Older single women

[trishy]

I am 62 and am thinking of retiring in Costa Rica. This is kind of general but are there many other single expats there? All I seem to read about are couples. What’s it like for single people?

Also, is long term care affordable.

I appreciate any responses. Thank you.

[waggoner41]

[quote=”Trishy”]I am 62 and am thinking of retiring in Costa Rica. This is kind of general but are there many other single expats there? All I seem to read about are couples. What’s it like for single people?

Also, is long term care affordable.

I appreciate any responses. Thank you.[/quote]

Not too long ago this question was asked. You will find our responses [url=https://www.welovecostarica.com/members/cfmbb/messages.cfm?threadid=F1B637DE-24E8-5ED2-F17A84A99CBB0BF1]Here[/url]

Depending on your circumstances it could be a good move. 😀

[barbaracjohnson]

[quote=”Trishy”]I am 62 and am thinking of retiring in Costa Rica. This is kind of general but are there many other single expats there? All I seem to read about are couples. What’s it like for single people?

Also, is long term care affordable.

I appreciate any responses. Thank you.[/quote]
[quote=”Trishy”]I am 62 and am thinking of retiring in Costa Rica. This is kind of general but are there many other single expats there? All I seem to read about are couples. What’s it like for single people?

Also, is long term care affordable.

I appreciate any responses. Thank you.[/quote]

I’m 77, and until last month I lived on $964 soc secy a month. $700 rent plus utilities. I’m a year behind on CAJA payments. I believe I’ve been overcharged. Fortunately I’m healthy. I have no car. Prices are much higher than people tell you. Some items are cheap . . . provided they are grown in CR, e.g., bananas, pineapple, mangos (which I’ve never liked), and other CR fruits. You can learn about them on the Internet, but I can’t tell one from another in the market and they are NOT identified by a sign. Generally food is likely cheaper than in the States, but on my budget, even skinned, boneless chicken appears expensive. I never buy Brahmin meat. I just listen to the mooing of beautiful Brahmin cows (vacas) which live next door to me. I can’t think of eating them.

If you rent a Tican house, rather then one rehabbed or built for North Americans, you will have to deal with bats, opossums, and assorted rodents entering your house. When I complained to my landlady, she, not a Tican but a Colombiana, sued to evict me. She didn’t win, but she was ordered to put some screens into place, which have lessened the invasion by diverse fauna.

As far as social life, old, expat men are looking for young CR women. One sees old, shriveled expats with young CR women. I’m not sure you would’ve wanted those men even in their youth.

I live rather hermetically. My friends call and/or almost daily via SKYPE from the USA and I’ve kept myself writing books, so have no time to socialize locally. Am NOT interested in bridge groups, drinking in bars, working for abandoned dogs or neglected or orphaned children. I have NOT met any older, single expat women, except for one recently widowed woman, who returned to Canada.

I plan on moving in July, by the latest. The people are very nice and friendly and will invite you to birthday parties, etc., but do NOT ever forget, you are a Gringa, an alien, one who is thought of being rich, when, in fact, you are not, and they will be looking for work as a cleaning woman or want to sell diverse services by their friends at inflated prices.

The music is similar to Gregorian chants, dirge-like, and is not a source of energy to my ears. Only taxi drivers seem to play modern or rhythmical music.
Remember that I’m of a more advanced age than you are and any sexual allure I might have had when younger has long since past. Fortunately, I had a young loving man — who said he loved me for my “head” (had to be true, for it couldn’t have been for my shape, but I was able to give him a NO-child-support guarantee) — for a little more than the past decade. I left him behind when I ventured down here. He has come down here to visit. He thought CR too expensive. It is he that I’ll be joining this summer but in another clime.

Good luck. Perhaps visit before moving bag and baggage.

Call me on SKYPE (978-961-0079, forwards FREE from Massachusetts to CR) if you need more info.

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[costaricafinca]

Long term care is very different here. One may hire someone, not necessarily a nurse, to help you in your home. Hiring a nurse would increase the cost, quite dramatically.
Actual facilities are ‘few are far’ between.
If you have an existing medical problem, you should travel here and see what is available, first.

[maravilla]

frankly, if i had serious longterm health issues, i would not move here. but that’s just me.

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