Truly informative articles about retirement in Costa Rica can not be written by ‘travel writers’, they can only be written about by people who are actually living and who are retired in Costa Rica. 90% of the articles you will find here about retiring in Costa Rica are unique to our site. They have been written by people who have been retired in Costa Rica for many years, who understand the culture, the people and the country and you can learn from their experience.
Retirement In Costa Rica
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A Gringo Doing Time In Costa Rica – Part IV First Impressions
I was generating a fair amount of attention with the men inside. They were yelling and joking around at me. From the comments that I could ...
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Arenal Volcano – Crater breaks away!
On Monday 24th May 2010 the lip of the crater on the southwest side of Volcano Arenal broke away and caused a large pyroclastic lava flow ...
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Living in Costa Rica – Climbing Mount Chirripo part 1
The idea started a year or so ago... Let's climb Chirripo, Costa Rica's highest peak. At 3,820 meters high (12,530 feet), you have to ...
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Sailing in Costa Rica – The perfect hurricane hideaway
Every year, people who live in the path of hurricanes lose hours of sleep and oftentimes everything they own. A hurricane scuttled my boat ...
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The Silliest Full Page Newspaper Advertisement I Have Ever Seen
This has to be the most ridiculous newspaper advertisement I have ever seen in my entire life .... The BE STUPID DIESEL ad appeared in La ...
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Identify This Costa Rica Moth And Win A Costa Rica Folk Music CD!
The first person to email me and identify this moth (the exact name please) featured in these photographs will win the Costa Rica ...
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A Gringo Doing Time In Costa Rica – Part III Bien Jodido!
Starting in November 2008, Doña Violeta began to make terse phone calls and text messages demanding that I pay her hundreds of dollars when ...
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Helping An Older People’s Care Home In San Isidro
Hogar Betania's needs are immense. Walking round, and having worked in elder care, I would immediately condemn most of the beds and ...
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Cost of Living In Costa Rica. Electricity prices.
If you buy a light, low priced imported car with cheap tires which is unsafe for the road, you might have paid a small price but you could ...
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Retirement To Costa Rica – Persuading your wife to move. Part II
After one of our visits here to close on a lot we were purchasing, I thought to myself, "how could I get here now instead of later in ...
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