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Author:  Yosh1234 [ Wed Sep 21, 2011 5:19 pm ]
Post subject:  90 days
To the guys that live the 90 day lifestyle in CR or pemanently, I just want to know what it is like. For the passed 6 months, I have seriously been contemplating moving to CR, not permanently but temporary. At least 3 months out the year, at one given time, if not half of the year. I want to know what it's like. THINGS TO EXPECT OUTSIDE THE GULCH. I WILL NOT go down there too party; I would like to live there for an extended period of time to finish school, learn Spanish, see the cultural side, relax, meet women outside the gulch and just to get away to do something different! It is deffinitely time for a change in my neck of the woods. Just any ideas, about living in CR, would help. Thanks in advance!
Author:  Defender121 [ Sat Sep 24, 2011 6:10 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 90 days
Yosh,

There is wealth of information on this website. Keep reading. Many of the regular posters live or have lived in CR. Get yourself a Fodor's or Lonely Planet guide to CR. Read it. Then spend some time doing what you enjoy doing there. I spent the better part of two years there in 2006-2008, and I still try to visit a couple of times a year for 3-5 weeks per trip.
CR is a diverse country. The gulch and its activities hold some interest for me, but I like to visit different areas and meet locals.
Good luck.
Author:  Yosh1234 [ Sun Oct 23, 2011 7:54 pm ]
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Greengo wrote:
sounds so reasonable and unasumming......sadly...youre 20 to 40 years late...the 80s and 90s delivered an optimum environment for the genteel existence you describe..the free exchange of ideas and commerce has been replaced by a "protective" coat of "ticoshit"....the lifestyle you envision is attainable at a cost...unfortunately ...this blissful state is available in florida or italy or louisiana for the same price...financially or aesthetically...aint no free lunch...i know dozens with the attitude...finances ...and will to make living here a tenable success..very few have found it rational to beat the drum any longer...having the resources to squander on perpetual folly and blunder?..throw enough bricks off the grand canyon.... eventually youll have a house...as virtually everyone i know with ticogringo grandkids and family will tell you..."itd be a great place if it werent for the ticos"...a small percentage..very small..fall thru the cracks...meet a girl ...are taken in by the family...are eventually raped and eviscerated by the extended family they created..your "days of heaven" will depend on the perception of those around you how available your assets are and likely to become...of course like hookers with hearts of gold.."your" experience will be the exception.. :lol: sadly at best ...ones somnambulent sojourn thru ticoworld will be met by crews of ticos ready to coat your tiny expectations with 400 dollar traffic tickets...a wildly undulating neverending miniature golf nightmare of charred and glowing grinning possums in police and realtor garb chewing at your ankles and rending inch deep layers of jock itch..the product of new and idiotic legistlation... in huge chunks from ones tender groin... pustules of "gringothink" weeping from the confused and quivering remnants of ones new and recyclable "tourists" paper asshole..when i asked to see the women first..the old woman spat her chaw on the dirt floor...squinted and regaled me with .. "you pays your money and you takes your chances whitebread". :lol: ....


Greengo, do you currently live in Costa Rica and if you do then if it sucks so bad why do you continue to live there? Just asking is all
Author:  Zebra [ Wed Nov 02, 2011 11:17 am ]
Post subject:  Re: 90 days
Greengo quote:

"......when i asked to see the women first..the old woman spat her chaw on the dirt floor...squinted and regaled me with .. "you pays your money and you takes your chances whitebread".

Good one Greengo. I can relate to that line. It happened to me in the states and I got a 'good screwin'. :(
Author:  BlueDevil [ Wed Nov 02, 2011 11:57 am ]
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Quote:
...as virtually everyone i know with ticogringo grandkids and family will tell you..."itd be a great place if it werent for the ticos"...


I always thought Costa Rica would be a great place if it weren't for the gringos... :lol:
Author:  Thirdworld [ Wed Nov 02, 2011 12:35 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 90 days
If you do come down to live for a while, don't spend the majority of your time in the gulch. Get out and meet real people. I have lots of good Ticos that I respect and like here, but you won't find much in the whore houses and hotels. There are exceptions. I meet a lot of people I enjoy conversing with at the SL. Go to the parks, talk to locals in the supermarket. See real life, you will enjoy it.
Author:  Whitecat [ Wed Nov 02, 2011 5:58 pm ]
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Makes a lot of sense. I love mongering but I don't want to spend my life at Havana or SL. Glad to see some people think alike.
Author:  Yosh1234 [ Sat Nov 19, 2011 3:54 am ]
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Greengo wrote:
....the new tax laws are to include gringos with external banking ...20 per cent of your intake.....if you bank offshore or in the u s ...itll never stick ..just long enough to further rupture the charred and frazzled golden goose...puta vida :lol:


It beats the 30-50% in the states. Not to mention the taxes you pay on daily purchases at rates ranging from 7 to 12% probably higher than that in places like NY City or Chicago
Author:  Thirdworld [ Sat Nov 26, 2011 2:42 pm ]
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Just gotta fly under the proverbial radar brother! :D
Author:  Cappodui [ Sat Nov 26, 2011 3:43 pm ]
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Try 14% sales tax in Chicago (downtown area, which conveniently goes well outside of downtwn)
+ Property taxes like this 59,900 house 7000/year
highest gas in the country $3.99/gal today
speeding cameras, red light camers, roving ticket writers, cost you $5/hr to park you car on a city street
Highway tolls DOUBLE 1st of the year to $1.60 a crack for 8 miles

All that seems to make CR look reasonsable.

But my real question is to Greengo. Other than being articulate, you seem completely miserable. I assume you currently reside in CR, and have read some of your other posts. Is it really that bad? really?
Author:  K-Paxian [ Sun Nov 27, 2011 2:28 pm ]
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Cappodui wrote:
Try 14% sales tax in Chicago (downtown area, which conveniently goes well outside of downtwn)
+ Property taxes like this 59,900 house 7000/year
highest gas in the country $3.99/gal today
speeding cameras, red light camers, roving ticket writers, cost you $5/hr to park you car on a city street
Highway tolls DOUBLE 1st of the year to $1.60 a crack for 8 miles

All that seems to make CR look reasonsable.

But my real question is to Greengo. Other than being articulate, you seem completely miserable. I assume you currently reside in CR, and have read some of your other posts. Is it really that bad? really?



No it's not.
Author:  Muadib [ Sun Nov 27, 2011 2:49 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 90 days
One man's trash is another man's treasure... Nothing new here...

The problem lies with familiarity... The longer you are in a place, the more the warts show through as you go from a being starry eyed newbie with rose colored glasses to being a grouchy old cynic, remembering how things were in the good old days... Got news for everyone, the game is changing everywhere and not for the better...
Author:  Zunbake3 [ Sun Nov 27, 2011 7:26 pm ]
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Greengo, you are definitely the James Joyce of CRT!! Great writing sir!
Author:  Thirdworld [ Sun Nov 27, 2011 8:47 pm ]
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Allways enjoy the Green man's writing... :D
Author:  Cappodui [ Tue Nov 29, 2011 5:48 pm ]
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Bravo Greengo. What can I say other than it does not take one much to get you to pontificate now does it? I will admit though, it makes for interesting reading! :mrgreen:
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