www.CostaRicaTicas.com

Good stuff guys...
I think the thing with american women and guys over 50.... there are a lot of taboos in American society, like not dating someone significantly older/younger, not sleeping around excessively, (though that still happens a lot) church stuff, dating etiquette and the stigma of online dating....
Mix that in with the sex-starved men here, and the women have more control, and like any human, power corrupts.
The women in the US take for granted a man's strength, earning power, and overall numbers....
In Latin America, a man's intelligence, financial stability, and presence are more valued, since high education and large resource is RARE there, we get special status, that is not special in our own backyard.

Why does a dog lick his balls? because he can.

Why do Gringas do they crazy sh*t they do? Because they can.

In latin culture, they don't behave the same way... because they can't.

either function within it, and join El Ciego's buddies as they shrug their shoulders at their sexless future....
Or reject it, and surround yourself with females that "get it".

I have also head that psychiatry is for the wealthy.... here in the US we as a culture have nothing better to do than to go to the shrink and cry about our childhood, etc.... over-analyze

Most people in Latin culture don't spend the same energy and focus whining about everything that is not perfect in life... I wonder what the suicide rate is in Central America compared to North America....?
Perhaps Latins deal with their problems better, and don't have the self-induced hang-ups and taboos and inner pain BS that whiny complaining americans do...

if I am single when I hit 50, I may never set foot in the states again....

_________________
check yourself before you wreck yourself

http://www.mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/cre/fact3.asp
http://www.benbest.com/lifeext/murder.html
http://www.morgansrock.com/articles/nicaraguasafety.htm

However in Nicaragua things are not as the world would likely expect or imagine them to be.

One quick measure of any populace's happiness is suicide rates. Surely such an impoverished and war-weary people might be inclined to pull the plug, throw in the towel. Suicide rates according to the World Heath Organization in Nicaragua are 6.9 per 100,000. However, wealthy southern neighbor Costa Rica's rate is higher, at 11.8 per 100,000. Both pale in comparison with the really wealthy countries like the USA at 21.7, Australia at 26.3 or France at 35.5, not to mention Switzerland at 36.5 or Japan at 50.6 per 100,000.

So money does not necessarily buy happiness, but it should keep crime down. Crime statistics are a shaky business, the more efficiently a country reports their crimes the further they slide down in the safety rankings, but it does prove useful as a reference point. According to Interpol in 2001, crime rate per 100,000 was 9,927 for England, 7,736 for Germany, 4,161 for the USA and 1,750 for Nicaragua. Could Nicaragua be home to less than half the crime in England or Germany?

Murder rates are a popular measure for a country's level of violent crime and are more reliable than most, as murders rarely go unreported. The world's homicide rate is currently estimated at 8.86 per 100,000. Latin America is quite a bit rougher, with an average of 22.9 murders per 100,000 in the region. Most neighbor countries of Nicaragua in Central America are on the upper end of the world's scale, exactly where the world might expect Nicaragua would be located. Countries like El Salvador at 117 per 100,000, Guatemala at 45 per 100,000 and Honduras at 41 per 100,000. In North America, the US murder rate is 7.1 per 100,000, yet its famously violent cities weigh in at 14.8 per 100,000 for Los Angeles, 21.9 for Chicago, 31.7 for Atlanta, with Washington, D.C. at 41.8 and New Orleans at 43.3.

Little Costa Rica, the "oasis of peace", is at 7.2, the same as the US and significantly safer than most other Central American republics. What about Nicaragua? Nicaragua suffers only 3.4 per 100,000, making it the least violent country in Central America and one of the safest in all the hemisphere. Nicaragua safer than Costa Rica? How is that possible? Could it be that Nicaragua is safe because it is actually a police state that has come down hard on the population, locked everyone up? Incarceration rates suggest otherwise. The USA leads the world in prison inmates with a staggering 682 per 100,000 in jail. Canada has 123 per 100,000, Scotland 119 and Germany 96, while Nicaragua has only 57 per 100,000 imprisoned. How about on a regional level: comparing Nicaragua vs. Central America in total inmates? Honduras has 9,816 inmates under key, El Salvador 9,378, Guatemala 7,834, Costa Rica 5,542 and Nicaragua at 3,913. How does one explain that Costa Rica has a higher murder rate and more people in prison than bad-boy Nicaragua? Especially considering that Costa Rica is home to 1.2 million less people than Nicaragua? Perhaps it is Nicaragua's police? Do they have menacing, heavily armed forces that guard the country with intimidating 24 hour patrols? Police officers per thousand statistics rate Italy at 5.3 police per thousand, Spain at 4.7, Germany at 4.4, El Salvador at 2.6, Costa Rica with 2.5 and Nicaragua with 1.2 police per thousand. Nicaragua has less than half the police density of Costa Rica. What those numbers don't show is that Nicaragua's small police force is also largely unarmed. In fact more than half of Nicaraguan police do not carry firearms at all.

_________________
"Run silent, run deep"
Spunk glazed Chicas are the building blocks of the universe!

Excellent and thought provoking expose', Mr. Zippy. I applaud you, and am now thinking of visiting Nicaragua...maybe.

Your statistics were very complete, but failed one or two small bases for comparison. Income distrinbution over the populace, and the number of unretrieved landmines left after the civil wars. Small omissions, to be sure.

