Costa Rica is supposed to be nice. Get a job at one of the soon-to-be, new, offshore healthcare providers.
Costa Rica is teetering on the lip of communism.
My husband and I lived there for 6 months while attending language school. ( We lived with Costa Rican families) Part of my program was to read every day and discuss with my tutor the editorial pages of the major Costa Rican newspapers.
We were there during the voting for the TLC ( NAFTA) with the United States. The pro-capitalistic side won but very very very narrowly. I was **shocked** at the outright blatant communist propaganda in the newspapers and on the TV.
Costa Rica could switch to a Chavez or Morales-type government in **one** election cycle. That is how powerful the communist forces are in Costa Rica. I think anyone who invests in a business or buys property in Costa Rica is NUTZ! The left there **HATES** Americans.
The fall of the Soviet Union did not mean communism was defeated. It's like a cancer. We merely had a temporary remission. The communist cancer has not only always been there eating away at the heart and soul of our nation but it is worldwide!
Yes, since it may be illegal to charge more than x dollars for open heart surgery, off shore Heart Surgery could be a boom business. I have heard that Costa Rica will be the place where we go for health care.
We would buy the property in the resort area and build a guest house with a dental care wing.