents it. Enjoy the rest as I know you will.
Originally Posted by OldKool [View Original Post]
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08-15-20 01:50 #15423
Posts: 3103You the man the cup
Going to Sosua next week not suere if it is right move. I enjoyed SD on my last trip with planned hook ups. Sosua is mostly sport fucking and hit or miss. Never the less the beaches eating place make it a winner. Keeping my fingers crossed that the curfew will be lifted. Curfew or not got get my groove on.
Originally Posted by DCups [View Original Post]
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08-14-20 14:01 #15422
Posts: 3053The cups reporting
Hi guys,
I am in Santo Domingo at Napolitano 3 for 3 the last three days ranging from 36 Cee to 42 DeeDee to 42 F, curfew 7 pm to 6 am. Going to Santiago Monday for three days then Juan Dolio come down if you can. I mostly stay in my room and bang the mamacita and serenade them on my guitar. Everyone is wearing masks which is good.
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08-14-20 00:53 #15421
Posts: 4026Which mall (s), Sambil, Agora, Blue, Acropolis? A place I like in Piantini that also has an Agora Mall location re-opened at the mall this week. It's good to have options.
Originally Posted by TripleDarknes [View Original Post]
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08-12-20 22:47 #15420
Posts: 644Possible light at the end of the tunnel
I'm seeing restaurants in the mall that closed down because of the curfew suddenly reopen. It's just a hunch but I'm thinking that people talk and some of these upscale places talk to people in the government and they probably told them that this is the last hurrah, and that the curfew won't be further extended.
We'll see.
Trip.
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08-12-20 14:22 #15419
Posts: 4026You are right. Only days after testing had resumed after abruptly stopping for reasons that still haven't been explained, I saw several people breeze right past the testing area. It was as you described, very inconsistent. I know I could have skirted the test requirement but I was curious about the procedure and interested in a PCR result. The cost of the testing supplies alone will kill what's left of that program.
Originally Posted by Manizales911 [View Original Post]
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08-12-20 02:42 #15418
Posts: 2490Originally Posted by Manizales911 [View Original Post]