There is a guy I know, a US citizen–I will call him Victor- who has lived in Costa Rica for 12 years, yet is unable to say “I have lived in Costa Rica for twelve years’’ in Spanish. You may know the ...

I was caretaking the mansion of my friend Carlton while he accompanied his obscenely wealthy family on another jaunt around the world. The mansion was amazing– high on a mountaintop, with a view of ...

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There are so many reasons to retire in Costa Rica. Chief among them is that life is easy in the tropical land of “pura vida” — and so is making the decision to relocate to this small Central American ...