Living in the DR

Once you move to the DR what would you do, to keep occupied? Initially there's chasing the chicas and relaxing at the beach. Going to clubs and chasing chicas. Then get your residency, take Spanish classes, look at properties, look into buying a gun. :D Explore the island by car or motorcycle and check out any areas you might be interested in. Invest some more time in relaxing. Learn about local real estate if you're contemplating buying. Investigate business opportunities or voids needing to be filled if you're considering risking some capital. But then what? Find a nice girl and settle down? Risk losing your shit? Start a business? I think not! :) If you were living in the DR what would you do, after all the relatively obvious initial stuff, say 3-6 months down the road? I welcome your thoughts.

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Originally Posted by weaver

Once you move to the DR what would you do, to keep occupied? Initially there's chasing the chicas and relaxing at the beach. Going to clubs and chasing chicas. Then get your residency, take Spanish classes, look at properties, look into buying a gun. Explore the island by car or motorcycle and check out any areas you might be interested in. Invest some more time in relaxing. Learn about local real estate if you're contemplating buying. Investigate business opportunities or voids needing to be filled if you're considering risking some capital. But then what? Find a nice girl and settle down? Risk losing your shit? Start a business? I think not! If you were living in the DR what would you do, after all the relatively obvious initial stuff, say 3-6 months down the road? I welcome your thoughts.

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Yayow would be better qualified to answer this as he is 'retired" for now. I live in DR and work keeps me pretty busy. I have known guys that have gotten bored of chasing chicas pretty quickly. Some have studied, some started businesses and others just seem to relax and enjoy not working.

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Originally Posted by prtyr2

Yayow would be better qualified to answer this as he is 'retired" for now. I live in DR and work keeps me pretty busy. I have known guys that have gotten bored of chasing chicas pretty quickly. Some have studied, some started businesses and others just seem to relax and enjoy not working.

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Thanks, I'm hoping to avoid being bored as unlikely as that might but it could happen. :)

If you are financial secure you might want to consider some type of volunteer work or some other charitable activity to keep you busy.

I have experience teaching Englsh as a second language so I plan to do something in that area. This can be helpful in a few ways. Not only will it give you something of value to do, it also ties you into the community.

I am expecting to emigrate to the DR within a few weeks or months. I look at it the other way. What do I do in the UK that I wouldn't be able to do in the DR and which I would really miss? Answer: almost nothing.

"Bored" is a reflection of the person, not of their environment. I sometimes get disappointed, frustrated, sad, etc, etc, but never bored. I like the DR because it is a more natural way of life than in the "First World". Obviously "natural" comes with a lot of downsides but I still find it refreshing.

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I am expecting to emigrate to the DR within a few weeks or months. I look at it the other way. What do I do in the UK that I wouldn't be able to do in the DR and which I would really miss? Answer: almost nothing.

"Bored" is a reflection of the person, not of their environment. I sometimes get disappointed, frustrated, sad, etc, etc, but never bored. I like the DR because it is a more natural way of life than in the "First World". Obviously "natural" comes with a lot of downsides but I still find it refreshing.

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With all the fresh new Sankies coming of Age, your dance card will be full for quite some time.

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Originally Posted by weyland

....I like the DR because it is a more natural way of life than in the "First World". Obviously "natural" comes with a lot of downsides but I still find it refreshing.

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Hmmm, weyland. I'm trying to figure out how to relate your urine, tumbleweed, and sock fetishes to this "natural way of life" you're talking about.

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Originally Posted by prtyr2

Yayow would be better qualified to answer this as he is 'retired" for now. I live in DR and work keeps me pretty busy. I have known guys that have gotten bored of chasing chicas pretty quickly. Some have studied, some started businesses and others just seem to relax and enjoy not working.

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Well actually I do have a few thoughts about this P2:eek:, and I will share them later, as I have just got finished ranting about another post and I am now hungry so it is time to prepare lunch:biggrin:. Maybe that is what guys do when they retire they make lunch:rofl:.;)

You as always have made some good points as far as what guys do.

I wouldn't be able to resist the opportunity to sponsor a youth league baseball team. I'll never forget my first trip from SDQ to the Capital, seeing kids fielding with milk carton cutouts.

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I wouldn't be able to resist the opportunity to sponsor a youth league baseball team. I'll never forget my first trip from SDQ to the Capital, seeing kids fielding with milk carton cutouts.

