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[quote=”caliskatari”]Hey Doug!! Its Jarryd.. I never knew you posted here!?
I can say that Doug does have some of the nicest furniture I have ever seen, period. But Tilaran is a bit far from most people who live at the beach in Guanacaste, but if your looking to furnish a entire home with some of the nicest custom furniture money can buy, it may be worth it to get in touch with Doug’s guy. Otherwise the place I recommend does some great work as well, and may be more convenient for most smaller jobs. Sarah ended up using Alfredo who I recommended, lets see what she has to say about it when the work is done.. :)[/quote]
Not too often bro.
Come on over if you´re heading up the mountain today.[quote=”goodlife”]The new crime ‘trend’ in the USA, the “Flash Mob Attack” coming to a city near you?
http://www.warriortalknews.com/2011/06/the-mob-attack-what-to-do-to-defend.html%5B/quote%5D
18 Irish kidsin the photo. I´d have to reload :shock:! No problem8)[quote=”davidmarsden”]If you are looking for reasonable accomadations while searching – there are several great places I can recommend.[/quote]
We are coming to CR in November. It is our first trip to the country and we would appreciate any tips on good places to stay.[/quote]
Beach. San Juan del Sur[quote=”sprite”][quote=”maravilla”]áll the people i know who left within two or three years did so because they had no clue about the negatives and therefore could not deal with them. [/quote]
Regarding those expats who leave after a few years; It’s all about expectations. Regarding the infamous Tico sense of time and retail service, I come here with such lowered expectations that I am pleasantly surprised most of the time when service is actually adequate.
And even when one bumps into the occasional disappointment, there are always positives to offset the negatives. I have had so many positive experiences with Costa Ricans. I once locked my keys in a 4X4 with the engine still running and with a wheel stuck in a muddy rut way up in the mountains in pouring rain and evening darkness setting in. I hiked to the first house I could find and asked for the use of a phone. The guy had a phone but wanted to try to help me with the SUV. He came out in the rain with a coat hanger and an umbrella and hiked back to my car with me and opened my locked door and helped me get the car out of the rut. I had to beg him to take a $20 bill for his effort. He refused three times until I told him that I hoped I wasn’t offending him with the offer but it would make me feel badly if he didn’t take it.
My impression is that some expats just don’t belong in this country. It seems they cannot appreciate what it has to offer and they have no sense of adventure or desire to seriously explore a new language and culture. I have overheard many conversations between expats and tourists on flights back and forth about what they do in CR and how they live. I hear them talk about the condos they rent out, their boats, their fishing trips, the inexpensive help in their homes, their cars, their younger Tica girlfriends and where the best place is for a decent steak…….not a word about those things which I believe really matter to anyone who wants to make a go of living here.[/quote]
DITTO
This is not the US. That´s exactly why I´m here. I´ll ¨suffer¨with the Tico´s.The best furniture builder on the planet is in Tilaran. Arturo Murillo.
I deigned everything that is in my house. He built 95% of it.
I built a little bit myself.
If you want average nice stuff there are many, many good tallers in CR. If you want gallery-museum quality art, Arturo is your man.
Too bad we can’t post pictures here.I’d blow your mind.[quote=”2bncr”]If one out of every 1000 tourist experiences crime here you might say that crime is no big deal, unless you are that one tourist out of a thousand.[/quote]
Math 101.
1/1,000
10/10,000
100/100,000
1000/1,000,000
2 million tourists “supposedly” here in 2009.
2000 unsolved crimes ?………….Nice.
The U.S. embassy in San Jose replaces more stolen passports each year than any other U.S. embassy or consulate in the world.:roll:[quote=”Scott”]The following article in La Nacion on Thursday speaks of the “crisis” in Guanacaste
Crisis provoca salida de empresas en Guanacaste [ http://www.nacion.com/2011-05-19/Economia/NotasSecundarias/Economia2781801.aspx ]
Highlights would include:
1,500,000M2 of new construction in Guanancaste in 2006 but less than 600,000M2 in 2010
Unemployment in the Chorotega region has doubled from 5.5% in 2008 to 10.1% en 2009
The Guanacaste Chamber of Tourism has 40 less members today than it did three years ago.
Liberia issued 79 business licenses in 2010 compared to 171 in 2009[/quote]
True.
