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Fireman and EMT Expats Discuss Reactions Of Family And Friends – Part 2

As you start to explore the possibility of moving offshore for retirement, you will likely face two very different reactions from family and friends.  A few will admire your wanderlust and secretly (or maybe even outwardly) express their desire to be right along with you.  But if your experience is typical, a larger number of […]

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Fireman and EMT Spouse Describe Their Expat Journey

I had the pleasure to interview an American fireman and his EMT spouse that have been on the path to discover an offshore early retirement haven for several years.  After researching Mexico, Belize, Ecuador, Panama and Costa Rica it looks like they have finally settled on Cabrera on the North Coast of the Dominican Republic for […]

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Crazy Up North – Or Is It All By Design

Sitting here in the relative safety of my home on the North Coast of the Dominican Republic, I have to wonder what the heck is going on in our northern neighbor… the United States. You have two presidential candidates…. one (Trump) scares the bejeeezus out of every deeply entrenched politician in Washington along with half […]

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A Prime Example Of Using The Primary Weapon

One of my readers sent me a couple of recent posts by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts. Pasted directly from Dr. Roberts site provides a brief Bio along with his many accomplishments. “Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for […]

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More Immigration Options To Speed Your Path To A 2nd Passport

Wanted: Top quality, timely and affordable immigration services for DR Escapes readers. As in most worthwhile rapidly growing endeavors, at DRescapes we also suffer through growing pains when demand exceeds our ability to react. It turns out that immigration services was one of those areas for us. We simply had too much interest to be […]

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Only A Fool Tries To Survive By Acting Like A Vegetable

“Only a fool tries to survive by acting like a vegetable – staying rooted in on place when the political and economic climate changes for the worse. When the going gets tough, the mentally tough go elsewhere, the way your forefathers once did…” Doug Casey, ‘Getting Out of Dodge’, ‘International Man’ While Doug Casey can […]

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Why Retire In The Dominican Republic And Why Seek Residency

A growing concern of Americans, Canadians and Europeans that are of retirement age is where to retire.  With the current financial crisis affecting many countries, retirees are looking for alternative destinations in order to make sure they can live comfortably on their pension income, social security or savings.  Adding fuel to the fire, many of […]

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We Are Doomed!!!

A subscriber recently sent me this YouTube. In forwarding the Tube his comment was “Barry you’re gonna get a good laugh at this one”. I receive several emails a day from subscribers and do try my best to read each one. With that being said this one was no exception. He was right I had […]

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I heard Some News Today

I heard some news today about two families that came to our area of the DR and have since left. One of these families had been here for about a year and the other spent over three. Now people coming and going is nothing new to me and it does happen everywhere on this planet. […]

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New Fast Track Immigration Program – Answering The Big Question

More about the fast track path to residency and naturalization.  Based on some questions and comments we have received about our earlier immigration post, I think we should delve a little deeper into the whole question about the new fast track program.  We have seen one question pop up several times.  “Is that 6 month thing […]

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