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Great posts. More sincere than all the positive, but not so sincere stuff I have read on most sites with information on Costa Rica. I am living in Spain, visited Costa Rica in September (2006) with my wife. My wife´s native language is spanish and I speak it fluently after 7 years in Spain. My wife looks like a tica. We visited Costa Rica to check whether it would be a good place for us to live. After so many positive stories from friends we thought this could be a nice country for us to live in. After 8 days some very bad guys (2 men and 1 woman in a car) started following us in our car (rental, Budget). It was a Thursday afternoon in September in Escazu, close to the big mall there. First we thought we were paranoid. At 4pm with daylight and much traffic this was crazy we thought. But they didn´t let us go. It was wild 30 minute chase, close to our hotel they managed to pinch our right back tyre, but that was only 1 minute away from our hotel in La Sabana. We were lucky, nothing happened, they chased us till the hotel parking space, which was very secure to our luck. Not a very pleasant experience and I think this was no coincidence, the security issue is a real BIG worry for anyone considering living in Costa Rica. After this incident we inmediately booked a flight back home and are now warning everybody on the risks of visiting Costa Rica. Just wanted to post this, because we are e.g. not in the statistics of crimes in Costa Rica, simply because I didn´t feel like searching 4 days for 1 of the 20 policemen (and 5 police cars (if they work)) they suposedly have in San Jose. Sorry to sound negative, I am a very positive guy, but I can´t stand reading all the one-sided positive information on Costa Rica. This is not good for people trying to decide whether they could live in CR 🙂 Best regards from Barcelona, Spain!

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