In: Current Affairs
New Perm Residency Cards
April 13, 2006Finally, the Department of Migracion in Costa Rica has started issuing a license-style permanent residency card instead of the old passport-style…
Read MoreBeards are In!
April 6, 2006A recent New York Times article declares that beards are now ‘in." Guess I’m going to have to shave mine. I’d…
Read MoreActual Cost of Living
April 5, 2006I see so many estimates of the real cost of living floating around. I find many of them to be inaccurate,…
Read MoreTruth
April 4, 2006The thing about truth is that everyone has a different version of it. And though it’s possible that some of us…
Read MoreTraffic Statistics
April 2, 2006I recently posted something about the traffic in Costa Rica. Well today I just read a statistic from the Tico Times…
Read MoreCost of Living
March 30, 2006This post was written by Alexandra Lancaster of The Wright Group Real Estate. I, like many folks who live here, get…
Read MoreAn 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…
Read MoreCosta Rica Social Life
March 5, 2006It’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…
Read MoreIntermittent Services
February 27, 2006One of the many things a person has to get used to when they move to Costa Rica is the level…
Read MoreCartoon Craziness
February 7, 2006What 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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