I get several emails a week from people wanting to come to Costa Rica to live and work. Under Rentista or Pensionada status (which is what most people qualify for under immigration status) you can NOT work. The only way you can work is if you come in as an employee of a company that [...]
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To follow up on the story of my lost radio…I figured out how they broke into my car and it was quite ingenious as it prevented the alarm from going off. The bad guys broke the lock. Looks like they took a screwdriver and broke the mechanism. Now I wouldn’t think this would open the [...]
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Thursday is my daughter’s 13th birthday and in honor of that I wanted to buy her something she has wanted for a long time. A cross necklace in gold. You would think this would be easy enough to find and in the US it is but here in Costa Rica it seemed impossible today.
Of course [...]
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Sounds like a song doesn’t it. Unfortunately for me it’s not. I lost all my songs with my radio yesterday. We can’t nail down where it happened but know that it was in Escazu in one of two guarded parking lots. So much for paying the watchingman to watch my car.
We were very fortunate that [...]
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I recently read this letter sent into AM Costa Rica and it was so deadon accurate that I felt I needed to share it with my readers.
Learn to do things
the pura vida Tico way
Dear A.M. Costa Rica:
In today’s age most people would understand the level of frustration that your writer is displaying about security problems [...]
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You should know that while you will get a lot of basic information from this blog and from our website, this is in no way a complete assessment of the topic being discussed. We only touch on the subjects that we think would be of interest to someone considering moving to Costa Rica.
Many of the [...]
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Filed under: Guardian Angels, Health care in Costa Rica, Insurance in Costa Rica, Living in Costa Rica, Moving to Costa Rica, Residency in Costa Rica, Schools in Costa Rica
The children came home today full of candy with painted faces and high on chocolate. They had a blast at the school festivities in their honor.
This is not supposed to be anything like Christmas but I have found through the years that any excuse to buy presents for my children, I tend to go overboard. [...]
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Filed under: Holidays in Costa Rica, Kids in Costa Rica, Living in Costa Rica
Friday, Saturday and Sunday are for the kids. Saturday is el Día del Niño (Children’s Day) in Costa Rica. The day is not exactly a legal holiday but festivities honoring the nation’s children will be part of school activities Friday.
Parents and close family members will be preparing small presents to be distributed Saturday.
Friday public schools [...]
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Reported in AM Costa Rica by Garland M. Baker
An amazing scam unfolded in Costa Rica in the past two weeks. Events surprised the buyer as well as the owner of a unique beach view property.
Quick thinking and a nearly unknown legal maneuver locked and saved the property before the Registro Nacional closed Friday even though [...]
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It was reported earlier that the new immigration laws were to be shelved until December 2007 because of the lack of funding, that is no longer the case. Even though the funds aren’t there to enforce the new laws, the new laws DID go into effect on August 12. How this affects you…..amounts necessary to [...]
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