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South beach? You mean we’ll be seeing $200,000 cars, hookers, and drugs available on every corner? Remember the Will Smith song? If it’s going to be another South Beach I can stay in Florida and skip the 2 hour flight!
While you might be doing well on the investment end… how about quality of life… and how about a little bit of the low cost, slow paced, simple life many of us came to Costa Rica seeking? With real estate prices going up so quickly… so does the price of everything else. In no time at all… Jaco will seem as if it’s in another country… and NOT Costa Rica!
In January a buddy and I were fishing on Lake Arenal… we came across two Ticos enjoying a day at the lake fishing… we started chatting… both worked in Jaco… they had taken the day off to come up to Arenal to fish… neither had a good word to say about Jaco… drugs, many prostitutes, nasty people, and expensive….they were only there to work… two nice young guys… nothing to gain with expressing an opinion about the area… so if that’s how the locals feel… one can only wonder!
I’ve been to Jaco… was a nice area… but other then looking to flip property for a profit (remember the bigger fool theory) it’s nothing like it use to be!
I do hope that the local government does something about the development and the growing pains that Jaco is seeing…
Just my opinion…
All VERY valid points by all parties… one of the reasons I love this website and the forums!
Everyone has the right to dream… but when we attempt to make a dream a reality at some point we have to look at the facts. Better to continue having a dream… and in time when reality and the dream are somewhat closer… GO FOR IT!
In this situation given the facts… I don’t see making this dream a reality… the ages… the required investment… and the residency issues can not possibly be all addressed with the funding indicated… not if you’re looking to do it the right way, legally or with any real possiblility of success!
Costa Rica is a paradise… but as with any paradise it’s littered with the wreckage of dreamers… I tell people that all the time! I’d hate to see this couple distroy a dream, ruin a relationship, and make $50,000 disappear in a year!
Just my two cents….
Shower heads were no problem… most plumbing is compatable… and if not you’ll find what you need at the local hardware store in CR! I did find that the hose valves (outside) were a bit leaky… never could get the hose on right…I bought 4 at Home Depot and brought them down with me!
Interesting info on the whole California/Enron situation… nothing new however. Rather than a goverment conspiracy I’d guess more that the problem was nothing more then good old American Capitalism and greed at it’s best! Remember WorldComm… the same period… smoke and mirror accounting… a scheme as big as the one at Enron…. but we don’t have the “Bush” connection to make it a government conspiracy.
I guess after reading your post I have to things I should do… 1. Lock my doors and load up the Ruger…. and 2. Hope that the folks in CR see what having “competition” will do for their electric and phone rates… it will become nothing more than a big money grab… better they stick with ICE… it’s not perfect… after all you do get what you pay for! With electric and phone rates as low as they are here I can’t see that American companies in the mix will be able to provide better service at a lower cost.
The current outages are a wake up call to the government here to take a long hard look at the growth and energy needs of CR. The president needs to set a path towards keeping CR a “green” nation and make it a priority to keep growth in line with that goal.
I have to agree with you… having served I find that most former members (other then the real buffs and wash-outs) don’t hold their “deeds” out on their sleeve… nor do they have user names like “Reconalpha”… which to me looks more like a Playstation user name for someone playing on line war games with a bunch of 12 year olds.
As for the electrical situation…. come on folks… get real… things happen… sometimes the timing is questionable… but think about it… CR is at the end of the dry season… looking out my window…the water in Lake Arenal is as low as I’ve ever seen it… Copper is at near record highs… thus encouraging theft… electrical usage is rising at a rate (all that new construction) higher than the growth of capacity… all the makings of a system failure! We should get use to it… no doubt there will be more such outages.
Was the US government behind the major power failure in the states a few years back… or the Califonia power problems? It’s nice to throw out the idea that there’s some type of conspiracy… but this isn’t a Clancy novel… it’s reality… understand that the growth in CR is going to come with some growing pains. Our community of 6 recently installed it’s own gravity fed water system to back-up AYA… and we’re talking now about our own Wind Generation system to provide a electical supply for the basic needs.
It’s VERY unlikly that Uncle Sam was in CR on a Black Op fooling with the electic to assist TLC… (CAFTA)… but hey… it’s only my opinion!
Edited on Apr 21, 2007 08:41
