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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New Costa Rica Rules Could Void Shareholder Meeting Decisions

Under Costa Rica law, several types of powers of attorney can be granted to allow one person to represent another. Although the term includes the word attorney, these powers can generally be granted to any individual and not only to a lawyer. There are, however, certain powers that may only be granted to lawyers so […]
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Puriscal Is Becoming a Top Place to Live and Invest in Costa Rica

In the hills southwest of San José, Puriscal has steadily become one of Costa Rica’s most appealing places for investors, retirees, and families seeking a better quality of life without giving up access to the capital. As San José continues to struggle with traffic, crime, urban sprawl, and the constant strain of a city pushing […]
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Missing U.S. Tourist Found Dead in Costa Rica River

Costa Rican authorities have confirmed the death of a missing U.S. tourist whose body was found in a river in a mountainous area of Nosara, Guanacaste, several days after he was last seen leaving for nearby Sámara. The Judicial Investigation Agency identified the man as Warren Francis Vogt, 75, an American visitor who had been […]
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What’s in a name? Naming nuance in Costa Rica

We tend to assume the way names function in our home country is simply “normal.” Or at least I definitely did. As it turns out, countries around the world are all playing by wildly different rules when it comes to naming conventions. I worked with a large population of refugees and immigrants when I first […]
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Cow Wrangling and Camera Trapping in Costa Rica

I had just successfully reviewed the first four of five camera traps in a sleepy little town tucked into a rich valley bordering the volcano Rincón de la Vieja. The last camera is the hardest to reach. It’s located in a jungle stream at the far end of a cow farm just outside of town. […]
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Costa Rica’s Dollar Exchange Rate Hits 17-Year Low

The dollar’s exchange rate against the colon dropped further today in Costa Rica’s foreign currency market, known as Monex. Data from the Central Bank of Costa Rica shows the weighted average price of the dollar settled at ₡474.95. This marks the lowest point since December 6, 2007, when the bank started tracking rates under the […]
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