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Hello Sir-
I have been investigating. [Quepos and Puntarenas are Pacific coast though.Yes?]
I believe the facilities are limited , Puerto Limón, is a port city,cruise ship stop, and a major cargo transshipment commercial port, Cahuita and Puerto Viejo are potential anchorages,(sand bottoms, coral outcroppings very common,) but no mooring balls and my opinion is you may wish to practice safety and security strategies stringently.Recently I was there.. still planning but I was thinking of mooring or hauling in the months when I was not sailing. Rio Dulche Guatamala maybe friend of mine just sailed out of there on his Catalina 42. Anyway..they have services.
A curiosity – Puerto Viejo..we walked the beach and it is a lovely town, but there was a sloop about 20 yards from the beach (Bavaria or a Hunter maybe?) .. a wooden raft was secured to it. No apparently life aboard for a couple of days..I have no idea whether the yacht had been boarded, or anything but it struck me that a yacht, within wading distance of any coast there is a target.
Took a swim at Punta Uva a few kilometres out of Puerto Viejo, took eyes off the vehicle for twenty minutes, glove box jimmied!(Fortunately I learned in Lagoa, Portugal don’t be leaving stuff in the car! I still mourn my Nikon FE , passsport and leather jacket. )!>
We’re sort of thinking Grenada would be the logical end point..some Canadian got shot recently in Honduras waters. Near Roatan. I believe boats should be allowed to carry arms. but thats an old argument I guess.. with no end in sight.!
Hello
I recommend the Boutique Hotel Out of Bounds. … safe clean and right across from the Taj Mahal restaurant. A short walk down to a small plaza with multiple restaurants also a supermarket at Centro commercial La Paco. Meranda and Matteo are great. Prices are excellent. Rooms are special. Tico breakfast comes with.
I believe it’s going to get bloody ugly and, I do mean ‘bloody’.
Lastly, seeing what’s going on now and what is most likely to happen in the future, if I was in the US, Canada or anywhere in Europe I would ONLY live in a secure, gated community…
Scott Oliver – Founder
WeLoveCostaRica.com[/quote]Scott, I tend to agree the freedom and joy of the First Worlders is coming to a low period shortly, but a word about Canada… Canada is NOT Toronto Vancouver Calgary and Winnipeg. I mention those 4 cities because there’s a crime problem. Thousands of smaller centres, cities towns and villages enjoy enormously safe lives, wherein the morning water cooler talk concerns someone losing CDs out of their car which, like most cars here was left unlocked.
Michael Moore did a funny bit in one of his docu-dramas where he went to Toronto neighbourhoods and opened doors to show Canadians do not lock. He was quite wrong of course..well wrong to do it in Toronto where only the silly do not lock up, but still..
When and if we move to CR we’ll be seeking non-gated lives!Surely not all Ticos live behind the wire.And the US State Department is going to be charging $400 for you to renounce your US citizenship. Reminds me of the garbage disposal fee I have to pay at the dump……[/quote]
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Yeah but in Canada you have to appear before a [i]Citizenship Judge[/i] and renounce formally! The important thing is residency for taxation purposes (from Canada) you can keep your passport but establish “[u]Residency[/u]” meaning a habitat in another country. But that country has to have a tax treaty with Canada. (Costa Rica does not) So. Money from Canada still has tax withheld (25%), and you have to continue filing income tax returns to Canada on all world-wide income. In America the rich expats are lining up to renounce citizenship. In Canada the rich simply established residency or corporate offices elsewhere 20 years ago. —(Like Prime Minister Paul Martin and the distillers known as the Bronfmans)—Now that the middle class want to do it they’re finding the doors being locked down tight. (In short Canada’s CRA has been busily re-negotiating treaties with for example Ireland and Holland going from 15% withholding to Canada’s 25% demand!) They want you, they bought and paid for you, and you aren’t escaping if they can do anything about it!! 😈[quote=”Scott”]I can’t believe you guys are not talking about this?
I think America is projecting it’s power, using the new Costa Rican Prime Minister’s arrival as a window of opportunity to project that power in the face of their own toothlessnes against Chavez. Perhaps it is a warning not to join Chavez. Whatever. My wife and I are retiring to Costa Rica in 68 weeks. With any degree of luck, Americans will be gone. Notwithstanding what peple think, Canadians actually find them not like us at all. And they should stop using our flag on their backpacks.
