meangreen88
American looking for information about Dominican Republic
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About me
American
Speaks English Some Spanish and French (very little)
Registration: 10 January 2018
Activity
Finding a car and driver you can rent for the day in Santo Domingo
Moving to SD late next month. Although I have a friend with a car, they have busy lives. I'm not looking to buy a car in the near future so wondering if anyone knows of a decent provider where I could hire someone for a day to do appointments, ... Read More
Buying furniture in Dominican republic by Bettyboopy
Does anyone know if furniture is expensive in Dominican? Bedroom living room set and fridge and Stive plus washer spinner. Need a good place to go buy these items. Would appreciate any responses. Puerto plata area in the city. Thank you!!
I'm furnishing my place in Santo Domingo with furniture from a place called illumi outlet. I thought the look and price of the furniture was very nice. My Dominican friends think it's expensive but in the US, it was reasonable. Plus delivery ... Read More
Need advice on bringing dogs to D.R. by Lisa1971
HELP!!! I have 2 snub nose breed dogs (Boxers) and I do not want to leave them behind if/when me move to Sosua. Any suggestions? Has anyone done this before? We currently reside in the U.S.A.
Your Shi Tzu should be fine as a carryon pooch. They just won't allow certain breeds to be in the cargo area if I understand correctly. I have a small dog and a cat I'm bringing in August, so I need to see about the requirements currently. ... Read More
Food Sanitation and Pesticides by RockyM
Someone brought this up in the Intro thread and thought I would kick this snow ball down the hill to start discussion of what precautions, methods, etc. you use to ensure consumption of safe food items (fruits, produce, meats, etc.). I'll copy ...
I'm curious myself. We're moving down permanently in August and I've been preparing myself for eating a lot of eggs, avocados, rice and beans. I don't eat a lot of fruit and veggies anyway and figured the meat and poultry were full ... Read More
USA bank transfers to the Dominican by Cori Davidson
My husband and I are buying a summer home in Sosua. We need to find a bank near St. Louis, MO to have easy transfers for us. Any help would be appreciated. TIA
If you don't need more than $2,000 at any one time, you can use Xoom, which is owned by PayPal. Much lower fees than wire transfers. I send money all the time between Chase bank here in the US to Banco de Leon in the DR, as well as to my ... Read More
Ivermectin Not Recommeded by WHO and EU by Guest2022
Please add to the closed Ivermectin thread to perhaps put an end to this drug's promotion by some. WHO joins Europe, (FDA and manufacturer) Merck in recommending against Ivermectin for ...
So the fact that there is a group in the DR who treated over 6,000 patients is wrong? The fact that even conservative doctors, like the one I have in the US, believes there is some potential with it? What about other therapies that have worked with ... Read More
Receiving payroll from U.S. by meangreen88
Hi all, I searched for related topics but didn't really find the answer I need. My wife and I are moving full-time at the end of August. Although leaving full-time employment, we have an opportunity to earn some extra revenue from the same ...
Thank you yes. My plan is to either use my US debit card or Xoom, a PayPal company, let's you transfer into a number of Domincan banks and the fee is only about $5. I want to keep mostly only what I need in a Dominican account and the rest in ... Read More
Receiving payroll from U.S. by meangreen88
Hi all, I searched for related topics but didn't really find the answer I need. My wife and I are moving full-time at the end of August. Although leaving full-time employment, we have an opportunity to earn some extra revenue from the same ...
Thanks for the info. I believe it will be a W-2 but through one of their agencies. I think there may be some misunderstanding that we will be maintaining US banks. Read More
Receiving payroll from U.S. by meangreen88
Hi all, I searched for related topics but didn't really find the answer I need. My wife and I are moving full-time at the end of August. Although leaving full-time employment, we have an opportunity to earn some extra revenue from the same ...
Thank you for your reply. This was told to us by our HR folks, which didn't seem to make sense to me but I thought I'd see if anyone else had issues. The tax part I'm good with. I program tax software for a living ;) I think in this ... Read More
Receiving payroll from U.S.
Hi all, I searched for related topics but didn't really find the answer I need. My wife and I are moving full-time at the end of August. Although leaving full-time employment, we have an opportunity to earn some extra revenue from the same ... Read More
Cost of Living 2020 Edition by DRVisitor
Looking for costs thru out DR.
Your rent seems off unless I read that wrong for the amount of time Read More
A modest lifestyle by Atrent
Hello everyone My wife and myself are slowly making plans to move to DR within the next 2 years . I have been reading of rising cost of living and my question is Will we be able to live a modest to comfortable lifestyle on 3600 usd a month?
Depending on what you want or need to do, that should be plenty. My wife and I are moving to Santo Domingo at the end of August and I estimate we can live on about $1500 a month, that's with owning our condo outright. We are not in a resort ... Read More
Garbage washing up in Santo Domingo by Kat11
I have been reading about this garbage washing up in the ocean and it really makes me 😢 sad. My question to people that live in DR and get local news and hear more than us living elsewhere......is there any serious talk to stop this from ...
I spent a month in the DR in June, working in the bateys and villages on the outskirts of Santo Domingo. The trash is everywhere. And like Planner said, garbage is not picked up in some areas often. Where we were in Los Alcarrizos, the garbage truck ... Read More
Temporary Resdidencia - first steps! by planner
As a regular person, not applying for work visa or a retirement special status recidencia, you can apply for the temporary residencia. The principal difference is that you will require a local sponsor to vouch for you and your family when applying ...
I called the New Orleans consulate office. While the man was nice, I hope he misspoke because he said we'd need to show $3,000 a month in income as a couple. Since we are not retirement age he said our investments would have to produce that ... Read More
Housing ads on this site by TexasBornAndBred
Just curious, was looking thru the various housing ads on this site and wanted to know if the people posting the ads are verified as ‘reliable’? Or is it just hit or miss and scammers might be posting here? I saw a couple of ads that ...
I like the ads on encuentra24 and I browse in pesos. Better prices than using dollars Read More