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There are alternative ways of treating cancer through nutrition and diet. Naturopath
and Board-Certified Clinical Nutritionist David Getoff might be able to help you.
He is located outside of San Diego and acquaintances have had very good results with him for all kinds of ailments, so I would try him for the Lyme disease as well.http://www.naturopath4you.com/ca.htm
http://www.naturopath4you.com/IfYouHaveCancer.htmI have also heard that cancer cannot survive in an alkaline body. There are water purifiers that change the tap water into alkaline that you can try, and also by changing your diet.
Just passing on things I’ve heard works, but I also know how overwhleming it can be when you have a health condition and every single person you meet throws their solutions at you, so look into it if you want and try it if it makes sense to you. I know I would prefer changing my diet to invasive medical treatment if it was me! Specially since it sounds like there isn’t really any for the special type of cancer that your wife has.
Best of luck!
I think the word that gets around is that you have a gun, and now they have one more thing to steal from you. I think that if more people have guns in their houses, more thieves will find those guns when the owners are not there and then they too will be armed. And if a home owner stands across from a criminal and you both hold guns who do you think will hesitate longer before they shoot? I think the criminal will be faster and more accurate because they came prepared to do that and may have done it before, while the home owner was startled and may hesitate longer… I just think it’s a bad idea all around, at least so far it’s fairly harmless crime, and not too many people are getting hurt.
Imxploring, be careful with that gun, I read in the news not too long ago that they imprisoned someone who had shot a home invader dead, even though it was in self defense. The same thing happened to a few people who stabbed a person breaking into their car.
In a way I’m starting to think that maybe the new immigration law is preventing us from experiencing some traumatic things down there…
On the other hand you really have to put things into perspective… When you look around your house and count up the monetary value of what they can take, is it really more worth than a life? Even if that happens to be a low-life. If I can easily afford to replace a couple of stereo components and a laptop, then maybe that is a cheap price for living in paradise? Here in the states I’m more scared of getting my social security number and identity stolen, much harder to fix!
Regarding dogs; from what I’ve heard the Ticos don’t view them as pets/family members the way we do, and they don’t like dogs that much, and they think it’s barbaric to let dogs in the house etc… So seen through that light I can understand why they don’t offer condolences to those of you who have lost dogs. My heart goes out to you!
Artist status residency can only be gotten for max 9 months to a year.
I heard another attorney in San Jose very much doubts the new law will go into effect for years and probably modified if it does. He says he thinks it is an over reaction to the influx from neighboring countries and they are accidentally throwing out North Americans with the bath water…
Let’s just hope it doesn’t happen.
I too have heard that Costa Ricans probably won’t want to trade in gold… you might want to make sure you will be able to sell them at some point in the future, unless they are really purely collectibles.
And hearing about all the home break ins, I have a hard time enough trying to figure out how to protect my laptop against theft down there, not for the value of the thing, but for the files on it. How long do you think you will be able to hold on to the gold coins? Where will you hide them once you are down there? This doesn’t sound well thought through…
Maybe you can qualify for the tourism investment category, I think you need to make a $50K investment, but would also like to know what other requirements are necessary.
You might need to hire a certain number of Costa Ricans.I also wonder if there is a problem with including the purchase of the land if you live on part of it in your personal residence?
I don’t think you can sponsor a spouse though, and that makes it complicated if both spouses have to have their own separate business.
I wonder if you need a business plan and feasibility study etc… or if you will need to prove income from the business in order to keep the residency. Who knows how much tourism will continue in the next few years…?
Sorry, I have more questions about it than answers.
Maravilla, how can you get residency as an artist? What are the requirements? Where can I read more about that? I’m an artist as well…
Here is what Javier Zavaleta at Residency in Costa Rica had to say in an email to me last night: “While there is no provision in the changes to grandfather-in existing residents or those individuals whose applications had been filed prior to the effective date of the law (Note that there is no effective date, the law is still at the committee level, is not final at all) — I digress– I was informed by our attorney that it is unconstitutional in Costa Rica for a law to be enacted and applied retroactively. So, as long as the applications are filed prior to the law going into effect, you’ll be fine.
The same principle applies for the renewal; of carnets: if your application for residency was approved under the current, in effect now, rules and regulations, then when it becomes time to renew then it will be renewed under the exact same terms and conditions that were in effect at the time of your approval.. Thus, any changes enacted after the applications are filed will not affect your carnets.–provided, of course, that the apps are filed before the date the new changes go into effect.”
So that’s good news, we will just hope we get our application in before it goes into effect. Zavaleta was guessing it would take at least 4-5 months. Too bad we’ll probably loose a lot on the value of that money over the next 5 years… oh, well, at least we get to live where we want to live.
Imx: Maybe they are trying to cherry pick people, maybe they are just like most Ticos, thinking all Americans have unlimited funds…
I know I couldn’t spend $5000/month here in the States if I tried…
No, I can’t make it under the new law, but I’m not certain that people who apply before it goes into effect will be affected at renewal…
From the AM Costa Rica article:
“Several were livid that those who already live here would have to meet the new requirements the next time they have to renew their residencies. They thought they had some legal claim to a grandfather clause. The draft law does not create a safe harbor for these people, although the courts might. The draft says they must meet the requirements in “the present law.” The phrase is a bit ambiguous, but the draft seems to be talking about the new law when it goes into effect.”I read the article again and I agree with the journalist that it is ambiguous to refer to the “present” law. I would argue that the “present” law is the one we have now, not the future law being proposed. Of course I don’t know what it says in the original Spanish text. Here it is in La Gaceta: http://historico.gaceta.go.cr/2008/10/COMP_27_10_2008.pdf
On Topic: How long until the new immigration law could go into effect? In case they do approve this law, would we have a bit of heads up before it goes into effect?
What has been the experience as to timeframe when new laws have been passed in the past?
(Although, I would think it’s more likely that they will have to come up with at least a modified version of the law, with say $3000/month requirement for rentistas.)
I’m just about to make the move over the next few months, so this could be a huge deal breaker for us! Even if we apply before the new law goes into effect, we would not be sure that we would be granted renewal… then how can we safely buy land and build a house? All plans go up in the air with such uncertainty. There’s already so much uncertainty with the dollar potentially going down next year, and inflation hitting from all those printed new money all over the world. I’m worried if we put that $120K into the bank in Costa Rica, it will loose value in there, and we will not be able to live off the $2000 a month cause inflation has eaten up the value. Maybe the new law takes the coming inflation into account cause they know it will happen?
Hi Sprite,
For those of us who are just about to move to Costa Rica, what do you think, if civil unrest broke out, would it be hard for us to leave the states?I’m running into some delays with documents and need to stay a little longer than expected… don’t want to get stuck here last minute…
I read in that news today that 4 different people had been captured with plans to kill Obama on election night. I’ve heard those kinds of rumors for a while now… Just hypothetically, *if* that was to happen, I suppose civil unrest might break out?
On a very selfish level I’m wondering if they might close down the borders in that case?
I’m in the last phases of planning our move and need a little more time here in the states but don’t want to get stuck here last minute!What are your thoughts?
Well, we can leave the stuff with a friend for it to be picked up there, so I hope it will work out.
Really? I’m not that familiar with the Tico ways yet… You can bring cookies to the bank? How sweet!! I love it. I’ll bake some of my own!
