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01-03-14 20:42 #886
Posts: 3074Originally Posted by Charles Pooter [View Original Post]
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01-03-14 20:09 #885
Posts: 2390Originally Posted by David_33 [View Original Post]
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01-03-14 16:20 #884
Posts: 3074The problem is that there are a bunch of NGO feminazis just waiting to pounce on any organized mongering venue to, as we say in Spanish: "Llevar agua para su molino". BB has discovered this for himself. So the Haitians are deprived of guys helping them out and are stuck with the NGO and U. N. workers. How I long for the happy days when Baby Doc was still in power before the USA brought "Democracy" to Haiti.
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01-03-14 15:33 #883
Posts: 2390Originally Posted by David_33 [View Original Post]
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01-03-14 15:15 #882
Posts: 3074Originally Posted by Charles Pooter [View Original Post]
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01-03-14 15:11 #881
Posts: 2390Originally Posted by BadBear2000 [View Original Post]
Originally Posted by BadBear2000 [View Original Post]
And until that happens there are thousands of haitianas in the DR for those who are interested.
Originally Posted by BadBear2000 [View Original Post]
As for scams and stings, the only innocent victims I have heard about are a few motorists held up at checkpoints and asked for a propina. Nothing bad has ever happened to those who refuse to pay. Everybody else who has got into more serious trouble has brought it on themselves, drunk, looking for drugs, abusing chicas, associating with known lowlifes, etc. Idiots like that would come to grief anywhere they went, Thailand, the States, Haiti, or wherever.
Anyone who use normal common sense can still have a great and economical holiday on the North Coast with minimal risk of problems. Certainly less risk than in Haiti, even though I am one who agrees with you that the dangers of visiting Haiti are wildly exaggerated.
Santo Domingo I cannot speak for, but I would never recommend it to inexperienced mongers or those without Spanish. It may be as you say there.
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01-03-14 00:15 #880
Posts: 567Beware of the Dominican republic
A German friend of mine that has been living in the DR most of his adult life says they are setting up sting operations just like in the good old USA. I know many of you guys save your money all year just to have a good time but let's think what would happen if you had a ticket home but the police delayed you and you missed your flight. Now you have to buy a new ticket with money you don't have. So now you have to get someone to send you money but because you get back late. You lose your job. The Haitian girls in the dr are hardened pros. Get a real girl in Haitian. They are more affectionate and less demanding than the crazy girls in the dr
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12-31-13 17:50 #879
Posts: 56Coming to Haiti
Originally Posted by BadBear2000 [View Original Post]
I have been following your posts. Do you still have the maison? Would it be available for me to monger in when I visit? Merci. P. S. Love the photos and congrats on finding a wife.
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12-14-13 16:51 #878
Posts: 19I have been in PaP like 20 years ago. But would not go there in these days. Back in days everything was wicked cheap there (women and boose).
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11-04-13 04:07 #877
Posts: 2390Originally Posted by Ellington [View Original Post]
As for "why", I have many theories and I don't want to start WWIII here by expounding them.
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11-04-13 00:02 #876
Posts: 35Hatianas
Originally Posted by Charles Pooter [View Original Post]
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11-03-13 22:02 #875
Posts: 2390Originally Posted by Marc Anthony [View Original Post]
People with little or no education themselves just don't get the concept of different languages, so if they are not getting through they tend to raise their voices, lose their tempers and speak faster, or use over-simplified doggerel which is even harder to understand.
Of course there are some haitianas who speak Spanish fluently, but they are usually the ones I don't want to meet. If they have been in the DR long enough to perfect their Dominican Spanish they have had time to pick up all the other nasty tricks and attitudes.
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11-03-13 21:49 #874
Posts: 2390Originally Posted by Marc Anthony [View Original Post]
Most people would advise you to first go to the DR and learn a lot rather than just showing up in the airport in Port-au-Prince. You can do that in Santo Domingo and get along OK, but in Port-au-Prince it would be quite an adventure, and not necessarily in the good sense.
There are always board members in Sosua and Puerto Plata who would be happy to introduce BigMrJ to haitianas (and maybe in Santo Domingo and Boca Chica too?). And of course there are many very dark-skinned dominicanas too whom he could charm with his fluent Spanish.
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11-02-13 20:41 #873
Posts: 481Speaking spanish is also a huge advantage in the DR and even with Haitian girls in the DR who are all learning spanish by immersion unlike their sisters back across the border who just speak Kreyol (only the elite in Haiti speak french, most girls you would deal with can't speak french either).
I had a Haitian gf in the DR that spoke excellent french but I didn't speak any so we got along in bad spanish. From experience speaking spanish will be of great help with Haitian girls in the DR but little help in Haiti itself.
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11-02-13 20:31 #872
Posts: 481Originally Posted by BigMrJ [View Original Post]
Haiti is generally much more expensive and chaotic for travelers. It really doesn't have brothels, gogo bars, strip clubs outside of a few in Pettionville that cater to UN and NGO guys and hence have rather high prices. Most people would advise you to first go to the DR and learn a lot rather than just showing up in the airport. You can do that in Santo Domingo and get along OK but in POP it would be quite an adventure and not necessarily in a good sense.