Santo Domingo.- Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile and Panama City are the major Latin American cities with the highest quality of life, according to a ranking disclosed in Madrid today, in which Vienna, Zurich and Auckland, head the predominantly European locations, EFE reports.
Of the first 10 cities of the 211 covered by the "World Quality of Life Study 2011," seven are in the old continent, where the report considers their infrastructure, good medical attention and a wide variety of leisure activities.
In Central and South America, Pointe-a-Pitre reached a respectable rank of 63, followed by San Juan (72), Montevideo (77), Buenos Aires (81), Santiago de Chile (90) and Panama City (93).
They are followed by Monterrey (104), San Jose (105), Asuncion (112), Lima (118), México City (121), Quito (124), Santo Domingo (129), Bogota (130), Guatemala (142), La Paz (147), Caracas (164), Managua (166), San Salvador (168), and Havana (189).
The European cities which ranked the highest in the poll conducted by Mercer Consultants are Vienna (1), Zurich (2), while the worst worldwide were Khartoum, Port-au-Prince, Yemeni, Bangui and Bagdad.
From: Dominican Republic
Our apartment block had three brake in's just yesterday..... luckily we have a dog and a good neighbor next door..... It not a very good ranking and the "so-so" ???? is that "so" bad, "so" full of rubbish?
Written by: xwill7, 29 Nov 2011 11:22 AM
From: United States, El cuarto bate
Santiago has a better quality of life than SD
Written by: tomito, 29 Nov 2011 11:53 AM
From: United States
danny00
Do you feel better now ?
Written by: danny00, 29 Nov 2011 11:56 AM
From: United States, syosset, key west, santo domingo AND NOW THE GLOBE TROTTER
To attract more tourists, the capital must cleanup trash, thugs, DT poll YESTERDAYS PAPER?
S.......... I HAVE BEEN SAYING THIS FOR 4 YEARS?
IT TOOK THEM ALL THIS TIME TO FIGURE THIS OUT?
Written by: danny00, 29 Nov 2011 12:01 PM
From: United States, syosset, key west, santo domingo AND NOW THE GLOBE TROTTER
written by: tomito, 29 nov 2011 11:53 am
from: united states
danny00
do you feel better now ? dont know if i feel better, will fell better when they clean up the city and rivers this is when i will feel better
feel better when they give proper education for the young so they will have at least a chance to surive in theis tough world we all live in,
after all these years i would feel better if dominicans got their luz they need so many dominicans spend 1/2 their lives living in the dark and behind bars. why? this is when i will feel real good when all these above problems are fixed.
From: Dominican Republic, vieja Santo Domingo
danny00 let us look at it the other way and remember the huge majority of people that enjoy SD ,,,we do at present have a rash of delinquency which is not being controlled at all well ...but for me I enjoy Zona Colonial with all its good and bad features than a city like Vienna or Zurich where life is very boring ...everything in the eye of the beholder
From: Dominican Republic, Puerto Plata
Nice score!
Between Bogota and La Paz?
Everybody should move here.
Written by: yumnuk3, 29 Nov 2011 3:31 PM
From: United States, ø„¸¨°º¤ø„¸¸„ø¤º°¨¸„ø¤º°¨
Looks like the prescription medications are not working on Danny00. But Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) can used to treat his psychiatric disorder.
http://youtu.be/DCUmINGae44 From: Dominican Republic, vieja Santo Domingo
I am told Bogata is a beautiful city but I have never been there ,,but all Latin cities are much different to those in Europe..and long live the difference
Written by: anthonyC, 29 Nov 2011 4:41 PM
From: United States
For all its negatives Santo Domingo is still the Heart and Soul of The Dominican Republic.
No other place in the D.R. can touch its Culture, Nightlife and Gastronomy. Not to mention its is the business and Financial center.
Santo Domingo is the epicenter of the Dominican Universe. Everywhere else is just a nice place to visit for awhile.
Written by: josean, 29 Nov 2011 6:40 PM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
Written by: antonio1, 29 Nov 2011 7:41 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Av Santa Rosa, La Romana
Para los gustos se hicieron los colores.........still living in paradise.
