Living Abroad in Costa Rica

Is it time to trade your old life for one that's a little more livable? Picture a place so green you'll need new words to describe all of the different shades.

Living Abroad in Costa Rica

By Erin Van Rheenan
Are you ready for a change? Is it time to trade your old life for one that's a little more livable? Picture a place so green you'll need new words to describe all of the different shades.
A place with a thousand kinds of butterflies and half again as many types of orchids. A land where staying healthy is less a matter of doctors' visits and medication than of living simply in healthful surroundings.
Imagine a stable democracy where foreign business is encouraged even as the environment is protected. A country with near-universal health care and one of the highest literacy rates in the Western Hemisphere.
A place where you can get away from it all without leaving behind your creature comforts, where you have both birdsong in the morning and the chirp of a modem making contact with the rest of the world.
Its economy has a solid agricultural base, and has expanded to include vibrant technology and tourism sectors. The standard of living is high and the cost of living moderate.
While life is not perfect, the benefits outweigh the problems. Costa Rica has an immensely appealing combination of the exotic and the familiar - primordial rain forests and modern urban centers, jaguars in the jungle and house cats in the suburbs. It's a far-off land less than three hours by air from Miami, an international destination with a decidedly local feel, a sophisticated place where life is still fueled by basic human warmth.
Areas covered include:

The Central Valley and Beyond
Guanacaste and the Nicoya Peninsula
The Central and South Pacific Coast
The Caribbean Coast

272 pages. September 2004.
IPGW
0509

Price: $19.95
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