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Originally Posted by london777
Thanks for your interesting input, Hillybilly. Anyone else care to chip in?
Perhaps, as a non-resident (as yet) and absolute beginner in Dominican Life studies, I should first have asked a more fundamental question:
Why do they live there in the first place? Is it because the land is useless for any other purpose, and therefore no-one lays claim to it, so they can squat without molestation? And is the river water considered an asset (the mind boggles)?
Another question occurs to me, which also pertains to the rehousing project at La Union so extensively discussed on this board: why are these new dwellings sold to the poor, when they have such difficulty raising the purchase price and are later tempted to sell out and move back to their original areas? Why are they not rented, which sounds as though it would be more acceptable to them and more remunerative to the ayuntamiento (or whoever may be the housing agency) in the longer run?
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The poor people relocated for the government don"t have to pay one cent for the new houses. this people don"t pay for the electricity, they don"t pay for the water. they are happy people. Dancing bachata and drinking rum and beers every day.
we have to pay for them.