SANTIAGO Hoy

[Chirimoya]

It is common practice here to sell regular gasoline as premium, but even I know that you can't 'dilute' petrol.

[AZB]

Originally Posted by cobraboy

Really? He's responsible for the unprecendented demand for petroleum products in China, India, and even the Third World?

Who is selling iraqi petrol at these inflated prices? I certainly don't think Iraqis are getting any benefit from having their oil sold by americans to whom ever. How do you think the war is financed, besides american taxes? watch the prices soar and watch how we will have wars with Iran and syria. This was all in plans.
Now lets get back to topic please.
AZB

[cobraboy]

Y'all should research global oil pricing a little before you start blaming one single man for the WORLD demand increase.

Now back on topic.



I can play that one, too.

[joseinoa]

Originally Posted by Ricardo900

Does anyone know the name or location of this apartment building in Santiago??

that building is in la trinitaria and its called torre cartier. i took a tour in one of the apartments in that torre and let me tell you, you will never feel the same again about real estate. right on on EVERYTHING said sj especially about the stupid dominican joes who come here thinking they own everything.

[AZB]

Getting back to the domincian Joes. Its amazing to see these guys have no idea of what they are doing or how they are perceived by others. They really don't have a clue. I think they are a totally different specie. they just can't be helped. There is just too much to change; it may be easier to convert a donkey into a racing horse than to convert a dominican Joe to a (lets say) a banker or a attorney type guy. The way these guys dress, the body movements, the hair cut, the language, the accent, the head tilt, the tattoos, era rings, the 5 button suits, red SUV, loud bachata music, vulgar rap music, cuero girlfriends etc etc etc. My god, so much to list. I am afraid, they just can't be helped.
AZB

[Señor_Jimenez]

Santiago like any city has The Good, The Bad and the plain terrible. I got family scattered in places like Los Cerros De Gurabo, La Zurza, Villa Olga, Jardines Del Jacque, Jarabacoa. These fellow Jimenez work hard and provide from everyone. Then I have some questionable members who live off them and in this trip I encouraged my older members to cut them off. They party almost nightly, drink like sailors, are seen publicly with chopas holding hands and all this nonsense. It's unacceptable. I have an aunt who lives in Buenos Aires. It looks like Iraq. Torn buildings, destruction, and you just see "La malicia" in the tigeres faces. If they didn't know any better I'm sure they would've tried to rob me.

Then you have the problems of the deportees. I know of two -- one is a direct cousin of mine and the other is from a friend of the family. Like most of these (former) criminals they receive money from back home. THey are provided for. Instead of looking for work and trying to work in the business, they spend all the money on drinks, and chopaesque girls. Then they cry that the country is bad and the money don't last. I know this first hand because along with my family we sent this individual a really healthy sum of money to get him on his foot along with a car AND a motorcycle. He sold both off. He begged me for a cellphone, I sent it, he tells me he don't want it because it's not the style that's "in." The balls on this guy.

Besides this, the country is great. I live here in New Jersey in Bergen county one of the wealthiest counties in NJ and everything is excellent. You have sectors like Paterson and Passaic which are just horrible. Just like in New York you have sections of Harlem that are horrible. You have that in Santiago too. But you can't make a generalization that it's like that overall. The majority of people hold good jobs, provide for the family and live in better quality homes than people in USA. A $250,000 apartment in Santiago is of waaay better quality than a $1,000,000 apartment in New York City or a comparable city. You get better bang for your buck essentially.

Now I hate to say this but I saw a lot of very nice things in Santo Domingo. I'll take it over Miami any day. Business everywhere, beautiful women on every square mile, and I've seen more luxury cars on Las Tiradentes and La Lincoln then I see on most days on Fifth Avenue or here in Jersey. Everything is first class. One of my cousins and Uncle's wants to kidnap me from Santiago to stay with him in La Esperilla. It might work one day. Let's see on the next trip this summer....

[AZB]

You see what Mr. J is talking about is totally arcane to many dr1 folks. they just don't know this side of the dominican republic. They just don't have a clue.
I know what some of the folks thinking: he is talking about the .01% of the population. Hahahahaha.
AZB

[joseinoa]

Originally Posted by AZB

Getting back to the domincian Joes. Its amazing to see these guys have no idea of what they are doing or how they are perceived by others. They really don't have a clue. I think they are a totally different specie. they just can't be helped. There is just too much to change; it may be easier to convert a donkey into a racing horse than to convert a dominican Joe to a (lets say) a banker or a attorney type guy. The way these guys dress, the body movements, the hair cut, the language, the accent, the head tilt, the tattoos, era rings, the 5 button suits, red SUV, loud bachata music, vulgar rap music, cuero girlfriends etc etc etc. My god, so much to list. I am afraid, they just can't be helped.
AZB

damn AZB you took the words right out of my mouth its actually sickening watching these retards go about their business. THEY are the ones giving all our people a bad reputation and also the ladrones that dont know any thing else than rob people.

[Señor_Jimenez]

People on this board act as if only certain poster hate "Dumb-Yorks" or "Dominican Joes." Mostly everyone in Santiago society shares the same sentiments. These abrasive individuals are heard from 15 kilometers away in their Chopomobiles blasting all of Mega Monochopo Anthony Santos greatest hits as well as a fine selection of Tipico nonsense. They take the barrio whores who've been around the block more than the Hatian selling helados to eat and of course they always order "camarones." Take a barrio chopa to eat ANYWHERE and she's guaranteed to order camarones. It's high class food for them. They hang around the barrios impressing these poor people and torturing them with the wealth of America. Half of them work in factories in the states. Then they come home and talk about how bad the country is. Crime, disease, no jobs. That's because everyone they're associated with has no job, doesn't want to work, makes a million phone calls on cellphone, parties and drinks almost nightly. I'm proud to be Dominican, but I surely hate Dominican chopos.

[papinice88]

nothing wrong with them working in a factories my parents and most of my family worked in factories in the Early 1960's when they got here to NYC. with those factories jobs my parents made what i and my brothers are today and what there grandchildren will become later in life my parents worked damn hard and i am very proud of them what they were were hard working poor people and possibly making it easier for all the other Dominican to come to this country all they were doing was working for minimal wage to support there children which now there children today do not have to work in factories but if they did so what no body is better then another person because they do work in a factories