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Great idea!!!! I would probably do the same if I had the time and was retired. Also maybe teach kids how to break into the same business you and I are in. You know. . . .give something back. Missed ya in vegas!

There are 2 types of Expats here

1) the type that smooths into the transition, Travel back and forth a few times and get settled. See all the types of things they can get into and form solid relationships. They start to get used to the day to day feel of living here, and start to earse some of the easy thing that living in the USA or UK brings them and accept the way of life here.This type of expat tends to stay and enjoy there life here.

2) the type tha came for visit feel in love with the country and putang. Sold there stuff back home and leaped head 1st. These tend to last only 1 or 2 years then they head back home blaming the day they decided to come live here.

Moving down here is like most things in life, don't take it litely.

When it comes on things to do with your time. There are some many things , it all depends on you and your backup plan. Always have a backup plan.

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Missed ya in vegas!

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I had to sit this one out.

I'm post-op 'till next month. I'll look for you then:smile:

Yeah. Those kids got to me. They're as energetic and resourceful as any kids, anywhere but simply lack the means. Kids there seem to only go to public school a few hours a day and there and other than baseball and bastketball they don't seem to have many structured activities.

I thought of baseball because I have chipped in to sponsor Dominican and Guayanese teams in Sint Maarten and those kids were in it to win it.

Technical training.....interesting.

I have now lived in D.R. for a little more than a year and a half, and I am very happy to be here, one thing I know I am still learning and I have a way to go to get to the perfect comfort level, but I think that would apply to anywhere I moved. Much less having to learn a totally different culture and language to boot.

When I first moved down I lived in Sosua and then a little after a year there I decided to relocate to Santo Domingo, because I felt it was a better fit for me. My situation is a different than most if not all and will get even more different in the next few months. Why do I say this, well even though I am a monger I am also a father and my ex is a Dominicana and she first relocated here with my daughter and the desire to be in my daughter’s life was my overriding reason for moving to the country. I am retired and am reasonably young, and I survive on a pension. A very decent pension, actually my pension after taxes would probably have me classified as an upper middle class Dominican; if I was Dominican and worked and earned the same amount. So for the most part money isn’t a major issue which is a big plus, that is except when I get stupid and decide to go to the casinos. :eek:

Now back to the point I don’t think coming to DR is for somebody who wants to work because the pay scale isn’t the best in the world and the best jobs will go to Dominicans unless you have a specific skill that they deem would be beneficial to the country. The other option of course is to own your own business, as many ex-pats have done. I have gotten to this point, and I am now looking at a few things.

Reason I left Sosua, is because it became like groundhog day, same faces, doing the same things, same putas even when the people that belonged to the faces changed (one plane load left another arrived), in reality for me I need something different. Because things were the same, I found I was drinking to much, hanging in the same places, and everybody knew my business or thought they did; and after all how many putas can you really fuck. The answer is plenty but that is another story. Plus all the putas lie (necessary in their chosen field), even more than other women I have met over the years and I got tired of the constant BS.

Moved down to Santo Domingo which is a much larger and a major world wide city which offers me more options as far as things that I like to do, plus if I want a puta there are still plenty of them down here. I am looking into a possible business venture within the next few months to keep my mind occupied, but again no matter where I retired I believe at this point (haven't worked in over 2 yrs), I would be looking to do the same. Hobbies are good, they can help pass the time, golf for example, or as some have suggested volunteer with kids or something else that will keep you busy (idle minds tend to get in trouble). Volunteering is a good way to meet non-pros also and get established in the community, you can then be looked upon as someone contributing to the society and not just a sex tourist. Travel ...... Santo Domingo is now my hub instead of NY for travel, I am planning trips to Rio, Colombia and possibly a few other places in the not to distant future.

This is how I do it and so far it has worked for me. Bottom line if you are retiring here, you will probably be looking to do the same as if you retired anywhere else, except you would be in the Caribbean (and all that offers, weather etc.), with a very cheap way of getting your sexual thrills fulfilled when the urge hit you as opposed to retiring in the States, plus if you are retiring with a pension or money saved you can live very comfortably for a lot less.

Didn't mean to go on for so long, but when I worked words and the words I chose were very important to me because choosing the wrong words could have meant dire circumstances at times, and sometimes it is hard to break old habits.
　

Thanks for all the insightful posts, they're certainly food for thought.