Dominican Republic Living - My Experience
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- čas přidán 11. 10. 2022
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This video is the first part in my series about the Dominican Republic. I talk about my time in Santo Domingo and Punta Cana and why I think this country offers an amazing lifestyle.
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Thank you for promoting our Nation blessings
Thanks for watching!
In the Dominican Republic they cook with love…that’s why our food is sooo delicious!!
Greetings from NY😊
People really put in the work to make the food incredible. Thanks for watching!
@@dankerchum my pleasure, I love that island!!
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The DR infrastructure and other things is a mix bag, but the honest truth is, no matter what ; I love it there and would prefer to live there. Totally agree with your assessment.
At the core of Dominican culture is a spirit of happiness, easy living, and family, and Dominican's are full of pride for their heritage of music, dance, and sazón criollo
Wow!!!
DR is amazing !!!
So beautiful!!!
The Dominican Republic is a beautiful paradise and a great place to go, I saw a gorgeous coffee table book full of gorgeous photographs celebrating this beautiful country
The Dominican Republic is rich in history and culture... the arts, music, dance, culinary arts. Wait till you experience our colorful "Carnaval!"
Is rich in gold, oil ect...
That is about to get destroyed by the mew generation unfortunately unmotivated to acquire those old habits and culture.
You got a new subscriber from Santo Domingo D.R 🇩🇴, what you are doing mean a lot for me and our country, thank you so much!
A new subscriptor from dominican republic.
the street in the minute 8:34 is called Av. Anacaona and is the most expensive in Santo Domingo, you can find apartments priced at +10M USD.
I love those restaurant 😊😊! Thanks for talk about DR. ❤
Your figures are on the high end. I used to live in SD and will be back in March.
Very true, but I did add a disclaimer that the initial figures are for “easy upscale living”. But can be done for much less, I agree. Any tips for SD living? Would be great to hear your thoughts.
@@dankerchum Position yourself in an area of value where everything is within a short walking distance. You want to have a couple gyms to choose from, maybe a co-working space nearby along with a couple grocery stores. Short walk to the bars/restaurants, ideally not to far from the highway for a quick exit from the city.
@@dankerchum I missed the disclaimer, sorry.
The Dominican Republic is not poor is the country that produces most gold in Latin America number 5 in the world has so much . Punta Cana second most visited after MX in Latin America. DR is middle income country and is the richest country in the Caribbean and central America plus every yr gets richer. Santiago second city of DR 🇩🇴 they have Towers rich people. Puerto Plata, Francisco de Macoris ect..... Santo Domingo only has 14 McDonald's 5 starbucks ect... Santiago de los caballeros DR has 7 Mc Donald's ec Wendy ect... Santo Domingo has the second most advanced Metro in Latin America and 50 cable car and 50 trains. Santiago de los caballeros will have by 2025 train also 16 Bala train and 50 cable car like Santo Domingo. a lot of places in DR may look USA not only Punta Cana and Santo Domingo also the tower a city part of Santiago de los caballeros 🇩🇴 looks like USA and parts of DR
Loved the video. Dominican here living in the US. Totally agree with your takes and how you always put up the fact DR is a very unequal place, because it is. Before I moved to the US, I wasn’t able to afford the lifestyle and fun I have now when I go back to DR. Santo Domingo is as expensive as many big US cities. I always stay in high end places and enjoy the AMAZING food which honestly is the best thing SD has to offer.
I hope the inequality issue and poverty improve over time. DR is not the best country in the world but is a great country with lots to offer. And it is a tropical paradise to those making good money who can afford the nice things, which happens to be most of us tourist but not the majority of average Dominicans.
Your video always is another level no doubt with that
Omggg I really really want to move there 😫 😩 I have friends moving to The Dominican Republic and they love it! Wow, the beach view is gorgeous!!!
Thanks , my country its beautiful ❤
Thanks for watching!
Thank you for your video, good job. We always welcome anyone who to visit our country, because we caind and respectfull to all the tourists…..
Waoo thank you so much for the info. Definitely I will consider the Dominican Republic.
Great video. I’m totally agree with you.
thank you for visiting our lovely country.
Nice video im glad you like our country👍💟
Thanks, I'll be posting more videos like this soon!
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Hey Dan, thanks for the vid. First time hearing about Piantini believe it or not. Looks amazing and aspirational. Good luck with your future ventures.
Everything you said its true. Outstanding video.
