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I am really surprized at all the gringo gun-slingers here in CR & equally surprized that you think guns are the answer to the robo problemo aqui…since most of it happens when you’re not at home or most of you would get yourselves shot! btw, imxploring, an intruder is the aggressor & the one who’s awake = i’d have to bet on the caldron having the upper hand becuz if you were at home, you’d probably be asleep = you’d be taken ‘off guard’ = these guys are so sneaky/good, they’d find that loaded gun you have before you could grab it & guess who’d get shot?! after all your ‘big talk’, i hate to say it, but you’d deserve it too!
i don’t log onto this site very often but when i do, it seems that the same few people practically live on here, but i can’t tell whether some of you actually live in CR? those who’ve been ‘talking thru their hats’ about all the ‘sure-fire’ solutions to the security problems here & going so far as to blame the victums for bringing & hanging out w/the bad guys; not making good decisions; blah blah blah…well, did that ‘rocking chair’ analysis make you feel better or more secure yourselves?? like most of the gringos i’ve met here, you sound like a bunch of know-it-all blow-hards!
all i know is that if you were to actually become one of the innocent victums you’re accusing of bringing IT ALL on themselves + been thru the horror of your dogs being poisoned (much worse than multiple robberies btw), you’d have that caretaker of yours put that familiar ‘se vende’ sign on the property you supposedly own, post haste!
in my own defense, IF people w/malo intentions LOOK/ACT like criminals, they wouldn’t get away w/much for very long, would they? it’s dificil enough to figure out who to trust in your own culture, much less one that’s todo differente, correcto? from my observations of who gets lucky & who doesn’t, i’ve also found that knowing who to trust is KEY…however, not knowing, doesn’t make you a dope or indicate that you’re on dope! when you come here cold, it’s a daily exercise to discern who to believe/trust/listen to for advice; who to hire, etc. & unless you have a built-in support system when you arrive, it’s pretty much impossible to tell who you can & can’t trust. if you haven’t been taken here a few times (at the very least), that would tell me that you don’t really live here!
i could shoot down all the points you tried to make but don’t have time & all i can say to you is that if any of this does happen to you, you’ll be eating your insensitive, harshly judgemental words.
once it has happened to YOU, it really doesn’t come down to your ‘stuff’ being taken, it’s that YOU’VE been taken/invaded & you’re never the same = all you can think about is ‘who done it’ (which one of the people you trusted was really a low life?) & your ‘home’ is no longer a place where you feel any tranquilo = what you end up really losing is your PEACE of mind & FREEDOM of everyday living.
i would like to hear how the people, who have been thru any of these life-changing traumas/tragedies, FEEL afterwards…NOW???? and what you’re doing about those feelings, other than increasing your security…do you ever feel really secure again or the ‘joy’ again of living in a country that’s so beautiful after the dark side has invaded ud y su casa?
I hate to tell you sprite, but that ‘hole in your security’ is a big one becuz that ‘couple hour’ window was the very time ALL of mine happened. i don’t think you undertand how insurmountable/disasterous the ‘issue of security’ is here, you sound so much like i DID…not having a clue that the ‘solutions’ can/do bring on mas/worse problemos. like the caretaker you employ can be the one who robs you or has amigos who do. OR worse yet, he can take your car (w/o a license) & kill someone, like mine did during my last trip to the states. I was told to get a ‘bravo perro’, so found ‘Rambo’ a wonderful german shepard. after falling in love w/him & giving him a ‘real life’ (for the 1st time not chained to a dirty area), i started worrying about his safety mas than my ‘stuff’, especially when i would leave w/my 2 little ones for a few hrs while he was left behind to ‘guardia’, which is when i feared IT might happen…wrong again. my whole ‘family’ found the poisoned meat after i let them out in the AM & the horror that ensued was literally the 9/11 of my life! The yorkie i brought from the states was killed by the ‘guardia Rottwieller’ next door to my 1st rental, 3 wks after i moved here…are you getting the picture/message yet? ALL these horrendous events were due to security issues. it’s not so much what you can/can’t DO about it, it’s the feeling of loss, not only of your most precious possessions, but your freedom in everyday living = hell in paradise.
I am an ‘easy hit’ being a solo gringa here, but have heard many horror stories from friends, however, mine seems to top everyone. i’ve lived here exactly a year & my life ‘as i knew it’ has been totally wiped out. i bought a ‘pura vida spot’ high on a beautiful ridge outside peaceful Grecia where i am surrounded by fincas & estate properties & built a small casa, thinking i had found ‘heaven on earth’ but it quickly turned into a ‘hell’. i found no tranquilo & instead of being able to simplify my life, it has been the most complicated place i’ve ever lived…i have been thru 6 robberies/break-ins, 6 deaths (1 person/1 bird/4 dogs) – ALL RELATING TO THE SECURITY ISSUES here!! if you’d like further details, will be glad to explain. i feel like i’ve been the fall-guy for everyone in my lovely neighborhood, but even after my 3 beloved dogs were poisoned 2 wks ago, NO ONE has even called to express their sympathies…this is when you find out how hard it is to endure tradegy with very little support/no family/etc. not to mention, if any prospective buyer finds out how much has happened to me here, i may lose everything else i’ve invested in here?! moral of the story, you MUST take the security issues here very seriously or else!!!
