Live or Retire in Dominican Republic Cheap

[@adventurefreaksss]

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[@marierodriquez7886]

True. Seven years ago was I was in Santiago, Laguana Salada. I was in the emergency room and I didn't have to pay anything. They were very polite and friendly.

[@adventurefreaksss]

Thank you for sharing this!

[@marierodriquez7886]

True, If your away from the beach. You can find rent for under $700. I have many friends in Dominican Republic.

[@magnacartapowerpoint]

Beach life in DR😊

[@nattierventura7847]

Hi there thanks for the video, we really appreciate how you elevate the goodness of our culture, both the good and the bad. 🇩🇴🙌🏽 Also, the moto concho is the what the use in south east Asia, moto taxi 😊

[@BlueSkySanctuaryBaja]

Another great podcast, a fun & informative listen every time 👌 Keep 'em coming Re!

[@adventurefreaksss]

Muchas gracias mi amiga!

[@BlueSkySanctuaryBaja]

Denada mi amigo! @@adventurefreaksss

[@reydejesus3706]

My wife and I are planning to retire there

[@Walter-q6c]

same here...

[@lazarocedeno5270]

Great Video. Thanks.

[@reydejesus3706]

Great show!! Good information 👍🏼👍🏼

[@adventurefreaksss]

Thank you!

[@mailmanqcnc]

I would have loved to hear about golf. No one ever speaks about golf when doing these videos on the DR. I will be retiring there and all I want to do is golf and enjoy the beaches with my wife.

[@allo.813]

Really good interview. I've visited the DR & stayed a few weeks a few different times and loved it there. Hopefully upon retirement soon, I'll be back for a few months a year.

[@adventurefreaksss]

@@allo.813 thank you for sharing!!

[@marianobuenrostro9164]

You look like a well informed lady, thank you for what you’re doing. I was born in Santo Domino, and I’ve been living in the USA for 40 plus years and I went to the DR 38 years ago the last time, and I’m tired now, I’m planning to go back and see if I can spend some time there.

[@hilariovargas8682]

She is funny - so cool - to see her having fun and adapting to the culture - I am leaving next year bought in PUNTA CANA - she is the most realistic to the expenses - more than $10.00 for food per person is more then enough to eat well - drinks extra - MERCADO - serve good food and fresh -

[@Reality-worldwar3]

Yes, for only 10$ you can eat 1 time, but normal people eat several times a day. Local food in local cafes is cheaper, but it is tasteless, unhealthy and of poor quality.

[@amabelisalinas364]

my husband is Dominican and we love it out there just got back.

[@JP-jj6kw]

Love the dominican rep

[@dovygoodguy1296]

How do Raquel and others compare the Dominican Republic with other locations such as Barbados?? Is Punta Cana becoming an American bubble in the DR?

[@nesq4104]

Spanish makes the difference

[@Reality-worldwar3]

Sorry, but recently Punta Cana has become a Russian bubble, not an American one. There is a lot of domestic conflict, because the nation is always complicated. Unfortunately :(

[@dovygoodguy1296]

@@Reality-worldwar3 What do you mean by domestic conflict? Is it better to be in Sosua, Cabarete and Santiago de los Caballeros???

[@Reality-worldwar3]

@@dovygoodguy1296 Let me clarify - domestic conflicts when Russians get drunk and glorify Russia. People are like that, and where there are a lot of them, there are always problems. / It depends on what you want, on your goals in this country.

[@Reality-worldwar3]

@@dovygoodguy1296 Sosua - full with prostitutes, Cabarete - nice, small village, Santiago - beautiful big city, but far from ocean. Try different places before. *Santiago - absolutely different energy as in the Santo Domingo.

[@leatriceberman]

I live in the DR. Overstay fees have gone up. I recently travelled to the US, and I was charged 3500 pesos (about $60 USD) upon leaving. I had been here without leaving for under 90 days.

[@adventurefreaksss]

Thank you for this update!

