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If someone is so scared that they will ‘lose’ possessions and have to forgo the use of their computer and TV, why even consider moving to Costa Rica?
Yes, we were robbed of items in our garage, but we have in our small home two laptops plus an additional monitor which are on desks and easily visible. We have a small stereo system and a LCD TV. Good camera equipment, etc.
Realize, one must really think about the area you chose to live.Agree, that one should immediately go to the nearest Red Cross location!
We had several Fer de lance snakes on the property where we used to live, and occasionally saw them ‘crossing the road’ in a rural but not forest area.
Our dog was bitten by a rattle snake a few weeks ago, and survived, but that snake was killed as was the one we saw yesterday…You are less likely to have to pay duty on a parcel using regular US postal service/Costa Rica mail service, than a private company. We have received many parcels and have never had to pay anything.
Presently, all paperwork, ie, copy of birth certificate, police report, must be less than 6 months old. It must be certified before being presented in person to an official, during an appointment at a consulate office.
You will need to make an advance appointment at your local SSA office, in the US to go in to pick up a copy or copies of your SS statement of income and they usually provide it to you at no charge. A friend asked for three and they were issued in Spanish, in about 6 minutes.We live on a large finca in Guanacaste, but Ticks are everywhere. My husband and I have also been been ‘bitten’ by ticks with no bad responses.
We had a dog die last year from Canine Ehrlichiosis, the tick-born disease.It was horrible. We check our dogs every day for ticks, and ourselves if we have been in the longer grasses around the farm.
So, all dog owners check you pets!Scara, if the medical help is limited in the USA the chances is, that in Costa Rica there may not be help for her here. I would advise, an extended visit before you make the final move here.
There is a very good rheumatologist in Clinic Biblica, but I cannot remember his name. If you phone the reception desk, they will give you the information. He was treating a friend of mine for Ankylosing Spondylitis.
We take our firearms outside to practice as well, and try to hit the target! The dogs hate the noise and go home.
Nois, noise and more noise!Well, we live here, with no nearby neighbors with the exception of our worker in the midst of a very large property, and we were sleeping at the time our home was robbed. I had woken up, when I heard our dogs bark, and, stupidly I guess, went outside to see why. The area where they standing was next to an area where there was some sheets of ‘zin’ to cut the wind from a small garden area. It was also the same place where our goat had been eating some of the hedge earlier in the day. So, I thought, it was probably the goat, again.
So, the four dogs took off.I went back inside and back to sleep. The next morning I look outside the front door and there was one of the dogs. Dead. I screamed for my husband and he ran out and round the back where we found another one. Dead. We looked for the other 2 and they wouldn’t approach the house. Eventually, we found that another one had also been poisoned, but he survived. One was unharmed.
Anyway, the thief has been in our laundry area right outside our bedroom window, where he took a ‘crap’ if you will pardon my expression, and then moved to the adjoining garage and stole a few thousand dollars worth of tools and some other stuff. He went through a truck, and moved a lawn chair onto the grass, and I guess he sat there for a while.
We later found, he had left a bag of clothes in the bushes…? Maybe, what he had stolen earlier, elsewhere.
So, as you asked, bjallen, what do we feel now is? As I stated in my lost post “looking for our three dogs as there is no sign of them, and this is very unusual, so we have to go with our ‘gut feelings'”, so the answer is “it really doesn’t come down to your ‘stuff’ being taken, it’s that YOU’VE been taken/invaded & you’re never the same”.
Just as you stated.
We think it was the same person who stopped by to speak with some tile installers, just a few days previously.
And BYW, it seems he was hiding behind the zin, so I guess he wasn’t out for blood, that time.