Written by: RonEvane, 29 Nov 2011 8:56 PM
From: United States, Gaithersburg, Maryland
"I am told Bogata is a beautiful city but I have never been there ,,but all Latin cities are much different to those in Europe..and long live the difference"
The ex-wife is Colombian, so had a chance to visit Bogota. Nice city but, Cartagena, on the Atlantic coast, is one gorgeous place. It's Zona Colonial, rivals that of SD. Some things that struck me were it's tall buildings, parks and cleanliness. People are courteous and women stunningly beautiful.
Too bad I was with the old ball and chain, at the time.
Written by: josean, 29 Nov 2011 11:45 PM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
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Written by: josean, 29 Nov 2011 11:45 PM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
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Written by: josean, 29 Nov 2011 11:45 PM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
Here is your friendly quality of life update!
Another example of the great "benefit" the Narco-macro-economic-Neo-liberal miracle of Lie-onel Fernandez has brought to the professionals in the republic:
Dominican Republic any chiripero (informal worker) makes more than a professional
There are engineers, journalists and doctors who earn just like high school graduates.
"Six hundred dollars a month is what a doctor earns, possibly one of the most depressed wages in the field of health in the Americas", says Dr. Senén Caba, outgoing President of the Dominican medical school (CMD).
This salary of $600, according to compare Nuria, is equivalent to about 23 thousand pesos a month. In other words, a doctor who had to stay at least 6 years studying at a University to get his title receives a similar salary or less than revenue, for example, a body and fender man can earn in a month, who to learn such a craft had no need to even attend a technical Institute.
continued:
Written by: josean, 29 Nov 2011 11:46 PM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
From: United States, Orange County, California
We keep falling behind on everything. We live based on the government feeding the population with lies.Our education is low, investments is low, security is low, GDP is low, health care is low, employment is low, everything is low except corruption. I check a lot statistics comparing the DR with the rest of the world and we are in a bad position. We can do a lot better.
Written by: lcabrera, 30 Nov 2011 12:24 PM
From: United States
Nescient population = thriving corruption.
This country keeps getting worse every year, I'm 27 now and by the time I'm 50 this country will be worse to live than Haiti. God help us all!
Written by: xwill7, 30 Nov 2011 1:08 PM
From: United States, El cuarto bate
The air smells better as you head north away from SD into the Bonao area
From: Haiti
VIVA HAITI, VIVA CUBA, VIVA VENEZUELA, the real friends!
From: Haiti
HAITI HAVE A NEW LEADER, who begin a real work in this beautiful country!
VIVA HAITI
From: United States
Masisi, Kakaman
Written by: RonEvane, 1 Dec 2011 12:12 AM
From: United States, Gaithersburg, Maryland
"Para los gustos se hicieron los colores.........still living in paradise."
Asi mismo, Sr. Antonio!... Es mi RD, aunque tenga "saranana en cuadritos!"
From: United States
to danny00 - I love my DR regardless, all REAL Dominicans do. and by the way, how is haiti coming along?
From: United States
"Nuestro vino es agrio... pero es nuestro vino"
Esta frase se le atribuye al cubano más ilustre y valiente que haya existido: José Marti
En ella hacia referencia a través del símil al hecho que las cosas de la patria había que aceptarlas como vinieran con dedicación y sacrificio, sin quejas.
Written by: RonEvane, 1 Dec 2011 5:01 AM
From: United States, Gaithersburg, Maryland
"This country keeps getting worse every year, I'm 27 now and by the time I'm 50 this country will be worse to live than Haiti. God help us all!"
Not unless we all stop complaining and contribute our two cheles' worth, to make it just that much better!
Written by: Atabey, 10 Dec 2011 11:44 AM
From: United States, NYC
Written by: guillermone, 1 Dec 2011 2:20 AM
From: United States
"Nuestro vino es agrio... pero es nuestro vino"
Esta frase se le atribuye al cubano más ilustre y valiente que haya existido: José Marti
En ella hacia referencia a través del símil al hecho que las cosas de la patria había que aceptarlas como vinieran con dedicación y sacrificio, sin quejas. "
Veremos haber si el josean y los demás entienden el significado de dichas palabras.
