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My house in CR is SMACK down in San Jose, 200 meters from Parque de La Paz, 4 kilometers from the center of San Jose and you can walk to the center of SJ and the house is 900 sq. feet
My other house in Florida is 3,000 sq. feet but I enjoy the house in CR more than the one in FL
is there crime?? YES, big time but we live in a semi gated community, you go in one way and leave the same way
the only GRINGO in this community is ME!!!! but we have a strong neighborhood alliance
out of 28 houses all and everyone knows each other be that the pets, children, cars, husbands and wifes
one thing that is funny to a point is that the owner of the “U” shaped housing project where I have my house has more fire arms than the NRA and is not afraid to discharge them at 1:00 AM in the morning and better than an alarm in each house, just in case someone has some ideas to come and think he will “STEAL” something
So much for the thought of a GATED community
You are to LATE the invasion started in 2006 with the real estate bubble in the USA
Guanacaste had more cattle than people in 1980, GUESS what!! that ratio is changing drastically
Limon was unheard of in 1980 and so was Puntarenas, not anymore
San Jose was the center of CR back in the 1980’s, the central valley commanded the authority of the country
El Golfo de Nicoya was at the outskirts of any imanigable CR citizen
Back in the 1980’s I could cross el Cerro de la Muerte during the daytime ONLY and Villa Nelly was a dust town
You had to see and live in CR in the 1980’s, it was a simple life with the exchange rate of $1 to 7 colones
the Juan Santamaria airport was as simple as rice and beans, now it is like steack and lobsters
look on your ride from the airport to San Jose to your right and left and see the differences in the economy, hint (houses)
AND what have you all EX-PATS done??
Autopista del SOL
WalMart stores
$400,000 to $4,000,000 homes
Pepe Figueres is still having a heart attack in his grave
Well at some point in time people will leave CR about the same proportion they leave the USA just wait until the collapse happens in CR or is PARADISE an eternal IDEA??
I am bound to this CREATURE, meaning the USA because of what it means but if we have a drain of the BEST then we leave the other to fend for themselves
The arrogance of ROMAN people living in Spain, Germany, Palestine and other countries trying to escape the Roman rules and regulations while still trying to impose the Emperors rule did not help them
I could make the Sahara desert the BEST place to live with the right people or PARADISE in CR a living hell with the wrong ones
The country does not make it the BEST, it is the people that make it.
Come back to the original PROBLEM and let you Ideas that wander be just that
On average your posts go from North and South and West to East.
Center on what the question is all about and stop your Wandering mind.
TAXES is the question and not what you would do to fix the problem, you pay the same as I pay and in this venue we are EQUAL.
On average 7 million IDIOTS do not pay!!
GUESS what about 47% do not pay out of 325 million USA Citizens and that is not 7 million.
Besides the point, SHOULD I pay a second TAX to the USA while I paid the CR Government??
NOW!! what is it going to be!!
[quote=”maravilla”][size=200]ABSENTEE BALLOTS[/size][/quote]
Only a legal USA resident can use an ABSETEE BALLOT.
Military outside the country or a LEGAL USA citizen in a LEGAL leave.
LEGAL is the key to an absentee Ballot.
Don’t try your illegal moves to be leagal and don’t try to VOTE from outside the USA.
Would you permit illegals to Vote in the USA with your CLAIMS??????????
Try again!!
[quote=”DavidCMurray”]Expats have a legal right to be registered as voters in that state in the U.S. in which they last had legal residence. It has nothing to do with renting or owning property or being physically present in that or any other state. Nor does it have anything to do with being a taxpayer.
As expats, however, we are only eligible to vote in federal elections in our last state of residence. We can vote for the President, senators, and the congressional representative in the congressional district where we last lived. We cannot vote for state or local officials.[/quote]
HAD LAST LEGAL RESIDENCE.
No you don’t, present License (Driver) and residence are KEY to vote. You have to live in the City, County, State.
“Nor does it have anything to do with being a taxpayer.”
ARE you sure of this statement?? Because a tax payer cannot vote on this single definition. I might have a legal Visa to work in the USA and pay taxes but that does not give me a right to VOTE. Checck your refences FIRST.
I don’t follow the LOGIC;
I paid my taxes and invest the $$ that was taxed into another venture and make a profit outside the USA.
Do I still have to pay the host country the taxes (yes) I understand that part.
But still pay the USA and IRS another tax on the gains made outside the USA??
Does this not smell as double Taxation??
I venture to think that something SMELLS ranciid on this deal.
But for the benefit of a discussion: Do the French, German, Dutch have the same deal??
You must have a lot of $$$ to rent for 4 years until the elections come and then FLY to the USA and vote.
Are you implying this is legal and correct?
What would happen if they find out you have not lived in that apartment for 47 months.
Someone is always looking for that ANGLE where they can bend the rules without breaking them.
Are you one of them??
Just asking
Let me get this straight:
I have paid TAXES and have a nest egg of $150,000 which I invest making GIZMOS in CR and make a profit of $1,500.00 after paying the CR goverment it’s taxes.
Do I still have to report to the IRS my profit, made in CR???
