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We live at 4,100 feet above sea level in the Central Valley outside Grecia. We have neither heat nor air conditioning and don’t need them. It does, however, get a little chilly in the afternoons when it’s rainy or foggy. We frequently wear sweatshirts.
Visitors, flatlanders from the U.S., find that it takes them a little while to get acclimated to our altitude, but they do get used to it. What’s more, given the humidity of the six month-long rainy season, with your respiratory problems you may be affected by airborne mold and mildew as much as by reduced oxygen density. We had an American neighbor who had to leave Costa Rica for the arid interior of western Mexico to resolve her breathing problems.
In an ideal world, I would have settled at about 3,500 feet. It would be a little warm in the afternoon but not oppressively so. To me, 4,700 feet connotes pretty chilly weather year ’round. In the summer it’ll be dryer but not noticeably warmer.
[quote=”Bret Mier”]I am curious as well about the mild climates. I also would like a moderate tempeature, but I suffer with breathing problems. Can anyone tell me how easy it is to breathe aroung the 4,700 fott mark?[/quote]
We live in San Ramon de Tres Rios, just east of San Jose, at an altitude of about 4,800 ft. Last year my 86 year old mother who suffers from chronic asthma and COPD came down from Florida to live with us. The improvement in her breathing is almost miraculous. She is now using less than half of the breathing medications that she needed in Florida.
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