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[quote=”soflodoug”]Marriage, When are you guys gonna learn? You marry a 3rd world pauper, what do you expect? They are laughing at you for being a sucker. It sounds like you have a lousy lawyer too. You need to grow some balls buddy, and remember, these women are attractive ad fun to frolic with, but nothing more, have a good time and then say hasta la vista.
Good luck.I guess you never was married to a Gringa! I am married to one of those 3rd world paupers that you talk about and I am sure she is higher educated than you are. We have been married for ten years and I would never would never change my situation.
I guess you never was married to a Gringa! I am married to one of those 3rd world paupers that you talk about and I am sure she is higher educated than you are. We have been married for ten years and I would never would never change my situation.
Well to tell you the truth, more than likely you will never venture into the bad part of town. You will more than likely go to Escazu or areas like that.
San Jose is like any major city and you can get mugged. My mother in-law a tica has been mugged a couple of times but she is now approaching 70 years old. So if you look at the odds thru her whole life that isn’t bad. I think if you were like in Kansas city or New York you would have been mugged many more times that she would have been. You probably won’t be taking the bus, so that will also cut down on your chances. A couple of weeks ago my mother in-law was on a bus and seen a mugging going on and the bus driver would not stop.
I think your friend would also be a little more crazier for living in Nicaragua because that is a far more dangerous place than CR. Managua is by far more dangerous that San Jose, I know that the U.S. Embassy will also agree with that statement.
Again just be smart and you won’t have any problems, just like everyone has been saying don’t run around looking like Mr T and you will have less of a chance of being mugged.
Also leave the Jag in Miami and you won’t get car jacked![quote=”guru”]The home described (shack with ventilated walls and floors) is not unusual in rural Costa Rica. So you can expect jail to be just a LITTLE better.[/quote]
Thats funny, my wife grew up right down town San Jose and lived in a old horse barn. Wood floors and thin plywood for walls.
Its just another article about the similarities of the world. The difference is if he was put in jail here in the U.S. it would have been a nicer place with TV and better food!:P
GL can you give us some more information on the hotels that you picked and the route that you took?
Also how was the experience pulling a trailer there?
Yes, I am currently checking out the rout to CR from Minnesota.
My wife and I are thinking about driving our SUV down and shipping the other car.
When we make the trip the first thing that I will do is give the RSO in the embassy’s a heads up where and when we will be traveling thru.What they need to do is open the doors so you don’t have to use a importer. Just pay the taxes! On the goverment web site it only shows the transactions but does not give you the amount of estimated for your car. We called the Hensia but they said we have to go thru the importers and they will give us the amount. So we will probebly have to do it the old fasion way. Ask the brother in-laws.
[quote=”twinzor1″] YOU don’t get to “approve” religious practices; only government entities like China and Iran, and loose affiliations like the Taliban have that privilege. [/quote]
I think you better add Mecca Saudi Arabia to that list. I would have to say they are at the top since they confiscate all Christian bibles at the airport when you land.
[quote=”2BNCR”]Culture versus religion,
I assume you are saying that the majority of Muslims are uneducated and are led to belive in an extreme view of Islamic law that supercedes national or regional law.
Culture and religion: one and the other are not necessarily the same.[/quote]
Why would you assume education has anything to do with this topic? extreme views of Islamic law does not mean they are uneducated. In fact what we think extreme is would be the normal in a sharia state. The notion that most U.S. Americans have is that the true Muslims (extremist if you will)come from camel farms and live in tents. Well you are wrong, most are highly educated and know exactly what they are doing. Some are even educated in the U.S. and have degrees from U.S. university’s and collages.
The other issue that Culture and religion are not the same is where most people in the world that are not Muslim can’t understand. In the Muslim worlds they are the same, the Koran dictates your culture! Why do you think that the conflicts start? How about when a Muslim taxi driver in Minnesota refuses to allow a dog or wine in his taxi or when a Target cashier will not scan pork. Its the same reason why in the middle east a burger king will close down during prayer time, sharia law dictates it!
