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[quote=”costaricabill”]http://www.tripadvisor.com/TravelersChoice-Beaches-cTop-g291958
Trip Advisor announced their 10 best beaches in Central America as voted on by their subscribers, 8 of 10 were in Costa Rica, with Manuel Antonio #1 and Playa Samara #2!
Considering that Manuel Antonio gets about 1,000 times the visitors that Samara gets, I would expect that MA would get the nod, but I think it is great that our little Samara/Carrillo area ranks so high![/quote]
It really isn’t surprising that Costa Rica would have so many pleasant beaches when you look at the long continental shelf along the Pacific coast of Costa RIca compared to the rest of Central America in combination with the climate.
[quote=”pistol”]The total number of deaths in auto accidents in 2011 32,367.Total number of firearm related deaths 31,000 of which 19,000 were suicides, 8,775 murders and 3,225 were justifiable or accidents.[/quote]
Much as I extol the virtues of living in Costa Rica the rate of deaths by firearms in 2007 here was 4.59 per 100,000 compared to 2.97 in the U.S. Average firearms per 100,000 in Costa Rica was 9.9, in the U.S. it was 88.8 per 100,000.
The difference is that in Costa Rica the murders are generally among family members.
[quote=”Sailor”]! would argue, that the current crime situation in Costa Rica, is not entirely a narco situation. Rather, as in all other parts of the world, it has evolved into a two caste system, the haves and the havenots. The crime in Costa Rica is not only land based, it is also sea based. I often sail out of Guancaste on my private sailboat. I have had two instances of attempted boardings while at sea. Unfortunately, for them, I’m retired Special Forces, and my twin ladies, Colt 911, .45s also accompany me at sea. I still often wonder how long it took them to get back to port, with .45 holes in their hulls and their engines![/quote]
Economic disparity is one of the major problems in the U.S. as well.
[quote=”maravilla”]Is the US a narco state? you bet your sweet bippy it is.[/quote]
From Ecuador to the U.S. is there any country that can not be termed a narco state? I don’t think so!
[quote=”Scott”][quote=”waggoner41″][quote=”aguirrewar”] The facts on gun laws in Costa Rica can be found here: http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/costa-rica
Compare that to the U.S.. I am not nearly ready to leave Costa Rica to go back to the U.S.[/quote]
Fantastic link Les, thanks for sharing ….
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Just comparing the laws on weapons here compared to the U.S.
You never know, in the States, when the person next to you is going to pull out a semi-automatic and start shooting up the place.I feel a lot safer here than I would there right now. Out of 16,000 murders over 11,000 committed with guns in the U.S. last year.
Seems like the elected officials with their personal body guards fear the NRA more than they do the number of killings in the general population.
[quote=”ratus”]Greetings all. We have made the plunge and purchased a home in Coco. We have set up a Corp. to transfer title, and on Monday we are going to Banque Nacional to TRY to set up a bank account. We are returning to Canada on April 8th and want to get everything we can done, before that time. We don’t have any status here, and don’t have a Cedulla or have even started the process ( THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A REAL ESTATE SEARCH TRIP…NOT PURCHASE<:) …can we open an account without the Dimex. If we can't what the heck do we do? Seems its getting harder to open an account here?[/quote]
I’ve been here since December 2007 and never bothered with a CR bank account. All of my funds are deposited in my bank in the U.S. and I withdraw as needed through the ATH system here.
In the past we used the ATM system at BCR or BN but changes have required us to use the ATH machines at BAC.
We do have our Residency and Cedulas.
[quote=”aguirrewar”]keep on reading what is REALLY happening in CR
Crime is on the rise
time to leave???[/quote]
The facts on gun laws in Costa Rica can be found here: http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/costa-rica
Compare that to the U.S.. I am not nearly ready to leave Costa Rica to go back to the U.S.
[quote=”VictoriaLST”]Sentient? The advanced definition: “capable of metacognition” And so far, only humans qualify.[/quote]
We are straying far fron the original post but I have to respond to your post…
Try as I might I have been unable to locate an “advanced definition” of sentient.I know what I see when I observe animals and their reaction to loss, fear and pain. These feelings do not involve “metacognition”.
