Why NOT Costa Rica? 🇨🇷
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 พ.ค. 2024
- As expats searching for a home abroad, many people wonder why we didn't choose #costarica In todays' episode I'll talk about the factors that mattered to us and why CR wasn't on our short list.
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In the near future Nicaragua will be a better country that used to be before the earthquake, more modern and more organized as well!! It is working to become the best country where to live and work, and more touristically accessible for wealthy people to visit or live in as well!!
😂😂😂😂bullshit
we thought we wanted to live in CR, maybe Panama. we drove into Nicaragua and everything about it felt right. We bought a lot in an expat community after being there for 3 days. 9 years later, we’re about to build and can’t wait for our future there. 🤙
Awesome! Congrats on joining us here in paradise.
Thank you for this. I was supposed to move to CR last year...im pretty happy it didn't work out
Thanks so much !
Thank you so much, Scott Alan Miller!
Hey Scott! Nice video! You pointed out a key factor for a human being, the integration.
Costa rica is the best🎉
Your at 75 thumbs up and im pressing to like the show however its not selecting it.
Thunbs up/like button not been able to select although I'm pressing it, get that checked out mate.
Your topic du jour is crazily coincidental to a reply to a post I'm just now reading on FB. In reply to someone's inquiry about the possibility of finding a rental for three in Leon for $350:
"FURNISHED? YOU WON"T FIND $350 UNFURNISHED...Housing in all areas of Nicaragua is FAST becoming more expensive than COSTA RICA."
Thoughts? Is the CoL differential between Nicaragua and Costa Rica that you're talking about in today's vid shrinking away or is this person full of it?
I made a video just about this. Which you noticed days ago. I'm just posting this for my own records.
Don't go to Yemin this year!!!!😂😂😂😂😂 You are so so funny sometimes.❤
Hello Sir. My reflection from vacationing in San Jose, Costa Rica is that it offers beautiful scenery, lots of tourists(mostly Americans), and very mediocre food for US level price. I felt I was dining university cafeteria level food. Not worth the money. I was thinking I could open a restaurant in San Jose. I am thinking of Mall food court where lots of tourists come. Not fancy fine dining but $22- $30 price range per dinner. My parents have owned a restaurant before so I am not out of touch with reality in the business. But what do you think sir? My aim is target toward tourists so I can make US level income if restaurant turn into success. I think this should work if tourists are coming all year round. Where do you think I have higher chance of success in? Costa Rica or Panama? Thank you in advance.
I put my thoughts into a video that will be airing on Sunday night!
How did you travel around with school age children?? How about Roatan or San Pedro de Sula? And of course the perennial question is about the climate in either country of heat and humidity, forcing people to confine themselves to air-conditioning most of the time! Not to mention healthcare services.....
We've always home schooled, we were planning on that before we traveled and before they entered school. So we were well prepared for it from the very beginning. Plus we lived in Texas so public school was completely worthless as an option no matter what so we were never going to let that happen. We wanted our kids to get an education. And to be safe. Two things the Texas education hates: education and safety.
I've never done Roatan or SPS but I hope to do SPS soon. Once I can drive up there. It looks really nice. I've done other cities up there but not that one.
Honduras and Costa Rica are a bit cooler than Nicaragua. At least here in Nicaragua, though, humidity isn't high. Temps are, but humidity is middling.
Yes, healthcare services here are great. But Costa Rica is pretty good too. Honduras lags behind both.
@@ScottAlanMillerVlog Fascinating thing about worldwide travel and home schooling. Requires alot of personal discipline and acceptance by every country you stay in.....and the weather around Nicaragua is more desert like than Panama or Costa Rica, with less humidity? I thought Managua etc. were very uncomfortable.
It does require a lot of discipline. But FAR less work than regular school. That makes the discipline easier when the total time and effort are lower for higher results. But you have to logically realize that. But once you do, it's far easier.
