Being Happy: Social and Natural Factors Are More Important Than Money (Especially in Costa Rica) It’s easy to find an online test that will purportedly tell you how happy you are. But how happy are the people of an entire nation? And which nation’s people are happiest? That’s hard to measure. So for decades world [...]
Tom Brady has a nice life. That might be hard for you to believe, considering his wife has been mocked mercilessly for sending an e-mail to friends and family to pray for Brady in Super Bowl XLVI and for complaining about the team’s receivers afterward and since, you know, the Patriots lost to the Giants, [...]
A brand new initiative designed to identify properties using a ‘cadastral map’ has been implemented by the Registro Nacional (National Register) in Costa Rica. A new real estate certificate will include a two dimensional aerial view of the land or property and is designed to provide more security to owners and potential buyers of property in [...]
New York, NY, February 17, 2012 –(PR.com)– The very creative entertainment organization Mark Lugo Creative Entertainment ventures out into the Latin American market and opens an office in San Jose, Costa Rica, announced Josh Greene, Vice-president of Operations for Latin America. MLCE aims to provide English and Spanish brand marketing via television product placement, music [...]
Opening of Aloft Bogota Airport and Aloft San Jose in Costa Rica STAMFORD, Conn., Feb 14, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — With the highly anticipated debut of Aloft Bogota Airport in Colombia this past December 10th, and Aloft San Jose, Costa Rica opening on February 1st 2012, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. HOT -0.75% brings [...]
MEXICO CITY (AP) – The U.S. Geological Survey says a magnitude 5.8 earthquake shook the central and Pacific coastal regions of Costa Rica early Monday morning. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage. The geological survey says the quake, which hit at about 5 a.m. local time (6 a.m. EST), was felt moderately in central and western [...]
Keep your eyes open in Costa Rica , and you may be a lucky witness of the amphibian’s family, especially the amazing world of frogs. For a few weeks avery April, thousands of Monteverde’s goleen toads emerged to gather around pools of water in the cloud forests to mate. Painted a spectacular shining orange, a [...]
How to Find a Lawyer If you plan to go into business, work, buy or sell property or seek long term residency status in Costa Rica, you will definitely need the services of a trustworthy and professional attorney. Your attorney can help you understand the complexities of the Costa Rican legal system, which is based on Napoleonic law. [...]
This building is located 11 miles away from Irazú Volcano, in a place called Prusia. This place is characterized by fog and cold weather. It owes its name to the surgeon that created this center, Dr. Carlos Duran Cartin. He was Costa Rica’s president for a short period (1889-1980), during this time he founded this [...]
One of the many great things about retirement in Costa Rica is the quality and affordability of domestic help and other manual labor. Maids, cooks, gardeners, childcare workers or property caretakers are all a bargain compared to North American rates for such services. In our two years here, my husband Layne and I have had [...]
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