I have a Girlfriend in Petionville ,Haiti ,we met in Dominica Rep. ,she is beautiful and wonderful (Haitii s best) I have met many of her family members since then online by cam /skype we talk english/french and little creole ...I want/they want me to visit . Thats great,but .. read all the U.S. warnings : http://www.expatexchange.com/trv_rd.cfm?articleid=3732&networkid=50 read it very carefully concerning information they put out there ...kidnapping ,malaria........also it is ,expensive to stay in Haiti , like places in the U.S. and you know i look at hotel rates and I laugh...the cost is 50 bucks a night for Petionville and in Florida its 40 bucks a night/D.R. too and on the ocean..wow! What nerve the Haitian Hotels have to charge such rates when America has none of the above to worry about.and your safe relatively speaking in the U.S. (and yes i could stay at her family home , but with 10 people limited room )..Her home and husband destroyed in the quake.........I looked at homes online there to possibly buy and the rates are incredible..Did you know homes in Miami.Florida are selling for 25k and condos even less....I dont understand why the "so called" poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere is priced higher than America...doesn't make sense ..can someone shed light on this ? Oh these homes are PAP and Petionville area that I looked online for a deal like in Florida,
All this said and done ..
.Is it safe,comfortable, to visit PAP/Petionville?,will one have to immunize?.,look over there back, catch some disease from a mosquito? whatever , or is there nothing to really be concerned about ?
I looked on utube Haiti and watched little girl interviewed by CNN she is a slave and gets beat if she talks to the family that bought her.from mother ..several of those videos are on there go look..and gangs running around acting a fool ..the news says that 10000 prisoners are loose on the streets .......12 year old girls and ,women getting raped in between buildings and such...sounds like alot of crazy things. utube shows interviews with these victims .
Now for those of you living there or have been there after the earthquake ..what is the facts to all this !..I know the news sensationalizes many things to sell there stories .but there has to be some truth to there reports or they would get sued for misinformation to the world...So shed some light on all this....If this information swings positive ..it is possible that this nation may be in a growing stage to be a mecca for tourism like D.R. no reason except the behaviour of Haitians and its government to not attract that...its the same island for crying out loud and D.R. attracts the world for tourism.........
Now back to this!... i have never immunized for anywhere in the world i have been all over, but for some reason the U.S. government is saying to do that for malaria,fever, ect. in Haiti ....What you people think? I hope not to do immunization....
Here is another option: II asked her to get a visa to visit here U.S. and sent a letter of invite and she says it is not so easy to get visitors visa ...I told her we can start a food/clothing business in Haiti then you get legit business visa (another way) or I swim and she swim we meet in the middle:) but i dont like sharks hmm ...but isn't a visitor visa easier to get? I dont see how a Haitian can go to Dominica easy and not U.S. or is Mexico easier to obtain visitor visa? Canada ? Cuba? ...Who knows about this and would you educate me on some of these questions....nicely though...I have scoured the internet and have some information ...but people that have lived there and experienced some of these questions would be very helpful ..I am trying to see her and in time will ...We have discussed doing business in D.R. getting specific goods brought by truck to PAP and sell from store ..she say that will do good too...will it? I dont know and am not just hinging investment on her opinion with no real research ,and info.Anyway I would like as much help and facts as you know them from being there ,interacting/living among the pulse of the Haition Nation...
I am in Seattle and more than happy to get to D.R. or Haiti...I am a water treatment specialist and paramedic...there may also be humanitarian /business possibilities my Haitian Girlfriend and I could explore with these skills ,who knows?
It is first day of our New Year ..I pray all of us have a better year...thanks for reading and much thanks to those who contribute information to this topic.
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