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Absolutely!
Even if you had a laptop, wifi outsde of the San Jose is very hard to find so then you would have the problem of trying to find a connection to the internet.
Visit an internet cafe and you’ll pay about $1 per hour which is a helluva lot cheaper than any laptop rental you’ll find.
Scott Oliver – Founder
WeLoveCostaRica.comottfog please include the Talarke school website address here for our VIP Member parents … I can not find it
Scott Oliver – Founder
WeLoveCostaRica.comNo I have not ‘munich’
I did look into this when we started the ‘How To Buy Costa Rica Real Estatw Without Losing Your Camisa’ book but there was simply nothing there to write about …
Scott Oliver
WeLoveCostaRica.comJeeeeezus!
I have been encouraging my children to focus on the demographics… It worked fairly well for me with client investment strategies over the past 20 years and should continue to work in the next 20 years as those ‘Baby-Boomers’ start having more knee, hip problems and all the rest of it the ‘challenges’ that go along with aging.
As long as they have health insurance (and over 45 million Americans do NOT) then people focusing on that market should be able to make a living.
David Cay Johnston in the New York Times (27th November 2006) wrote that “’04 Income in U.S. Was Below 2000 Level.”
The Times article notes that the bottom fifth of all taxpayers earned below $11,166 and their average reported income was only $5,743 each. Because the IRS includes a single individual or a married couple in its definition of a “taxpayer” the poorest 26 million taxpayers account for the equivalent nearly 48 million adults and about 12 million dependent children. According to the Times analysis, this means the poorest 60 million Americans have reported incomes of less than $7 a day!
This when the official poverty line in 2004 was $27 a day for a single adult below retirement age and $42 a day for a household with one child, even though we know that the real cost of the basic necessities is higher.
Scott Oliver – Founder
WeLOveCostaRica.comWould appear so…
Maybe I’m old fashioned but I like to think that companies could be ‘good citizens’ too which in my mind means that they could show more ‘loyalty’ to the people who are working for them, helping their bosses build a business and some loyalty to the local community that supports them.
As a Wall Street trained investment advisor, I am most definitely a ‘capitalist’ and appreciate that companies need to make money but this capitalism-on-steroids system we presently have (especially in the US) is clearly unsustainable.
At the end of the day when we’ve all finished the “race to the bottom’ for the cheapest wages in manufacturing, customer service, telephone call centers and people are now processing US tax returns abroad for goodness sake – what jobs will remain in the US?
Will there be a middle-class left?
Short-term, offshore outsourcing may appear attractive but long-term, like you, I think it will decimate the American way of life.
Scott Oliver – Founder
WeLoveCostaRica.comI shudder at the thought of the logistics and expenses involved in shipping a 14 ton boat overland from the USA to Costa Rica. Overland is probably not be the best way to go about it …
This will be one those ‘hard-to-get’ answers and if you plan on living aboard and keeping this boat in ‘tip-top’ condition, don’t suppose there’s anything from preventing you from sailing to Nicaragua or Panama every few months…
This might be a way of legally avoiding what would probably be significant import taxes on your boat… It’s probably considered a very valuable antique here 🙂
You might find some information at the Costa Rica Yacht Club at
You might also inquire about the new Puerto Azul development featured on this site which has started on their new marina. They do have spaces available but I don’t know for how long.
The apartments won’t be finished for some time but you can reserve a place without owning an apartment and it’s right next door to the Costa Rica Yacht Club.
The following articles may be of interest to you about that new project:
1. Puntarenas Luxury Condo Apartments & Marina Resort – Free developer video interviews.
2. Puntarenas Luxury Condo Resort & Marina – Progress is being made with the marina.
3. Costa Rica Condos – New Puntarenas project could turn this city around.
4. Puntarenas Luxury Condo Floor Plans
5. Costa Rica Living in Puntarenas
6. Puntarenas Real Estate – Video Interview with the President of the Tourism Board
7. Puntarenas Beach Photographs
8. New Luxury Condos in Puntarenas – How to choose which apartment is best for you.
9. The Beautiful and Mostly Deserted Islands in the Gulf of Nicoya
Best wishes
Scott Oliver – Founder
WeLoveCostaRica.comCongratulations!
