You'd be surprised, Pichardo. When we were apartment hunting we saw several where there was no external clothes-drying area and we were told that everyone had dryers. The seller thought I was some kind of weirdo for telling her that I wouldn't buy the apartment for that sole reason.
We've just viewed apartments in huge brand new upscale developments where this has also been the case. Again, the promoters thought I was being eccentric when I pointed it out as a concern. No one had mentioned it before, apparently.
I think it is scandalous on so many levels that people should be forced into buying using dryers when, as you say, the DR is a free solar drying machine.
Where we live now I estimate that only about half the apartments (6 out of 12) use the external drying area. I know for a fact that the rest use electric dryers. They are all Dominicans.
I have never owned a dryer, even when living in rainy England, and never intend to.
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