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[quote=”costaricabill”]Very good advice in previous post!
Having said that, to answer your question, no, you need not be a resident in CR to open a bank account, checking or savings. It is not as easy as doing it in the States, but it can be done.
And opening a personal account is much easier than opening an account for a corporation. In the last 2 weeks we have had renters in our guest house each week, and both couples purchased property here and both opened accounts before they left CR.[/quote]Advise your renters that they need to access and use their accounts frequently (at least every couple of months) or the bank will simply consider the accounts as abandoned and close the accounts and confiscate the deposits. This is being done.
This MF Global story broke in October of last year. It has been a scandalous series of related developments since then culminating in the following headline: ALL LEGAL BANK DEPOSIT PROTECTIONS ARE NOW OFFICIALLY GONE. Govern yourselves accordingly.
When free speech collides with public welfare,it is a point at which a culture decides which of the two things is more important. In Costa Rica, individual honor is, perhaps, considered more an integral part of public welfare than say in the US or the UK.
The author James Michener once wrote that the Anglo Saxon culture of the 18th century tended to put country first, then god and finally family. The Latin cultures ordered this in reverse; family first (personal dignity and integrity), then god, and finally, country.
I have noticed that Costa Ricans are terribly polite, sometimes to the point of ridiculousness. A Tico might tell an obvious lie in order to avoid hurting someone’s feelings over a trivial matter. It is socially incorrect to do otherwise. So it makes sense they would have strong anti-defamation of character laws to maintain this cultural bias.
On the other hand, respect for others’ time is apparently not part of the Costa Rican social contract. I wonder if the CR laws are biased in breech of contract cases where tardiness of completion is at issue?
[quote=”2bncr”]Avatars are usually representative or definitive in some (although maybe absurd at times) way – so your are not congruent with your avatar – that is the photo conflicts with the message…
I just found it amusing and thought I’d point it out. Is the skin thinning around here? Maybe its time for a round of camp fire song! What was that famous campfire tune?[/quote]
No worries, bud. I guess maybe I should change the avatar, huh? By the way, what is the connection with your avatar? Taoist? Buddhist?
[quote=”2bncr”]???????
He was criticizing the beach and he has a picture of the beach as an avatar was my point…[/quote]
Let that photo serve as my credentials regarding beach life.(it was taken at Big Pine Key)…I have lived in Miami and have sea kayaked the Florida Keys for 30 years now and I know about hot beach climates.
I grew up in the frozen mid west and couldn’t wait to get south. At first, the sub tropics are great..but after several hot summers, my youthful enthusiasm was diminished a bit. Today, I yearn for the perfect weather of the Central Valley and cringe when I read about new found joy at sea level in the tropics. I wonder how long that enthusiasm will last.
I spent a short time at the Costa Rican Pacific coast and immediately knew it was not for me. I went back up to cooler elevations of the Central Valley.
If you like to sweat and and lay about in the sun, go for for it! I guess it takes 4 or 5 years for northerners to thaw out. But there is a reason why places like Atenas are called the perfect climate by National Geographic and not places like Quepos.
Seems like most of her negative experiences had to with living at sea level in the tropics, not with Costa Rica as such…Maybe she would have avoided those negatives if she had spent more of her time in the mountains of the Central Valley.
Life is for learning, I suppose. So many North Americans dream of beaches and palm trees without really knowing about the other things that go with the “dream”… sand fleas, mosquitos, heat and humidity…especially the humidity.
[quote=”DavidCMurray”]No, sprite, what they would like is for you to either contribute one thought that’s new since (say) 2007 or to shut up. Playing the same old broken record over and over and over again accomplishes nothing save to aggravate everyone else.
[/quote]I did not open this thread. The same subject keeps coming up for discussion with the same responses from people whose minds are still stuck in the old false paradigm. When I see this, I am aggrevated and compelled to participate. It is probably as irritating for me to read these same erroneous ideas from others as it is for you to read my ideas. The difference, however, between me and those of your mind set is our different responses to aggrevation. I come back with discussion. I don’t suggest to anyone else that they “shut up”.
[quote=”Scott”]A few relevant comments from Jeff Berwick with which I agree 100%
“The one thing that I would like to get across to people is that the world that we have lived in for the last 40 years has not been real. It’s been built completely on debt and because of that much of what we have seen and done hasn’t been “real.” It’s been a mirage.”
“All that is about to change. The entire western monetary, financial and political system will implode this decade. It all began when Richard Nixon removed the gold backing, “temporarily,” as he stated, from the dollar on August 15, 1971 and since then the entire world has been on a completely fiat, unbacked monetary system. That, combined with a massively growing socialist/fascist democratic nation-state system has meant massive amounts of debt – and great social instability laughingly known as progress.” Jeff Berwick.
