Welcome to Florida's Emerald Coast!

Written by Terry Malone


Stay a week or stay a lifetime,repparttar Emerald Coast ofrepparttar 133833 Florida Panhandle is hard to resist. You'll never forget how you relaxed onrepparttar 133834 sugar, white powder sands, listening torepparttar 133835 blue green gulf water. One ofrepparttar 133836 most beautiful coastlines inrepparttar 133837 world, this 100 mile stretch offers vacations that you will never forget. From elegant houses to highrise condos,repparttar 133838 emerald coast has it all.

The emerald coast mainly consists of Destin, Fort Walton Beach and Okaloosa Island, Panama City Beach, Sandestin, andrepparttar 133839 Beaches of South Walton(Grayton Beach, Seaside, Watercolor, and Seagrove Beach).

Dominican Republic Extremely High Prices

Written by Bob Kelly


Dominican Republic Extremely High Prices

Don’t let your travel agent give yourepparttar false information thatrepparttar 133832 Dominican Republic is cheap. It is NOT TRUE! The prices are triple US prices forrepparttar 133833 basic necessities. Add insult to injury 85% of their people are poor!

The problem began whenrepparttar 133834 last president droverepparttar 133835 dollar to 56 to 1. Prices skyrocketed.

The elections rolled around andrepparttar 133836 voters sent President Mejia packing his bags. The new American raised president, Leonel Fernandez took on huge loans withrepparttar 133837 International Monetary Fund and he raised taxes American style to unbearable levels for their impoverished people.

This immediately plummetedrepparttar 133838 dollar back down to 28 to 1. After about 6 monthsrepparttar 133839 merchants loweredrepparttar 133840 prices on some items by approximately 10% and raisedrepparttar 133841 prices on most items to a comparable price as ifrepparttar 133842 dollar were at around 60 to 1. Everyone refuses to lower prices even thoughrepparttar 133843 peso revalued 50%! Prices continue to climb on everything. From a Coca Cola to a new car.

What that means to tourism is certain failure. Their Zona Franca that depends on a lower labor forces is crumbling withrepparttar 133844 devaluation ofrepparttar 133845 dollar verses their worthless over valued peso.

The actual exchange rate is about 60 to 1, butrepparttar 133846 exchange rate is being falsely held down with Presidential hype, huge taxes and borrowed dollars. So in other words when a tourist exchanges dollars at 28 to 1 he is loosing 50% right fromrepparttar 133847 get go. There are many poor people who have money sent from relatives who work for dollars inrepparttar 133848 US. When theses poor people receive their dollars from abroad they are forced to trade them at a 50% loss. When they go torepparttar 133849 grocery store to buy foodsrepparttar 133850 prices are based at 60 to 1.

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