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I don’t think that to ask $150 is too high, when they are actually protecting your ‘excess’ property in secure premises.
Others are still around, but I do know of some storage bodegas that have opened … and closed.
And remember, it is [i]location, location, location…[/i]You may be able to open a bank account with one of the private banks, but without a cedula/DIMEX you will not be able to use internet banking to transfer funds to another bank, just to another branch of the same bank.
Some of these private facilities are offering a good rate on CD’s, [i]but[/i] you will need residency….:roll:The other day, just after you posted the info on your experience when looking at vehicles, that I read… I think it was on the La Nacion website… where it was announced that a new business had opened in La Uruca, where it will put a used vehicle through a thorough search for VIN, odometer checks, previous owners, etc and will perform an inspection similar to what Riteve does, for $100.
I have also heard that it is better to look in Grecia for a vehicle.Where ever it is , it is now WAY out of date…:roll:
In reference to that particular Blog, it is only as good as the most recent information, in regards to the cost of living.
What they or any other blogger spent in the past, [i]is in the past.[/i]
People read these and think that their expenses will be the same, but of course, this is not usually the case.But remember that once you have your [i]cedula[/i] in hand, you must then wait until your visa is [u]out of date[/u], before you can apply for your drivers license…:roll:
While you didn’t have to provide the police report, your information and fingerprints [u]will[/u] still be checked through InterpolYou are required to get a permit for a container if is going to be ‘permanant’ according to [url=http://www.containerhomes.net/products-and-prices/products-details/finished-shipping-container-homes.html ]this website[/url] but I am sure that most don’t do this, if it is used for storage.
I agree with davidd. We too are live in the country, and have always lived in the country since we have moved here and have been robbed multiple times, from thieves who gained access by just crossing through fields. But, now in similar conditions as davidd, with a main gate, and 3 strings of barbed wire fencing, everything has been fine.
[i]Tico[/i] homes are much more likely to have bars, high walls or fences plus guns, and tend to offer new arrivals advice, on not to leave ‘anything outside’. They don’t even leave their shoes outside…and they were right on that issue, as ours were taken.
It is very easy to tell someone ‘not to worry about the security of property of family and you home’, when you don’t live here.There is a few here, one is located just before the turnoff to Grecia. It is called [url=http://storageincostarica.com/directions.htm]Lion Share Bodegas[/url]
[b]sweikgert[/b], can you please post where you found these statements, that read [i]” …those lazy inept Costa Ricans who can’t be trusted to operate a nuclear power plant or even to build a bridge properly so as to prevent it from being washed away in a flood. (I didn’t pick those 2 examples at random – those are sentiments I am paraphrasing from comments posted on this very message board.)” [/i] and see for myself how it relates to gated communities.
I’m saying there are many homes [i]all over the country[/i] that do not have bars and high walls and that there are many more areas of CR that you didn’t see … than you did.
We are in a ‘subdivision with a gate’ that helps keep the neighborhood horse inside, where they are supposed to be, if indeed the gate is actually closed. We cannot see any other houses.sweikgert posted [i]”…those are EVERYWHERE in Costa Rica”[/i] You make this sound as if this applies to every home, and[u] this is not true[/u]!
Many very nice homes homes do not have bars nor high walls….and some very poor homes have no glass in their ‘windows’.
How much of ‘[b]everywhere[/b]’ in the country did you actually visit?
And yes, you are making assumptions saying that “I suspect the people who live in them are not going to be the type of people I would get along with”. No, they probably wouldn’t like you, either.Many gated communities, are not much more than a North American style of a subdivision, albeit sometimes with a gate that may or may not have a guard on duty.
In regards to the question of what drives expats or [i]Ticos[/i] to live in them, most I would [i]presume[/i] is they do not wish to live on a street front home, with an excess of cars, buses and vehicles with loudspeakers on them…so can expect some amount of privacy.I think you would be better off purchasing one of the many hundreds that are already here, else you will have to pay shipping costs, import duty etc on it.