Written by: RonEvane, 10 Dec 2011 12:54 PM
From: United States, Gaithersburg, Maryland
( "Veremos haber si el josean y los demás entienden el significado de dichas palabras.")
Que va, Atabey. Estas gentes, aunque realmente entiendan el significado, no lo quieren aceptar.
Tienen el cerebro hecho mangu.
Y para el tipo este, parece que fue una lobotomia mal hecha.
Written by: josean, 10 Dec 2011 9:34 PM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
Now we see the mutual massaging of scrotums by the wounded purple neo-liberal pseudo, full of themselves, intellectuals.
Rectal smoke blowing can’t not be, pardon the pun, far behind!
Written by: RonEvane, 10 Dec 2011 10:31 PM
From: United States, Gaithersburg, Maryland
So, you can't understand the language, can you? A-hole, where the f'ck are you from? what you doing putting down everything Dominican, eh? I will fight your ass every time you post. Mamaguevo!
Written by: josean, 11 Dec 2011 4:42 AM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
You’re just mad because I exposed that you either don't know how to spell the name of city you live in or you don't live there.
And as to orally pleasuring male genitalia you must have me confused with your hero Lie-onel!
Written by: RonEvane, 11 Dec 2011 10:25 AM
From: United States, Gaithersburg, Maryland
No, yu purposely rigged mah profile, Hose-ass. You play dirty pool, dude. But I aint gonna let yu do that shit no mo and yo aint gonna crap mah country no mo. A-hole!
Written by: josean, 11 Dec 2011 10:31 AM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
Waht ever happened to;
Written by: RonEvane, 28 Nov 2011 1:01 PM
From: United States, Gaithersburg, Maryland
" Githersburg," Maryland
I thoght it was Gaithersburg, Maryland you sure you know where you live?
Sir, I don't know where you live, but unless you live in "Githersburg", You couldn't possibly know the right spelling of my home town.
It is silly to try to gain the upper hand and make me look stupid by tweaking my profile. It goes to show the kind of person you are: A dishonest one.
"HENCEFORTH, I WILL NOT DEAL WITH YOU AT ALL, IN ANY WAY."
I guess you’re not a woman of your word!
Written by: RonEvane, 11 Dec 2011 11:36 AM
From: United States, Gaithersburg, Maryland
No, Ah changed mah mind, Hose- ass. All you live for is to crap on my country and yo aint even from there. People like yo aint got nuthin' to live for but to critisize others. If yo must, critisize yo own country. We don't need nobody finding fault in every freaking report on this forum.
Dude, yo is anal-retentive, obsessive-compulsive rat.
Written by: josean, 11 Dec 2011 12:56 PM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
¡El tabaco es fuerte pero hay que fumarlo!
I find it intriguing that you and the other scrotum massager for Lie-onel, Atabey, find me so intellectually inferior to each of you Nobel laureates that you would spend so much of the valuable minutes of your lives responding to my "crap!"
One would think that you guys would be engaged in more rewarding enterprises, like trying to finding the cure to cancer or eliminating world hunger.
PS
Criticizing the Narco-PLD and its Capo Lie-onel does not equate to craping on the country, quite the contrary its speaking truth to power against those who have turned MY country and YOURS (a country with and extraordinary potential to be the envy of the world) into a Failed Narco-State!
Written by: RonEvane, 11 Dec 2011 2:53 PM
From: United States, Gaithersburg, Maryland
All right, I'll tune down my rhetoric, Mr. Josean.
I've already found a solution for world hunger, so I have plenty of time to mess with your head.
I'm retired so, what the heck. Might as well spend time researching DR-related web sites, since That's where I'll be, (permanently), come this here July.
I have to apologize for all the crap I laid on you. It was nasty and infantile to fly off the handle as I did. Sometimes I drink a few and think I know it all, when in reality, I'm as dumb as they come. But I'm trying to "enlighten" myself with whatever I can find. It won't be easy, I know, but try, I must.
Again Mr. Josean, I now realize you're not half bad. Please accept my apologies. I hope we can still insult one-another, without really insulting one-another. Take care.
Written by: josean, 11 Dec 2011 6:19 PM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
Mr. Evane,
No need to apologize, for no offense was committed by you or taken by me. In fact I love passionate people even if they are diametrically opposed to me. What I detest is the go along, to get along crowd especially when it’s degrading even to themselves.
