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wspeed – my point exactly. Why should I feel like a guest. I never feel like a guest at home and this is now my home… so …
Guest –noun
1. a visitor to whom hospitality is extended.
I am not a visitor. I am a resident.
I am residing here not visiting here.
My point is that I don’t feel any different here than I do in my home country. I am not a guest there; I pay taxes and contribute to society in my home country, and do the same here, so why should I consider myself a guest when I am shown no preferential treatment (hospitality (and I don’t expect it). I am treated just like everybody else, except I often encounter discrimination here. Or maybe you don’t believe that many (I would say the majority) of Ticos are ethnocentric.
This stuff about me representing where I came from is passé. When I see a Japanese person acting nicely or poorly I do not draw a generalization that all Japanese are alike.
If you are a visitor here, then maybe you can consider yourself a guest and hold your self to some “higher?” standard of behavior. For me, I live here and will act the same way I act where ever I live, and that includes contributing and speaking up when things are unbalanced. If more people spoke up there would be less crime and more order.
Maybe some people feel like a guest because they don’t speak Spanish well. I guess you could feel alienated by that and that separation could make one feel like a guest. I have integrated and very much like the Tico social mores and do the same as they do. I am not trying to impose my US social mores on Ticos (trying to change them) and think that if I wanted this t be like back home then i would move back. No way, I love it here and this act like a guest thing doesn’t fly for me. It like i have to experience Gringo Guilt because my country is the wealthiest and polices the world. A thankless job by the way. I need to show no excuse for my wealth and I don’t flaunt it. Just try t blend in like every other grain of sand, and not stand out like as a “guest.”
Sprite,
Ok then, I’ll play along too. I don’t condone war, and i don’t condone punishing people for action that don’t harm other (victimless crimes). But I pay taxes and what is my tax money used for? Some of those very things I don’t condone. Do you pay taxes? I suspect the ansewer is yes. Then you, just like me, do condone these things because our tax money is paying for it.
As the Bible says “Give unto Ceasar what is due to ceasar.” You use Ceasar’s roads, you depend on Ceasar for fire protection and you pay Ceasar taxes, aw but you don’t condone the things that Ceasar does with your tax money. Then why support ceasar? If your position is true, than paying taxes makes you a hypocrite.
You are hardly above it all if you give it financial support. You are part of the killing and war because you, Sprite, you – fund it.
“Soldiers, regardless of their nationality, are all employees of these bad people. It is difficult for me to feel sorry for soldiers.”
Nobody is looking for you pitty, just appreciation. You think you can protect yourself all by your little lonesome in this big bad world… think again. It takes aliances and that is what its all about. You simplistic rationale is .. mind numbing and irrationale. I see by your response that you are named appropriately
I vote Sprite the Heathen Eunch (interesting acronym SHE) for one-eyed king in the land of the blind! My man why so judgemental? Funny thing about the taste of sour grapes is that they are always sour… Drink some wine and chill out. BTW are you a vet? If not you wil have no idea of the SERVICE these brave unselfish people perform for virtually free. Some actually give up their lives protecting you. Show some appreciation.
Glad to have you back Don Diego. Its hard to take you dead on seriously, but indeed between the innuendo and the downright thugishness there is brilliance and truth in your posts. Takes a little thought and digging though.
Let’s see for Do Good Dave I pick Jack Palance, rusty old warden type or Dudley Dooright. For Don Diego I cast Tom Cruise or Pat Morita (Mr Miyagi). Let’s see Sprite the heathen. I pick Cher in drag doing her best Gene Simons or Robert Downey Jr. The female part,well that would have to be Jenifer Lopez or Courtney Friel (Fox news) as Don Diego’s muse. Just google her and you will know what I mean. Who would be our muse Don Diego?
You know we are on a welove costa rica website. and i really do but i also firmly believe that costa rica is not the warm fuzzy one size fits all place to live that at many times is made out to be.
NEXT to Bushi = You have to call a spade a spade. I love it here regardless of the ineptitude of not all but many professionals here. I include the vast majority of professions here.
I simply accept it and adjust myself to it. One of those adjustments in having a worldwide medical policy that as it implies covers me worldwide.
That is my adjustment – to be able to leave this medical juridiction and move to another.
Maybe you believe what you wrote and maybe you do not. but you must admit that we have a commitment to excellency and responsibilty that Costa Rica cannot even come close to equalling, and it shouldn´t have to as I am well aware of the difference between the two countries and feel blessed to have the option of living here and being treated outside the country. Where I can return to to help my goverment kill people all around the world! Help American Citizen guilt is deeestroooying me………..
Happiness is a warn gun – Bang bang shoot shoot
– John Lennon, Peace Activist
God Bless the World!
God Bless the Caja for the work they do ad lets all hope that people everywhere in Costa Rica can recieve the care that makes the well or whole again.
I could easily write a littl dity on how there are practically no legitimate tradmarked realtor practicing real estae in Costa Rica, but instead I decided to write about seeing the real Costa Rica, anyones own personal Costa Rica so maybe those coming here leave thier own personal US behind. This is for Sprite and Lotus:
“it was the best of times and it was the worst of times”
Dickens –The above is a personal decision. It depends on your values.