I like you videos and of course the Dominican Republic
You have a real treat in store when you make it up to the North Coast. Cabarete!
Great job, great video man
You got it right. Thanks ❤
Great video, Piantini and Naco are my two favorite spots to hangout when I'm in Santo Domingo.
Very talented when It come to decoration also
Thank for those videos love my DR born santiago raise new york i go all time
Excellent video, well done,
Thanks Henry!
Thank you for talking about DR!
While I agree with how beautiful. You can definitely live the part time Dominican Republic lifestyle. A whole lot cheaper and still have the luxuries. I never spend so much a month in DR on rentals. And there are so many other inexpensive places to eat and the food is amazing. Also you can definitely have a place there for cheap. I have a place in a upscale building. I don’t spend nearly the backpack price. And still live amazingly well
Thank you for sharing about the COL in the DR. I thought the prices he quoted were outrageous! $5000-$15, 000 K per month! It has to be cheaper than that to live well over there.
Great video right on point 👍🏼
Awesome video!
The Dominican Republic is a beautiful paradise and a great place to go, I saw a gorgeous coffee table book on Amazon full of beautiful photos celebrating this beautiful country.
Thank you to showing so much love! ❤️
Thanks for keeping an honest prospective about everything, both the good and the bad. Just like here in American, there’s excellent areas to live, and other not so good to raise your children. Even in Europe where I travel at lot, not every where is safe… almost got mud in Portugal last summer so…. However, I’m very proud of the positive progress. All I can hope is for our little nation to keep growing and improving education, medical care, water and safety. I have faith, that it all will change for the best. Thanks again, I respect and love people like you !!!🇩🇴😊
Love the DR
Puerto plata mu bellos norte República Dominicana 🇩🇴
Good video! Very well done! However I disagree with you in certain topics about living with low budget or backpacking but I can understand why you think this way. Thanks for the vid. You have a new subscriber from the DR! Congrats for your work.
There’s really something mysteriously delicious going on with the cuisine over there. Dominican food tastes decent here in the US, but in DR??? Amazing, even the most basic of foods. Is it the water? Sugar? Produce? Im always mind blown by it.
Not say by many people, but all is true. The only thing is that you dont need 15K, oh no! With 3K to 5K people can have a great life in SD. And if it is in Punta Cana even less.
Keep in mind that the 15K per month figure is "easy upscale living without budgeting". For most people that's about 8-9K per month after taxes. 5K is definitely enough to live a great life though. Thanks for watching!
Whats the name of the Beach Resort at the beginning and end of the video? As non native english speaking i did not hear you mention the name of the resort. thanks
The first few places were Amazing;
1- Sanctuary Cap Cana
2- Airbnb in Torre Panorama
I love it 🏝✅💕💕💕💕
Thank you❤
This is interesting😊you should try my country lol as well...
Dominican republic it is a diverse and magical island.❤
You should also try la Cassina and Larimar, they are amazing restaurants! Also tax is 28% of whatever the price on the menu is.
Love DR. Never felt like a “Gringo”
We have a difference in opinion my wife and I stayed at the Bahia Principe Grand Bavaro in Punta Cana and the food wasn't that good at all. It probably would've been better if we would've ate off the resort but you think the food would be good on an all inclusive resort and it was not. Other than that we had a great time and the weather was beautiful which was in Jan 2023.
Hey my friend las terrenas.sosua..puerto plata.csbarete..samaná.they have a lot nice places very safe and very nice to live.and mor cheaping..apartment for 350 fity dollar to 1000 thousand very nice
thanks for your reaction 🇩🇴🤝
nice video dude
Love Dr, I live there 6 months out of the year, I have more fun in Dr then I do in NYC my money goes further in DR. The culture the people the food the night life is more pure. DR like any part of the world has it's good area and bad area, just have to be smart and know where to stay, I stay in the down town center by blue mall, good insight to the country 👍📈
Can you imagine if DR wouldn’t be so rounded of corruptive politicians, it’s would be the real paradise
Once they expand the metro to the airport, the capital will get even more tourists.
Very good
You are hilarious..15.000, 5000 .. 🛑 playing.. lol 😂🔥🔥😆😆
Based on one’s lifestyle. It ran my wife and our 2 kids 8k monthly in Punta Cana. SBG alone is 1500-2k a month for a decent meal.
Agreed sir
hi ! nice video !
Thanks for watching!
