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Your Car in Costa Rica. Have you replaced your license plates yet?
If you are car owner in Costa Rica and have not looked into how the new, mandatory license plate change affects you, it's time to get ...
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Moving To Costa Rica. What I would have done differently
Like many expats, I raised lofty perceptions in my head about the opportunities my wife and I would have in Costa Rica, long before we ...
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Why We Chose To Buy A Home in San Ramon Over Other Areas of Costa Rica.
When we first started looking at property we began looking at areas ranging from San Isidro de El General in the south to Manuel Antonio ...
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The Federal Reserve’s War On Seniors
The Federal Reserve's "zero interest rate policy" (ZIRP) of the last half dozen years or so has been a financial act of war on the ...
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Racist, Hate Filled Israeli Rabbi Dies At Aged 93 With Gushing Obituary In Local Costa Rica Newspaper. Apart from gays and lesbians, Palestinians, Arabs and all non-Jews which is 98% of the global population, he loved everybody!
I must confess to being a little puzzled as to why La Nacion- a newspaper published in the predominantly Catholic nation of Costa Rica - ...
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Our Four Day Mini Vacation in Montezuma
I can finally stop chasing the dream of experiencing the best beach vacation--it's been caught. A four day jaunt to Montezuma beach met ...
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Evicting The Tenant From Hell!
Costa Rican tenancy law dates from 1995, and at the time it was a great advance towards a more balanced approach to the rights of the ...
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My Birthday in Grecia
This birthday was bittersweet for me, as it was my first annual celebration away from my family in Maryland. No matter how old we "kids" ...
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How We Retired Early and Moved To Costa Rica
The question that quickly follows why, did you move to Costa Rica is "How, did you move to Costa Rica" with the implied "at such a young ...
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Rainy Season Fitness Tips
Every place in the world has its own version of an offseason. In the Northern states, Europe and Canada, when the snow falls, "staying in" ...
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