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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delivered an optimum environment for the genteel existence you describe..the free exchange of ideas and commerce has been replaced by a "protective" coat of "ticoshit"....the lifestyle you envision is attainable at a cost...unfortunately ...this blissful state is available in florida or italy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.. 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". ....

...as virtually everyone i know with ticogringo grandkids and family will tell you..."itd be a great place if it werent for the ticos"...

....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

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?