Some people will tell you that buying property in Costa Rica is a great idea, you can’t go wrong, it’s easy. These people are called REAL ESTATE SALESMEN. There are people who have successfully bought property in Costa Rica, these people are called FORTUNATE. If you really want to buy something in this country, I
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Shout out the good news! Costa Rica’s coastal highway, the Costanera Sur, is finally paved all the way! Add this to the completion of the Caldera highway, and boy oh boy, getting around in Costa Rica is beginning to lose its nightmare status. Way back in the distant past (2003) I did my first visit
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If you have done any reading about Costa Rica, you have heard it called the ‘Switzerland of Central America.’ It has a nice ring to it. The ‘Switzerland of anywhere’ sounds great, especially if you can yodel. Way back in my college days, I took a class in Political and Economic Geography. It wasn’t all
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Unbeknown to all the Gringos I met last night while I was out carousing, the Miss Costa Rica (Universe) pageant was happening. How they neglected to select me as a judge will remain a mystery to everyone, but the show must go on, and go on it did. I did a little research on the
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The Costa Rican Social Insurance (CCSS, or ‘Caja’) has suspended breast implant surgeries for mastectomy patients after receiving a warning that the prosthetic implants from their current supplier may be defective. The warning came from the Agency for Health Safety of Products for Health (France, AFSSAPS, by its French acronym). Investigations of ‘Poly Implant Prosthese’
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Probably the first step along the path that led me here was when my parents were talked into buying a set of encyclopedias. It cost them quite a bit of money at the time, looking back, but to my credit I made good use of them. Along with the encyclopedia itself were some companion sets
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