If my memory serves me correctly, ybonabeach lives in the DR and I guess is trying to give some "realistic" insight to people who have only ever vacationed in the DR. Now living and working in a foreign country versus vacationing there are 2 very different things and perhaps more so for 2 young ladies in the DR
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When soliciting advice here, one can be selective about whose advice one follows but some people hate to hear the truth and then come back here with sob stories once they find something out the hard way.