Costa Rica Remains a Top Retirement Destination for People From the United States

Costa Rica is once again benefiting from a growing shift among older Americans who are looking outside the United States for their next chapter. In polling released by Monmouth University, 17% of Americans age 55 and older said they would like to resettle in another country, up from 4% in 1974. Advisers who work with […]
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Costa Rica Report Says Gentrification Is Reshaping Guanacaste

A new study from the National University’s Observatory on Tourism, Migration and Sustainability in the Chorotega Region says development in some of Guanacaste’s best known beach towns is becoming more exclusive, more segmented and less connected to the communities around it. Focusing on El Coco, Nosara and Tamarindo, the report argues that the dominant pattern […]
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Costa Rica Real Estate Escrow Rules Explained for Foreign Buyers

There is a big difference between an escrow contract and a trust contract. In the escrow contract one party places certain funds in the hands of the escrow company for a variety of purposes, such as: a means to show good faith and real intent to purchase a property or some other important item. Those […]
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How Costa Rica’s Strong Colón Became a Problem for the Economy

Costa Rica has spent much of the past decade walking a monetary tightrope, and the results have been extraordinary in some sectors and quietly devastating in others. At the center of the story is the Banco Central de Costa Rica, or BCCR, and its inflation-targeting framework, whose stated goal is to keep consumer price growth […]
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Costa Rica’s Banco Nacional changes BN Móvil and online banking access

Banco Nacional customers in Costa Rica will now need to use a new access system for the bank’s digital channels, as changes affecting BN Móvil and Banca en Línea took effect today. The update is aimed at tightening account security while changing the way users log in and validate transactions. The biggest change is that […]
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What It’s Like to Be Agnostic in Costa Rica

Pura Vida may be the unofficial slogan of Costa Rica, but Vivir y Deja Vivir– Live and let live– would be equally fitting. Everywhere I have lived here, from urban San Jose barrio to remote rural areas accessible only by 4-wheel drive, my personal space has never been seriously invaded. What goes on inside my […]
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Living in Costa Rica: The Experiences That Make It Feel Like Home

The Costa Rica checklist. For the average visitor, it reads something like: Volcano, cloud forest, rain forest, beach, waterfall, coffee tour, etc. Think of those areas highlighted in guidebooks and featured in international photo shoots. Our country’s amazing vistas, nature and beauty are the stars of the show. But once you’ve been here long enough, […]
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Costa Rica Cracks Down on Taxes for Airbnb and Short-Term Rentals

There is a law that came into effect October 2019 which aims to oversee tourist rental services such as: homes, apartments, villas, chalets, bungalows, single rooms and any other similar services and to protect the tourists that utilize these types of services. It also seeks to regulate the platforms that provide these services as intermediaries […]
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Growing Old in Costa Rica as an Expat and Immigrant

There are no readily available numbers for the number of foreigners, meaning non-Ticos, who die in Costa Rica each year. Between drownings, car crashes, drug overdoses, homicides, and just plain old age, the number is likely somewhere in the hundreds. One of these years, odds are I will be among those unkept statistics, whenever my […]
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What Costa Rica Taught Me About Loving a Reliable Truck

I love my truck more than you love your vehicle. I’m not a car guy. I never have been. I always owned used vehicles from my teens to my early twenties. I didn’t give my car much thought. It was my way of getting to work and not much else. When my wife and I […]
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