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Nice article but is this promoting illegal behavior? What about perpetual tourism?
What if we wrote a artical about living in the U.S. and how everyone can walk across the boarder and live?
Why don’t they shine a light on that subject and say that not everyone can come to live in Costa Rica they have to be legal?Its interesting, I have a client that has a company that is exporting nurses to the U.S.
Many people that come to Costa Rica think that it is a cheap place to live. Then they turn around after six years with a bad taste in their mouths because they can’t work and learning to deal with cultural differences.Personally I like Android and bought a HTC HD2 with Android.
I paid $20.00 to unlock it and it does everything. I have a ton of Ticos ask about it and want me to buy another one to sell them. You can get them on ebay for around 200.00 here that phone would be around $500-600.Well I have seen everything from 1960’s Mustangs to Dodge cobras owned by Ticos. I also have seen many old ones still in the barns.
I am thinking about starting up a biz finding the cars and then shipping them back to the U.S.I have a different experience here! In the last two months I have been working with four ticos and one gringo that were able to get financing with HSBC and some other banks. Rates were really good under 7% and up to 30 years. However here they will only do 80% loans so you have to have the 20% down.
The Tico market is really becoming more like North American in the mortgages and rates are no longer double digits like they used to be. However it is mostly the central valley that they are doing the loans. I have heard that the banks are more reluctant on covering loans on the coast at this time.
Also the only foreigner that they are offering it to is North Americans not Colombians or Venezuelans! I don’t know about EUs?Again, you need more than a add campaign to motivate people… You need money in this culture! Add campaigns help but if you don’t put money into the infrastructure to recycle the trash than what is the use.
Since people here will do anything to get out of paying taxes there is no tax base to put money into these programs.Ok Scott.. I have to laugh you are reaching!!
You really don’t believe that countries like Costa Rica have resources in place that will protect the environment like the U.S. or the U.K? At least in the U.S. they had a system in place and many of them have to be updated!
Sure everywhere I go here in Costa Rica has recycling centers!
Sure here in Costa Rica they have laws in place to prevent waste dumping in rivers and the population follows the laws!
Sure here in Costa Rica they have city sewage plants in all municipalities to accommodated the population.
😀Yes the U.S. has their problems but they went threw this growth back in the 70’s that is why I posted the crying Indian. The U.S. had to change culturally! In the U.S. you have a certain amount of pollution but at least you have laws that try to prevent it. Here in Costa Rica it is still a cultural issue with the Ticos and Latin America.
In Paraguay I was involved in a project where we had to go to the Asuncion city dump and helped people that lived in the dump! We had a 12 year old girl showing us around, she was very proud how they collected the plastic but after that nothing happened to the plastic they just collected them and put them in bags. The country didn’t have money for a recycle plant, they didn’t have money to spend on city water plants..(mostly because they just don’t want to pay taxes) etc. This is normal around the world!
So Scott after seeing the post that you posted.. are you saying that these other countries are far better suited to handle the pollution than the U.S. and the UK?
I am not complaining I am just stating the obvious!
Now if you want to pay higher taxes or give a couple of million to your community for a wast plant than prove me wrong!This is not a new issue here… you have to understand that branding Costa Rica environmentally friendly is just like when they used to have commercials telling Ticos to smile when a tourist drove by. My wife told me back in the 80’s they used to have commercials showing Ticos how to be friendly to tourist. All of this is marketing.. the Ticos don’t care unless it effects their pockets.
As for the pollution…. this is normal around the world! Most other countries don’t have the laws or the standards like the U.S. or some EU countries. Its all about money!!! Does anyone have a couple of billion to give us to clean up the crap here?
If they do I know a couple of Ticos that need some new Jacuzzis! hahahaThe laws have changed in the last couple of years regarding marriage with a Tica. I don’t know if it will have the same impact if his child is a tico. In my case since my wife is Tica and my daughter has been nationalized. It made it much easier to become a resident. We have been married ten years and were married here in CR so all of the paper work is at the NR.
Today if you get married you have to prove with pictures and you have a three year waiting period. I am sure that he will need to have a DNA to prove that it is his child since he is not married to the mother. This will prove that he is indeed the father and will help his case.[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7OHG7tHrNM]Indian Crying on youtube[/url]
I had to show this to my wife and she laughed because she know that here it wouldn’t work.For us Tican is a Tica Gringa and for me a Gringo Tico..