No country blocks it, though, when you don't file for some form of official residency. So using Nicaragua as an example, you can live for many years (and in some cases for forever) without ever falling under Nicaragua's educational jurisdiction as Nicaragua considers it. And as the US claims the students abroad, even when you might officially fall under a local jurisdiction (Nicaragua, for example), they rarely enforce anything because the US still claims jurisdiction. The local country has the right to, if you are an official resident rather than extended tourist, but it's not common to enforce for foreigners and almost unheard of when you are claimed by a US educational institution. Germany would be an exception where it's a big problem if you become an official resident.
From a foreign perspective a Texas home school student and a New York public school distance learning student appear identical. The concept of home school doesn't transfer in that discussion. A Texas home school student IS a Texas public school student legally. If we lived in Spain and they asked Texas, Texas would say that they are an active student in the Texas system. So while it CAN be a problem, it's extremely unlikely.
Managua, Leon, etc. are hot. Like... raw hot. The temps are just high. We CAN get humid days, but they are not the norm. Most days we are "dry" like Dallas. Not DRY, but leaning towards dry not leaning towards humid. Costa Rica is much more humid than us. Up here in Leon and Chinandega the "hot dusty brown" vibe is big. Not desert but, you can sense desert at times.
@@ScottAlanMillerVlog The idea of American jurisdiction for education sounds like a great subject for a video!
Nicoya and Guanacaste were once part of Nicaragua. I travelled to CR last year because my daughters left for Spain, and I enjoyed the countryside and San José did seem sort of a more traditional city and a bit cleaner, although some zones, like near the Tico Bus Station is dangerous I was told. I enjoyed the city experience you don´t get in Managua´, because of the earthquake in 72. I kinda missed it having grown up in Los Angeles, CA. San José was a lot cooler also, since it is at about 1000m. But when I crossed the border back and passed Lake Nicaragua and Granada, I said to myself that the Tico´s don´t have anything like this.
The only places nice in Costa Rica are the territories that took from Nicaragua, Guanacaste, Nicoya, all the north of CR. You took the right decision choosing Nicaragua, the country with the highest potential for growth in CA.
Costa Rica aka Florida South Annex.
Costa Rica has alot of problems right now with migrants, drought, currency exchange, and several other major problems.
Sicarios
@@no89lan3 Could you explain your one word answer?
@@dovygoodguy1296 As an addition to your list, sicarios, they have sicarios problems in Costa Rica. Their whole national security has gone down.
Crime is way up, tourists commonly targeted for violent robberies on the beach’s at night. Not good
@@Loco_vidz Who are the new perpetrators who weren't involved in crime in previous years?? And why particular locations more than others?
I am a Costa Rica native but my parents are originally from Nicaragua. I currently have two citizenships, Costa Rica and USA. I have not travelled in Nicaragua, but through videos I am finding that it is a beautiful country. After living 20 years in Texas, I'll be returning to motherland as I don't see myself growing old in a rat race environment . Nicaragua honestly makes me sad because of its government. I have first hand knowledge of what goes on there and I must say that Costa Rica might have issues, but no one can deny of its political stability and the fact that stands for human rights. Very sad as it seems like Nicaragua is great country with sooo much potential...
Nicaragua has a lot of political stability. No matter how you look at it or what kind of politics you have - stability is not in question. There have been foreign military invasions, and only by the US, since 1854. But the politics of Nicaragua are among the most stable in the world. Definitely vastly more stable than the US or Canada that are constantly flapping and on the verge of a breakdown. You can like or dislike how they are stable, but that they are incredibly stable is unquestionable. Costa Rica is also very stable, nothing bad about Costa Rica there. But the two are far and away the stablest governments in all of North America from Panama to Canada.
But unless you are a citizen, stability is meaningless. Totally worthless. Who actually cares if a government is stable. Nicaragua is VERy stable, that's true, but that stability doesn't really do anything for you if you aren't a citizen, so who cares? That's one of those "American trick selling points" that sounds good, but once you think about it you realize, doesn't actually matter. And now that the US is no longer stable, at all, it's biting them in the rear as their own marketing message has made the US seem undesirable now that it's the least stable country in the region.