[@FeedScrn]

They say that "education is important"... but you will find that approx. 1/2 of the adults there are literate. - Good name for channel. There's an 'undone' feeling there... and I believe it's on purpose. Very rarely will you find all the 't's crossed and 'i's dotted. But then things are changing everywhere.... so maybe it's a good place to go.

[@EvralTatum-Mcfield-ov2mi]

Noo, retirement visa ,over there is a minimum of $1,500 a month, you can be there with a tourist visa, but that kind of defeat the purpose to be sneaky with immigration, you can probably live good over there with a $1000 a month, as a single person, but it will be more if you have a wife and kids added to the combo!!

[@dovygoodguy1296]

I gave up on Mexico as the country is being devoured by a spreading cancer of the cartels, bribing out the police, army, politicians, mayors, etc. It's not just a local nuisance. Will Dominican Republic head into the same situation with the worsening conflict with Haiti??

[@dovygoodguy1296]

@@KevinM88TR11 The cartels in Mexico are not some minor local inconvenience. They are a state within a state. They own police, army, politicians and bureaucracy. They have more money and power than the official state could ever dream about.

[@nesq4104]

No, not D R currently. But corruption exists. Keep you money in USA and just rent

[@anapuello9946]

@@nesq4104there’s corruption everywhere 🤦🏽‍♀️

[@nesq4104]

@@anapuello9946 corruption everywhere but at least in USA you not being robbed of your home and if it happens you have the courts. In DR you are screwed because everyone is against you. Don't be dumb and spend hundreds of thousands. Just rent. You can always abandon and leave in a heartbeat

[@nattierventura7847]

Not at all. The Dominican Republic has been fighting with tooth and nails to contain the situation, the right way and rough way, for which often time we get criticized by international news outlets and stupid social media. However, I must say that as person who has been around the world, just few places in DR who can consider unsafe, just like here in the US … if you come the Bronx here in NY, North Philly or Baltimore .. I suggest to run 🏃🏽‍♀️ for your life, because that’s exactly what did the last time I visited those places. I still love America 🇺🇸 consider myself American 🇺🇸 for the past 30 years of my life, but my heart still there in DR 🇩🇴😊

[@niurkarivas2024]

I’m living in the north cost I paid yearly for cable internet and home phone, yearly 600.00 US $.

[@adventurefreaksss]

Is the 600 for everything including rent? If so, I'd like to interview!

[@talk2will]

Love it ❤

[@AlexandraCruz-Marte]

How can I follow Raquel on social media?

[@CMB-pd1qu]

May I ask what Raquel’s line of work in the DR is? Still biotech? Great video and I love her life ..something to aspire to.

[@ElvisGarciaDeJesus-bl4cf]

wwooo, increible, thanks for the video. I know Dominican Republic is a true paradise, but I did not know it was so affordable, thanks.

[@joseporelmundo5514]

I love her, she is very into culture

[@Reality-worldwar3]

I don't agree with you. She is detached from real life in the Dominican Republic because her range of communication/demands/interests is very narrow=specific. The lady represents the excellent small middle class of Dominicans who live in Punta Cana, which is itself a territory in a "country within a country". The lady does not belong to any of the large population groups that make up the majority of consumers in this country, so her advice must be seen as narrowly oriented.

[@vincentzacks9584]

$500 for a 1 bedroom is expensive.

[@adventurefreaksss]

Thanks for this update!

[@nesq4104]

You can rent apt in hatians neighborhood in DR for 100

[@WeedplugDR]

men here in santiago 500 dollars rent is a huge house with backyard

[@thetiredtourist3927]

Below that and you're living in a dump or somewhere in the hills

[@nickgeoff2013]

When they build so much in DR, people will suffer food, and the country will turn to the same like U.S with processed food. This is bad

[@Reality-worldwar3]

It is an illusion that is from ignorance of reality. The DR has very low quality food because they use a lot of pesticides to get a quick harvest without cultivating it. Chickens and livestock are fed waste from food companies. Quality vegetables and fruits are only available on farms owned by foreigners, who (mostly) have created them because there is no quality food in the DR. The locals have no education about what constitutes quality food and the state (DR) is trying to improve the situation with a program that promotes the use of vegetables in the diet. But nowhere do they say that vegetables must be chemical-free, it's not that far yet.

[@nelsonmartinez7265]

Ignorant idiots like you 2 we don’t need, we already have the haitian plague. Keep eating your tasteless food.

[@joseporelmundo5514]

I think she got the numbers wrong it's more then $25 every few month.

[@scottsiewert3487]

Hi Thanks what town does she live in

[@adventurefreaksss]

Punta Cana

[@elroyreyes8022]

I'm dominican living nyc, punta cana are the most expensive places in dr but there are chipper places in dr like santiago, Puerto plata, la Vega, etc .

[@adventurefreaksss]

@@elroyreyes8022 I'd love to do a podcast on those locations! Thank you for this information.

[@thetiredtourist3927]

You ask if people go out for dinner 2 or 3 times a week... do you go out 2 or 3 times to eat wherever you live...probably not, so why would you thing people do that in a country with a much lower income...the DR is not that cheap.

[@adventurefreaksss]

The question is aimed at expats living in these countries who originally come from abroad, to give potential expats a clearer understanding of the cost of living and help them plan their budget more effectively

[@LivingtheDRdream]

DR is expensive. Only rent , healthcare, medicine, car repair and a few other things are cheap. Everything else is expensive if not more this the US

[@nesq4104]

The property is all hers (for now). Dont move a man or a partner in or get married they will take the house guaranteed.

[@EvralTatum-Mcfield-ov2mi]

Don't worry, she got a Dominican plantain on the side, she might not want people to know that!!

[@nesq4104]

@@EvralTatum-Mcfield-ov2mi of course. You know that!

[@s.a7468]

Not necessarily.

[@gif24gt60]

Sounds brazil could even be cheaper.

[@adventurefreaksss]

They are comparable. It all depends on where you live. You can however find good rents near or on the beach for less than in the DR.

[@Notrocketscience101]

How to live and die in Latin America

[@isaiasgonzalez1919]

😂😂😂

[@jaymeez]

Yea I’m with this lady. If Trump gets Re-Elected I’m Out!!

[@adventurefreaksss]

I wouldn't allow any person to have that kind of power over me:). Thank you for viewing!

[@reydejesus3706]

I don’t care who gets elected……. I’m going to DR anyway 🤣😂🤣 Trump 2024🇺🇸 BTW

[@reydejesus3706]

You can leave now!!! Trump is not the problem!! 🤣😂🤣 Trump 2024 🇺🇸🇵🇷

[@johnvenier6100]

Anyone is better than the current useless turd! Good leave now!!

[@arthurkingii2476]

@@reydejesus3706 Inmate Trump 2024...serial number 4547

[@peteh8077]

Mississippi was bad bc trump was president? This immediately discredits anything she says afterwards...

[@samlyons3552]

its over for the DR...move on

[@KingJova88]

Call me a hater but I’m not too impressed with gringos moving to my country DR because doesn’t benefit me only benefits gringos the Dominican government already don’t care about us and to is not any benefit for the Dominicans

[@Reality-worldwar3]

Yes, your government, which you elected, does not care about you - that's true. But you live off the money that the gringo brings to your country, because the gringo buys your goods and services. Gringo money keeps and feeds the poor Dominicans, but they don't understand it. Those who are lucky and have been able to get a good education understand this well.

[@peteh8077]

Sounds like you are the problem if the people let the government harm you.

[@AlexandraCruz-Marte]

How can I follow Raquel on social media?

[@joseporelmundo5514]

I love her, she is very into culture

[@AlexandraCruz-Marte]

How can I follow Raquel on social media?

[@adventurefreaksss]

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