Robbery at Gun point

[Talia2001]

I live in Canada and to the outside world this is the safest place to live. However, white collar crime is rampant and the Canadian authorities are helpless against these sharks. If you live here and have a little money and are naive and gullible, I can assure you that you will have a much simpler life after these goons relieve you of your savings and dreams of a comfortable retirement.
So a robbery at gun point is much more preferable. At the most I will lose a couple of hundred dollars cash and some credit cards, which can be cancelled and not millions which will cost me over 10 years of trying to recover with no end in sight, exorbitant legal fees, and is destroying my health and my family. So which do you prefer?

[aguirrewar]

Blame the Economy, BAD everywhere, unemployment is rampant with 10-15% officially but close to 20% or 1 in 5 are not working.

Don’t know of any retired people commiting roberies since the AARP generation collects different retirements’ SSA being one of them.

Maybe the young generation and out of work needs some $$$ and the old folks have plenty of it, who knows?? what is the cause and effect of this experiment.

[smekuly]

interesting points on all accounts

i know scott will refute this with his stats. but here is my observation based on my almost 10 years living and actually having brick and mortar business here. NO MORE!!

I grew up and spent the majority of my life living in the manhattan and the bronx and queens.

it is of my opinion that crime here is generally more dangerous than living in NYC.

thats it

simple

say what you will

in my almost 10 years of living here;

I have seen more robberies, more car accidents, more death in general and more crime than in my whole lifes experience put together.

now understand something. I have lived in the trenches here in costa rica having a brick and mortar business in san jose (AKA the armpit of costa rica) I have seen it all.

I don’t live in some penthouse cooped up in my little office preaching how safe and wonderful it is to live in costa rica.

actually scott I think your version of costa rica is very off.

but I do understand that this is your business and you need to pay the bills.

STILL… costa rica is the best place to be right now.

why??

available and abundant food and water.. these are the last resources that cause people to really start to become desperate.

the crime here is good business. no one gets caught and if you are caught your out on the streets again.

what are the solutions

well I could just carry my weapon…??

but truthfully..

its better to just carry nothing when your walking around except some cash that you can afford to lose.. this way the crooks will take your cash and leave you alone.

thanks

[aguirrewar]

for all the wrong reasons you posted, I can give you some 100% positive ones.

My house is in Desamparados next to La Guacima, Parque de la PAZ with walking distance with LOT’s of crime going on. But 15 of my wifes family live withing a 5 block RADIOUS.

Talk about cousins, brothers, half brothers, distant cousins, etc. and extend family that the people know from drug addicts (piedreros) to MH smokes.

I can walk for miles and give a 1,000 colones ($1.75) to the ones that need help and the voice goes around. Don’t mess with “him”.

Not saying that if you move outside that geographycal area you are safe but withing the confines of my area, I enjoy Costa Rica and in San Jose.

At night and outside this comfort ZONE, I am toast and lost all my protection that surroundes me in the BARRIO.

I would rather live in CR with the dangears it has than in NYC, but that is just ME because my wife is from CR and the allimony I would pay would be ASTRONOMICAL, if ?? I decided to do a stupid thing like that compared to a SMOOTH ride I have for 49 years.

Not ready to sell the farm, YET!!!

[Andrew]

1. I don’t preach smekuly! I tell it as I see it from my own personal experience as you tell it as you see it from yours.

2. Having said that, it’s probably safe for us to assume that you were not forced to move to San José, right?

You had a choice, didn’t you?

You weren’t forced into starting a business in San José, were you?

You had a choice, didn’t you?

And ten years ago, you could have chosen to live somewhere else, right?

You clearly made a conscious decision to live in San José – which you refer to as “the armpit of Costa Rica” – but since San José hasn’t changed that much in ten years you must have considered the crime levels at that time, right?

3. It’s important to note that 99% of our readers do not live in San Jose, they have no desire to live in San José and they also do not want a “brick and mortar” business…

International real estate buyers and retirees don’t tend to move to the U.S. and buy property in the areas with high levels of violent crime (much higher then San José, Costa Rica) like Flint – 22, or Detroit – 18.9, or St. Louis 17.5, or New Haven, CT – 15.8 or Memphis, TN 15.4, Oakland, CA – 15.3, or Little Rock – 15.2 or Baltimore – 14.6 or Rockford, ILK – 14.5 or Stockton, CA 13.8, right?

[ http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/112804/most-dangerous-cities-247 ]

So why on earth should we go on and on and on about your “version” of Costa Rica based on your personal experiences in San José, when most people aren’t interested because all of them are choosing to live somewhere else other than San José?

4. My “version” of Costa Rica – and the version of HUNDREDS of others who have written articles for WeLoveCostaRica.com – speaks mostly of areas outside of San José and is infinitely more appropriate and interesting for our readers than yours simply because they have no interest in living in San José and, as you well know, crime outside of San José and Limón (and nobody wants to live there either) is very, very, very low.

5. I also lived in NYC for eleven years and can state categorically that I would MUCH prefer to live in San José, Costa Rica.

And talking about “interested” – I think this subject has been flogged to death by now so we’ll close this thread off at the end of the day …

Scott

[smekuly]

scott

I knew it i knew it i was waiting for one of your stats LOL

what can I say

except your right

i am not complaining although it may appear to be.

my version is exactly that .. my version.

you know whats refreshing

guys like this guy

[Andrew]

This thread is about your robbery ….

I have deleted the article you inserted because:

A: It wasn’t related to this thread.
B: We can use certain quotes from his article but copying and pasting the whole thing is not something that copyright laws allow us to do unless you have permission to do so and C: If all you’re going to do in this Forum is bitch and whine then don’t bother!

If I’m not mistaken, you were the one who started a thread entitled: “Stop Whining and work on solutions” and “lets speak of solutions and new opportunities.”

Would you listen to yourself please?

Scott

[sprite]

Sorry for your troubles, Smekuly. Truly. But I think I’ll stick with my own more positive impressions of Costa Rica which are based on my experiences, none of which were gained in San Jose or Limon.

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