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Anecdotal evidence and stats will never paint a true picture of crime. It seems to me to that the likelihood of becoming a victim of crime is dependent very much upon personal behavior and subjective decisions of day to day life. Walk in a park at night in any big city and the odds for becoming a victim increase. Get on any bus at the wrong place and at the wrong time and you may get robbed. I suspect it is possible to have enough situational awareness
to be able to avoid crime in CR. Maybe the stat you need is the one that tells you who has not experienced crime and how their behavior differs from those who have.It took me over five years of daily, hard study and a substantial investment in software to be able to successfully day trade on line. Even so, I have learned that this is not something anyone can do as it takes an inordinate amount of self discipline and self confidence on a daily basis. There is no coasting with this as some online businesses claim to offer. Each day is an effort.
I strongly suspect that most online businesses are going to involve a good deal of effort and time. On the other hand, what of value does not?
he goal of living in Costa Rica and being independent from social security or pension pay-outs is a vital one in my opinion. I do not think it is wise to rely on any entitlement considering the shaky state of the dollar and the world economy.
What terrorists?! The U.S. is backing Al Qaida in Syria just as in other conflicts. Al Qaida is a C.I.A. asset. It is a C.I.A. creation. It is so discouraging to see so many adults with the critical thinking capacity of 5 year olds buying into such obvious government propaganda.
[quote=”sweikert925″][quote=”sprite”]more people have been killed by democide (death by government) than any other cause including pandemics and all diseases. .[/quote]
That is proposterous and quite obviously wrong. As we speak there are hundreds of thousands – maybe millions – of people are dying of diseases.Prove it.
You’re telling us that most of the 7 billion people alive today will die as a result of “democide”? Of all of the people you have known that are now dead, what percentage died of “democide”?
Look up the numbers. Death by government is no small thing.
[quote=”sprite”]While anything is possible, only a limited number of happenings are probable. [/quote]
Precisely. The things you are utterly convinced are probable simply aren’t.[/quote]Prove it.
Sweikert,
Here is a little factoid for you; more people have been killed by democide (death by government) than any other cause including pandemics and all diseases. It is not paranoid to fear government, any government. It is prudent.
And here is a bit of grammatical logic which seems to have escaped your attention; there is a difference between “possible” and “probable”. While anything is possible, only a limited number of happenings are probable. History is filled with and is defined by conspiracies. The idea that wealthy, powerful individuals might get together to consolidate their wealth and power is not only possible, it is probable. And you are one of the majority of sleeping worker bees who make it possible for the few elites to get their way. Wake up.
A lot of people have been brainwashed into quickly labeling as nut jobs those of us who talk about what is really happening. They won’t even see what hits them AS IT HITS THEM.
We are straying too far from the thread already. Your question about nations hollowed out by the rich would require a long answer with historical references. Suffice to say that most larger nations throughout history have been hollowed at one point in time.
Motives for moving to Costa Rica are as varied as the people doing it, I am sure. And leaving a sinking ship is not the only reason I am doing so. But the original poster of this thread has been facing some frustration on the subject of immigrating to CR as a working individual with a family. I forgot to ask him about his motive(s) for moving to Costa Rica.
So you consider Costa Rica to be a superior place to live than the United States? I do but I have listed my reasons for this.
Moving to another country is no small step for most people. If things were great in the U.S., I probably would not want to leave except for extended vacations. Is that what your intentions are…an extended vacation? Or perhaps do you sense that things are coming apart at the seams in the States?Regarding the sir names of the rich and powerful in the US, remember that concentrated wealth has no national borders. The wealthy move around a lot, I suspect for safety concerns..and they fight with each other often enough using common people for cannon fodder in their wars of acquisition. Right now, there are numerous reports of wealthy and powerful US citizens buying large tracts of land in South America. The Bush family purchased a huge tract of land in Paraguay recently. It was a significant expenditure even for them. Was it just a financial investment? Or are the rats leaving the sinking ship as they have throughout history after they have sucked dry the host nation?
A long time ago, shortly after the American Revolution, the same rich, white land owners that wrote the constitution excluding women, blacks, natives and poor whites from the rights they wanted for themselves set to work to establish and continue their blood lines’ hegemony over the new country. They replaced the king.
Over the years, the wealth from the labor percolated upwards into fewer and fewer hands until we are unhappily where we are today. It sickens me every time I hear those tired old propaganda lines from the past about opportunity, the American Dream and American Exceptionalism.
Some people are blessed with excellent critical thinking capacity and they wake up early in life to these lies. It takes many others of us almost a lifetime to wake up and see through the BS. Many more others never wake up and serve to perpetuate the Big Lie onto the next generation.
Why do you want to leave the United States? I know why I need to leave and I have said so here enough times. But you seem to still be asleep and dreaming that American lie…so why do you want to leave?