You will not understand it because you have not been to the true Islamic state and that is where all Muslims must aspire to be. When they make their way to Mecca they understand what their true religion is about.
Just recently I was at a community pool in the Midwest with my children. I noticed a lot of women with head dresses, it reminded me of when I was in Saudi in the 90s and I vowed that I would never want my children to grow up in that kind of society. Well now it Sharia law is starting to creep into our lives, little by little!
I ask any of the members in this posting to ask their friends that are Muslim, two questions.
1.) are you shia or shuni
2.) how was your experience to Mecca?[quote=”2BNCR”]99.9 percent of them or more are peaceful people. [/quote] You have never been to the middle east? I guess you have maybe never been to Saudi Arabia where Mecca is? Well they believe they are peaceful until Wednesday comes around and they chop off peoples heads for not obeying sharia law.
You might only be around the 10 percent that is peaceful! I have seen in South America where Muslim’s believe in having South American women as wifes only to produce children and then send the children back to their countries after they are of age to learn the true Muslim ways.
What we see here in the west is just the beginning see what happens to the UK in the next couple of years. Look at Russia and ask them about the children at Beslan and if the Muslim culture is peaceful!
If you really believe that Islam is peaceful pick up the Koran and read it you will be astonished. I have and was!
[code]If the Ticos you know are from families of middle class and above they have a definite head start and their parents can afford private schools.[/quote]/code]
I don’t think my wife was included in this group.
She was born and raised in the middle of San Jose and went to the oldest all girls school in the country in the middle of SJ.My wife graduated in the top of her class and received a Masters in Economics. She had to pay for private English classes at Britz and the British institute. She also had to teach herself how to read English because all of the collage books were in English.
You are right about most of the schools in that they are over crowded and so on. But this also makes the kids work harder. They don’t get spoiled and think that everyone should have a football dome in every school.
The most important idea that needs to come out of this discussion is that people have to understand that Ticos are not dumb and if someone is lucky enough to work in CR they will be competing with people that have collage degrees and in many cases over qualified for the jobs that they are applying for.
Currently my wife and I are planning for the near future. Meaning before August..hahaha I am retiring from the Air Force and have been working in a Embassy in South America. We are moving all of our stuff from the states and sending it to Tres Rios. We have a house there and my wifes mother lives there as well. Since my mother in-law is getting up in age and our daughter is turning three it will be perfect timing to make the move now.
As for a biz, well my wifes family own their own biz and have had it for a long time. If you get your drivers lic in San Jose you more than likely have had your doctors visit done by them. My wifes family incorporated about nine years ago and it was the funniest thing. One of the brothers became the president and the other was the vis pres. Of course the strongest son was the president..hahahaha
If you are willing to lower your standards of life such as owning the big house and live in a Tico home you can get by on the local economy. I still believe that Costa Rica has a good future because of the possibility on the horizon and also the momentum and pr work that the country has done. Compared to the rest of Central America they have the highest rate of educated people. I think alot of gringos have the misconception that Central and South Americans are some what dumber of them or that they don’t have the high education as the U.S. Well they are mistaken.
After talking to the CR counselt on this one, they said if you can prove that you have been married longer than the 3 years you will not have problem applying for perm status. My situation I have been married for 8 year and was married in CR so at the registry we have our marriage license.
I am married to a Tica as well and have been for 8 years. It is a whole different ball game for us. Once you get to Costa Rica you can start working as soon as you get the permit which you can do in a day. At this moment it is a great opportunity because of the demand for Bi-lingual here is high. Here is the last job fair that was done and many employers are using head hunters. I have started applying to a couple already. [url=http://jobfaircr.wordpress.com/empresas-reclutando/]Job fair[/url]
But again remember Costa Rica needs to protect their jobs and these jobs are high demand. We need to respect the laws and don’t give the impression that just anyone can come to CR and start up shop. You will be competing with people that are highly educated (many have Phd or Masters). But they do open the doors if you are married to a Costa Rican.
