<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by wolfie_cr:
well yes it does clarify it for me as to why you seem to be so incredibly angry, at least there is a reason to your continous and rather old bashing of Costa Rica, I don't blame you there are many lost souls such as yourself that have rather unrealistic expectations as to what living abroad means. Many hit a certain age and believe that by moving somewhere else they might have a fresh start and everything would solve by itself.
Reality hits them when they discover that you there is no such a thing as a "home away from home", specially when many of the americans that move here don't even come close to learning the language of the country they want to live in. As a result, many problems arise and eventually they return pretty frustated to where they came from.
Specially bad is the situation where it's the first time they leave home and they seem to think that the rest of the world is exactly like their good ol' neighborhood.
Economy is bad all over if you haven't noticed, for example right now the outsourcing of information technology jobs is leaving the US with nothing else but a "Taco bell" future for all the people that can't possibly achieve a university degree. So while thousands of jobs leave the US market to locations such as India many people with extremely high qualifications are left with few choices. "Sorry we prefer to hire Chandra Rawdanasadar, its cheaper", "We are moving our manufacturing plan to Costa Rica, its 30% of what it costs us to run it here"
Isn't it a paradox that the medicines that are produced in the States are cheaper in Canada? Perhaps they prefer to screw their own citizens and make the canadians pay less for the very same pill?? Good luck having a health insurance , we will only take your business if its a safe bet.
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/dec2003/nf20031215_8942_db046.htm
I find it impossible to believe that vegetables can be cheaper than here but perhaps someone can post a figure for any vegetagle here to show me that I am wrong?
On top of that add the constant lose of privacy, here a link for your perusal
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,61792,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1
on how it is that all these obsession with privacy it's being quickly erradicated under the pretext of "war under terrorism" , I don't mind but perhaps the american citizen does since it's one of their most valued beliefs.
All in all it's nice to know that everytime that you click in the "post" button anything you say it's going to be the same exact thing...........can't you get it out of your chest? Take it easy, you don't want to have to pay for high blood pressure medication, it's gonna be expensive
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Wolfie....Don't worry about me. I've moved on and that's it. However, when people come on the forum and ask what it's like down in CR, I'm going to tell them.
CR was a great place to live FOR A WHILE. One thing that happened is too many Americans moved down there with the flood of all these sportsbooks and the free money with the brothers and those asshole Cuban clowns. Nothing good lasts forever it seems.
Anyways, I left CR WAY better off than when I first came down there. So, sorry to say this but... I win. I'd do it all over again if I had too. Apart from financial gain, it was an incredible, eye-opening learning experience for me.
I'm not going to paint a rosy picture of that country though because overall it's a shit product. Even Ticos are bitching about living there now. That wasn't the case 5 or 6 years ago. I know what I'm talking about.
