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Greetings:
If you want to buy in Costa Rica:

You should ask some of the guys who live in Costa Rica.
Also, ask AceN Atlanta.

Some wise man here said, "if it floats, drives or fucks in Costa Rica, Rent it".

I was considering buying there and the men of this board made valid points to me to rent. Once you are livign here for a while, if you change your mind, get to be friends with people, decide where and so on, you can always buy. If you buy, unawares, you may not always be able to sell for what you have in it.

Regards,
-Wmax2

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So, the dove chooses to fly at night, despite the predators that may want to consume her.
But, perhaps it is the dove that hungers and the night shall shiver in the end.

Even if the law was passed, which I find doubtful, the Costa Rican government does not have the resources to enforce it.

First, not everyone stays at the local hotels in the downtown area. I, for example, trade my timeshare, and the girls do not have a problem hopping in the taxi for the 10 to 15 minute ride.

Next, let us not forget that the feminist are SPLIT on the prostitution issue. While many may oppose it in theory, the true feminist with whom I deal sincerely believe that it is a woman's right to decide how she uses her body. In fact, there exists an organization "labor movement" for working girls.

I give the local pols more intellectual credit. If Saudi Arabia cannot stop prostitution, and that is a firmly-controlled state, then no one can.

Sure , the "industry" will not go away, but it would change dramaticly If we stopped coming there for sex. Most of the chicas from other countries would leave CR for sure. Anyone who stayed would be lucky to get $20 for full service from the locals. Local businesses that rely on us for so much support would close shop. Boyfriends of the remaining chicas would bump from part-time to full-time criminals. I doubt there are any working girls in Cr who want to see the gringos head elsewhere.

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"With foxes, we must play the fox." ~ Thomas Fuller

I think you missed my point. If they are not going to close the sex industry down, why would there be any reason for gringos to stop going there?

That makes everything else meaningless speculation that will never come to pass.

Monger on, my friends!

DB

this may seem off topic
but I think it helps

recently in the news is Michael Moores sicko,
Now I am not a fan of MM or Hillary
but Mike recalls that when the Clintons were first elected to the presidency, there was a lot of talk about how H was going to reform health care in the US
then, everything on this went quiet
so Mike points out that H is one of the largest recipients of contributions from the health care industry

so maybe all of this is just a hint that the gulch businesses need to up their support of elected officials

I believe the number of monger tourists going down to CR is a bit higher than 5% when you combine the guys who not only stay at the del rey but all the other hotels in downtown area and out on the coast....and dont forget that cutting off the visible sex scene would also cut down dramatically on future gringos who burn the western union wires up month after month with all their monthly stipends to girls at probably a ratio of 3-8 mongers(?) per girl in many cases(just a guess) and this influx of cash has to be pretty big as well. Dont forget that the mongers also generally talk CR up and are probably a great source of advertising. There would also be some blowback in other areas as well ....would the airlines prices go up and be more comparable to countries like colombia becaused of the decreased economies of scale and then further reduce tourism and influx of money??

You also have to include the monger expats who live down there for all or part of the year who might see their time CR time dramtically reduced every year in favor of other locales that are more monger friendly.

It wouldnt suprise me if the monger/sex scene accounts for 20-30% of the tourist dollar since so many other tourists are college students, eco lugheads, surfers living 10 to a room (exageration but hey you get the point) and dont spend too many colones.

Costa Rica only has 4 million people and the people dont make that much money, I believe that as it stands now the monger money WOULD definetly be missed in the local economy. Any country or industry needs to protect its net revenues and not underestimate how hard it is to replace those funds once they are gone and as the competition for dollars and other currencies gets more and more competitive all over the world.

Not tto mention, how do you think the ticos would take it if the CR government seriously followed through and closed down the massage parlors and sex industry and CR turned into a sex prison like the USA?? The difference is , ticos dont have the money to travel and also in many cases have no interest or funds to pay for alot of the ninos down there.

South America is a big place with lots of hot spots for hot women that really arent at that well known to many would be mongers, but the gringos would just find new places if the market drove them to do so.

I believe CR would definetly take a hit and have to loosen back up after a while.

just my 2 colones.

Good that you specified "monger tourists"... but I don't necessarily agree with the premise that go down to CR... IMHO, it is fairly obvious that the large majority of "monger tourists" stay around San José and not the rest of Costa Rica.

In addition, I have a notion that there's no specific law stipulating that prostitution is "legal" in CR. However, it is my believe that the case in fact is there's no specific law stipulating that it is "illegal".

Just as the vast majority of hispanic civilizations, Costa Rica is a very religious country. Therefore their aversion to abortions and the extremely high number of young Ticas becoming pregnant and having bebés at such an early age. Abortions are indeed illegal in CR.

Even if the CR legislature was to establish such a law and prostitution was indeed deemed to be illegal, I sincerely do not think the business would go away over night. As it was stated before, the state would not be able to enforce the law. Secondly, just like in the US, even though illegal in 99% of the states, MP's and personal adult ******* will always be available for those who will pay; and there will always be plenty of providers who will need to be paid because they need the income since they have no other so called moral productive skills.

Solamente mis dos centavos basados en observaciones y conversaciones con los nativos locales.

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Respectfully,

Muff

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One thing about these stats... They are probably just as misleading as the ones in the states about " how many people masturbate", "How many people have an std" and " How many teens are sexually active". Alot of tourists simply are not going to admit to mongering. The true figures are going to be much higher and the dollars spent go alot farther than we can imagine.

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"With foxes, we must play the fox." ~ Thomas Fuller

If mongering were 10% of Costa Ricas income...it wouldn't make any difference. Costa Ricans hate the whole business. Period. They resent gringos who come here for it, and resent the girls who come here for it. Mongering is such a SMALL part of the economy that it is meaningless. Think of it....just one million dollar condo and the jobs it produces....let alone all the other economic benifits attached. Tabacon Hot Springs is the biggest private business in Costa Rica and dwarfs the mongering scene(and owed by the way by the owners of the President Hotel!!) Costa Rica will always tolerate prostitution but will never tolerate the image of foreigners coming here for mongering. Not in a million years.....and the days of mongering(the kind done Del Rey style, I am sure, are short lived.

Part of what Costa Rica has to sell the world is IMAGE....and nobody likes to think of their country as a whore house.

Its the oldest profession out there and it is not going to change...even at the Del Rey, LS. Nothing is going to happen, Our perspective is warped because we come from our puritanical government that doesn't tolerate anything (except freedom of speech), but the rest of the world does not think near as conservatively as we do in the US.
Look we even have paris in jail for 45 days...5 times the normal sentence for driving without a license...dont care how stupid she is or how much you dislike her the long sentence and ensuing media frenzie what a joke makes the US look stupid. Check her out shes going to cash out on this one, and the DA that gave her that sentence will lose his job and might be convicted of stealing public funds, plus his wife has a 8 year bench warrant for arrest which she evaded thanks to her DA husband

http://youtube.com/watch?v=k66epna2Sss