I assure you that I have no greater respect for anyone than those who are men/and women enough to apologies especially when they did nothing wrong, which is the case with you sir.
So just consider me as I will take the liberty to consider you; a friend who pisses me off at times, but nevertheless a friend.
My hat is off to you sir!
.
Written by: RonEvane, 11 Dec 2011 9:42 PM
From: United States, Gaithersburg, Maryland
"So just consider me as I will take the liberty to consider you; a friend who pisses me off at times, but nevertheless a friend."
That one cracked me up, Josean!
Thank you sir for taking it lite. That's great of you. I'm sure we'll manage to find other topics to be mutually disagreeable on and continue pissing each other off!
Take care, friend. Have a good night.
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S.......... I HAVE BEEN SAYING THIS FOR 4 YEARS?
IT TOOK THEM ALL THIS TIME TO FIGURE THIS OUT?
from: united states
danny00
do you feel better now ? dont know if i feel better, will fell better when they clean up the city and rivers this is when i will feel better
feel better when they give proper education for the young so they will have at least a chance to surive in theis tough world we all live in,
after all these years i would feel better if dominicans got their luz they need so many dominicans spend 1/2 their lives living in the dark and behind bars. why? this is when i will feel real good when all these above problems are fixed.
Between Bogota and La Paz?
Everybody should move here.
Looks like the prescription medications are not working on Danny00. But Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) can used to treat his psychiatric disorder.
http://youtu.be/DCUmINGae44
No other place in the D.R. can touch its Culture, Nightlife and Gastronomy. Not to mention its is the business and Financial center.
Santo Domingo is the epicenter of the Dominican Universe. Everywhere else is just a nice place to visit for awhile.
How about this for quality of life Lie-onel!
Dominican Republic: Double femicide than the average in Latin America
http://www.7dias.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=111946
The ex-wife is Colombian, so had a chance to visit Bogota. Nice city but, Cartagena, on the Atlantic coast, is one gorgeous place. It's Zona Colonial, rivals that of SD. Some things that struck me were it's tall buildings, parks and cleanliness. People are courteous and women stunningly beautiful.
Too bad I was with the old ball and chain, at the time.
Here is your friendly quality of life update!
Another example of the great "benefit" the Narco-macro-economic-Neo-liberal miracle of Lie-onel Fernandez has brought to the professionals in the republic:
Dominican Republic any chiripero (informal worker) makes more than a professional
There are engineers, journalists and doctors who earn just like high school graduates.
"Six hundred dollars a month is what a doctor earns, possibly one of the most depressed wages in the field of health in the Americas", says Dr. Senén Caba, outgoing President of the Dominican medical school (CMD).
This salary of $600, according to compare Nuria, is equivalent to about 23 thousand pesos a month. In other words, a doctor who had to stay at least 6 years studying at a University to get his title receives a similar salary or less than revenue, for example, a body and fender man can earn in a month, who to learn such a craft had no need to even attend a technical Institute.
continued:
http://www.acento.com.do/index.ph....-gana-mas-que-un-profesional.html
This country keeps getting worse every year, I'm 27 now and by the time I'm 50 this country will be worse to live than Haiti. God help us all!
VIVA HAITI
"Para los gustos se hicieron los colores.........still living in paradise."
Asi mismo, Sr. Antonio!... Es mi RD, aunque tenga "saranana en cuadritos!"
"Nuestro vino es agrio... pero es nuestro vino"
Esta frase se le atribuye al cubano más ilustre y valiente que haya existido: José Marti
En ella hacia referencia a través del símil al hecho que las cosas de la patria había que aceptarlas como vinieran con dedicación y sacrificio, sin quejas.
"This country keeps getting worse every year, I'm 27 now and by the time I'm 50 this country will be worse to live than Haiti. God help us all!"
Not unless we all stop complaining and contribute our two cheles' worth, to make it just that much better!
From: United States
"Nuestro vino es agrio... pero es nuestro vino"
Esta frase se le atribuye al cubano más ilustre y valiente que haya existido: José Marti
En ella hacia referencia a través del símil al hecho que las cosas de la patria había que aceptarlas como vinieran con dedicación y sacrificio, sin quejas. "
Veremos haber si el josean y los demás entienden el significado de dichas palabras.
