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Yes, I think any time an opinion is extreme in any way, the opinion is suspect and tainted. To generalize that all the young people there are awful seems ridiculous to me. I’m sure many could say the same things about the US or any other country for that matter if it’s through a negative overall dis-satisfied with life lens.
That is good to know, Cheryl. But you have only had to do this once so far?
I will have my son who will be 18 and a small dog and I have to make sure I keep everything as secure as possible for them. My hope has been to rent for three months at a time to determine if I want to establish residency and buy or build a home there. I’ve been to Costa Rica several times but will also look into other locations, Mexico especially given the length of the visa and the ease of establishing residency. I just love CR or wouldn’t keep going back there:)
Has anyone had any issues traveling back and forth with a dog? My belief is that as long as I keep her current, within the right time frame, on all her shots, etc. that we should be good but won’t take any big chances. She’s like a child to me;)
That’s really concerning to me. If I can’t rent in different areas for three months at a time, and keep leaving to follow the rules, but then may not be able to get back in, I wonder:
a) how common is this that a person can’t get back in the country/what percentage of time does this happen: and
b) does CR really want to encourage people like me to invest in the country/land, etc. Maybe not really?CR is my dream location, but Mexico offers a 6 month visa. Still checking into Nicaragua and Belize and Honduras.
Terrible–a corrupt official presses him to leave. But for the average retiree, not trying to do business there, not so rough?
Whoa.
Scott shared on opinion. I don’t agree with him, but I think your post is a little over-reaching to say the least. Geez!!!
Wow! Absolutely gorgeous. It’s very similar to what I have in mind. I love the blend of being a little modern, but all of the use of wood and stone so it also looks very organic. Stunning:)
sstarkey, who was your builder?
did you present the builder with plans?
any idea of what your square footage cost was?thanks, costaricafinca. i guess the interesting question is how much it costs to insure workers. i’m guessing most employers try to evade this, but it comes down to cost. if anyone is taking the time to pay these expenses for a worker, what do costs tend to be?
This is like giving something with one hand and potentially removing the benefit with the other hand. I think we need to devise non pesticide ways of protecting food that doesn’t involve genetically altering foods. There are phytonutrients in foods that aren’t even nearly understood by scientists yet, nutrients that provide benefits that we don’t understand. For example, there’s a study (irony coming) called The China Study that was sponsored by a University in China co-sponsored by Vanderbilt in TN that followed approximately 4700 women who had breast cancer, followed these women for several years and tracked her habits, and what they found was that women who ate an abundance of cruciferous vegetables (cauliflower, bok choy, broccoli) had a signficantly reduced likelihood of having a cancer recurrence. There are phytonutrients in these foods that aren’t understood yet. How do we know that gmo foods aren’t engineering these benefits right out of our food? Just plain calories doesn’t equal nutrition. Companies would rather manufacture chemicals that they can sell than to work with the natural environment to devise ways of protecting foods from pests.
in this case, the answer is to dole out money as work progresses and to never just hand it all over up front? and to be on site as work is to be done . . .
so is an issue maybe hiring a company to take care of certain services rather than an individual and then the service company hired takes on the risk of employee needs/benefits?
Pharg, there is an enormous difference between physically splicing plant material and developing hybrid species and supporting Monsanto in developing a plant that can withstand a pesticide. These are two completely different approaches. Are you treating these two approaches as similiar?
We’ll end up feeding the world and then causing all sorts of wicked other problems because of these genetically altered plants. You can’t alter the dna of plants and expect not to have some pretty awful results on the other side of the fence. I’m all for science but we’ve overconfident if we think we can play with plant dna at that level and not cause other problems. Cancer is caused by gene mutations. No, thanks, I won’t trust a multi-national corporation’s good intentions to mess with the dna of plants that I’m eating. GMO grain takes over other farms and offers ultimately no choice–it’s like a weed invading non gmo fields. They are trying to make a buck. We utilize insane amounts of water and grain, etc. resources to produce meat for the market. If people went to a primarily plant based died, we’d have more land and resources to eat more natural foods and plenty of land to grow food for the world. In the US we have a very heavy meat based diet, low on produce really and our colon cancer rates are ridiculous. I work in oncology and specialize in colorectal cancer. GMO grain is not the answer. We’ve screwed up our environment already with an abundance of pollutants–crap in our food and water and now we have to further a whole new branch of science called genomics to fix all of the crappy problems we’ve facilitated ourselves. Part of the beauty of Costa Rica is that it hasn’t succumbed to this. We don’t need Monsanto tampering with this pristine country.
Wow—duty, etc. of 80% of the value of the vehicle? Is this for both new and used vehicles? Maybe I should have some extra parts thrown into the container related to vehicle’s suspension system;). I think for what cars/trucks cost in CR, I’d rather bring my own and yes, know the history of the vehicle. Who will put on this sealer for you?
[quote=”Savannahjo”]Great points. We have owned in CR for nearly 5 years and have all of these points. The Viking EPS SE model comes pretty close to road approved and they have the kit needed to complete the work. I’m am budgeting 80% of the value of the vehicles as duty, etc. It is an eye-opener, but at least you know the vehicle history. One other point, we are having a special marine grade ‘sealer’ put on it everywhere they can to help fend off erosion. We are near the coast…[/quote]