In colonial times, the south border of Nicaragua was Colombia, Panama and Costa Rica didn't exist. Because of political turmoil and wars among nicaraguans, the nicaraguans asked permission to the Spanish crown to create a province in what today is Costa Rica and founded the Province of Cartago and families from many places of Nicaragua moved there for the same reasons they're moving now. More than 30% of the actual Costa Rica population are either born or descendants of nicaraguans like you.
Cost rica is very expensive compare to surrounding countries even Panama is cheaper the Costa Rica , it’s definitely over priced country.
I used to live in Panama. Costa Rica is way more expensive, you are right. I've not found anything else in Latin America to compare to it in cost.
Costa Rica is far away different from Nicaragua in different ways….it has more technology, like you just said, it is more like American way living in terms of government rules…it has a better infrastructure, it manage better things such as the laws of transit…people respect the laws, cities are very clean, very organised, etc.
More technology? such as?
Actually that's not at all what Costa Rica is like. Nicaragua has far better infrastructure, both roads and Internet, and is just 1/3rd the violent crime. Costa Rica is cleaner, but not clean. Both suffer from litter problems. Specifically lower crime and better infrastructure are draws of Nicaragua. Just drive from Honduras to Costa Rica and Nicaragua is a blip of great roads in the middle.
lol “more technology” - everywhere in the world has the same technology at this point.
@@Loco_vidzcorrect....even most 3rd world countries have access to wifi
Wifi is not at all where good infrastructure is. That's where it was ten years ago. What sets Nicaragua apart is the ubiquitous option of high quality fiber. Everywhere has and has had wifi, but that's useless without good Internet. Wifi is that little unit you put inside your house, you can bring that with you from China if you want. What is provided by the host country is Internet infrastructure and countries vary a lot one from another. In the US, for example, you CAN get amazing Internet, but you have to research heavily as many towns and even big cities (Cincinnati, Houston, San Francisco) lack modern infrastructures and run far FAR behind the third world. Here in the supposed third world, we have nation wide, affordable, extremely solid fiber that most countries are quite jealous of. We aren't Japan or Romania, but worlds ahead of the US or Canada. And noticeably ahead of Costa Rica.
That's why we call the US the "fourth world" because in the REAL first world, they can say "even in the third world", but when something is everywhere, then we say "even in the US" or "even in the fourth world" because true modernity, like healthcare and infrastructure, the US lags so far behind that the third world wouldn't want to be lumped with them in many cases. Going back to the US to visit is definitely an exercise in losing ground on technology significantly.
Nicoya nunca perteneció a Nicaragua leer un poco de historia no le haría mal o será que usted estará engañado con las versiones que le cuentan en ese país???? Por cierto es una dictadura en América latina entonces no pueden decir nada Nicoya nunca fue parte de Nicaragua jamás 👌🏻
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Nicoya
Nicoya was part of both Costa Rica and Nicaragua back and forth for hundreds of years. But at the time of its creation, it belonged to Nicaragua. That is where it started in 1527 when Nicaragua was created.
"Nicoya became a legal political, administrative and legal entity subject to the Villa de Bruselas township, controlled by the government of Castilla del Oro. In 1527, the Spanish Crown created the Province of Nicaragua, segregating it from Castilla de Oro, and included the territory of the Kingdom of Nicoya, since it was requested to establish whether the territory of the Villa de Bruselas (located at the southern tip of Nicoya) belonged to the Province of Nicaragua (the new circumscription), or if it remained under the authority of Castilla de Oro, and a Royal Decree of April 21, 1529 resolved the conflict in favor of the Province of Nicaragua, when the Villa had ceased to exist."
El problema, como ve, es que conozco la historia mejor de lo que cree.
@@ScottAlanMillerVlog sinceramente no creo que conozca la historia eso que me explico arriba de lo de Castilla de oro si lo sé pero nada que ver además le aseguro que si eso fuera parte de Nicaragua estaría atrasado en muchos aspectos no como está ahora más desarrollado además es más caro todo en Costa Rica 🇨🇷 por tanta gente extrajera que viene a vivir aquí si mucha de esa gente no viniera le aseguro que todo fuera más barato literalmente eso es culpa de la misma gente que cree que vivir aquí lo es todo y en Latinoamérica existen muchos países más no solo el nuestro 👌🏻