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jaybh43 I think I understand your reasons for moving to CR.
From your 2 posts I would think that you like the hot beach, dry weather and living probably in a gated community of ex-pats - a sort of little USA, a home away from home - and US values and English spoken. Easy or constant access to young women is not at all a priority, in fact you may not be a dyed in the wool monger at all.
All the members on this board are mongers and to the expats who settle in CR the easy access to local women for se* and companionship is an important reason to settle there in addition to other reasons like a cheaper cost of living , clean air and beautiful surroundings. The attitude of the people towards se* etc. is much more tolerant than the blue nosed USA and mixing with the locals is a joy.
That is how I see it. Again to each his own.

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Softbob

There is nothing either good or bad
but thinking makes it so.
HAMLET

To the last responder you have a 50 percent perception of who I am.

However you are dead wrong on half the issues. I have been coming to Costa Rica for every december and January for nearly a decade to escape the cooler months in North Carolina. While in CR I ventured out on more occasions than I can remember chasing tail. But I came for the weather first, tail second.

Yes, I live in an area now where there are expats. But last time I checked there were expats living in nearly ever inhabitable place in CR. As for the gated community, last time I checked every property in CR has some sort of fence gate or other barbed wire booby trap around it. So sorry your stereotype on who I am and why I am here is half correct half incorrect.

Last point. As a person who lives in CR full time, I do try to find real girlfriends. Women with jobs who pay their own bills and truly like me for who I am and not greenbacks in my pants pocket.

But I do also like "adventure" too

Sort of best of all worlds.

Pura Vida!

DrJay

Would that be me? Lol, I've been all over CR and have seen many gorgeous beach towns, my fave being Osa, and love to visit, after all, I'm 40 years a Florida resident and still have my sun tanning addiction and love of beaches. A friend of mine here has a saying; "Everyone does Costa Rica THEIR way..."

Me, I'm a tried and true monger, no desire for a g/f and I'm strictly without debate, a big city guy, even a dingy dirty city like San Jose. I never get tired of walking all over Avenida central and surrounding areas, Sabana, Escazu, Paseo Colon, etc. I've been doing it off n on for 15 years and STILL find places I've never been.

Since I'm a died in the wool monger, I live in Barrio Amon and love my 10 minute walks to SL, HDR and most MP's. Even today, Sunday, I strolled down to Monica's MP, met a magnificent 19 y/o, enjoyed an hour of heaven for apx $60 including tip, a magnificent blistering hot high pressure shower as well.

Staggering home I discovered (ATTENTION CALIFORNIA GUYS) a Carl's Jr afterward on avenida 2 and calle 2. Shoved a 1/2 pounder down my throat and wandered around the city enjoying people watching and fascinating ancient architecture often right next to new buildings.

Another plus is most of my friends in the USA are married to their old hags, and around here I easily and continuously meet fellow single mongers, HDR, SL, other bars, friends of friends, all over, you name it. I constantly make friends and we always have a lot of laughs, and give each other advice, not always good, but the intentions are honorable, lol. Sometimes I feel like I'm 19 and away from home at college for the first time and making new friends.

I've lived in S. Florida and L.A. both and I don't care for the Pacific Ocean, big cold waves knocking you over, undertow risks...granted it's beautiful but I like the tranquil warm waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Gonna visit southeast CR north of Panama one day.

I love to visit CR's west coastal towns for their exquisite beauty but small towns are excruciatingly agonizingly boring for me, after 4 or so days, I desperately want out...also, being in blistering hot S Florida for 40 plus years, I find the cool temperate climate of the San Jose area wonderful and I'm excited as hell to not need air conditioning and enjoy cool breezes at night as I drift off to sleep. I'm on the 6th floor and always keep my winders open.. saving a couple hunnert on a/c bills also is appealing to me, My summer a/c bill in Florida always ran around $300 or so.

You say tomaato, I say tomato, you spell it catsup, I spell it ketchup. There's no black n white, it's always grey...or is it gray??? In any event, it's always better than being back home in the USA, paying through your nose for everything, listening to people complain about politics, their golf game or their grandchildren, zzzzzz.

Not only that, but toss in enduring either no poon tang or older, uglier, fatter, obnoxious, suspicious, demanding, accusatory with plenty o baggage old beyatches...no thanky, Hanky!!!!

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I hope the perceptions I got wrong were not derogatory in any way. They were not ment to be.
I was only pointing out that many who retired to CR had the attitude very well described by Netgems

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Softbob

There is nothing either good or bad
but thinking makes it so.
HAMLET

[quote="Isra123"]jaybh43 I think I understand your reasons for moving to CR.

All the members on this board are mongers and to the expats who settle in CR the easy access to local women for se* and companionship is an important reason to settle there in addition to other reasons like a cheaper cost of living , clean air and beautiful surroundings.

I was only pointing out that many who retired to CR had the attitude very well described by Netgems...


Thanks for the compliment, Isra, now me, personally :

1. Access to beautiful women : 90%

2. Cheaper cost of living : 8%

3. Clean air : 1%
4. Beautiful surroundings : 1%

#2 : If there were no access to beautiful women I would just stay in S Florida and work full time instead of part time.

#3 and #4 : I left gorgeous S Florida which has no industry and constant balmy ocean breezes, I have almost always lived either on the beach or damn close. I now live in Barrio Amon....I gave those things up....lol.

Puta Vida, brother, is u a fellow expat?

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Don't try to understand 'em, just rope 'em down and brand 'em...

