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Dear all,
I live and work in Italy and I’m 47 years old.
Many times I have tought about quality of life in Costa Rica and thinking one day to live there (in Europe we have a lot of stress as we spend hours stopped in the traffic and for other reasons).
Last months with my wife finally we decided to visit CR and two weeks ago we jumped on the plane and after more or less 24 hours we were there and spent 12 days going round with a car (tyres are not very good).
Wonderful country, good people -international and Tico- …with some problems with roads in some part of the country.
For sure in next three/four years I cannot full move for three reasons:
1) I have to wait three years that my daughter will go to university and leave my home (for her the re-location is not an option)
2) I have my high professional work and I’m not ready to leave it at the moment
3) I have to “taste” a country before I will leave for ever.
First option:
keep it as a dream and visit CR time by time for a week and then when it will be the time (in three-four years) coming back on this option)
Second option (on which I’m working with some friends in Italy):
Buy a lot and build up an eco-lodge of about 30 rooms with a very nice restaurant with Italian food (one of my frind is a chef).
The idea is to manage the business 3/4 months each of us with our presence in CR.
We (with my friends and shareholders) will come back to CR during the wet season to complete the tour of Costa Rica as I have not seen yet the North Pacific -Guanacaste- and the south area of Manual Antonio.
At the moment I like South Limon.
I read the very interesting Scott’s book.
Please let me have your open idea as I like to have the spirit of people that leave there.
In Internet I cannot find some statistics about tourist and I would like the trends of tourists in the last 5 years for each touristic area (I can like one area but at the end the business has some rules; even if at the end I can take a different decision I need to look at the pictures).
Thanks to all in advance for any idea, suggestion, warning and any thing you want share with me…..and I hope to meet some of you in the near future to drink a glass(cost of wine is very expensive in CR . Why? Is there a import tax ?- Probably I will start to import Italian wine!! I’m in the food business).
Salvatore