HI Dan. I would love to connect with you. I am Dominican American and looking to move to Punta Cana
Very fare comentario
Great video! I'm in my forties looking for location independence and avoidance of the Anglo-North American rat race.
However, I am shocked by the high cost of living in the DR. $5000 - 15, 000 USD per month to live well!!!! I spend $5000 CAD living well in Toronto 🇨🇦, which is considered a HCOL city. I thought DR was cheaper. The high cost will discourage a lot of expats & retirees. The Etravel Guy video says rent is $600-$800 & a decent home is $100-200K to purchase. I don't know what to believe but I understand that living like a rock star is expensive anywhere on the globe.
Cost of living video would be cool 🎉
Thank you for your video and views about our country, you'll always be welcome...
There's inequality in every country. The DR has around 10 million people. 5 million are the middle class and the rich. 5 million are the working class and the poor. This is not just a poor country at all. It's is not Miami but it's got almost everything miami offers, in a smaller island scale. The poor here are dancing and drinking and laughing most of the time, food is abundant, rivers and beaches and music and family and religion values. Happy poor people - "So is rich and who is poor I cannot say" Morrissey
The notion that oh there's so much poverty in DR, this a poor country, is wrong. The 5 million Dominicans that are middle class and rich live like kings in comparison with the same level of people in America now. We pay import taxes and double prices for everything and we are not cheap at all. We have the best of the best. And most importantly rich in culture. Thank you for sharing the other side of DR.
Backpacking at $2000, $5000-$15000….? WTF. Perhaps in an alternate universe. Yes there are wealthy people there and wealthy people going there to hang out at their vacation villas, but that’s not reality for the messes. I live in SD for less than $2500 a month, that’s a family of three, and I am not back packing. Living in a high-rise building by UASD, eating well, cooking home. Going out often to do things. Better to watch other videos of the DR if you want to learn more about it that is also grounded in the realm of the average retiree. Someone mentioned that it was not about the DR, it was more about Piantini. lol.
Thanks for sharing about the COL in The DR. It's good to know you can live well for less than $5K per month. How is it to get a residency there or d you just be in your tourist visa & do border runs every 6 months?
I’m moveing over there in my 30s
Que bello paus
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I would consider the level of poverty that you saw on your way to the city to be more akin to Fabelas or Barrios. Even there most people just get by but they have TVs, cell service, food, transportation etc. The problem is that for the poor in DR, housing is very expensive. Most are just waiting for the governent to build a project so they can be relocated or little by little brick by brick make improvements bc there's not enough private inveatment in low income housing. It is the same in any city in LATAM. I grew up ther im the 80s and ufff..trust me. It was not good..Poverty was rampant. Electricity was less than unreliable which made for a crappy water service too. Transoortation was solely concho based, the streets were dirty even in good neiborhoods. It was safer though. With growth crime has increased drastically ) again comparing it with the 80s and even early 90s ).
DR has come a long long way and in 20 years it will likely have mist of its issues well sorted 🙏🏻. God willing.
Love the videos and looking forward to watching more.
Which city is more expensive overall? Santo Domingo or Punta Cana?
punta cana
Both have different things to offer🇩🇴😃
I don’t for get that the best berger ever I ate it Puerto plata, DR
15k a month?
Those were tourist prices.
Rep dom donde Dios se voto i despues se seco el sudor
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$15 k???!!!!
Right? You can live it up with 3k easy.
If yaa Really Want to have the best vacation of your entire life go to DR, don't believe me bc I'm dominican just go overthere see it your self.
I can never understand why Americans who talk about travel to countries obsess mostly about FOOD. So many other things are equally important.... infrastructure daily life etc.
Americans are fat. All we do is eat to death
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We don’t have serial killers in the DR
It is a great country run by ladrones “thieves”
My parents are from Higuey
The province where punta cana is
I agree with u need to b carefull
I came to US when I was small
But it is great to live there it doesn’t have to be Piantini
It could b the country side
Are there many Non USA English Teachers in the Dominican Republic? I'm not anti American, but every video I've watched was made by Americans.
How many people do I know that can afford to spend $15,000 a month in the Dominican Republic? 🇩🇴 Zero 0️⃣ 😂 But I still want to visit the DR!