So my values are in line with my Costa Rica experience. Less ambitious = More time to live.
Take a walk outside and have a look. You may be surprised at what you find. What you find can be dynamic beautiful weather, interesting circumstance and endless Tico entertainment (as Scott [u]witnessed[/u]), the drama of chisme, the challenging cultural ride, and most of all you can find time to be, time to live and:
Time to live during the journey of realizing the difference between wants and needs. Costa Rica reveals that – if you get out and in it.
When you are immersed in the city or campito the basic common life denominators are more visible – if you are looking. And that is my point. Are you looking at all and if so what are you looking FOR.
Rather than looking, try to see what you are witnessing in your life.
LOOKING FOR = AMBITION.
witnessing = admiration.To witness requires time spent witnessing, admiring. That means less time spent looking / ambition. WHEN YOU WITNESS THERE IS NO SEARCHING, NO LOOKING. You find everything immediately.
Less ambition means more time witnessing and the savings of not having to spend time maintaining the products of one’s ambition. That means more time witnessing, being involved in the immediate Costa Rica that surrounds you. Crocodiles, Monks, Lawyer Juan Carlos, the river or coffee fields, clouds. People.
It´s the lucky ones who get to witness their own personal Costa Rica; however, it is the lucky ones who get to witness any where, rather than partaking in perpetual looking society in any country.
So next time you go outside to take a look. You might be surprised at what you witness (see). If you witness then you will need to LOOK no further or farther.
When you witness you learn the question that REVEALS THE ANSWER.
Thus ends Carlos Castaneda’s Journey to the Island of Costa Rica / 101
Witnessing in Rica, answers are revealed by the moment.
I can´t believe that people seem to endlessly tell themselves and others stories about the CAJA system. I have used it recently because as a resident I have had to pay for it so I thought I would give it a shot. All I can say is I feel sorry for anyone that cannot afford private medicine here. Relying on the caja and the ¨”doctor?” I experienced is a joke.
First they treat the paients like cattle. Next what happened here? Did alll these doctors cheat their way through school? With no malpractice suits here the doctors who screw people up are free to keep practicing _ just like the attorneys. Really when it comes to lawyering and doctors – Costa Rica is not where you want to experience either.
I know, I know I am going to hear how great clinica biblica is or Cima. Get over it none of the private hospitals here compare to the high level of service in the US. Keep dreaming.
If and when I need a major operation I will be on the plane back to the US so fast you won´t believe it. They have already damaged me once during an emergency operation at CIMA.
Also you have to face it that the majority of Ticos do not like Gringos. Do you want to be in a hospital at the mercy of people that intuitivly dislike you or are jealous of you? Not me.
Typo corrected. Now how come Lisle did not put out any effort to help Cynthia and why did the Compass Property scumbag swamp salesmen keep her sales commission on a property that was never transferred to her name? Wow, I thought you were paid commission after the property sold. You know, money goes to seller; property goes to buyer, kind of thing.
With all the incompetent sales agents here, is it any wonder that anyone buying property here would not use an independent third party and a BONDED ESCROW to verify the transfer and hold the funds?
So do satisfied customers make everything OK?
The signature says bury the faults of friends, not the crimes of friends. What happened to Cynthia was not poor service but a crime. As usual in Costa Rica the guilty go unpunished and continue to “work” at their craft while unsuspecting average people are swindled out of their hard-earned money.
If you knew what a nice gentle person Cynthia is and how she helps people in her job, then you would understand why, recommended “realtor” or not, I have serious doubts about this person’s personal honesty (integrity) and commitment to real estate industry and real estate ethics.
And by the way Lisle, are you a member of NAR?
Did I spell everything write?
Hey Leslie Head, remember Cynthia Hernandez – weren’t you involved with the swamp land salesmen guy and the deal that got her ripped off in the Costa del Sol development in Bejuco?
Did you wish Cynthia the best of luck on that purchase too?
I know your swamp land salesman friend Tim Kopatich and the Compass Property scum bags screwed her over for at least $65,0000. You were in on that deal were you not? You did work for/with Compass Properties did you not?
Inquiring minds and Scott just might want to know…
Cute David, but then maybe I need to dumb it down. So try again, here goes:
Lying and cheating is neatly hidden in the US and therefore not in contact with daily life. Everyplace I go in CR (including the Peaje (toll booth) I have to check all recites, bills, and change. In my US neighborhood, I don’t have to worry about plants stolen out of my front yard. In addition, when I go to the mechanic my gas gage always reads the same when the work is finished, and my maid doesn’t steal the silverware one by one. Also when my dogs get loose in the US they always come back with their collars (guess I shouldn’t by c2,500 collars).
Now David, I thought you were a proponent of big government and the fat undeserved pay and pension federal and state employees receive compared to private employees. On that level, the government teat suckers have created a huge amount of legal theft not to mention the highest concentration of millionaires in the US found in Washington DC. So when it comes to leeching off and treading on the tax payers, all who work and support big Gov have to ask themselves who they are when they lay their head on the pillow at night. So in that regard I do agree with you. The US is number one in gluttony and waste. I guess you can kind of compare the US government to a loose cow that enters the feed barn and eats constantly and then biologically functions all over the place creating a stinking mess.
Nough said?
