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Costa Rica: Heredia:

Heredia the city or Heredia the province? I pass through the city often. It looks pretty nice. Climate is very comfortable because it is at a higher elevation. The National University is located there, so lots of students around. Traffic jams can be problematic. Many sodas within walking distance when you get hungry.

Costa Rica: What happened to Ann Bender?:

I will be looking to buy the book in June. Who is the publisher and do you know if it will it be available on Amazon?

Costa Rica: Wanting to relocate to CR:

The American International School of Costa Rica currently has five positions available to fill by August. I suggest you contact the school for details. Follow this link for more information: http://www.aiscr.org/immediate-position

Costa Rica: and on a positive note!:

Costa Ricans are drowned in depression from very young ages. This is an alert issued by the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS), because it warned that the numbers of patients are increasing and the disorder is becoming evident since childhood. Click on the below link for more details... http://www.usexpatcostarica.com/ticos-are-drowned-in-depression/

Costa Rica: Have you read this?:

About 5 months ago, the Dutch embassy in Costa Rica warned its citizens throughout the entire country to be on alert for robberies. That alert is still on its website.

Costa Rica: Slow internet:

Kohl, To add another news article to your post, this was reported today in the Costa Rica Star: "Costa Rica has one of the Slowest Internet Connections in the Americas The Global State of the Internet Report generated by Akamai, the world’s leading Content Delivery Network (CDN) provider, shows that Costa Rica has dropped seven spots in the ranking going from the position 109 to 116, losing 1.2% of internet speed. Twelve countries actually increased their speed in the last four months of 2016, while only three countries went in the opposite direction, Costa Rica, Mexico and Paraguay this last one had the biggest drop, 16%, averaging 1.4 Mbps. Costa Rica has an average speed of 3.9 Mbps (Megabytes per second) while the average global speed is of 7 Mbps.

Costa Rica: Water restrictions/rationing:

This speaks as much to government incompetence or ineptness as it does to anything else. Just like successive administrations have failed to plan for the increase in traffic over the last few decades, they have also failed to plan for population growth and water usage. So instead of accepting responsibility for the water problems in this country, the government blames mother nature, illegal well-diggers, and builders. According to NationMaster statistics, Costa Rica receives more annual rainfall that any country in the western hemisphere. There is no excuse for not tapping into this surplus of rainfall during the rainy season and storing it for the dry season...except for ineptness and incompetence.

Costa Rica: Roommate wanted to share a condo or house PETFRIENDLY (Tamarindo/Langosta):

Carmen, Marijuana is illegal in Costa Rica.

Costa Rica: Here we come !:

The only English-speaking Catholic church in Costa Rica that I know of is St. Mary's International Chapel. It is very nice, located next to the Hard Rock Café in Cariari, Heredia. http://saintmaryschapel.org/

Costa Rica: Moody's Downgrade:

Yea, I saw that article too. Meanwhile, the CR Legislative Assembly was hard at work last week (according to Radio Dos)passing a bill giving civil service workers the right to dress how they choose, meaning men have a right to dress like women, and women like men, etc. Reminds me of the U.S. legislature passing bills to name post offices and Federal buildings while unable or unwilling to pass an annual budget to keep the government running. From The Costa Rica Handbook, written by Chris Baker, "In 1949, the state employed only six percent of the working population; today the government pays the salaries of approximately 25%, or one in four employed people. Public employees are the best paid, most secure, and most highly unionized and vocal workers, and the supposedly neutral bureaucracy has become the largest and most insatiable pressure group in the country. Public employees' repetitive demands for higher pay, shorter hours, and greater fringe benefits (backed up by the constant threat of strikes) are so voracious that they eat up a vast proportion of the government benefits intended for the poor."

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