What’s the “Real Costa Rica.”
The dictionary defines Reality as “the state of things as they actually exist.”
Let’s look what’s real in Costa Rica
- Fantastic year-round weather
- Excellent health care
- A myriad of activities to stay busy and happy
- Many real estate options and living situations taking all lifestyles into consideration.
- The country’s stellar international reputation
- Friendly people
- Good and bad highway
- A user-friendly country for Americans, Canadians and Europeans
- The only country in Latin America with a Resident’s Association to assist foreign residents
- Some crime but nothing in comparison to neighboring countries like Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. Panama and Nicaragua also have crime.
- Bad traffic in and around San José. The country is working on improving the roads and reducing traffic
- The most democratic country in Latin America with NO army since the 1940s. No external enemies.
- One of the BEST lifestyles in the world.
- Costa Rica is a brand because of its incredible lifestyle.
What things and people are real and unreal in Costa Rica
- Costa Rica is paradise. The country is one of the best places to live in the world because of its natural beauty, incredible lifestyle and other intangibles. However NO place is perfect. Utopia doesn’t exist.
- A proliferation of self-serving websites and videos put up by foreigners who pass themselves off as Costa Rica experts after living here for only a few years. A friend who lives here once asked, “Isn’t it strange? Gringos seem they think they know everything about the country despite only having lived here a short time.” Expertise takes time in anything in life.
- Websites that scare foreigners with alarmist information in order to solicit services of the people who own the sites. These sites make people look like messiahs.
- Blogs and chat rooms that provide some useful information for foreigners but disseminate more opinions than facts. The Internet is a useful tool in many cases but can give anyone their 15 minutes of fame and an air of expertise.
- The pontificating foreigners who profess their self righteousness as the only ones who can show you the way to the promise land. These guys are a dime a dozen.
