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Living in a beach community like Domincal has a lot of disadvantages. Electricity to run AC and dehumidifiers will kill your monthly income. Tourists swarm and raise prices of everything. If you move into the higher regions between Dominical and San Isidro General you will save a ton of money on electricity, have the ocean close by and be able to get to a city to shop.
As for the massage therapy, if your clients are gringo no one is going to care if you are working “illegally”. But be prepared to charge $20-30 an hour because there are plenty of Ticos who will give a great massage for that price.
Activities? Are you joking? Get them picture books on plants and animals in CR, have them follow leaf cutters. Take them to a ranch, a chicken farm, have them start collections, press leaves, there is so much to do here you can’t run out
Buying used is so dangerous here. There are virtually no laws…you can roll back the odometer, buy damaged flooded or wrecked cars in the US and ship them here. They can even buy cars, cut them in half and ship them down as scrap. Also some US cars can’t be fixed in CR. I would suggest contacting a bunch of realtors and seeing if they know people moving back to the US who want to sell.
Thanks Scott. We were told by our attorney that one board member had to be a CR citizen. Now I am hearing that, if you die, a board member can seize the corporation or at least hold it up. We want to get the attorney off the board of the corporation – good to know that we can do that.
Bringing birds into the country is very difficult. One friend had to quarantine the bird for a full year first!
I agree IM. I was having bone spur and debris removal. However, I have friends who are being treated for cancer here in CR, but at CIMA, not CAJA. For that emergency, CAJA comes in handy but even when we were in a car accident, I elected to go to CIMA. The CAJA hospital the took me to first had corridors lined with gurneys full of people. I decided I didn’t have to fill another gurney when I could afford to go to CIMA.
