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Psychosis: a loss of contact with reality, usually including false beliefs about what is taking place or who one is (delusions)…..know thyself.
Type A personalities must suffer horribly in Costa Rica.
I have read a few posts here a while ago from people who settled in that area and moved to the central valley later. The complaint was that they were having to drive all the way to San Jose too often for certain services and goods not available in the area and it became tiresome.
I think we all know that we usually get what we pay for. Years ago when I was shopping around for a property, I noticed that Puriscal real estate seemed cheap. Of course it was. Puriscal was rural and lacked a certain degree of infrastructure. There were notably fewer trees as well. It reminded me a bit of Guanacaste where land was cleared for cattle.
I bought a property in the San Ramon, Palmares area and paid a bit more than I might have in Puriscal. But there are good roads, lots of trees, clinics and a higher level of infrastructure in the San Ramon area. Things change, though. Who knows what things will look like in ten years?
San Ramon and Palmares are the two larger towns that I know well enough. As long as the economy does not crash to horrid levels of desperation, I see no big “warts” in either place. Both towns are quite nice by Latin American standards.
Let me add that I do not walk about anywhere, including the United States, well after hours. I am a homebody. I socialize, travel and do activities in daylight. I do home chores and sleep at night. Short of total societal breakdown and war, life style is the biggest factor in any assessment of quality of life as pertains to geography and culture. I suspect that with a proper life style, one could even do tolerably well in a more fascist United States, as it is quickly becoming, as long as one is far removed from cities.
There most certainly are things which cannot and should not be owned by any moral standard in any culture. Human beings should not be considered as property by others, for example. The exclusive use of a dwelling by an individual or the exclusive use ofyour own body is only temporary and NOT eternal ownership. But buying and owning land in perpetuity is as immoral as owning any human expression or patenting a human quality.
Give up on this one. You may find a legal argument for your position, but you won’t find a logical or moral defense.
Ownership of ideas is as absurd and evil as ownership of DNA or of human beings. Only brainwashed slaves who have had their self respect stolen from them believe in this nonsense of the sanctity of copyright and patent law. This stuff was created by predator elites to steal the wealth, freedom and humanity from their victims.
If you choose to worry about this, go right ahead. I have so many more important matters to consider. Deciding which color pants to wear today, for example, is more important to me and will probably have more consequence attached.
The IRS is all about population control and wealth confiscation via harassment and fear. Sometimes it seem that the money is not even the real issue for them. Sometimes, it seems it is just the forceful imposition of timely reporting regulations upon an enslaved population to harass and teach obedience.
The Internet is the commons, la plaza central… It is the public arena FOR COMMUNICATION. If you put anything there, it is public property. Leave your privacY, your “business” and what you consider your private property at home where it belongs…. Unless you want to share it at no cost to others.
The Internet is too important to turn over to people who want to commercialize it as they have done to do many other human needs. I hope one day we can rid ourselves of this monetary system which enslaves nearly everyone.
Is the value of the offshore asset (real estate) assessed by a sales invoice, or by what has been reported to the Costa Rican government for property taxes?
How could any of us know how long social security will last? I am unsure as to how long the US dollar will last. Fifteen years is a long time in the context of what is happening right now.
Ha!…I think it’s December 21st, winter equinox. Go ahead and plan accordingly if you like. Personally, I have never paid much attention to beliefs of primitive cultures or else I would have become a christian or a Muslim. But just in case, I am going to start drawing my social security as soon as I can before the checks are totally worthless.
I can explain in relative detail a a couple of yet non-existent events quite convincingly based on the outcomes of previous existent events;
1. If you jump or fall out of a hundred story high window, naked, onto the pavement below, you will break at least several major bones, suffer major organ failures and die before you can bleed to death.
2. If your central bank prints and creates 23 trillions of dollars in a short time period to back up losing derivative bank bets ..and the world central bank does the same to the tune of 600 trillion dollars, you will get to see a major world depression preceded by hyper inflation which will turn your social security check into a piece of inferior toilet paper.
How’s that for accuracy and detail?
Tourists are welcomed by the government along with a short list of rules for behavior while in country. Resident applicants have a longer list. If you want happy, welcoming, inviting commercial web sites where a false picture of a paradise is painted for your consumption, there are plenty of those for Costa Rica prepared for you by sales people who have something to sell to you..
Face it, as Americans, we are not going to be loved and honored everywhere we go. I look at moving to Costa Rica as a favor granted to me by Costa Rica, not the other way around. I don’t need to be welcomed. Just being accepted is quite enough. Perhaps this attitude is the difference between the Ugly American and the quiet expat who has managed to blend in and be accepted by his new home.
