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Of Two Joses - Nestled within that vast cordillera which defines
the east and west of Central America lies a charming little town called
San Antonio de Escazu. Everyone in Costa Rica knows it. Only a select few
know what lies along a precipitous dirt road which climbs the mountain
behind it. There, in the third of five humble row houses edging a ravine,
is where I can be found. By Kevin Barker Jan/06 |
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Rica: Calendar Girls -As
a happy and blessed expat living in Costa Rica for close to nine years,
I have always believed that International Citizens living in a foreign
country have a civic responsibility to give back to their “Home Away from
Home”. Nothing worse than the image of the ‘Ugly Gringo” living cheaper
in paradise than they could at home and feeling no obligation whatsoever
to do anything for their host community, other than contribute to the economy
by asking for “Otra Cerveza Por Favor”. Oct./06 |
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Vida” for ESL Teachers - I have lived and taught English in Costa
Rica for almost three years. It’s a lush tropical country with kind, welcoming
people. I highly recommend it as a place to discover rainforests and the
Costa Rican version of Latino culture. There are many ESL jobs available
to people even if they have little or no experience teaching. By Laura
Dulin Nov/04 |
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Rica: From Dreamland To Nightmare - The glamorous Costa Rica of
the sixties, seventies and early part of the eighties is badly crippled
nowadays. It was not a sudden attack. It is a lengthy and dolorous disease.
A social and economical osteoporosis slowly eating the bones of the "Welfare
state" of this small country, once called the Switzerland of Central America.
By Manu Crow April/06 |
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Rica: Midway Between Heaven and Hell - Surely
it was a routine workday for Park Rangers and Volcanologist checking the
pulse of Earth's boiling entrails, but for us it was an awesome experience.
Seldom one could enjoy such a magnificent display of Nature's immense powers.
Our planet is alive. The same forces that millions of years ago forged
continents and archipelagoes, still breath from the core of the Earth.
Sept./06 |
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| Exploring
The Beaches Of Costa Rica -
Costa Rica has for years been denouced as a bad place to invest or visit.
This is just not true. It's my favorite country in the region and the people
are nice and realistic. They know tourism and have been at it for years
so the quality of the service in Costa Rica is much higher than in the
other countries of Central America. And the weather is the best as well
as the beaches. If you want to visit a country where you know you're going
to have a good time try out Costa Rica. By Vanessa Morson April/03 |
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The International Life As A ‘PT’ - More About Living In Costa Rica
- It wasn’t too long ago that, for me, life was a hum drum ‘status quo’
existence which was far underperforming my own personal expectations of
what I had envisioned for myself in my youth. How many of us feel ‘trapped’,
or at best ‘limited’ by life and how we have positioned ourselves in it?
Of course as much as we try to look elsewhere for causes, we only have
ourselves to blame. By Rex Freeman April/05 |
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| Pavones,
Costa Rica - For a natural born skeptic like me, living here at
Pavones - at the end of the road at the bottom of Central America - has
been a revelation in many ways. Like the moon thing. By Allan Weisbecker
Dec./03 |
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Estate In Costa Rica - Any astute or experienced ex-pat will tell
you that moving to a foreign land, especially with a foreign language,
and ‘manana land’ culture can test the mettle of the best of us. Once the
bud of the romance of ‘living in paradise’ wears off, culture shock and
reality can be a cold slap in the face for the unwary and ill-prepared.
On the other hand, for those who can adapt and manage in a ‘new rules’
environment, plenty of opportunity can be had. We’ve seen both. My wife
and I have been living in Costa Rica since ’99. The first few weeks were
rough on her, making the adjustment, not knowing the Spanish language,
except for “Taco Bueno”, learning how to re-organize our lives in a new
land and culture was tough. Her first challenge was to buy a tomato in
the local mini-super. By Rex Freeman Mar/05 |
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From Costa Rica - Shark - he morning of my sixth day at Anuncio’s
little village, I was about to commence my paddle out to the point when
I noticed a four-foot-long sicle-shaped fin flowing seaward in the backwash
by my feet. I recognized it as once as the disembodied tail fin of a fair-sized
thresher shark, no doubt caught by one of the panga crews, the tail discarded
after the butchering of the animal at water’s edge. |
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looked around for someone to ask about the prevalence of inshore sharks
in the area, but both dories had already gone to sea and Anuncio was nowhere
to be seen. He’d probably gone off on one of his extended beachcombing
forays. By Allan Weisbecker Jun/05 |
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Stock Exchanges - Special Feature from the NewsWire on Offshore Stock Exchanges
- In an ongoing effort to provide a cross-section of the best offshore
information on the internet, EscapeArtist seeks out the best online resources.
We are really excited about a new website and news letter called, Low Tax
Online NewsWire - In this issue or Escape From America we present a Special
Feature from the NewsWire on Offshore Stock Exchanges. Countries such as
Bermuda, Ireland, Jersey, Cyprus (maybe), Hong Kong (already) and Mauritius
are cleaning themselves up for what could be a glittering future. This
report includes some of the offshore jurisdictions with Stock Exchanges,
their Regulatory Basis Including Listing Rules, Trading and Settlement,
Costs of Listing and additional resources. |
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Peninsula - Unspoilt Costa Rica - The
island itself was as virgin as a 4th grade computer geek; fallen
coconuts collected in mounds, hermit crabs wandering around the sand, and
birds nesting in the trees. The only way you could tell anyone had
ever been there was the ramshackle ranger station and adjacent picnic tables.
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And Costa Rica - Thoughts On Both - One of my favorite countries
to visit is Costa Rica. It has become a favorite destination for many people:
an average of 750,000 people a year visit Costa Rica. In 1994 tourism surpassed
coffee and bananas as the biggest industry in Costa Rica: one in ten people
work in the tourist industry. Of course, this has meant that the country
sometimes feels as though it is being trampled over by tourists, and the
ugly side of tourism – prostitution and child sex – are very evident in
Costa Rica. Despite all the heavy traffic in tourists, Costa Rica still
offers the traveler some of the most incredible scenery in Latin America.
By Matthew Atlee April/04 |
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Vida In Costa Rica - Enjoying Manuel Antonio - Often, we gauge
the satisfaction of a much anticipated exotic beach vacation by the number
of days spent basking in the warm tropical sun's rays. To say that being
caught in tropical storm force winds, pounding rain, and loss of both power
and water would be anyone's ideal vacation would be insane, or would it?
Before you send the men in the little white coats, consider this. Pura
vida! By Cindie Baxter Nov./05 |
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