( "Veremos haber si el josean y los demás entienden el significado de dichas palabras.")
Que va, Atabey. Estas gentes, aunque realmente entiendan el significado, no lo quieren aceptar.
Tienen el cerebro hecho mangu.
Y para el tipo este, parece que fue una lobotomia mal hecha.
Now we see the mutual massaging of scrotums by the wounded purple neo-liberal pseudo, full of themselves, intellectuals.
Rectal smoke blowing can’t not be, pardon the pun, far behind!
So, you can't understand the language, can you? A-hole, where the f'ck are you from? what you doing putting down everything Dominican, eh? I will fight your ass every time you post. Mamaguevo!
You’re just mad because I exposed that you either don't know how to spell the name of city you live in or you don't live there.
And as to orally pleasuring male genitalia you must have me confused with your hero Lie-onel!
No, yu purposely rigged mah profile, Hose-ass. You play dirty pool, dude. But I aint gonna let yu do that shit no mo and yo aint gonna crap mah country no mo. A-hole!
Waht ever happened to;
Written by: RonEvane, 28 Nov 2011 1:01 PM
From: United States, Gaithersburg, Maryland
" Githersburg," Maryland
I thoght it was Gaithersburg, Maryland you sure you know where you live?
Sir, I don't know where you live, but unless you live in "Githersburg", You couldn't possibly know the right spelling of my home town.
It is silly to try to gain the upper hand and make me look stupid by tweaking my profile. It goes to show the kind of person you are: A dishonest one.
"HENCEFORTH, I WILL NOT DEAL WITH YOU AT ALL, IN ANY WAY."
I guess you’re not a woman of your word!
No, Ah changed mah mind, Hose- ass. All you live for is to crap on my country and yo aint even from there. People like yo aint got nuthin' to live for but to critisize others. If yo must, critisize yo own country. We don't need nobody finding fault in every freaking report on this forum.
Dude, yo is anal-retentive, obsessive-compulsive rat.
¡El tabaco es fuerte pero hay que fumarlo!
I find it intriguing that you and the other scrotum massager for Lie-onel, Atabey, find me so intellectually inferior to each of you Nobel laureates that you would spend so much of the valuable minutes of your lives responding to my "crap!"
One would think that you guys would be engaged in more rewarding enterprises, like trying to finding the cure to cancer or eliminating world hunger.
PS
Criticizing the Narco-PLD and its Capo Lie-onel does not equate to craping on the country, quite the contrary its speaking truth to power against those who have turned MY country and YOURS (a country with and extraordinary potential to be the envy of the world) into a Failed Narco-State!
All right, I'll tune down my rhetoric, Mr. Josean.
I've already found a solution for world hunger, so I have plenty of time to mess with your head.
I'm retired so, what the heck. Might as well spend time researching DR-related web sites, since That's where I'll be, (permanently), come this here July.
I have to apologize for all the crap I laid on you. It was nasty and infantile to fly off the handle as I did. Sometimes I drink a few and think I know it all, when in reality, I'm as dumb as they come. But I'm trying to "enlighten" myself with whatever I can find. It won't be easy, I know, but try, I must.
Again Mr. Josean, I now realize you're not half bad. Please accept my apologies. I hope we can still insult one-another, without really insulting one-another. Take care.
Mr. Evane,
No need to apologize, for no offense was committed by you or taken by me. In fact I love passionate people even if they are diametrically opposed to me. What I detest is the go along, to get along crowd especially when it’s degrading even to themselves.
I assure you that I have no greater respect for anyone than those who are men/and women enough to apologies especially when they did nothing wrong, which is the case with you sir.
So just consider me as I will take the liberty to consider you; a friend who pisses me off at times, but nevertheless a friend.
My hat is off to you sir!
.
"So just consider me as I will take the liberty to consider you; a friend who pisses me off at times, but nevertheless a friend."
That one cracked me up, Josean!
Thank you sir for taking it lite. That's great of you. I'm sure we'll manage to find other topics to be mutually disagreeable on and continue pissing each other off!
Take care, friend. Have a good night.