Another day another senseless mass murder headlines the news in North America. This time they can’t blame gun ownership so it must be religious fanaticism. It is obvious the suspect appears of middle- eastern decent and has a Muslim sounding name. A closer examination of this subject reveals he may have a motive complete different than the norm. His Facebook writings reference Elliot Rodger a California subject who also used a van in a mass attack. Rodger cited his frustration in having relationships with women as the reason for his rage. The guy couldn’t get laid. Sexual repression has evolved to this extent. In his way he was shouting to all that could hear, “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore.” (from movie Network 1976) Anyone feeling this alienated from women please contact me. I have more opportunities than I can possibly pursue if I were fortunate enough to live another 40 years. I will be glad to share my secret.
It is one thing to be middle aged and being thrust back into the game after a divorce or the death of a spouse and another to have never learned the social skills needed to compete. This feeling of alienation is devastating to confidence and self- esteem. A common manifestation of this is depression and suppressing these feelings can lead to rage and lashing out. Communication is essential to a healthy society. Most of the problems in our lives comes from our inability to effectively communicate.
Just making the attempt to communicate does not guarantee success. I can voice my desires to a service provider and once in the room everything changes. Did she not hear what I said? We had an agreement. I can get angry and throw her out and feel cheated or I can learn from the experience. What did I do or say wrong? There is a lot more to communication than what is said. There is an art to mongering. It is picking the one that is right for me. I can’t always tell which ones will be great but I can almost always eliminate the ones that will disappoint me. Most of this is done before anything is said.
I have guided hundreds of guys who were on their initial visit here and can attest that everyone is different in what they find attractive and varied in what they expected to receive to be satisfied. Many are happy to just experience being with a beautiful woman. Others seek fantasy fulfillment. Most seem to be looking for someone to fill a void in their lives. For everyone who came here one thing was for certain. They walked away having experienced an adventure. They left their comfort zone and went on a quest. What they found was a better understanding of themselves. The transformations were beautiful sights to behold.

Sounds like a post from Greengo??

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Greengo was more streams of consciousness, Pops essay above is straightforward and touches upon some aspects of Freudian and Reichian Psychology.

Don't think so. Not even close to Greengo, miss his posts also.
Regards, 911 Driver

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The happy hour is a device either for getting rid of social obligations hurriedly en masse or for making overtures toward more serious social relationships, as in the etiquette of whoring.- Brooks Atkinson

reality is always a problem..insertion of the ego is an indefinite process..we leave the sanctity of the womb and enter a world of constant flux and relative pain...the ticos are caught in a sexually dysmorphic societal projection of accelerated assimilation and flipped pell mell onto a transparent fly paper facade of "ticoshit" democratic socialist rational.. the oligarchy and its extended family.. ..now a relatively huge unsustainable 18 per cent of the population...need to find and escape via a door into another dimension ..the construct of obsessive guilt in relation to the perceived inviolability of family structure...is going to make this a little difficult .....mao..hitler ...pol pot..stalin..useful idiots .. shame based megalomania helpful in transitioning populations into a cathartic illusion of cleansing and renewal... knocking the burrs and horns off the great cogs and gears of the archetypical matrix...using the grit of clashing cultures and battling hordes ...and then once again.... the smooth ticking... whirring... leeward panarama of the sublime... its all around you ..remember your d i telling you?.."if it was up your ass youd know"...most of my comments are meant to warn one off backing onto the pustule covered green weenie of tico-feeco.. with a big dumb grin on your face...once youre "knotted up" ..its gonna be a little late amigos...youll be runnin round with a C*m drunk smile trying to sublimate the perception of your situation by offering to help bend over every other available goofy gringo ..in the hope that nobody will notice that big "gringothink" german shepard hunching away under your "transparent" moo moo.. (sortof the inverted version of "screwin the pooch") ... is there darker humour than malcoms ..Under the volcano? or more instructive of the gringo experience in cr ..than little erasmus spoutin off with..."a good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie" speaking of amusing quotes ...heres one from the hallowed halls of the neverending... indulged and protected.... twisted... rotting.. army of abject.. "gods helpless people"... in a lifetime of rage over the assumption that reality should intrude on the drunken musing that weaknes is strength "and" that .."that guy" orwell... really has something there ..."dad ..im in some trouble..theres been an accident ..and youre going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on ..terrible things".. i often wonder if having Lord Jim as required reading might have been instructive... ...is feigning a lifetime of moral superiority to disguise a moment of cowardice shame and ridicule by your peers by dodging marriage and fatherhood to one of the hapless "inferiors" you spend the rest of your life championing with vacuos patronization and indulgent rat trap legislation anymore grandiose than a "cool merciful" saturday morning shit in the morphine saturated stall of some tico farmacia or the window of some vacant fuerzamobile ...or watching the parade of transparent moo moo clad ecotourists with glum superior motives warped on the griddle of misery .. wrapped in an enemanigma and spattering superior motive amid the incestuous fatuosity of parasitic patronization ... all over the roiling pockmarked highways and sidewalks of the slithering coils of Pairofdice.. ... gee ..i hope this once and for all clarifies my stance and mental state on life and living in costa rica..

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"Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand."
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, Ch. 16

Pair of dice

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Pretty good imitation of Greengo but you make more sense than he ever did.

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Softbob

There is nothing either good or bad
but thinking makes it so.
HAMLET

And of course, a quality often downplayed compared to lofty philosophical thinking....good old common sense...

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Don't try to understand 'em, just rope 'em down and brand 'em...

....going down to clearer depths....running silent.....running deep.....

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"Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand."
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, Ch. 16

From here on after my pet name for my ding a ling is now Ego. Can't wait to insert it somewhere........