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Costa Rica Expat Life: The Untold Story of Door-to-Door Sales Culture

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If you live in a predominantly Tico barrio, you are likely familiar with vendedores ambulantes. These are the door-to-door salespeople who pass through selling...
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A Costa Rica Coffee Farm and Its Unanswered Question

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"A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof" – Feodor Dostoevsky. In the early 1990s, I spent most of a year in a rural area...
Expat Living

Costa Rica’s Mysterious Lago Cote and Its UFO Sighting History

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Several years ago, I started a job that required me to spend the first two months in a small town near Volcan Arenal. It...
Expat Living

Faded, Broken, and Misplaced: The Life of Street Signs in Costa Rica

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Signs, signs, everywhere a sign, blocking out the scenery, breaking my mind– that was the chorus of a popular song a while back. That...
Expat Living

Costa Rica’s Religious Divide Between Catholics and Evangelicals

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Did you know that Costa Rica is the only country in the Americas with an official religion? Our national religion–no, it’s not fútbol or...
Expat Living

Life in Costa Rica: 12 Things That Make This Country Special

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I am sometimes accused of being overly negative and sarcastic in my writings about Costa Rica and my life here. Fair enough, though anyone...
Expat Living

Costa Rica Has Two Vice Presidents?

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Anyone who doubts Costa Rica's loyalty to government bureaucracy should take into consideration this fact: Costa Rica has two Vice Presidents. Our country of...
Expat Living

Learning the Metric System: A Guide for U.S. Expats in Costa Rica

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Here's a good trivia question: What are the only 3 countries in the world that do not use the metric system? Everybody knows the...
Expat Living

The Other Side of Paradise: A Tico’s View on Expats in Costa Rica

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My Tico friend Tomas has decided that Costa Rica has enough residents. Tomas lived and worked under the table in New Jersey for over...
Expat Living

Living with Costa Rica’s Construction Woes: An Expat’s Experience

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On a recent trip to San Jose, I drove on part of the new ring road (outerbelt), a modern highway that significantly reduces the...
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