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My lady (from Guatemala) and I were discussing this very topic this morning over coffee reading La Nacion.
I am a capitalist with a conscience however, I would be interested to see if the socialist experiment would actually work. But our friends up North have NEVER allowed any country to even get started along the socialist path without ‘intervening,’ even when those countries were NEVER any kind of a serious threat to the USA.
Was Nicaragua ever a threat to the USA? No! But in the process of ‘intervention’ (AKA genocide) we would probably see millions more Nicaraguans flooding across the border into Costa Rica…
So let us hope that the ‘solution’ to the Nicaraguan socialist ‘threat'(in the eyes of the US neoconinterventionists) would be a catastrophic ‘problem’ for Costa Rica.
But for the politicians who want to keep US citizens (and their money) within their borders, it would be a great excuse to enforce a new application process to ‘retire abroad’ which would be for “your protection” that I have no doubt the US will implement within the next few years.
Scott Oliver – Founder
WeLoveCostaRica.comYou are asking a VERY big question that I only began to answer in my 200+ page real estate book, perhaps you could ask something a bit more specific and we’ll see if we can help…
And you do have your own attorney here, right?
Scott Oliver – Founder
WeLoveCostaRica.comYou can find jobs available by industry at I could not see ‘network security consultant’ but I could see ‘telecommunications’.
Wages here will obviously be totally different to what you are accustomed to … And you will have to have very unique skills to be able to get the correct visa…
Scott Oliver – Founder
WeLoveCostaRica.comIs that really a photograph of you or the new James Bond waltzing out of the surf …?
No doubt ready to take a lithe bikini clad woman (Tica of course) on the beach in your arms… 🙂
If any of you are looking for a sporty male model for your women’s magazines or the new and improved James Bond then please see lotus at
Thanks for sharing.
Scott Oliver – Founder
WeLoveCostaRica.comThis is the BIG problem, we think we can ‘escape’ to Costa Rica when we are really only delaying the inevitable… We’re going back to a place that may be 20 years behind the USA in ‘Big Brother’ terms but it’s coming…
Would strongly encourage you to see/read ‘SpyChips’ and visit and… Did you see the AMCostaRica.com headlines today? This is a BIG announcement…
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Task force against terrorism to be announced today
By the A.M. Costa Rica staffThe central government will announce the formation of an anti-terrorism task force this morning.
The task force, formally titled the Comisión Interinstitucional sobre Terrorismo, will have members from six ministries, and it will be the nation’s first serious step to address the possibilities of terrorism here.
The government in the past has taken steps against terrorism, such as bringing security of the major sea ports and airports up to international standards. But these adjustments always were done at the request of the United States or international agencies.
Government officials have long known that Costa Rica has been a safe haven for Colombian rebels. The Fuerza Armadas Revolutionarias de Colombia and other groups, listed as terrorists by the United States, have a presence here.
That was made clear Aug. 10 when agents arrested Héctor Orlando Martínez Quinto, 38, in Puntarenas. Martínez recently was deported to Colombia to face allegations that he participated in an armed attack against a village in the Chocó section of Colombia near the Panamá border where 85 persons, including 46 children, died and about 100 persons suffered injuries. He also is accused of killing 45 policemen in another confrontation.
Martínez was living as a simple fisherman but Colombian officials say he was the administrator of Fuerza Armadas Revolutionarias business here. They say he arranged the shipment of weapons, oversaw the supply of fuel to drug-running fastboats and coordinated surveillance of other Colombian refugees here. There are about 10,000 persons from that country in Costa Rica.
Costa Rica’s generous immigration policies have allowed other groups to set up shop here. Hezbollah, the Middle Eastern terrorist group, has forged ties with the Fuerza Armadas Revolutionarias to augment its existing networks.
The growth of Latin governments who are friendly to foes of the United States also complicates the situation.
Casa Presidencial said Monday that the following ministries would be represented in the new task force: Gobernación, Policía y Seguridad Pública; Relaciones Exteriores y Culto; Hacienda; Justicia y Gracia, and Obras Públicas y Transportes.
In September Costa Rica ratified a hemispheric pact designed to eliminate the financing of terrorism and to deny safe haven to suspected terrorists. However, there have been no terrorism incidents in the country since the end of the Nicaraguan Contra war.
