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To the original poster, yes, interest does exceed 11% here in CR. But only in what you pay on your mortgage in colones. For those with rates not locked in or in US$, the rate jumped by about 50% last year.
Those of you on the 120+ side of the IQ should have learned a long time ago to live on 1/2 of what you make. You wouldn’t need a bail out!
HaHaHa! Sorry, I was laughing so hard when I read these responses, I had to fly back to Canada to get more Kleenex.
Of course you need to believe what you read. People don’t lie! Or stretch the truth! Just talk to some of Bernard Madoff’s friends. People accept unsubstantiated stories every day. Please just don’t invest your money that way.
Why does it matter if the story is true? No one is asking for donations!
The way I read it, they moved from San Francisco ( home of Silicon Valley) Even a part time job through a company there would pay $50k per year.
He said he had to have high speed internet, he probably has connections with companies where he came from and could work from anywhere in the world.
He never said he had a part time job in CR. That would be illegal, right?There are a lot of posters on this board with similar outlooks on their CR experience, but look around outside your box, some people don’t live within “goals” or “long term plans” they just enjoy what ever is ahead.
A younger generation has not seen the value in 40 years of dedication to one company. All they have seen is large corporations doing layoffs. Pension plans are largely a myth to them. They see parents spend the healthiest years of their lives working so they can spend their last years wishing they had better health now that they have time.
Wow! What a bitter group of posters.
Why is it hard to believe that a part time job for an American company wouldn’t pay enough to live comfortably in CR?
28 year olds don’t live complicated lives like old people, not as much concern for health, too far away to be waiting for pension, no old friends that might go at any minute, family members are young enough that mom and dad might come visit. A whole lot less complicated.
Or maybe they just didn’t buy into the American dream like you did. Maybe they decided to enjoy life with less of Uncle Sam’s security and enjoy it while they were able.Good for them. No 12 hour work days, no long commutes and no squeegee kids. Life should be enjoyed each day, something might change tomorrow.
AlbertoWe haven’t seen a change in Manuel Antonio, so it would be advisable to call ahead. Many traveling here haven’t heard about the quake yet.
Alberto
Unfortunately as tourism slows down here, a lot of fringe companies are going to find it tough to continue doing the proper maintenance.
I don’t know how big Tropical is, but smaller companies are going to run short of cash flow.
AlbertoI am using a Magellan. It works pretty good for leaving bread trails to find my way home.
Of course it doesn’t have any maps of Costa Rica but I haven’t found one that does.
AlbertoI was only trying to show how trying to stop one type of person affects so many others.
I spend stretches of time in CR. Sometimes 2 months, sometimes three months. Sometimes I leave for 72 hours, sometimes 2 months.
I have a home in CR and a business in CR but I have no interest in becoming a citizen. I have dual citizenship in other countries and applying here would mean giving up somewhere else. I employ only Costa Ricans, pay the Caja, Seguros, impuestos and file all the required papers but I don’t work here.
If a country needs employment for their people and offer ways to accomplish that, as a perpetual tourist, I fulfill their wishes. They get my money, their citizens are gainfully employed, and I enjoy my time here.
Can’t beat that for a win/win.
We don’t need to demolish the house when just closing the door would keep the rats out.Alberto
It seems they were selected for their marketability. This taken from AM Costa Rica.
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The parents Mark and Gretchen Biedron operate the environmentally sound Willow School in Gladstone, New Jersey. They have been written up in newspapers and magazines there for the way the school was constructed.Carlos Ricardo Benavides, tourism minister, said the family represented the type of tourist the country was looking for, a person interested in the environment and seeking an authentic experience in Costa Rica. That was a way of rejecting the booming sex tourism business without really mentioning it.”
I wonder how long they looked for this perfect tourist? The “Two Millionth Tourist” is an honorary title rather than a count of bodies.
Alberto
I understand there are some RVs in Belen and likely there are some people who have brought their RVs from America to park on their land and live in.
However, if you drive around this country you are not likely to encounter RVs clogging the roads like they do up North. This is just not the way of life here. most people live in houses with hardly enough space to park a car, never mind a part time rolling home.
The original post was questioning the need for mobile home parks. It seems the possibility exists that someone will buy a large piece of land and create a KOA campground, but a mobile home park in Costa Rica would be a lonely place.
Alberto
Again the issue is not repeat tourists. The issue is tourists who come in and sell real estate to other tourists.
There is no “spirit of the law”. The law states quite clearly what is allowed. Getting in a flap over a section of the law that needs no repair is not stopping illegal real estate sales people.
Why does this perfectly legal option have to be changed? Because American hustlers are taking American retirees to the cleaners? Where is the concern amongst the Costa Rican people against the tourists? I only hear this complaint from Americans.
This is taking the American approach of smashing a country because a hand full of people can’t be found. We don’t need more American solutions to Costa Rican problems.Lets suggest a change. Most people only take two weeks holiday, so from now on only allow tourists to come into the country for 15 days. Then they are not allowed to return for 30 days. That should stop the real estate hustlers! Anyone with more time on their hands than that aren’t contributing enough to society. Get back to work!
Immigration people know that the illegals are making a fortune without paying taxes but don’t have the people to chase after them. They do round-ups on the beach from time to time, but don’t seem to have the desire to take it further.
Alberto
Maybe the replies here are too politically correct to be clear.
I have never seen an RV on the road in Costa Rica and I have been here since 1993. Not a speck of demand for a park.
The roads here are so narrow and rough, and the corners so sharp, you would need to have a 30 foot mobile home for it to be mobile.
In spite of this being a rainforest country, almost no-one builds with wood. Termites, mold, mildew, insects you have never seen before all make wood construction a bad idea. Costa Ricans will save for years to pay in full for their little piece of land to build on. Then they may take years to build their house as they can afford it. There is nothing in this culture that could make them buy a trailer home to park on someone else’s land so the could pay rent for the rest of their lives.
Alberto
What’s with you people and your hatred of perpetual tourists?
The law states that you must leave after 90 days for 72 hours. If you do that, you are completely within the law. If you have a problem with people coming here as tourists and working, that’s a completely different issue. That’s illegal !
If the intent of the law was you were only allowed into the country 2 times in 12 months for 90 days, it would have to say that. Under Napoleonic law, there is no allowance for interpretation of intention.
I fly in and out of CR many times per year. Each time I pay taxis, hotel taxes, exit taxes, airline taxes, parking taxes, and just about anything a tourist can pay. How does my choice of lifestyle make you so upset?
Alberto
Ah yes, the Canadians are so different!
The recent beheading of a passenger on a Greyhound bus somewhere in central Canada while all other passengers scrambled to get off.
The reports of children hiding under desks as another child randomly shoots anything that moves.
The continued reports of Jamaican drug gangs shooting each other and innocent bystanders in Toronto.The belief that real estate prices can never fall.
Most of the difference comes from being told their whole life that it is better to not get involved, only people doing bad things get into trouble. If someone threatens you, give them what they ask and then report them to the police.
Most Canadians given a self defence gun, would leave it unloaded so no one might get hurt. Lock the ammo in one room and the gun in the basement.
Besides, I don’t think all Americans are alcoholics…………. I’m sure some aren’t?
Alberto
