They're not as "developed" as US/EU countries, hindered by hurrricanes and bad economics and whatnot, but when you contrast them with their direct neighbor they share a land border with on a tiny island, DomRep is a relative paradise.
The biggest difference is when DomRep was granted freedom, they kept everything moving basically as it was, with no major changes except people knew they were free, and changed some tax codes, and gradually changed their regime over a long period of time. When Haiti was granted freedom, they killed and ate all the white people who were helping make sure everything worked, leaving no one who knew how to farm, how to do math, or how to administrate anything, and once they ran out of food white people made, and white people made into food, they started into their own population.
DomRep REALLY hates having a land border with (their opinion) the worst country in the carribean. I've been there, if ever there's a bad scent blowing in (bad seawater, sewage overflow somewhere, or just an animal died nearby) they immediately say it's air blowing in from Haiti. The scent of rot and death is instantly tied to their neighboring land in their cultural zeitgeist. It is an evil and bad place, from which only evil and badness flows. They've got a border wall Trump wishes he could have, with machine guns, and drones.
The key differences between the two in the modern era is one is led by democracy that likes tourism and farming, and the other is led by a military leader who is an actual cannibal that thinks farming and tourism are evils of the white devil.
They're not as "developed" as US/EU countries, hindered by hurrricanes and bad economics and whatnot, but when you contrast them with their direct neighbor they share a land border with on a tiny island, DomRep is a relative paradise.
The biggest difference is when DomRep was granted freedom, they kept everything moving basically as it was, with no major changes except people knew they were free, and changed some tax codes, and gradually changed their regime over a long period of time. When Haiti was granted freedom, they killed and ate all the white people who were helping make sure everything worked, leaving no one who knew how to farm, how to do math, or how to administrate anything, and once they ran out of food white people made, and white people made into food, they started into their own population.
DomRep REALLY hates having a land border with (their opinion) the worst country in the carribean. I've been there, if ever there's a bad scent blowing in (bad seawater, sewage overflow somewhere, or just an animal died nearby) they immediately say it's air blowing in from Haiti. The scent of rot and death is instantly tied to their neighboring land in their cultural zeitgeist. It is an evil and bad place, from which only evil and badness flows. They've got a border wall Trump wishes he could have, with machine guns, and drones.
The key differences between the two in the modern era is one is led by democracy that likes tourism and farming, and the other is led by a military leader who is an actual cannibal that thinks farming and tourism are evils of the white devil.