[quote=”sweikert925″][quote=”sprite”]..you may wonder why it is so difficult to relocate and stay in Costa Rica.[/quote]
Costa Rica is, as I understand it, actually one of the easier countries for foreigners to apply to live in as legal residents.
[quote=”sprite”]The U.S. permits almost anybody to move within its borders and stay.[/quote]
Not quite. The US permits only a selected quota from each country to apply for residency in the US and only after a fairly rigorous application process. The reason there are so many Mexicans residing in the US illegally is that [url=http://blog.al.com/breaking/2011/07/14_million_mexicans_waiting_to.html]as of 2010, there were 1.4 million Mexicans waiting to legally immigrate into U.S., and only 65,600 were allowed in.[/url] Most of the Mexicans here illegally came in on tourist visas and then didn’t go back. [It’s a similar story for almost all potential immigrants from other countries but the numbers from Mexico dwarf those of the others].[i]”To emigrate [to the US] is a very complicated process; it takes a lot of time, and it takes a lot of money,” Rubio said. “Because of a close to 20-year backlog for residents of Mexico, people don’t feel like they have 20 years to wait in line”. [/i]
Some may complain about the long wait for getting Costa Rican residency – but you are allowed to reside there legally while the process unfolds (unlike the US) and the wait is nowhere near what it is for those wanting to get US residency. From the article cited above:
[i]There are no limits on the number of visas for immediate family of U.S. citizens. That is defined as spouses, minor children or parents. And that process takes [b]only about a year[/b], experts said. [/i]
And that’s for immediate family members of US citizens![/quote]
The U.S. does not require that most applicants for residency be able to show that they bring special skills to the country. It is merely a quota system based on sheer numbers and little else. Wage slaves who will drive down salaries and the cost of doing business (and living standards) is what is being sought by the elites in the US. And even that quota system is systematically ignored to hasten the process. Every decade or so, amnesty is declared and undocumented immigrants are permitted to stay.
From my perspective, there is a different attitude coming from official Costa Rican immigration policy towards U.S citizens because they are dealing with the exact reverse of what the U.S. is looking at. And I suspect that sooner or later, the U.S. government, if allowed to, will begin even harsher restrictions on US citizens leaving the country with
any wealth.[quote=”sprite”]Here is my take on this;
If you are a citizen of the U.S., as am I, you may wonder why it is so difficult to relocate and stay in Costa Rica. The U.S. permits almost anybody to move within its borders and stay. Cheaper labor is mostly the rationale behind this.Costa Rica gets all its cheaper labor (and more than it needs) from Nicaragua AND makes a sincere effort to protect its citizens from losing relatively good paying jobs to foreigners…unlike the U.S.
You want to move to a country where your worth to that country is measured in how many dollars you can bring to its economy. You weren’t born there so you have to be reasonable. What can you bring to that economy that they cannot get from their own citizenry. For many of us, we can bring retirement dollars without taking anything from the economy. If you cannot do that, then you must find a way to bring to that economy something it cannot already get from its own people.[/quote]
Here is my take on this;
If you are a citizen of the U.S., as am I, you may wonder why it is so difficult to relocate and stay in Costa Rica. The U.S. permits almost anybody to move within its borders and stay. Cheaper labor is mostly the rationale behind this.Costa Rica gets all its cheap labor (and more than it needs) from Nicaragua AND makes a sincere effort to protect its citizens from losing relatively good paying jobs to foreigners…unlike the U.S.
You want to move to a country where your worth to that country is measured in how many dollars you can bring to its economy. You weren’t born there so you have to be reasonable. What can you bring to that economy that they cannot get from their own citizenry. For many of us, we can bring retirement dollars without taking anything from the economy. If you cannot do that, then you must find a way to bring to that economy something it cannot already get from its own people.
If you are a citizen of the U.S., as am I, you may wonder why it is so difficult to relocate and stay in Costa Rica. The U.S. permits almost anybody to move within its borders and stay. Cheaper labor is mostly the rationale behind this.
Costa Rica gets all its cheap labor (and more than it needs) from Nicaragua AND makes a sincere effort to protect its citizens from losing relatively good paying jobs to foreigners…unlike the U.S.
You want to move to a country where your worth to that country is measured in how many dollars you can bring to its economy. You weren’t born there so you have to be reasonable. What can you bring to that economy that they cannot get from their own citizenry. For many of us, we can bring a retirement dollars without taking anything from the economy. If you cannot do that, then you must find a way to bring to that economy something it cannot already get from its own people.
[quote=”pebo1″]You’re right this is not the US so Net speeds for the price don’t compare nor do the prices of cars! This is CR.
I think you can purchase satellite feed for the speeds you seek albeit likely very expensive.[/quote]
Hmmm. not happy if that is my only option. I have heard horror stories about satellite. I guess my day dream about laying in a hammock by my waterfall and simultaneously zipping through cyberspace at lightning speed ain’t gonna happen for while.
Maybe I should just unplug and listen to the exotic birds and the falling water.
