A friend of mine vacations at a fancy beach resort in the Dominican Republic. He goes there every year. When I asked him about safety concerns, he said he has no worries. The entire resort is surrounded by barbed wire.
I should have asked him why he thought there was barbed wire in the first place.
A few years ago we were in South Africa to visit several national parks. We used an affluent suburb of Johannesburg as our "base" because the parks we visited were in various parts of the country. In this suburb (called Sandton..it's written up on Wikipedia) everywhere you look there are fences with barbed wire,huge walls and gates...and security guards.
Every building you see...private home or business establishment (that suburb is the corporate headquarters of one of the country's biggest banks) have signs at the front saying something like "Protected By XYZ Security,Armed Response".
I wonder if your friend would be able to answer your question...
Thats easy. Haitians. They’ve been illegally crossing into the DR for years and and have destroyed many areas like feral animals, so says one of the most good and decent a Christian men I know from the island.
My parents were a host family for a college student from Indonesia. When his parents visited, my parents showed them around the house. His dad kept saying, “But the walls are just wood...they’re just wood, not stone. How do you keep thieves from breaking through?”
They just couldn’t get over the fact that a nice house could be safe and secure when it wasn’t made of stone.
I’m so thankful for the USA.
Could be a way to encourage guests to spend their money in the hotel.
I was there back in 2008 as the guest of a cigar company. We traveled around quite a bit, visited several restaurants and other businesses. There were no guards at the villa where we stayed. Despite the obvious poverty, the place was clean and very peaceful. I attributed this to the religious nature of the people.
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