Expats

A few weeks ago I wrote an article about who should not move to Costa Rica. I received a lot of interesting responses from...

I am repeatedly asked  by people thinking of relocating here if there is a lot of crime. I have lived in Costa Rica for over 40...

A while back I met Steve, who had lived in Hawaii for many years. He moved to Costa Rica because Hawaii had become very...

Airing from 1978 to 1984, Fantasy Island was a television starring Ricardo Montalbán as Mr. Roarke, the overseer of a mysterious island in the Pacific Ocean, where people from...

Expats are a special breed. But sometimes, longings for food from back home are too hard to ignore.

I have been a real estate agent since before condominiums and gated communities even existed in Costa Rica. Even in those days, security was an issue. Due to a lack of social welfare and being a developing country, petty thievery and breaking and entering has always existed in Costa Rica, so the creation of condominiums was a good idea.

A project that seeks to attract remote workers to Costa Rica has passed both debates in the Legislative Assembly and will soon become law.

A law project that seeks to attract remote workers to Costa Rica has passed a first debate in the Legislative Assembly.

For those willing to make the leap, it can be an amazing adventure.

Costa Rica hopes to attract more of these workers through a bill that would grant year-long visas for qualifying digital nomads.