How modernized is Puerto Rico?
People say that Puerto Rico is very Americanized, but when you say this, do you mean that Puerto Rico looks like any regular area in the US (only with palm trees)? Same architecture and stuff?
So does most of Puerto Rico look like this?:
http://www.brooklyn101.com/photos/parkslope01-f.jpg
http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/autopia/images/2007/09/22/suburb_2.jpg
http://www.realestate.com.au/assets/images/photos/locality/au/Adelaide-Eastern-Suburbs-Toorak-Gardens-3.jpg
Or does Puerto Rico still feel and look like a Caribbean island?
Architecture in PR is for the needs of a tropical island (heat, humidity, tropical storms, hurracaines), not for the cold weather at most areas of USA.
Being more americanized is not measured in the way we build homes or buildings, but on many other things / cultural impact, like
* diet, food
* working environment
* age people marry
* women studying at university and holding executive jobs; not just staying at home raising kids,
Modernized?
* Infrastructure.
*** We got electrical power in our homes 24 hours / day – 7 days per week. In many places in the Carribean that is not the case. In many places of DR electrical power is available only 6 or 8 hours per day.
*** Potable water at practically every home in the island
*** Communications, Phones, Internet, Cable TV
February 15th, 2010 at 8:16 am
Some parts of Puerto Rico, like the New San Juan and Bayamon, and other cities of ours, do look like some of those, but most parts of Puerto Rico are just like a Carribean Island. The Beaches are just in the coasts, while hundreds of mountains and green are in the rest of the Island, except the cities of course. But Yes, the Puerto Rican cities are Americanized. But some Puerto rican towns are not. But those towns are found in the Campos, or in the really green part of Puerto Rico, much of it in the Central Part of the Island.
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Im Puerto Rican, Corozal and Bayamon are my home.
February 15th, 2010 at 8:26 am
Take into consideration the weather differences between PR and NY and MA, the fact that everything constructed in PR is made to withstand hurricanes (not the gypsum board, cardboard looking walls that you get in the states that you could punch a hole through).
Now, take into consideration that the suburbs you’ve included pictures of do not represent every state and ever part of the US.
Most of the housing in PR is one level, no chimneys, no attics & no basements (usually). There’s really all kinds of houses in PR but you need to remember its all been adapted for 85+ degree heat with plenty of humidity. You won’t find any shingles on the roofs of Puerto Rican houses.
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February 15th, 2010 at 8:59 am
It’s generally modernized but mostly where it needs to be, which is usually around tourist zones etc.
However, the mountains is a different story. They not that materializtic compared to the rest of the island since material possessions is strong status booster in Puerto RIco than you’ll see it very modernized most everywhere. You see, we try to get girls with material possessions like a peacock tail feathers then the rest comes natural. You have to understand that unemployment been such a persistant factor since the colonization of the USA in Puerto Rico.
It’s one of those things you have to live through to understand it.
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February 15th, 2010 at 9:19 am
why dont you buy a ticket and see for yourself, unlesss you cant.
I just say its way more modernized than DR, not doubt about it.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2379/2406243244_12f5ca71cd.jpg
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February 15th, 2010 at 9:43 am
Architecture in PR is for the needs of a tropical island (heat, humidity, tropical storms, hurracaines), not for the cold weather at most areas of USA.
Being more americanized is not measured in the way we build homes or buildings, but on many other things / cultural impact, like
* diet, food
* working environment
* age people marry
* women studying at university and holding executive jobs; not just staying at home raising kids,
Modernized?
* Infrastructure.
*** We got electrical power in our homes 24 hours / day – 7 days per week. In many places in the Carribean that is not the case. In many places of DR electrical power is available only 6 or 8 hours per day.
*** Potable water at practically every home in the island
*** Communications, Phones, Internet, Cable TV
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February 15th, 2010 at 9:58 am
Nene ques’t lo que te pasa con lo de pr. necesitas tx.
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February 15th, 2010 at 10:19 am
You can search pictures of Puerto Rico by internet… Puerto Rico is like the Dominican Republic with very different towns. Like Santo Domingo is not like Punta Cana, so Hato Rey is not like Ricon….
Go on and use your favorite browser…. Or more better, watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvOLT7fjQ3Q and visit this web page http://www.gotopuertorico.com
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvOLT7fjQ3Q
http://www.gotopuertorico.com/
I live in Puerto Rico