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I’m new to this forum, but didn’t find posts on the Playa Hermosa (Guanacaste) area. I recently “bought” in the Maritime Zone at Sol y Mar. I found this site because my builder/realtor wrote an article for you about what Gringos buy in CR. I’m not sure if I can mention the name of the development, but he did in his article. It’s called Sol y Mar. There are literally thousands of ocean view properties being developed in this little area. It’s called Playa Hermosa – between Papagayo Peninsula and the Casique Peninsula that Steve Case of AOL Time Warner recently purchased. My fear is that this area is so desirable that, like Mexico, it may become overrun with timeshares. I would just hate this and would like to know if any of the people who read this forum – or if you know, Scott, if there are any plans to curb timeshare development. Also, will the nice quiet beaches eventually become overrun with jet skis and the like? I feel sure that I’ll love the time I get to spend in CR and just hope it doesn’t change too much in the near future. Any comments, information?
I certainly do not know of any plans to “curb development” and would probably guess that this would be unconstitutional.
The problem with this whole idea is that many of us come to Costa Rica because it’s beautiful and and naturally we want it to stay beautiful forever but, because you are here, builders will build more to attract more customers like you and businessmen will build grocery stores and then there’s that gorgeous new Italian deli round the corner that you can’t live without.
Bottom line is it that it is because of us that they are building more. It’s actually our fault, would you not agree?
Scott Oliver – Founder
WeLoveCostaRica.comYes, Scott. I agree, however, I have seen some evidence that suggests that there is a sort of peer pressure to keep Costa Rica clean and green. It would be great if that could prevail and keep the kind of development that destroys the peaceful enjoyment of CR at bay. I know that is dream, not reality. Oh well.
Can’t remember who said it but the human species tends to eventually destroy what it is attracted to and tries to protect.
It would seem from our track record so far that ‘beautiful environments’ here as well as everywhere else are indeed being destroyed.
Can we stop that? I think we can if we change. Can we change? No! I don’t think we can …
1. Costa Rica – “the last country the God’s made.”
2. Man is attracted to the beauty of Costa Rica
3. People in Costa Rica build more homes for the people that are attracted to that beauty of Costa Rica
4. More people come to visit and see the beauty of Costa Rica
5. Man cuts down some trees to build more homes for those people
6. North Americans who can’t by law make the money they used to make selling penny stocks start boiler room telemarketing operations all over the USA and in Costa Rica to sell land in Costa Rica to people all over the world. They send out HUNDREDS of MILLIONS of emails per WEEK selling the Costa Rica dream of a ‘tropical paradise.’ I can assure you that 98% of them they do not give a damn about Costa Rica, all they care about is making money and they’ll be long gone by the time you get around to actuallly building your home.
7. Many more people come to Costa Rica to cut down some more trees and build their own dream home
8. People start to complain about “over-development”I recently read a book about Chernobyl and did some research into the aftermath of that disaster.
“On a larger scale, however, there has been a dramatic increase in populations of wild mammals and bird species living in the abandoned lands. Wildlife in the vast majority of the Chernobyl Zone has not only recovered, but is now more abundant and diverse than it was before the accident. The area is now home to large populations of wild boar, wolves and many bird species. Though radiation levels in the exclusion zone are in many areas much higher than those considered safe for human habitation, wildlife has benefited from the absence of human disturbance and damage through, for example, agriculture, hunting and fishing.” (From )
So there is some light at the end of the tunnel because it would appear that after the US “with it’s coalition partners” starts the third and last nuclear world war and 75% of the human species has been wiped out, that many species will rejoice in knowing that they will have the place to themselves for while and it probably won’t happen again for a very long time.
Now there’s a cheery thought eh?
Scott Oliver – Founder
WeLoveCostaRica.com
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