Still, government officials are concerned, too, about the possibility of internal terrorism, sparked, perhaps, by the expected vote on the free trade treaty with the United States.
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Scott Oliver – Founder
WeLoveCostaRica.comNow isn’t this refreshing…
Strangely enough dougle, I visit all the sites that you mention on a regular basis.
If people are willing to look beyond that scheming, mendacious little black box in the corner of the living room called a T-E-L-E-V-I-S-I-O-N they would realize within 30 minutes that most of what they think they ‘know,’ they don’t actually know at all.
Scott Oliver – Founder
WeLoveCostaRica.comNow you’re really stirring the pot there wmaes47 but I agree – sharing our hopes and fears for the future is important …
Scott Oliver – Founder
WeLoveCostaRica.comI really don’t think that you would find the selection of culture and entertainment that you and your young family might enjoy anywhere except near (within 45 minutes) San Jose…
The children’s museum, movie theatres and real theatres, gymnastics and martial arts schools are located where the majority of young ‘artistic’ people are which is near San Jose.
The other factor that I would consider important (as a father myself) is that when those little accidents occur, in living here, you would be near to the best hospital in Central America – CIMA.
We can romanticize about ‘sunsets at the beach’ all we want but at the end of the day, real expert medical care is nowhere to be found near any beach it’s here near San Jose.
I have no idea what your budget is for real estate but you might look in Santa Ana, Heredia, Belen, Ciudad Colon, Escazu or go slightly further and check out Puriscal and Cartago.
Scott
Would you care to share ‘why’ you feel that way?
“Getting out of the U.S. while we still can.”
Would love to know …
Scott
Fun things to do are important but suitable educational facilities are probably one of the items at the top of your list or, are you planning on home schooling?
Scott Oliver – Founder
WeLoveCostaRica.comMust have been one of the ‘voluntary’ lanes like they have at the toll booths…
“Stand in this line to pay 290% more and buy enough rice and beans for the winter months for my family.”
Scott Oliver – Founder
WeLoveCostaRica.comAs promised, you will now find the article about this company’s project at: ‘Costa Rica Condo Homes For Sale in Brazil de Mora – West of Santa Ana’ at
“The 23 new “Valles de Mora” condo homes represent a luxurious, natural living style, in a prestigious location just eight minutes away from MultiPlaza and the most important business centres.
Built by Constructora Meltzer S.A. – the same company that built the massive US Embassy in San Jose, Costa Rica – right off the bat, you know that Constructora Meltzer S.A. is a solid company.”
Scott Oliver – Founder
WeLoveCostaRica.comI’m assuming four people were in her party…
This would be an increase that none of us have heard about …
Scott Oliver – Founder
WeLoveCostaRica.com“Con mucho gusto.”
When you truly love someone, you appreciate that they have faults but you love them nonetheless…
I love Costa Rica and certainly can see that there are areas that could be improved upon but, I would not want to live anywhere else in the world.
I hope that with our very candid forum that we do actually deter people from living here because they are the tpe of people that would probably only be here for a few months and then go back and blame everything on Costa Rica when in fact, the ‘blame’ lies within.
You’ve probably met them and said to yourself; “I’ll give’em six months and they’ll be outta’ here.”
Let’s hope 2007 is a great year for Costa Rica and therefore for all of us living here.
Scott Oliver – Founder
WeLoveCostaRica.comExactly what I was thinking when I read this … This is serious and well publicized progress for Costa Rica.
And you’re such a cynic GringoTico about the TRILLIONS of dollars in US TAXPAYER’S dollars missing…
According to:
“According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions,” Rumsfeld admitted.”
$2.3 trillion — that’s $8,000 for every man, woman and child in America. To understand how the Pentagon can lose track of trillions, consider the case of one military accountant who tried to find out what happened to a mere $300 million.
“We know it’s gone. But we don’t know what they spent it on,” said Jim Minnery, Defense Finance and Accounting Service.
But it’ll come back soon and you’ll wake up one morning, check your account online to see it sitting there in your checking account… Yeah! Right.
Scott Oliver – Founder
WeLoveCostaRica.com