Thanks for the wealth of information.

_________________
Pura Vulva! Wandering through the dark, I am El Ciego.

When looking at Costa Rica i think you have to take into consideration that you have a large population of "outsiders" living among the locals, and that my friend usually spells trouble. Costa Rica is the melting pot in Central and South America. I may be wrong, but it looks like that to me.

TP,

I think again you are right on here.This is what I have seen thru the years. Increase outsiders increase in trouble! . CR was like Nica Country 20 years ago well not quite but much better in many ways.

_________________
"Run silent, run deep"
Spunk glazed Chicas are the building blocks of the universe!

ya... damn gringos!!!!

_________________
check yourself before you wreck yourself

Interesting how the thread is about guys over 50 not getting any pu*sy and now we are talking world crime rates.

dapanz1

_________________
Paradise= Sitting outside the Bodega in Panama City about 1 am. Drinking cool Balboas with cool friends and blazin' hot Colombianas. I want to be there..RIGHT NOW!

OK dapanz1 we have been known to be drifters here at CRT as we drifted into CR didn't we?

_________________
"Run silent, run deep"
Spunk glazed Chicas are the building blocks of the universe!

Zip,
Just giving you guys a hard time. The stats were awesome. I kind of make a hobby of following threads to see how they morph into something entirely different from the original thread.

dapanz1

_________________
Paradise= Sitting outside the Bodega in Panama City about 1 am. Drinking cool Balboas with cool friends and blazin' hot Colombianas. I want to be there..RIGHT NOW!

It was an easy guess that the suicide rate is lower in Latin America

The females arent wanting to die from their own self-hatred, and they are not making their men want to kill themselves, like they do here in the beautiful US of A

_________________
check yourself before you wreck yourself

Zippy thanks for the stat's. They are thought provoking. And in CR I have had nothing but good experinces with Nica's. Very few Nica's are stuck on the cein thing. thanks for the effort you put into that.

I am 50 and get lots of AARP stuff in the mail. Should I join? I don't like their politics. And the young are our future. I do still care about their future. But have noticed the older you get the more you think about, what about me, it's my turn.

As far as gringa's go. I am getting tired of being told by the ones I want that they think of me like a father. But they want to spend my money like a daughter. But they ain't my blood.

Good thread.

_________________
Take a walk on the wild side.

I took a Nica from NF to Arenal a couple of years ago. Screwed my brains out 3 days straight.

Solamente, you make sense easily, and you're on target IMHO. I think , however, everybody is leaving out one overriding, influencing factor; we pay these girls. Wit's story is sad and I empathize, but let's face it, we're comparing apples and oranges. Here in the States we're talking non-pros who have phucked-up 'tudes. Then we're comparing them to sweet girls in CR who we pay! I will be the first to admit, there is no comparrison if you compare providers from each culture; Latinas win hands down. But isn't it disingenuous to compare Latina providers to civilian gringas?

Now comparing gringa civilians to Latina civilians is a better measure, and most of what has been said on this thread applies; namely, guys over 50 stand a better shot with Latina civilians than gringa civialians. But Latina civilians are not as easy as providers. They may not be as obnoxious as gringas, and may be less concerned with your age, but they're still women, and women like different shit than men do. Their priorities are more aligned with gringas than gringos!

But at least (I find), you're not ineligible due to your age in Latin countries. And yes, they have less and see you as capable of providing security, where gringas could give a shit.

Jazz

_________________
"Don't never trust a woman, till she's dead and deep....One day she'll say she loves you, next day she'll throw you on the street."

"...and if men didn't have this unquenchable desire to have sex with women, then they wouldn't have anything to do with women at all. I certainly wouldn't..."

Good point Jazz, but take it a step further. Shouldn't we be comparing Latinas in the USA with Gringas in the USA or is every woman in the USA a Gringa?

Face it everyone, Latinas, Russians, Asians and the like accept a big age difference in exchange for and/or in hope of a free ride through life. It isn't normal for women to be genuinely attracted to men 20 years younger.

I've not read any of the posts on this thread (besides Jazz's), however I just don't get it when we complain about Gringas as if "they" are the problem. Are they really as picky as we are? Most often, isn't us men the ones that disappoint women? We are notorious for cheating and in due time finding a "newer" model while the wife is home caring for our Ch*ldren.

It seems many of us truly resent the power Gringas have acquired through hard work and education. Do we want a powerless woman by our side so we can do as we please without question or condemnation? Do we want to be so powerful that they have to accept us as we are or else we take the money and the lifestyle away?

Maybe the Gringas I know are simply different. I wonder since I like Gringas for so so so many reasons. I think they've earned the right to be picky.

Ignore me - I watch a lot of Oprah! I'm woman friendly and Gringa friendly. I don't monger because I can't get a Gringa's attention. I monger because I'm attracted to women 15 years younger than me. I live the fantasy every chance I get and that isn't any Gringa's fought.

Notify me when a reply is posted: UNCHECKED!

Maybe there is more do this thing we call love? When one is making love he is not at war, WAR with himself because he has a sense of well being instead of frustrations which in turn leads one to be less suicidal??

_________________
"Run silent, run deep"
Spunk glazed Chicas are the building blocks of the universe!