Funny though. International tourism isn’t really down. What’s really happening here is many of the tourists do CR one time and one time only.Once you get ripped off and experience the inefficiency of these morons they call ” law enforcement’ or walk into the shower at the hotel and find out there is no water, or the car rental guy finds a scratch that ” wasn’t there’ when you picked up the car but for $50 he can “let it ride”.
These things are what is killing CR. Greed. ” The helpful , smiling ones” are more concerned with a one time ripoff than a steady flow for years.Here’s what goes on in the real world. Matter of fact I may vacation in the Florida Keys this coming Christmas.I can get tanked and leave my laptop on the beach overnight. No problem.You better not even leave your flip flops while you visit the pisser at a Guanacaste beach.
http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/03/03/2095984/2010-a-record-year-for-tourism.html[quote=”sprite”]These threads are always filled with anecdotal stories comparing life in present day Costa Rica with a golden past. I don’t give a damn what things were like in the past and nostalgia makes for inaccurate memories anyway. That is absolutely useless information. The consensus is always the same; “things in Costa Rica have changed for the worse.” Wow, what a surprise! Is there any place on earth right now where the consensus says that things have improved?
I don’t think anyone needs to be reminded that things have gotten worse compared to the past in Costa Rica or anywhere else for that matter. It would be more useful to compare present day life in Costa Rica with current living conditions in any other country. Our species has been soiling its collective nest since day one and the population is increasing exponentially. It has boiled down to a choice of various flavors of environmental and cultural degradation. I am 61 years old and have seen remarkably drastic negative changes in the States. Costa Rica is still a heaven compared to this circus.[/quote]
Great reply. It’s nice to see a realist posting.All I did was call the CR embassy in Miami. They told me exactly what I needed. I informed the vet,got the shots and she contacted the USDA guy, I met him at his office.He signed off my vets report. I then took all that crap to AA in Miami and they had some stooge ” officially” sign it off.
I arrived at the flight a week or so later, they put the dog on the plane and the kids at Liberia unloaded her first, let her out of the crate, gave her water and brought her to me on leash.
The customs guy was there, took the yellow copy and out the door we went.
I think the shipping was $150. That was six years ago.
It was that easy. Like I said. I contacted the embassy instead of asking on a message board.:roll:Call Triple R body shop in San Jose or the Harley dealership. They’ll point you in the right direction.
I’ll reply in my oh so humble manner.:shock:
Get rid of that useless piece of crap. For the money spent in gas and the initial cost of that beer can porta potty on wheels, you can fly down and have some guys build you a decent little concrete block guest house with a Jacuzzi and BBQ pit.[quote=”maravilla”]you had better hope your dog gets a Bufo during business hours because finding a vet after hours or on weekends in Costa Rica is nearly impossible. the doses i quoted in a previous post came from the local vet who has treated many dogs for Bufo contact. i don{t really care what the above study says — if your dog comes in contact with a Bufo it’s likely you don’t live in the city, and if you don’t live in the city, forget the emergency vet hospital. i know two people who lost small dogs to Bufo contact. Had we not had the atropine for my neighbor’s dog this weekend, it surely would’ve died. in that case, it was a Friday night, on a holiday weekend. We called several vets. HA! They were all on vacation. Besides, we are 20 minutes from the nearest vet in the closest town. Not exactly easy access. If you live in the campo in costa rica, most vets will recommend that you have a syringe on hand just in case! And guess what? My neighbor had not a clue what to do to help her dog! She watched it foam at the mouth, then rinsed the mouth with water, then gave the dog food! It was only after the dog got worse that she called me and we acted as quickly as we could.[/quote]That’s the beauty of living in the boonies.I have five vets that LIVE within 10 minutes of me and I know them all fairly well.
Not too long ago I had to call one at 3 AM when a porcupine climbed through my window and met my Bulldog.
Another night he got a toad and yet another a Terciopelo.He’s only missing one nuisance. HINT: It has two legs and whispers con permiso before it smashes your widow out and heads for your laptop.
Noop. I aint calling him off either.I have reds as ponedoras and a white variety for meat.They go from down feathers to the oven in about 8 weeks.
They key to the ponedoras is vitamins in the water.They need more calcium than what the concentrado contains. Mine lay well for almost 3 years.
I also do wabbitz, tilapia and pacu. The(future) cornish hens have a new cage as soon as da guapa Tica pulls them from her incubator.
4 am. Almost time to go feed the pigs.
Retirement. :roll::roll::roll:
