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You can see her and her husbands story ‘African Americans in Costa Rica – The Owens Story.’ at
Scott Oliver – Founder
WeLoveCostaRica.com1. I bought them from Mauricio – the ‘best car mechanic in Costa Rica’ who has his shop up in Heredia somewhere. Mauricio Artavia 849-7244, 386-8669, 236-9348 He does NOT speak English very well but I believe his wife does.
To be frank, I have no idea where it is because he always comes here to Escazu, picks up my car, takes it away does the RTV or whatever service or repairs and brings it back in the afternoon.
The car is always immaculately clean when he brings it back too…
2. According to La Nacion this morning:
“$50-million investment in Costa Rica.
Bridgestone Firestone Costa Rica will invest $50 million in the next five years to modernize its equipment, in order to reset the course of its production. The company will focus on the production of radial tires for both the domestic and the international markets, and will leave to Asian manufacturers the business of low-price tires.
The firm estimates selling 4 million of these better quality tires abroad this year alone. The sales to the United States, Central America, and the Caribbean will amount to $140 million, firm sources admitted. The plant in Costa Rica the third largest in Latin America after Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Cuernavaca, Mexico started operations in 1967, with 200 employees and a daily production of 425 tires; today the daily output is 12,000 tires and 1,000 workers partake in the operation.”
Scott Oliver – Founder
WeLOoveCostaRica.comFirestone is a HUGE company here and if I am not mistaken, recently agreed to invest another $30 million in their Costa Rica operations
I have seen most major brands here and recently bought 4 superb Pirelli tires (specifically for very wet muddy conditions) for my Toyota RAV (4X4) and I am delighted with them. They allow me to go places that I could not go before and this car is great ….
Scott Oliver
WeLoveCostaRica.comThank you for your kind comments about my book, I hope it helps you.
I receive and send up to 300 emails per day and pride myself in answering all of them (except the REALLY silly ones like “Could you please recommend a nail salon in Santa Cruz?”)
I have just tested the ‘Contact Us’ form and receive the email in under 15 seconds so may I politely suggest that any “technical difficulties” are perhaps being experienced on your end.
Scott Oliver
WeLoveCostaRica.comPosted in the worng place – Reposted here by Scott
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Posted Jun 28,2006 11:23 AM jimfolds
I, like many, am becoming weary of Costa Rica AM’s seeming focus on crime, as if that is all that is happening in this wonderful country. If AM’s was the MO of all news organizations, no one would ever leave there homes around the world. Costa Rica has provided years of pleasurable adventures for me….not once has crime beckoned. I know there is crime there, and too much of the petty type. This is not exclusive to Costa Rica. I DO want the govenrment to recognize that continual steps should be taken to lessen the criminal events that occur. But, I’m hoping that AM can move on to those things that the great majority of people who visit Costa Rica are there for. I’m coming back, morphine availability or not! PURA VIDA!!!!It’s funny you should bring this up because the morning the developers and I were finalizing our plans, that article came out and we discussed it and we decided to include a snorkel, fins and mask FREE to everyone who buys one of their apartments…
Only kidding…
The BIG question is “when” that could happen, the estimates range from 50-100 years “if” indeed they are correct so we have a little time and I think most of us have investment horizons somewhat shorter than that…
My former home of the Cayman Islands would be devastated as would the Bahamas, most other Caribbean islands, the Florida Keys and of course Manhattan.
It’s one reason I built my ‘escape’ home in the mountains …
Scott Oliver
WeLoveCostaRica.comI did email you privately on this…
We had someone who kept on putting in a commercial post which I deleted three times and then he did it again and I deleted the entire thread by mistake instead of the one message.
If you have the response that I spent a few hours researching I would VERY much appreciate you emailing it to me and we’ll start it again
Sorry I screwed up and unfortunately once the thread is deleted I cannot get it back.
Yours humbly….
Scott Oliver
WeLoveCostaRica.comAgreed senta – 100%
For thos VIP Members who did not read the article at
“According to data obtained from the Source: U.S. FBI, Crime in the United States, annual. From Statistical Abstract of the United States, 2006. The following cities have a much higher murder rate per 100,000 inhabitants than San José, Costa Rica.”