If you are willing to do your homework, there are many ‘tramites’ that can be done by yourself but I must admit that even after living here for many years, I prefer to pay someone else to communicate with the local authorities for practically anything that’s required because I simply don’t have the time.
Scott Oliver – Founder
WeLoveCostaRica.comOver the weekdn I was speaking to someone who told me his attorney charged about 5% in closing fees – WHICH IS WAY HIGHER THAN IT SHOULD BE – when he bought a big chunk of land…
In addition to the 5% he paid in sales commissions, that adds up to some serious money.
The attorney that drastically overcharged him has done this on quite a few occasions and he still seems to be able to get away with it …
That’s why we only ever recommend people that we know well and trust on this site.
Scott Oliver – Founder
WeLoveCostaRica.comHere are a few bilingual/trilingual schools:
American International School of Costa Rica
US calendar year
Cariari, San José, Costa Rica
website: http://www.ais.comAnglo American School
Bilingual = English & French
http://www.angloamericano.ed.crBlue Valley School
Escazu
http://www.bluevalley.ed.cr/British School
Bilingual = English & Spanish
http://www.infoweb.co.cr/britschCountry Day School
Escazu, Costa Rica
website: http://www.cds.ed.crEuropean School
Heredia, Costa Rica
http://www.europeanschool.comHumboldt College
Trilingual = Spanish, German & English
http://www.humboldt.ed.crLincoln School
English
San José, Costa Rica
email: director@ns.lincoln.ed.cr
website: http://www.lincoln.ed.crMarian Baker School
Bilingual – Spanish & English
San José, Costa Rica
website: http://www.marianbakerschool.comMonteAlto School
Heredia, Costa Rica
Bilingual = English & Spanish
http://www.montealtoschool.comPan American School
San Antonio de Belen, San Jose. Costa Rica
http://www.panam.ed.crSEK Costa Rica
Curridabat, Costa Rica
Biligual = English & Spanish
http://www.sek.netSaint Francis College
Bilingual = Spanish & English
Moravia, San Jose. Costa Rica
http://www.stfrancis.ed.crSaint Gregory
Tres Rios, Costa Rica
Trilingual = English, Spanish & French
http://www.sgs.ed.crSaint Jude School
Santa Ana, Costa Rica
http://www.stjude.ed.crSaint Mary School
Guachipelin, Escazu. Costa Rica
Bilingual = English & Spanish
http://www.saintmary.comSaint Paul College
Bilingual = English & Spanish
San Antonio de Belen, San Jose. Costa Rica
http://www.saintpaul.ed.crSan Lorenzo
Trilingual = Spanish, ENglish & French
San Pedr, San Jose. Costa Rica
http://www.sanlorenzocr.comScott Oliver – Founder
WeLoveCostaRica.comMust admit I do love strong women but would prefer them not to carry an Uzi in their handbag.
I lived in New York City at the time Sliwa was shot and vaguely remember the news but yes! He is very much alive
Scott Oliver – Founder
WeLoveCostaRica.comI am taking a chance that you understand some Spanish. In today’s La Nacion at they wrote of two recommended films – one from Uruguay called ‘Whisky’ and the other from Germany about an Africa Masai warrior called ‘La princesa masai’
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Cine de repertorio:
Altísima calidad: Dos excelentes cintas en tres salas josefinas
Películas: A partir de mañana viernes se estrenarán aquí las cintas Whisky (Uruguay) y La princesa masái (Alemania).
Wílliam Venegas
wvenegas@nacion.comUna película uruguaya y otra alemana dan un matiz diferente a la cartelera del país este fin de semana. La primera se titula Whisky (2004) y la de Alemania se titula La princesa masái (2005).
