In: Current Affairs

New Perm Residency Cards
April 13, 2006

Finally, the Department of Migracion in Costa Rica has started issuing a license-style permanent residency card instead of the old passport-style…

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Beards are In!
April 6, 2006

A recent New York Times article declares that beards are now ‘in." Guess I’m going to have to shave mine. I’d…

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Actual Cost of Living
April 5, 2006

I see so many estimates of the real cost of living floating around. I find many of them to be inaccurate,…

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Truth
April 4, 2006

The thing about truth is that everyone has a different version of it. And though it’s possible that some of us…

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Traffic Statistics
April 2, 2006

I recently posted something about the traffic in Costa Rica. Well today I just read a statistic from the Tico Times…

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Cost of Living
March 30, 2006

This post was written by Alexandra Lancaster of The Wright Group Real Estate. I, like many folks who live here, get…

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An Encounter with The American Species
March 8, 2006

(I stole this entry off my friend, Colin’s, blog.) So, I end up getting invited to a social evening one night…

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Costa Rica Social Life
March 5, 2006

It’s really interesting how different a social life can be here in Costa Rica. For my first year-and-a-half I really didn’t…

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Intermittent Services
February 27, 2006

One of the many things a person has to get used to when they move to Costa Rica is the level…

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Cartoon Craziness
February 7, 2006

What is going on in the world? Why do we have so much hatred? At times, I really feel like I’m…

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