Los Angeles – 17.3
Houston – 12.5
Philadelphia – 18.9
Phoenix – 12.6
Dallas – 15.8
Las Vegas – 11.9
Detroit 41.8
Indianapolis – 13.9
Jacksonville – 11.7
Columbus – 11.3
Memphis -22.5
Milwaukee – 18.3
Washington DC – 45.9
New Orleans – 53.1
Kansas City – 18.5
Atlanta 34.9
Oakland – 26.1
St. Louis – 31.4
Pittsburgh – 13.7
Cincinnati – 21
Tampa – 11.7
Buffalo – 14.6
Newark – 23.3
San José, Costa Rica – 9.2In which city would you prefer to live??
Scott Oliver – Founder
WeLoveCostaRica.comAs you mentioned “Life styles determine how cheap you live in Costa Rica.” It would seem that you discuss with yourself a little saying it’s not that much cheaper and then prove yourself wrong …?
I met with an American a few months back who stayed in a hotel in San Jose for $7 per night – that’s cheap. it’s probably disgusting but it is cheap.
I use the most effective and cheapest deoderant available – milk of magnesia and can assure you that the local BioLand shampoos are A: Excellent and B: Damned cheap.
Many peope have moaned about “quality steaks” here… I have no idea why… I buy “quality steaks” and great veal chops (for tonight’s dinner) every week in AutoMercado.
Yes! You may pay more for Draino (whatever that is – I have managed to live without it as well as any kind of syrup) but when you factor in NO heatings costs, lower utility bills and a property taxes that are a fraction of what you would pay in the US….
Plus as you so elquently point out; “I have a staff, gardner, cook, and maid. In the US it would not be affordable.”
Sounds to me like you are actually savings THOUSANDS of dollars per month and don’t realize it.
Scott Oliver
PS. Don’t think Bill Gates is representative of too many people moving to Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is as cheap as you make it…
If youw ant to live in a million dollar home and buy nothing but imported foods and fine wines – you can
If you want to live a simpler life on less than US$1,000 per month, you can do that too…
I have multi-millionaire investor clients (retired couple) who have bought modest homes and they live on about $1,200 per month are a very proud that they do…
They eat lots of fresh fruits and vegetables, fish and chicken, they lost a huge amount of wieght when they cam here because they walked around so much and tell me that they can’t remember feeling better.
Scott Oliver
WeLoveCostaRica.comI did actually respond to that last letter in AMCostaRica about crime but for whatever reason, they chose not to include it. I will feature it in next week’s newsletter
Scott Oliver
WeLoveCostaRica.comLibreria Interancional has a decent sized English language book section David
They have also sold about 5,000 of my books so they must be a nice bunch of people 🙂
Scott Oliver
WeLoveCostaRica.comIt’s easy!
Just visit and click on ‘Buy Now’ at the bottom of the page.
Or visit Amazon.com at
Thank you for your support …
Scott Oliver
Agreed!
We will be facing MASSIVE pension problems within the USA within the next few years and with so many people retiring and so many States and municipalities technically bankrupt, the USA will have to increase taxes in a very serious fashion forcing more and more people to consider a retirement in more affordable places… Like Costa Rica.
Having said that I do NOT for a second believe that this is a scenario that has an unlimited lifespan, I fully expect that within the next 5-10 years that the USA will REQUIRE it’s citizens to APPLY to retire outside the USA… Probably for their “protection.”
As for Guatemala I don’t think that will be an attractive retirement haven for quite some time. The last time I was there visiting my girlfriend’s family, one of the main topics of conversation and EVERY dinner party we went to was kidnapping.
It’s a great appetite depressant but not a great enticement to living there even though parts of the country really are gorgeous.
According to La Nacion (registration required and Spanish only) there have been 30,200 armed assaults by gang members on public buses so far this year with 14 of the drivers killed. These assaults average at about 20 per DAY where jewels, telephones and cash are stolen and numerous rapes have also been reported.
El Salvador has similarly horrendous gang problems which Costa Rica does not.
Scott Oliver – Founder
WeLoveCostaRica.com
