Never beento CR or the rest of CA before? Been there on vacation? If you have a nest egg and Social Security and a Pension from home, or $200,000
to invest you shall encounter no problems. Yes you can survive on $1,100 a Month if you go native, read this timely article about the REAL CR on insidecostarica.com Daily news and views of CR, CA and all LA in English
http://www.insidecostarica.com/dailynews/2010/may/31/costarica10053101.htm