had 2 dozen friends or so go to panama to check it out ...they mostly came back to get their stuff...some may have slipped back in but i see them in different places in s a and europe usa ..must be 95 per cent dont ever go back to cr except to visit friends or take a big derisive shit somewhere.. some guys take awhile to figure it out or are blasted by tico stupidity arrogance..sticker and (lack of culture) shock ....go back to the u s thinking its like this everywhere..then return after a little recuperative period.. the 4 winter months in the u s are long enough for most ...the overall grunge of tico life and the cumdrunk tico culture of whinning and corruption is hard to scrape off or rationalize once youve lived in another country....even most in south america ....you can live dirt cheap in cr...its not far from the states...your u s med insurance is good for biblica and private clinics...if being propped up in a second hand cumglazed recliner watching cable and jacking off to uporn ..getting ticketed hundreds for drivinggringo,,,watching the ticos being fuckeddeepandhard by the garchs..running around mumbling pura vida..is ones idea of a life ...it aint bad.. i lived on 450 a month and had lots of fun..once reality closes in..and one realizes whats transpiring here ...you either start fuckingandjerking off your fellow expats with tales of realty and medical miracles ..a government that works ..an oligarchy that giivesashit..or you relate some semblence of realty to those countrymen you have an affinity for and come around the place just for kicks and see friends that are stuck without the bucks or glued to some weird symbiotic relationship with the novia he cant handle marrying or be seen with in the old hometown....or too cheap to get her some teeth and a forklift to take her out for dinner..lifes a mess ..whether youre counting the hours to reload so you can jack it again ..and measuring out your ration of peanut butter for the day...or worried about your couple dozen planes taking people for last wishes...a lot of countries are poorer in s a ..but none poorer in spirit and culture..and being beat down and raped..cringing and blaming the gringos ... in comparison to the huge intake of capital and gratuities... than costa rica.. one can only ignore this sad reality for so long...... awfuck ...who gives ashit

You have many more property rights in Thailand. So if you are planning to buy a place or invest Thailand is your better bet. Medical services are probably about equal. Far less gringas in particular and Americans specifically in Thailand, always a selling point for me. Pattaya specifically seems a bit overpriced. Jomtien Beach nearby might be an option. One of the best features Thailand has over anywhere in Latin America in things like Air Asia, where someone with a retirees schedule could travel and explore all of Asia quite cheaply. Would take quite a few years to see it all.

Colombia is pretty square with its foreign residents. A resident is treated pretty much like a Colombian citizen with most of the rights and privileges of one. There is a fair amount of red tape that applies to both citizens and residents, but with a little bit of patience and perseverance, it all comes out in the wash. Regardless of what your credit score was in your motherland, obtaining unsecured credit, like a credit card, is difficult at first in Colombia. But once you establish a track record, or own property, it becomes easier. IMHO, obtaining credit in Colombia is an academic issue anyway. Credit card interest is very high, so it makes sense to use cash whenever possible. The only advantage I can see to using credit cards in Colombia is the great discounts offered by the large chain stores. As long as the bill is payed off in 30 days, you can keep the discount, and not worry about interest.

Colombia is a retired man's paradise.

One other exception is that other then voting a resident has all off the rights and privileges of a citizen not most of them.

sadly...its now... anywhere "but" costa rica..if youre short on jack..and long in the tooth...you can still do a lot of wistful thinking about it being something other than a fetid shithole full of greedy mentally defective politicos judges lawyers and realtors... a leering army of "last stop texaco" cops only interested in one anothers bungholes peckers and a few designer duds...beaches and rivers strewn with sewage and trash,,,a water table containing everything even remotely lethal... cheap overpriced by local standards worn out slatterns for the most part..i know its still fun if youre escaping a week of sex prison..but living here is now just taking a camparatively costly dreary hypnogogic dump in a morphine tinged pharmacy full of lethargic old geesers waiting for their last turn on the porcelin bus...if youre nuts got off on the last stop ...might as well wait for the nicas to swarm the place ...going anywhere else might involve growing a pair....

...going anywhere else might involve growing a pair....