Cabarete

Cabarete sits on the Atlantic coast of the Dominican Republic, between Sosúa and Río San Juan, in the province of Puerto Plata. It grew up around a two-kilometre bay that turned out to be one of the best wind and wave spots in the Caribbean, and the town still runs on that rhythm: swimming and paddling in the morning, wind from midday, restaurants on the sand in the evening.

It is small enough to walk end to end and international enough that most business is done in English and Spanish, with German, French and Russian widely spoken. There is a permanent expatriate community of a few thousand people alongside the Dominican population.

Supermarkets, pharmacies, banks and hardware stores are in the town itself. Larger shopping and the private hospitals are in Sosúa (fifteen minutes) and Puerto Plata (twenty-five minutes). International schools operate in Sosúa and Cabarete, teaching in English and Spanish.

Fibre internet is available across the town, which is why the remote-work population keeps growing. Electricity comes from the national grid with generator backup, which every serious residential project in the area provides.