Posted September 23rd, 2008 by Christopher Howard
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
As the belts are tightened in the United States and elsewhere, more eyes turn to Costa Rica as a cheap place to live and retirement. The first question usually is what is the cost of living there. And there is no easy answer.
Retirees range from the person squeaking by on [...]
Posted September 22nd, 2008 by Christopher Howard
The answer is, “Yes.” But it depends completely on your lifestyle.
Once you settled and know all of the ins and outs about how to save money it is possible to live very cheaply. For sure you will live a whole lot better on the same amount of money here than you would live in the [...]
Posted September 21st, 2008 by Christopher Howard
Lately, a lot of space has been devoted in the media to the economic melt down in the U.S. People there do have reason to be alarmed. The situation is downright scary.
I don’t know what it is but I really feel removed form the whole thing living in Costa Rica. All of the events seem [...]
Posted September 19th, 2008 by Christopher Howard
The growing popularity of Costa Rica as one of the most popular retirement havens in the world has given birth to an industry of retirement related businesses.
The first being retirement tours. When I started in the retirement tour business almost 30 years ago there were no retirement tours in Costa Rica. There wasn’t even a [...]
Posted September 18th, 2008 by Christopher Howard
Recently I have been having some allergy related problems. I have always suffered form chronic Rhinitis even when I lived in the States. I hard a great nose, ear and throat specialist in California by the name of Harry Sperling. He was absolutely the best around and kept my recurring problem under control.
After I moved [...]