Q: rents in major cities ,food restaurantsetc?
A: Renting in Santo Domingo and Santiago and Puerto Plata are between 5.000 & 30.000 RDS all depending your taste and lifestyle. If you have the idea to go every day to a restaurant then life will be expensive! But normally living without a car you must think about 40.000 rds/month. This is depending of many factors I don't know to answer you properly, so....... I hope this helped a bit. L'Antipodien