Con Whisky hay una anécdota que corrió, en su momento, por el país: que por culpa de este largometraje, el filme costarricense Caribe (de Esteban Ramírez) perdió premios en festivales. Es un poco de humor negro, pero lo cierto es que la película uruguaya ganó laureles en La Habana, Tokio, Toronto, España y Cannes.
Con algún retraso, este largometraje se exhibe ahora en salas del American Outlet Mall y de Cinépolis Terramall, en funciones de distintos horarios.
Un dato lamentable alrededor de esta excelente película es que, después de tanto éxito, uno de sus jóvenes directores, Juan Pablo Rebella, se suicidó en Montevideo. El otro codirector es Pablo Stoll.
En lo que toca al largometraje La princesa masái, este filme se exhibe en la Sala Garbo, en funciones de 4, 6:45 y 9 p. m.
Se basa en un libro escrito por Corinne Hoffman con el título de La masái blanca, best-seller de la literatura alemana.
Se trata de un cautivante drama erótico y antropológico sobre una mujer suiza que se enamora en Mombasa, África, de un guerrero masái llamado Lemalian.
Ella se queda allí, con costumbres ancestrales tan diferentes que incluyen asuntos como la mutilación del clítoris.
El enamoramiento llega a mostrar formas muy distintas de enfrentar el hecho erótico entre un guerrero sumburu y una mujer suiza. Es un desgarramiento para ambos, que ella lleva a la literatura.
Este buen filme es dirigido por una mujer alemana, Hermine Huntgeburth, famosa por su trabajo en televisión.
Uruguaya. En cuanto a la trama de Whisky, es de esos filmes donde (aparentemente) sucede muy poco. Sin embargo, tiene el milagro del humor y de la solidaridad. No es whisky para emborracharse, es para deleitarlo a sorbos con las extrañas emociones de un triángulo de cariño entre dos hermanos y la mujer que ha trabajado para uno de ellos casi toda la vida.
Esta película whisquera es cine selecto, tierno, casi triste, siempre humano y con actores en estado de gracia. Es cine maravilloso.
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Scott Oliver – Founder
WeLoveCostaRica.comI remember the ‘Guardian Angels’ from New York City and the first image that springs to mind is an angelic looking woman with an Uzi sub-machine pistol at her side … 🙂
But seriously, I have not heard anything about this company, do not know anybody that has used them and do not know what they offer at what price.
You will find over 1,000 articles on this site which will answer most of the questions that you might have about moving to Costa Rica and of course it’s all free.
Scot Oliver – Founder
WeLoveCostaRica.comThanks Maravilla
I will ask Dr. Adrian to A: make sure our existing articles are up to date and B: Specify exactly why it’s important to use his professional services.
Scott Oliver
Along with my little four legged friend, I met with Dr. Molina again on Monday and can assure you that he is not a ‘money-hungry’ individual, he is most definitely a very caring veterinarian who will do what he can to make the transportation process as smooth as possible for a worried pet owner.
As we have established here, the requirements to import pets are changing regularly and we regularly get conflicting information about many aspects of this process so it’s certainly important that we try to get the right information.
Scott Oliver – Founder
WeLoveCostaRica.comPS. Just for the record, Dr. Adrian Molina does not pay to “advertise” his professional services on this site – He has never paid me. Like many of the people recommended on WeLoveCostaRica.com Dr. Molina is recommended because A: He appears to be very good at what he does and B: All the animals I have taken to see him, like him and C: So do I.
Sorry cp1436 but for legal reasons we really can’t go into the details about why we decline to represent projects…
For the most part, there is a lack of proven experience, on occasions, something’s ‘not quite right,’ sometimes a developer is building property that our VIP Members are simply not interested in and once in a while there are personalities that we would prefer not to be involved with …
Scott Oliver – Founder
WeLoveCostaRica.com
