Jungle Kat
Paramaribo
Worth visiting!
You will never find a more beautiful country then Suriname… Learn the taal – Sranan Tongo, and speak it, because everyone will be very excited if a foreigner speaks their language.
The jungles are beautiful, the villages are amazing and the people are great!
I love it. I am staying!
Harijan
Palmdale
my husband and i were thinking of moving there. are you trying to get citizenship or are you in a visa? i’d like to know how easy or difficult it is to gain citizenship there.
also, i was wondering how the education system seems… you’ve only been there a little while, but maybe you know how that is… and also what is the expense of living there? is it really cheap, expensive, not too bad? i’m thinking about property values and the average everyday stuff like grocery shopping and what not. if you could tell me anything like this for me to sorta understand suriname from the outside before we make the big move, that would be fantastic!
Jungle Kat
Paramaribo
If you don’t speak Dutch it would be hard to have any type of good job in the country.
English is very well spoken in the capital, however outside of that you will not find much of the English languauge.
I speak Sranan Tongo fluently and I am pretty good with Dutch.
I am in the country as a Peace Corps Volunteer. I will be living here for about 27 months, 6 of which are over already.
I don’t know how hard the visa’s are, however it is next to impossible for the Surinamese to get one to leave the country to visit the U.S.
I figure that the matter would depend heavily on your country of origin.
If you are going to reside in Paramaribo it can be realtively expencive and you won’t find a lot of the things you find the U.S. – - however even the city is much cheaper then living in the U.S. but the better value is living in the district or a village setting, though that option is rarely open to foriegners. Keep in mind it is harder to find products and services the further away from the capital that you go.
Education in the city is pretty good, however it can vary outside of the city. Only Dutch is taught until highschool which children are taught English as well as French and or Spanish.
It is really and interesting country.
StevenatWharton
0 places
Hey Jungle Kat! Are you already in Paramaribo or still in Phillie? I am from Suriname and studying here… if u still need help just give me a holla!