Hey man, thanks for the comment. Keep in mind that the $15k/m income (I'm not suggesting that someone should spend all of it) that I listed there is the "easy upper-class living". The DR can be done on WAY less (that's why I provided several budget points: $2K/m is low-cost budget living and no luxury, $5K/m can be some luxury with proper budgeting, and $15K/m would bring you a worry-free upscale lifestyle that most high-income locals enjoy), but there's a big disconnect between the classes in the DR, so someone who's in a developing area might think that I'm providing ridiculous numbers. In reality, there are plenty of local, wealthy people in the DR and many places are reserved for people earning multiple 6-figures. In some of the comments, you can see that people are suggesting that I'm paying "tourist prices". I am not. I can tell you that they simply haven't been to these places because all of my local friends pay the same prices, and the prices can be much higher than in most American cities. But you can still live very comfortably as a single guy making 4, 5, 6k - it just wouldn't match the lifestyle of the local upper-class, but you'd still live much more comfortably than in the US. Anyone who thinks that a $100 or $200 for a dinner is ridiculous should go to Peperoni, Turo or another upscale restaurant and have a regular dinner for two and they will understand that there are plenty of upscale places in the DR, and the prices aren't $20 for a dinner as many people here suggest. Best of luck in your visit to the DR, make a plan and go for it. Just wanted to clarify why that budget section is the way it is - you do not *need* $15K/m. Foreigners are often under the impression that all of DR is poor because they go to areas that are still developing, but it's simply not true, there's a high concentration of capital, investments and wealth in many areas of the country. And if you go to Casa de Campo, you'll start seeing both the local upper-class, as well as the English, Italian and American upper-class.
Hey !!
Usually you speak so fast and I can't undestand well. Please slow! 😢
When you say América refering to USA you're wrong cause América is not a country (USA) is a continent so dominican republic is not in África, Europe or Asia,is located in América continent.
Why do You speak so quickly?
Living "Part Time" is just visiting one place frequently.......and not "Living"
Thanks for the comment! Depends on how frequently you are in the country, what the length of your stay is, and what ties you have to the country. In my case, I can’t use “visiting” because it would be misleading since I’ve spent more time in the DR than in any other country in the past 12 months, and I have more ties to the DR now than to the country I’m from (long-term apartment, banking, and spending the vast majority of the year in the country, and having a new social circle). Saying I’m “visiting” is misleading. If anything I’m not even living here “part-time”, I’m simply living here and “visiting the other countries”, but that isn’t quite accurate. But the point of using the part-time phrase is to stress the digital nomad trifecta approach which helps you spend a significant amount of time in three countries throughout the year. Thanks for watching!
windbag with generalities galore. little value for visitors
No hate but the video isn’t about DR is about piantini
Still about though
I was thinking of moving to DR, thinking of retiring. Heard of racism there, so I guess I will look into another country.
You must to be Haitian 🙄
@@jeralmontillarodriguez8162 I am an American and I am not Haitian. I worked with over 80 Dominicans, I know the history. I don't know really what's going on DR. I am not getting into the politics, just like the USA, there are problems, it's how we as a people handle the situation..
@@thepassportlife aquí no hay ningún problemas con eso,los estados unidos quieren que República Dominicana cargue con todos los problemas de Haiti, y nosotros no podemos y ustilizan el chantaje como decir que somos racista y no prohibieron las entradas de azúcar Dominicana a los estados unidos para que el gobierno Dominicano recibas millones de Haitianos refugiados cosa que esté país no tienes las capacidade ni las fuerzas para recibir esa gente aparte que tenemos como cinco millones en República Dominicana.
@@juanpablomoradelossantos6193 I now fully understand the situation Juan.
@@thepassportlife what I just noticed is someone talking about a country where he hasn't been ever. At least visit DR if you want to criticize us, then you going to have a more accurate point of view....we are not racist but the matter of things is that we can't let people who want to destroy our country as they did with their to get into Dominican Republic, we have the right to defend our nationality.
That's of being "unequaled " sounds like living in a lie for any American like you and me.
Our country is very unequaled, too. 2024
Correction: the Dominican Republic is not a poor country, but the millions of illegal haitians in the country make it look that way in certain areas..
Sorry but this is way off,your only talking about food in fancy resturants,and not showing the street food or local dominican food.and the street and local food is cheap .your talking all about high end lifestyle .
So? He cant talk about food and fancy restaurants in the Dr?
you need to go look for those types of videos,not on this channel,
I didn't like your video..some good/some bad. Song near beginning was sooo annoying/ repetitive. Focusing on crime/food perspectives good....just hopped all around....just FYI
Seems like your native language is Spanish. Lol
Ah but ahh but ahh
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