Top 5 Spots in Dominican Republic for Expats & Digital Nomads

• by: @senkusu
• 3 weeks ago

Dominican here. The best medical facilities are in Santiago and Santo Domingo… Not Punta Cana.

• by: @luisabramson4957
• 3 weeks ago

Great video and very helpful info…no pictures of Las Terrenas? The views are stunning! I'm surprised…

• by: @tourismlens
• 3 weeks ago

Which area appeals to you?! Got more questions drop them below 😊🇩🇴

• by: @ronaldchristian1960
• 3 weeks ago

I Love Your Spirit,Intelligence and knowledge of Tourism!❤

• by: @caribbeanaviator1964
• 3 weeks ago

A couple of things I would like to point out about the DR.
1) Safety: Yes, there is crime in the DR and you do need to keep your street smarts when you are walking about in some areas. But this has been blown up out of proportion by the media and some bloggers online. Is very simple, folks. Don't be a fool! If you live in Santo Domingo, there shouldn't be any reason as to why you should be walking in Villa Juana, El Capotillo or Cristo Rey at 2am. The people that live in those places are not out at 2am. Why? Because you will get robbed at gun point. Period! If you live in Las Terrenas, there are areas where there has been robberies and drugging tourists or foreigners and taking them on ATM rides. Yes! This has happened. But then again. Doesn't this also happen in Detroit and Chicago? Or course it does. One thing that is not going to happen in the DR is your kids being gunned down in school. That you won't see.
Just do your research, befriend locals that know what's going on on the ground. Stay away from dating apps (this applies to Colombia or any other place you are considering) and hang around with locals that have similar level of education and economic status as you, and learn from them how to avoid the areas or situations where you can be exposed to a little more danger.

2) Cost of living: This channel does a pretty good job at giving pragmatic information. But I laugh at some traveler channels out there that are talking about how you can live with $1,000 USD per month and then are showing videos of Cap Cana, or Los Cacicazgos, Piantini and Naco in Santo Domingo. Or they show a video of a Million Dollar villa in Jarabacoa and talk about a $400 dollar per month rent cost 😂
Let's be real for a moment.
Can you eat a meal at a seafood restaurant and get fried fish and a couple of beers for 30 dollars? Sure! You most definitely can. Can you do that at Don Pepe, or El Cantabrico in Santo Domingo? It's going to be well north of 100 dollars per person. More close to 200 dollars if you order wine.

What I'm trying to say is that there are 2 very distinct Dominican Republic. There is the one where you can go to Boca Chica and enjoy the beach for very little money!
But there is the other Dominican Republic where you can go in your 400, 000 dollar Ferrari to Club Nautico in Boca Chica where the membership is upwards of half a million dollars and everything is as exclusive and with the quality that comes with it.

It is less expensive to live here than it is in Miami or New York. That doesn't mean it is cheap.

You want cheap! I suggest you look at Tailand or Vietnam. The DR is not as inexpensive as some of those other YouTube channels want to make it look like.
You are not renting an apartment in Los Cacicazgos for 400 dollars per month. 😅

• by: @jonpotthoff2868
• 3 weeks ago

I’d like your view on the Cabarete area. I have loved visiting there and have done so several times. But what about retirement there? I have met expats from France, The US, Canada, etc. it’s all been very friendly. There are good choices for grocery shopping with three major stores nearby. Also a new hospital with U.S. trained physicians and plenty to do. It seems to be rapidly developing into an expat haven with a lot of construction of condos and villas.