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Take What you Read on Costa Rica’s Expatriate News Groups with a Grain of Salt

I recently read some erroneous and unsubstantiated information about the local real estate market which was published on one of the local Internet news groups. It really hit a nerve because I am in the process of writing a 400-page comprehensive guide about the Costa Rican real estate scene. A few of [...]

Costa Rica’s Cheap Public Transportation is a Solution to the Energy Crisis in the U.S.

Although gasoline prices has risen here as in the rest of the world public transportation is still affordable. A trip by bus to furthest destination in the country  is around $10 dollars. A trip from San José to the suburbs is less than a dollar. An hour ride to some of the [...]

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Costa Rica as a Solution to the High Cost of Health Care in the U.S

On my last tour I had a couple who just wanted to move to Costa Rica for a couple of years to reduce their out of the pocket medical expenses until they became eligible for Medicare.
Their plan was to live here and then move back to the states  when their insurance took [...]

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Good, the Bad and the Ugly About Costa Rica Forums

By Sidney Shank
With a growing number of people relocating to Costa Rica and many waiting to do so, a number of forums have sprouted up on the Internet. A wide range of information is disseminate daily through these groups.
I have lived in Costa Rica many years and occasionally learn something new from [...]

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Confused About Costa Rica?

Many people are.
It was recently predicted in Newswire Today that approximately ten percent of the 76 million members of the baby boomer generation show a great interest in retiring outside of the United States . Most of them have their eyes set on time-tested retirement havens like Costa Rica.
As Costa Rica’s popularity has increased [...]

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