I am not usually drawn to pity but I can't stop thinking about my recent two weeks in Dominican Republic. The average wage is $150/month and gas is almost $2.00 per litre. But, man, can they dance. Unemployment is in excess of 30% and many of those who do work are low paid service people. Crime is high in the cities and the country; almost all houses have bars on first t0 third storey windows and doors.
They have beautiful monuments, government buildings and parks but there is so much garbage strewn across the landscape that the beauty rapidly disappears.
Boil water advisories are a day by day reality. They routinely get hammered by hurricanes and other bad weather.
And we think that Canadians have it rough?
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