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I completely agree with the above assessment. Anyone who thinks I sound too much like a zealot when I speak of these matters just doesn’t understand the implications of the coming implosion as I do. Perhaps it is a lack of imagination or perhaps it is disbelief on their parts that such a thing could happen. The damned sky is falling and they want me to calmly, dispassionately discuss the ramifications or be quiet?
davidd,
Engaging people with the truth is not silliness. And I just can’t sit back and silently watch them roll around in bovine excrement with each other on these matters without speaking up.
And I could not say the conversation went nowhere. Who knows? Maybe somebody read here for the first time my claim as to what the Federal Income Tax is and what it is used for. Maybe that somebody will look it up and find out I was telling the truth.
[quote=”waggoner41″]
We all know that there are inequities in the tax code but for the most part we still believe in helping our fellow man when it is needed even knowing that a few will gull the system or at least attempt to.
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Inequities in the tax code? The entire tax and the entire system is an inequity.
We can still talk about the beauty of Costa Rica. But that won’t make the boogey man disappear.
[quote=”hakesp”]
The idea that we will get rid of government by not paying taxes and somehow make the world a better place is either extremely naive or sophistry to rationalize tax evasion. [/quote]
Once more, I repeat that I refer strictly to the Federal Income Tax ONLY when I say that tax is a hideous, onerous thieving of our wealth. I refer to no other tax here so please, try to see through your brainwashing. The indoctrination you are suffering through keeps throwing you off the path and into the ditch where you wander around talking about other taxes and other issues rather than the one at hand.
Regarding Social Security; it is apart from the Income Tax and while it is still a forced savings plan, it is at least intended to to be paid out to the contributors while the Income Tax is pure thievery since it all goes to the bankers and the military.
A note; the fact that you have adopted the IRS term “tax evasion” is evidence that you have drunk the kool aid and are unable to see through your conditioning at this point.
EDUCATE YOURSELF AS TO THE DISPOSITION OF THE INCOME TAX REVENUE. It goes towards murdering women and children all across the planet and your compliance with this tax makes you an accessory to the crime.[quote=”waggoner41″
No, I’m not among the walking dead which you would realize if you paid attention. The wealthy and corporate America run the country through congress because the American voter doesn’t have the brass to fight against it…and probably doesn’t know how.
You cry and moan on this forum about what is wrong…what are YOU doing about it?[/quote]
I don’t consider it “crying and whining” by trying to wake up a few people with facts. And I am resisting all this evil with non conformance to the most egregious assaults by the bankers and government. At the very least, I do not participate in the voting joke, I do not celebrate soldiers (who offer themselves as murdering servants) and I practice extreme tax avoidance.
Wagoneer, now YOU are bringing a little comedic relief to this post. Do you really still believe that Congress, through the people, is in charge?
It is not “our congress”. The government belongs to the bankers. The republic is dead and you and so many others are still sleep walking in the american dream clutching your little voting registration cards. It is going to take a bit more than that to effect any change. And THEY know it. That’s why they are working at removing the 2nd amendment.
[quote=”davidd”]WAIT A SECOND
You mean to tell me with all of sprites diatribe… that he does not even live here???? :shock::shock::shock::shock::shock::shock::shock::shock::shock:
then shame on you sprite..
with all your remarks… [size=][size=200][/size][/size] your still sitting back home in the U.S.
typical american
question: who is worse[size=200][b]a person that cannot read… or the person that can read but does NOT read at all???[/b][/size][/quote]
I am an American but i may not be the best judge as how typical I am. I don’t know what you mean by “typical American” anyway.
I spend quite a lot of time in CR. I have also spent time in Cuba and Puerto Rico over the last 40 years. My day to day life experiences living with and among Latinos for the last 30 years in Miami may not be as extensive as my experiences in Costa Rica over the last six years, but we aren’t talking about brain surgery here anyway, are we?
If you find something I have written that is patently incorrect, offensive or just irritating, respond specifically. Show me where I am wrong. Let my inaccuracies serve as a springboard for you to show and share your wisdom with me and the rest of uson all things Costa Rican .
[quote=”agarcia”][quote=”sprite”]This is a good argument for staying away from the herd. Buying into “gated communities” or multi home projects apparently has at least as much risk as buying a single property on your own.[/quote]
You are so wise sprite. Time to walk the walk and actually move to CR instead of just talking about your vast experience. Pura vida Mae.[/quote]
I sense that my posts irritate you since you feel that one should be living full time here in order to have any opinion of value. Sometimes that is the case. Sometimes that is not the case.
