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Originally Posted by les1
.... Over 15 years... It has become increasingly polarised with the rich foreigners at one end (generally the beach end) and the poor dominicans on the other side of the river in the dominican part of town. Yes Las T is two towns, the rich and the poor. It would hardly be surprising if the dominicans harboured resentment towards the foreigners.
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Well, there is truth in that and although well observed this does not explain all those 'mean looks' the OP says she had been given.
Many of the 'mean lookers' would include people who do benefit from the development of LT (motoconchos, construction workers, mechanics, shop keepers, drug dealers, pimps, etc.) but still the majority of the locals (who are relatively few taken into account the high influx of outsiders and Haitians) are friendly and many of them have benefitted enormously from the sales of land (not necessarily their own).
So the poor town dwellers (like in barrios as 'come pan') came from far (like the many 'abogados' who have probably given LT the highest concentration of lawyers in this country) and IMO do not have much of a reason to give mean looks to foreigners.
So, the mystery goes on...
mountainfrog