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Originally Posted by AK74
When an Eastern Europe friend of mine recently bought a villa in a gated community in Sosua his RE agent told him - "When you catch a dominican man in your home at night - kill him, bury in back yard and plant tomatoes - tomatoes grow very well on dead bodies". My friend thought that it was a nice joke.
After two months later he and his family became victims of robbery at gun point in their home (in gated community) he does not think any longer that it was a joke.
Is he to be called paranoid trying to sell his house now and to get out of the country where such thing as physical personal safety and security does not exist ?
Or can be called paranoid a nice Italian lady from California who also tries to sell her house in La Mulata that she bought four months ago and to leave with her son after her sister was robbered just three weeks into being in this country and left home?
Coming from places like Ecuador or Columbia - surviving in DR is piece of cake. But naive and street unsmart overgrown american baby boomers are a different story. Who decided to relocate to this country and to buy condo after two stays at an AI sunkie resort.
DR.1 posters are not paranoid. They know the real game (mostly on own painful experience). That`s it.
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Its also well known that many of the people living in those gated communities in Puerto Plata, many filled with foreigners to a degree most gated communities in other provinces are not, also have little concept of social class and how a person is suppose to act with people from other classes.
Many of these people move from Europe or North America thinking they are still in their respective countries where they are surrounded by people of their own social class, most of the time. We also know what many of them do for "fun". Some take it a little further, inviting some of the poorest and least moral people to decent gated neighborhoods, and then everyone wonders why a rash of robberies follows.
(Sidenote: I'm not saying poor people don't have morals, but there are poor people without morals and those are being invited along with the others to places of luxury they are not used to, read on).
Most people seem to not make the connection between violating social class rules, but many are paying the price.
You don't hear of such things occuring with such frequencies in places like Bayardo, which is an upscale neighborhood right next to "downtown" Puerto Plata. Why?
A) Its filled with Dominicans
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B) the few foreigners that live there take the necessary precautions to not invite dirt poor and moral-lacking people like courtesans or tigueres for a "picnic".
Do you know that many Dominicans are very weary when someone new moves into a nice neighborhood? Do you know why?
If its a chopo or a foreigner, they pray to God such person limits his/her contact with the riff raff.
Why?
Because when chopos or foreigners with little concept of social class move in, they invite people that are not used to those settings and then, everyone and their mother is robbed in the entire neighborhood during the following months. This happens in apartment buildings too.
Look at the Puerto Plata gated communities. Those have to be some of the most unsafe gated communities on the island and its directly related to the naive attitude of many of the foreigners that live there regarding the reality of social class.
You can't pretend that everyone you meet, especially if its someone you "paid to have fun", is not going to be extremely impressed with your higher than normal lifestyle.
This goes along with the sankie ordeals and the so gringo typical "I fell in love with a dirt poor courtesan and now I'm taking care of her family and feel being taken advantaged" crowd.
-NALs
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Sorry to hear that
Well, the people living in Puerto Plata gated communities are not normal... read on.
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) in this post NALs? (just to keep this 'On Topic'!)
~ Grahame
