[crgrannie]

Badi: “Welcome to Costa Rica.” More than a gracious offer of hospitality ‘Welcome to Costa Rica’ is the response one receives upon discovering that Costa Rica is indeed a foreign country and has its own ways of doing things, and NOT by any stretch of the imagination similar to what one is used to in one’s home country. We signed up with BCR because we were told by our bank in the US that BCR and our bank ‘had an association’. We assumed that meant that all things related to banking would somehow be made easier, less painful, by the fact of this ‘association’. NOT! But, somehow, we have survived in Costa Rica for over 4 years now by doing things the Tico way and on ‘Tico Time’. One of the first lessons of living in Costa Rica, take whatever happens in stride, shrug your shoulders and say ‘Welcome to Costa Rica’.

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