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The National Geographic Adventure map is also a very good map of CR.
http://shop.nationalgeographic.com/ngs/browse/category.jsp?_dyncharset=UTF-8&_dynSessConf=-306791736222007303&trailSize=1&advancedSearch=true&liveResult=true&categoryId=A106&trail=9004%3AA106&addFacet=19016%3A1%3ASRCH%3ACosta+Rica&removeAllFacets=false&categoryFacetId=9004&trailtext=Costa+Rica&searchmenu=A106&search.x=25&search.y=12' defer onload='Go figure! Since I am always the one doing the driving, focusing on the road and the Mario Andretti Jr. drivers, I have never noticed the Office Depot.
Thanks Scott!Costa Verde is nice and quiet up on the hill outside of central Escazu and has a good breakfast. We have stayed there since 2004. The only complaint is car noise comoing in and out of the gate late at night so get a room in the back.
This is another one that is between Santa Ana and Ciudad Colon that we are using for a 2-3 month stay – http://www.lindavistacr.comIt would behoove you to hire one of the lawyers recommended on this site. Lawyers in CR cost a fraction of what they do in the US and the cost would have likely saved you more than their fees. If you signed a contract, which was likely in Spanish, how do you know what you signed up for? Seems to me you are at a serious disadvantage and your scenario is not uncommon. As a rule, never perform a real estate transacation without an attorney and any purchase should be made in the name of a corporation (S.A. – Sociedad Anonima in CR).
You can fly to Quepos on Nature Air out of Pavas airport in San Jose. I believe the closest you can get to CR in Panama with regular commercial service is David and that would likely be via Panama City.
That is a good option lisle55. Flying to Panama from CR is pretty cheap too. COPA Airlines is Panama based.
Thanks for clarifying that. I have always been under the assumption tht the oldlaw was $1,000/adult. Of course, you can still have a child in CR or legitimately marry a Costa Rican as other options.
Wait until the new law goes into effect; the existing requirement is $2,000/month per person. The new law is $2,500/month per family. $2,500 vs. $8,000 or $150,000 vs $480,000 over 5 years is quite significant.
For those families with more than 2 people that want to become residents under “rentista”, it would be more beneficial to wait until the new law is in effect.
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As of Friday, August 14, 2009, the
FDIC is now BankruptFrom a starting point of US$53 Billion in 2008 – through the 77 bank failures this year alone – the DIF has dwindled to zero.
Just in case you’re having trouble, your first reaction should be a mixture of shock and disgust. How – after being paid decades of insurance premiums from all of America’s deposit-taking institutions – could the FDIC go bankrupt after the first wave of bank failures?
How is that even possible?
Well, first…they haven’t exactly been “collecting premiums” per se.
That’s right, in good times the FDIC has one job. To bother banks for comparatively tiny insurance payments. But for most of the time between 1995 and 2006, they collected nothing. Zero. Apparently they had no authority to force banks to pay their premiums, so they simply disregarded the job.
Then, as soon as the crisis broke in American banks, the FDIC more than doubled its liabilities…taking their maximum coverage from US$100,000 per account to US$250,000.
Was there a corresponding crackdown on premiums? Did they start charging banks twice as much for the insurance, or at least collect the missing premiums from the past decade?
Of course not.
Instead, they were comfortable with what dwindled to a .014% coverage on their assets. That is to say that for every dollar the FDIC covered, they had 1.4 cents in reserve to insure that dollar.
Now the 1.4 cents is gone.
Social Security could be in the red as early as next year.
When the government spends money on health care, the patient does not. The patient is then separated from the transaction in the sense that costs are no longer his concern. When the patient doesn’t care about costs, only those who want higher costs—doctors and drug companies—care. Thus, health-care reform should be based on policies that diminish the health-care wedge rather than increase it. Obama’s reform principles—a public health-insurance option, mandated minimum coverage, mandated coverage of pre-existing conditions, and required purchase of health insurance—only increase the size of the wedge and thus health-care costs. According to research performed for the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a $1 trillion increase in federal government health subsidies will accelerate health-care inflation, lead to continued growth in health-care expenditures, and diminish our economic growth even further. Despite these costs, some 30 million people will remain uninsured. Implementing Obama’s reforms would literally be worse than doing nothing.
This has always been about politics and the “seeds” of change, not actual reform. It is an early start to the 2012 beauty contest called an election. Just tell people what they want to hear now. Tell them it’s about choice. But once the government is involved it’s power will continue to grow until it makes all the decisions and there are no choices. That’s how it is in Canada and that’s how it is in Britain. If Obama succeeds, that’s how it’ll be here in 10 years. The american public in general are a bunch of suckers.
Costa Rica has access to both Pacific and Caribbean (Honduras, not Roatan access to Pacific is limited to the Gulf of Fonseca), numerous rivers, lakes and waterfalls. The surfing is much better in Costa Rica.
I believe Santa Teresa is north of Mal Pais, near Cobano and Montezuma. Internet choices are very limited and high speed is a relative term for this area (equivalent to DSL at best).
Medicare does not, however, the private insurers as of the last 2 years are changing their rules to cover medical expenses outside the US. More insurers will definitely come around when they realize how much money they can save, which of course helpds their bottom line. My insurer, which is Blue Cross/Blue Shield will cover 70% of all medcial expenses incurred outside my network in the US. The only catch is that the invoices have to be in US dollars.
