FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY
Well hey there!
I’m glad your here and reading this, whoever you are. Thanks for dropping by.
I want to get into something very important – something that you may not understand about Cabarete or the Dominican Republic – The people, If your living here, then you’ll be able to see it eventually and even if your on vacation for an extended period of time you’ll probably get the feeling of it.
You – The White person from a Different Country – You the Black person of a different Country – You the in between White and Black Person of a different Country – The common denominator in all those three is, From a Different Country and there’s lot’s of us in the Dominican Republic , especially in ” high season”
So why are THEY, here? Why are YOU here? Are you trying to live here as an ExPatriot of your own Country? The one that you were most likely born in? The one that you are citizen of? The one who’s Government you claim as your own? If so, Your a small percentage during high season, but your THE percentage during low season, minus a bunch of vacationers that actually come here in the Summer time.
So why are you here Expat of your Country? Why Cabarete? What’s your reason:?
I find that there are only THREE reasons , and this is after 3 years of watching and listening to what’s going on around me, this is after 3 years of practically exiling myself from my own Country, the Country that I love, the Country that I would have no problem defending, the Country who’s politics are political the Country who’s taxes are high but so are the services and benefits, the Country that was made up of both misfits and high society, and everything in between – Canada.
So let’s start with Reason 1 , My reason and maybe yours.
Like many choose to believe and feel, Cabarete is Captivating – it is a Gem of a place , it lies on the North Shore of the Dominican Republic and is protected by a massive coral reef and a mountain range. What that means in case you don’t know , is that Cabarete Rarely, and I mean Rarely and to that I’ll add Very Fucking Rarely gets hit by major Weather Developments known as Hurricanes and floods.
Why?
Well, I’m not a meteorologist, but from what I know and what I heard nature wants to take the easy route, and will track to the path of least resistance. Cabarete, like I said earlier has a Coral Reef and not far some Mountain Ranges, Big Fucken Mountain ranges. So, whent the storm is charting it’s path and wants to pick up Water in the form of humidity to grow and when it wants to pick up speed so it can get out of the way of what it was disturbing, it’s not going to choose coral reef and a mountain range, so it say’s, let’s not go that way.
Combined with the fact that it’s captivating beaches , fantastic people and environment as whole is top notch some people who want to live in a warmer climate next to the Ocean choose, and you guessed it.
Cabarete.
At the core, and for no other reason I went along with the idea , that this would be a good idea and a good enough reason and left my Country for this one, and – just like that here I am.
Reason Two
You picked Cabarete and maybe even somewhere else and ended up in Cabarete later for the same reason as Reason one , BUT with a twist.
You did it because you didn’t like your Country anymore, where it was headed politicaly what society was like over there and maybe just out of a general feeling of unhappiness about certain situations and , like many people when they decided their no longer happy in their current lives and sitations, they pick up, pack up and go somewhere else.
Easy enough? I’ve done it, it happens and is what it is.
So those people end up gathering together, only because it’s such a small town and they find their common denominator which is , their not happy about how things are going on and want to quote on quote not only get out of their town or city or suburb or whatever, but they want to leave the entire Country behind and take their politics with them.
And , like it or not they try to escape politics , which, is not possible , because , if their leaving because of politics it means their political and not pacifists and so their politics follow them here and they “start something new” but they continue to down talk the Country’s politics they left.
And that there is a racket my friends a real Tennis racket.
I’ve seen family after family come here for those reason’s some make it a year some make it two years some make it ten years some make it twenty years some make it even longer I guess but most don’t make it at all, or at least this is my personal experience to what I saw , was people who left because of VERY controversial world politics that go into a depth I wont even mention here cause I don’t feel like it.
But their here not because of reason one only, but reason two as well, most of them lean towards one side of the political spectrum which is at times very vocal in their dissatisfaction about how things are being handled in the world around them, which, later when in power try to become agents of change and that can work as well , whatever, and the wheel goes round and round.
And the third reason for Cabarete is simply interested Vacationers, long termers or short terms may have reason 1 and may have reason 2 , but they have the money to come vacation and stay for a while (mostly during the winter) and then they go home in I would say Maximum May Long Weekend.
Gotta open the cottage right?
So next time you see a foreigner trying to order something at a restaurant in Cabarete you may or may not think, hey, I wonder what that persons reason is for being here.
To me it doesn’t matter, I’m just writing this for entertainment purposes.
Are you entertained?