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View Poll Results: Do you feel satisfied or unsatisfied with your decision to live in the DR?
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Satisfied
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68.33% |
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Unsatisfied
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Not sure
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11-19-2006, 02:38 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2004
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Quote:
Originally Posted by A.Hidalgo
The poll indicates that the majority (although only 50 votes at the writing of this post) is satisfied in the DR notwithstanding the many crime posts. Just a small observation.
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Yes I think you can be happy to live here but still have noticed an increase in crime. I would hope the figures are the way you say on the poll; I would hope that the unhappy/dissatisfied would leave. Otherwise we would have a group of foreigners who moved here, are now unhappy but remain. There's a word for that............ 
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11-20-2006, 06:06 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Lambada
I would hope that the unhappy/dissatisfied would leave. Otherwise we would have a group of foreigners who moved here, are now unhappy but remain. There's a word for that............ |
I would hope that this country could be turned around and that we made positive strives towards that effort. Hoping the unhappy/dissatisfied would leave is not a solution, I'm fairly sure there's a word for that also........ 
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11-20-2006, 10:57 PM
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Living Brain Donor
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Join Date: Dec 2003
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Is it masochism?
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11-21-2006, 12:54 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2002
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Don Juan
Is it masochism?
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That COULD be one of the words Don Juan especially if you take the "Unhappy/Dissatisfied" as the OP used it - in relation to the DECISION people made about living here. There are a couple of LESS polite words too! 
I fully accept that one can be dissatisfied with things here in the DR & it is right to try & change these unless it breaks against Dominican Culture, but to be dissatisfied/unhappy with one's OWN decision about living here & not take the obvious remedy ('Get out of the kitchen if you don't like the heat') is less than logical! If I had been dissatisfied with my decision to live here I would have been gone a LONG time ago!! As it is, the things I am dissatisfied with here I try to change as the opportunities arrise for me to be successful. ~ Grahame.
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11-30-2006, 06:14 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
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I wish....
I think I would like to take a try at living there...but than again, what do I know....things sometimes just sound better and seem better in therory, but I do know someone who is doing it right now and she is to be admired !!!! she is doing it for the right reasons....kudos to her. !!!!! she is a member of this board, so some of you know of whom I speak...and she is a great gal !!!! glad to call her friend
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12-04-2006, 07:43 PM
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On Vacation!
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Join Date: May 2006
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Just found this old thread
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12-04-2006, 10:15 PM
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Living Brain Donor
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Allow me to reiterate.
This a very nonsensical question especially when directed toward DR foreigners.
Does anyone think that any expat would want to live in DR if they were dissatisfied with their day-to-day living? Eh?
Doesn't the perpetrator of this poll know that !00% of foreigners can hop on a plane and git at any time? Unless, of course, you're hiding from justice?
Would anyone in his right mind go there to live without money and expect to have a ball? To be happy?
Even if this foreigner had no money, his embassy can, most likely, ship him home for free!
The only dissatisfied/unhappy people there are those without money and/or a good paying job. With bucks, my friend, anyone can live happily anywhere in the world, even Haiti!
I can tell you this: As much as I'd love live in Santiago today, you wouldn't catch me dead there unless I had a steady revenue stream. This is why (mainly) I still live in frigid Md. overnight temp. 24 Fahrenheit.
I wouldn't trade my fairly-paid gloom here for the uncertainty of balmy DR!
disclaimer: A person can live a privileged life in paradise and still be unhappy but that falls under the jurisdiction of "undiagnosed personality disorder". which is another matter.
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12-05-2006, 01:00 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Don Juan
disclaimer: A person can live a privileged life in paradise and still be unhappy but that falls under the jurisdiction of "undiagnosed personality disorder". which is another matter.
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That's the word I was looking for. Thank you Don Juan.
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05-11-2007, 11:54 AM
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It isn't just the money -- some people whom I have met here are just "veggin" or "drinkin" or "screwin" - haven't learned Spanish, aren't involved in the local community, aren't accutually "participating" except as consumers.
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05-12-2007, 12:46 AM
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Hmm...I lived in the DR until I was 11, that was 12 years ago. I have to say that as much as I miss my family and things that I cannot get here (foodstuff), I would never be able to live there again. Its dificult for me to accept the dirtiness, the mosquitoes, the neverchanging energy problem, the weather (I hate the hot weather/humidity) and just the lack of security. Also the fact that laws are nor respected for the most part, etc. I guess I am too spoiled by now of the American lifestyle, jajajajajaja.
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