[quote=”orcas0606″] Horse meat is quite commonly sold and eaten by Ticos however it is not advertised as such. If you have eaten chorizo or salchichon criollo in CR you have very likely eaten a pony. With all the informal and undercover slaughter houses and butcher shops (midnight cuatreros)the major problem is a health problem. [/quote]
I have eaten plenty of both chorizo and salchichon and salchichas as well. I don’t have an issue with horse meat being a part of those products.
[quote=”orcas0606″]I am curious to know if horse is commonly eaten in CR, and also if there are any data on the carcinogen/pesticide/hormone level in Tico meat products. Maybe it’s a red herring [fish is good for you!], since Ticos have a comparatively long life span, and breeding does not seem a problem. Or maybe they only sell red meat to gringos?
PEH
[/quote]There is likely no data on carcinogen/pesticide/hormone levels in the meat here.
To answer Maravilla…having been raised on a farm I know from first hand experience that animals, whether domestic or in the wild, do react to pain and fear. I have heard the vocalizations of animals in fear in both situations.
[quote=”costaricafinca”]It is very difficult to get paid for any claim, of items stolen in the course of any robbery, as you have to prove that the building was broken into. Was the garage also insured? Or just the house? We had many tools taken from an adjoining garage and also the motor from a cement mixer, plus other ‘large construction items’ taken from a building site in a separate robbery. They wouldn’t pay.[/quote]
I brought all of my construction tools with me when I moved here. I have many of my power tools on the patio next to the house and others along with my hand tools in a small bodega with an attached apartment about 20 feet from the house in which one of the boys lives.
We have five dogs that alert us when anyone comes around the property even if they are well known friends. There is ALWAYS someone “at home” with the number of persons (12) living here.
I would not depend on an insurance company to make good on anything that might be lost to ladrones of any type.
[quote=”pharg”] News media have fixated on the presence of horse meat as adulterating other more expensive cuts of meat, primarily beef. I’m wondering whether any of this protein dilution goes on in CR. I suspect it does.
Last year I had a 70 Euro dinner in Berlin at the Reichstag (Germany’s legislative building) “cafeteria”. The main course was horse – it was very good, and elegantly served.. Of course, calling the Reichstag restaurant a cafeteria redefines the word. [/quote]The difference is obviously cultural. Americans have been separated from the European culture for too long.
[quote=”pharg”]The media frenzy around horse meat seems to focus on three main objections [depending on whether the reportage is Fox, CNN, or Animal Planet]:
-social/cultural stigmas (the ‘nice horsey’/National Velvet/My Little Pony syndrome); [/quote]Horses and cattle have both been used by the human population as work animals for millennia. I fail to understand why horses have become treated with deference but not cattle.
[quote=”pharg”] -economic fraud (paying for beef, not horse meat; particularly in sausage); [/quote]
This is an issue of fraudulence. If horse meat were sold as such and priced accordingly we might find that horse meat would become more costly. I don’t know what the price of horse meat is in Europe but paying 70 Euros for a meal is not inexpensive.
[quote=”pharg”] -medical/health concerns (a commonly used horse pain killer is carcinogenic in humans). [/quote]
Wild horses are culled in the U.S. on an annual basis. These animals have never seen medication of any kind and I have not heard that they suffer from any disease that would disqualify them as fit for the table.
[quote=”pharg”] To me, the primary objection is the medical/health one, esp. since CR is well known for overuse of agricultural pesticides which inevitably are translocated up the food web. Several regulars on this forum are almost rabid on this topic. Except for reducing red meat consumption and nasty chemicals, I have no problem with horse-as-food.
I am curious to know if horse is commonly eaten in CR, and also if there are any data on the carcinogen/pesticide/hormone level in Tico meat products. Maybe it’s a red herring [fish is good for you!], since Ticos have a comparatively long life span, and breeding does not seem a problem. Or maybe they only sell red meat to gringos? [/quote]
The typical Tico cannot afford red meat in quantity so I doubt that it is much of an issue for them.
[quote=”pharg”]PEH
(BTW, anyone growing up in post-WWII Europe is certain to be well acquainted with the taste of horse meat)
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