Here is a great excerpt from an expat, Tom R. who answers what people ask him most.
Since Tom has lived here in Costa Rica for the past 15 years, not only has he seen many changes, he has lived through them. This gives Tom a unique perspective that he offers to people when asked “Why [...]

Apparently, Rush Limbaugh has vowed to move to Costa Rica if the US healthcare reform gets passed by Congress. Obviously, Rush has not pulled this name out of thin air. The fact is Costa Rica has excellent health care mostly related to preventive care but that is mostly what you need for 90% of your [...]

Costa Rica HealthCare
The Costa Rican government is promoting a Costa Rica health care assistance plan to help developers build projects centered on Costa Rica health care facilities for foreign retirees. The help is in the form of facilitating the processes at the different ministries involved with health care related property investments.
New property developments would offer [...]

Florida Retirement or Retirement Costa Rica?
How would you like to retire in Costa Rica? The retirement Costa Rica offers right now is not organized but that is going to change very soon. Wouldn’t it be great to have a community retirement Costa Rica? A place where your friends live and organized around a central care facility [...]

When I was reading the recent article from CNN about Costa Rica, I was not surprised to that Costa Rica is the happiest place in the world. Per capita, Costa Rica has the highest amount of US citizens living inside it’s borders than any other country outside of the USA.
Costa Rica tops list of [...]

If you have travelled Central America you can describe most of the countries by a few words. Guatemala has its large indigenous Indian culture along with their rustic colonial era architecture. The same can be said about Nicaragua but without the Indian culture which is isolated on the Caribbean coast, colonial towns like Granada really [...]

Many people would love to retire in a foreign country that is; beautiful, has a low cost of living, and western amenities such as high quality medical care. If you are considering retiring abroad Costa Rica is a great place for your retirement home. There are many important considerations before you buy Costa Rica real [...]

Often people who visit Costa Rica as tourists, return home wanting to buy a piece of this paradise we live in everyday. As a tourist, they realize that Costa Rica is civilized and not a third world country. Making the leap from that realization to buying a Costa Rica property is the principal reason for [...]