Gimme a Cut Please! Just another one of those “services” that we don’t think about much until we’re here in Costa Rica and then we seek the input of others or we just experiment around until we find what we want, and that can be trying as we want more than the army type of [...]

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Dr. Who? No, this is not the beginning of a James Bond thriller, but merely a brief introduction to our family physician, Dr. Jose Francisco Jimenez Q., who is young enough, I think, for me to call him Jose, but he still commands my respect of his skills as a doctor, so I intersperse calling [...]

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How Safe Is Costa Rica? A question often asked is, “Is Costa Rica safe?” The answer, to a great extent, is yes. The crime rate in Costa Rica is the lowest in Latin America, and Costa Rica is, without a doubt, the safest country in Central America. Over one and a half million tourists, most [...]

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Job Opportunities in Costa Rica Even though we came to Grecia to retire and we had no inclinations to get into real estate, it evolved that way through requests, opportunities of listings, and our continued observations of Americans being taken advantage of by other Americans. Cheryl and I could find plenty to occupy ourselves with [...]

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