[quote=”guru”]This came up in the discussion about US travel Warnings. I thought the comment that Ex Pats don’t have the right to complain about what is going on at home was rather insensitive and short sighted.
While I have not yet left the US, I plan to leave. I would like to sever my (tax) relationship with the US government but that is not possible without becoming a full citizen of another country AND denouncing ones US citizenship. You can leave but they want your tax money (or in the least all the paperwork) no matter where you go.
Last, but not least, as long as an “Ex Pat” has an address in the US they can register and vote (if they want). In the last dozen elections I have only rarely voted FOR someone, mostly against. It is time we had the choice of NO-CONFIDENCE in US elections. We do not, it is either Evil-1 or Evil-2, or not voting at all.[/quote]
Ex-Pat’s from the Nation they left have the rights of the Citizenship of the original country but not the right to particapate in the elections and discorse of that Nation they left. Of course if you have a residence in your origianal Nation and citizenship you can vote but not if you sell and move abroad, you have surrendered your right to vote.
ALSO; as an EX-Pat you have residency but not citizanship in that foreign country and cannot vote.
You can’t have it both ways. I can vote in the USA because I have a residency in the USA but my wife has a green card and she cannot vote. When we go to CR my wife can vote but I cannot and we have a house (a residence) in CR but I am not a citizen of CR.
You can worry all you want but as an Ex-Pat you cannot vote in either country. A tourist can go back to his country and vote, a person that sold everything in his country and moved to another is an Ex-Pat and ineligeble to vote in his country or the country he decides to live out side his citizenship and place of residence.
Are you a Tourist or an Ex-pat?? BIG difference
Easy MsKitty:
Navy Seals are 40% mental, 10% physical and another 50% of just pure solid stainless steel BALLs’
out of 100 only 15 make it and those 100 that apply are hand selected from 500 every year
More college futball players will be drafted to the NFL in 1 year than make it as a Navy Seal by a 100 to 1 ratio
Your son belongs to the smallest FRATERNITY in the world and you should be proud of his accomplishments but be aware you might get a US flag in return for his service.
Death comes to all of us but death comes soon to a Navy SEAL, every minute and every day.
I salute you for your SON
YEP;
diesel 12, I call them the 3 musketeers
We Love Costa Rica has turned into the UN forum.
The topic was Intel but we always go into the USA bashing by residents in CR that cannot vote in the USA.
:roll::roll::roll: Neither can they vote in CR, LOL
Scott won’t change his view towards the USA when the pressing problems in CR are evident
I come to this forum and analize about 30% of the posts because the rest 70% are not related to CR. I attribute this failure rate to the owner of this forum.
The topic is Intel and CR, can we go back to it??
A -5% GDP last year and approaching 6 this year, are we talking about a compounded deficit??
Tom;
A tool shed for you is like a “Bodega” to a tico.
“Bodega” is a Spanish word for storage and was used originally for storing vine.
interestingly;
you are posting in a forum that contributes to a SOCIALIST goverment (CR) with (universal) health care and pensions plans
would you care to compare CR to the USA (Countries)??
or Utah and San Jose (cities)
what about the UK, are they also ignorant?? Italy, Greece, Japan, Brazil, etc.
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Occupy Wall St. is a global insurection against the GREED of corporations that have strangled the middle class blaming the UNIONS.get your facts right
my father worked ………. a job with union protection and raised 4 kids, all went to college
I raised 3 and all went to college also, thanks to a UNION job
I guess you want your grand children to make minimun wage at WalMart
[quote=”terrys”][quote=”waggoner41″][quote=”crltd”]the above posts diagram the hope and unfortunately the reality.
there is no middle ground here.
history will repeat itself, as it has again and again..[/quote]Actually I think the middle ground exists in realizing that those we are electing to congress are failing us badly. It isn’t a matter of left or right, it’s all of them.
The right refuses to raise taxes and the left objects to budget cuts when the vast majority of Americans realize that both have to be done.
We are electing economic and historical illiterates who have no ability to view the future consequences of their actions.[/quote]
As a conservative leaner, I obviously agree with everything you have to say, Waggoner, including the thought that the Liberal’s solution is raising taxes. I appreciate that you just stated the facts, thus avoiding any contention.
But I just can’t let that Liberal position hang out there. History has established that the Feds demand for more dollars is insatiable. Whatever they ask for, we give them and then they proceed to spend 40% more. As you suggest, with their investments, they have abandoned every financial principle known to man. Do Liberals really trust the Feds will do the right thing if you give them more money? I say treat the “economic and historical Illiterates” like a homebound teenager. When they ask for a handout. Make them live within their means. . .until they show some good judgement.[/quote]Sorry;
but liberals did not start 2 wars without thinking on how to pay for them (4 trillion $$) and still running the “TAB”.
AND the Wall ST. corporations are giving the GOP a 3 to 1 contribution against that liberal, socialist President
GOT A CLUE?? on WHY!!!
Do you know how much STOCK, Dick Chaney had in Halliburton in 2001 and what it was worth compared to today??
there are white, grey and black information
white is the truth
grey is half truths and half lies
black is ALL LIESpick your poison