My wife a Tica native became a Gringa a year ago and I a Gringo Native became a PR this year.I live in La Carpentara in Tres Rios, I asked my mother in-law where the water goes after we flush the toilet… she replied down the road and into the river of course…hahahaha
Of course I have always said this, Costa Rica is a environmentally friendly country just don’t look behind the bushes you might find a refrigerator or two…hahahahah
And why is it that when ever you look at the rivers in town that they look like a trash dump?I always remember the old T.V. commercials with the Indian crying back in the states… Here you can imagine the ticos laughing as they are pitching their tires off the bridge..hahahaha
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From your previous posts you have explained that you are an American citizen and NOT a Tico so some people might suggest that using the username of ‘TicoRealtor’ is a little deceptive but…, forgetting the fact that you are NOT a Tico or a Realtor for a moment let’s look at a few more of your outrageous statements? [/quote]My situation is that I have been married to a Tica for ten years and have moved to Costa Rica about 6 months ago for family reasons. We have been traveling back and forth over the years and if I added all the time in costa rica it would be over 3 or more years total. If you add all the time that I have been in Latin America since 1984 it would be a lot!!! My wife has all of her family here in Costa Rica, none in the U.S.! We live in a normal Tico house with a suicide shower and a tin roof! I am now a resident and since my wife and my three year old daughter is Costa Rican nationals this makes it more valid. We didn’t move here for selfish reason just only to be next to family and had to make some tough choices. Since we moved back here to Costa Rica I have started working the the real estate market which I used to do in Minnesota before I was activated for the last seven years in the U.S. Air Force and then retired this last January.
We understand Scott that it is at the utmost importance for you to keep the light shinning on the good things that Costa Rica has to offer (since that is how you make your money)… but the light is much dimmer when you have to work here legally and live the normal life! You are doing a dis service to your clients and the people in this post if you don’t give them the cons as well. Public schools here are terrible, Public health is incredible for the standards of [b]Central America[/b]. If you asked any Tico if they would want to go to the U.S. for health service, I would have to say that 90% of them would say yes as long as they didn’t have to pay the bill. (of course they would also go shopping) Even the Ticos will tell you that. You can pull all of the stats out but as we all know stats can be miss leading.
However Yes, I do agree that the jobs are coming here and if you are [b]legal[/b] to work this is the place to be. I have checked out the job fairs and it is crazy to see all the big companies that are here. I even had a client that is the Jefe of HP and he said that they want to be at 9,000 employees here in Costa Rica by the next couple of years!
The issue is you have to be [b]Legal[/b]! They won’t even look at you until you have your residential ID in hand! (try going to Amazon, HP, Intel with out a residential ID, they will say come back after you get it) I believe this is the way it should be because they are protecting the Ticos!By the way my [b]wife[/b] says I am a Gringo Tico! My daughter is a Gringa Tica and my wife is a Tica Gringa! Are you a Tico Scott?
“I’m assuming that all “higher educated” gringos send their kids to public schools in the US do they? Now that is a “laugh”!” Yes they do (not all but most)!… and a lot of low income people send their kids to private schools! In Minnesota we had one of the best school systems in the U.S. and most people that high income and educated would send their kids to the public schools. But here in Costa Rica no one with the money would send them to the public schools!
I can tell you that the bubble of a easy life here in Costa Rica is not the same when you have to work for a living here.
I know this because I am living proof, my situation is that we moved back for family reasons since my wife is a Tica.
In the last ten years the price of living here has gone crazy and there are a lot of jobs if you are bi lingual however the pay is far lower than you would be used too. A couple of weekends ago they had a job fair which my wife and I attended. You had all of the major players there but all of them asked are you legal to work here. They would not even look at you if you didn’t have your cedula.
Education… that is a laugh unless you have the money to pay for private education you will have your kids trapped in a system where they don’t have money to pay for books. Higher educated Ticos will always spend thousands of dollars a year for their kids to go to bi lingual private schools. The lowest price pre kinder class here is about 300 hundred a month. My wife will not allow our daughter to go to the public school here because they are so bad.
Health care… again… if you are thinking North American Standards for the public health care get ready for a big adjustment. If you live in a small town near a large population of gringos like Athens maybe you will have it better but in the Central Valley its a lot different.
In any country life is different when you are a visitor.. living in a country for a month or so and not having to depend on the normal lifestyle like the nationals is far different than working and living there full time.
