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I am not sure what you mean by “moving bank accounts.”
When you move to Costa Rica you will of course have to open a new bank account(s) one in dollars and perhaps one ion colones – which shouldn’t be too much of a problem if your wife is a Tica – and yes!
There should be no reason why you should not be able to transfer money from your U.S. bank account to your Costa Rica dollar account once the new account is active…
Scott
[quote=”sweikert925″]I read a recent [url=http://www.ticotimes.net/More-news/News-Briefs/Costa-Rica-regulatory-agency-approves-reduction-in-electricity-rates_Monday-September-23-2013]article in the Tico Times [/url]…… I got the sense that the government approves increases/decreases regularly and that what consumers pay therefore jumps around quite a bit from quarter to quarter. Is that true?[/quote]
Yes! La Autoridad Reguladora de los Servicios Públicos (ARESEP) is the regulatory authority in Costa Rica which regulates the water, sanitation, electricity and fuel supplies in Costa Rica for rates, pricing, quality, quantity and continuity….
So yes! Prices do go up and occasionally then go down but electricity prices have increased dramatically… (I have an article ‘in-the-works’ on that …)
The ARESEP website is at: [url=http://www.aresep.go.cr/]La Autoridad Reguladora de los Servicios Públicos (ARESEP)[/url]
You can use [url=http://translate.google.com/#es/en/]Google Translate here.[/url]
Hope that helps ….
Scott
Panama’s [url=http://www.nacion.com/economia/indicadores/Deficit-balanza-comercial-Istmo-subio_0_1370662932.html]commercial deficit is the highest in Central America[/url] ….
El informe de la Sieca detalla que durante el período indicado Panamá registró el mayor déficit comercial con un 30,9%, equivalente a $3.866 millones, seguido de Guatemala con el 19,9% por $2.490,2 millones.
El déficit comercial de Costa Rica se ubicó en el 16%, por $2.000,7 millones; El Salvador, 13,8%, en $1.733,4 millones; Honduras, 12,2%, en $1.525,4 ; y Nicaragua, 7,2% , equivalente a $901,1 millones.
Truly pathetic isn’t it?
They supposedly don’t have the budget to operate but…
1. They have the time and the money to print up signs that say the federal government has shutdown and…
2. They have the money to pay security guards to prevent you from entering these areas…
[img]https://www.welovecostarica.com/public/images/Pathetic12.jpg[/img]
Please read our article by Robert Evans:
[b][url=https://www.welovecostarica.com/public/903.cfm]Do NOT Buy A Used Car In Costa Rica Without Reading This Report. Your life may depend on it.[/url][/b]
I bought a new car (Toyota RAV) upon arrival in 1999 and I’m still driving it ….
Scott
[quote=”jerry”]After all, when was the last time someone took a rifle or pistol and started murdering passersby in Costa Rica???
I can remember at least half a dozen cases as such in the States. Too much frustration Me thinks[/quote]
Frustration may indeed be small part of the equation but many people are suggesting that prescription drugs are the real culprit …
“When roughly [url=http://www.wnd.com/2013/01/top-psychiatrist-meds-behind-school-massacres/]nine out of every 10 cases in these school shootings and mass shootings involve these drugs being prescribed[/url], then at least a significant proportion of these cases were either caused by the drugs or the drugs made a significant contribution to the problem,” Dr. David Healy
… and no doubt those drugs will be prescribed here too…
I don’t know if this applies living in Puerto Rico but the areas of New York I knew which had a large population of boricuas (Puerto Ricans) were very noisy …
Scott
Would you care to give us some feedback on the news you are publishing? What is it exactly you wish to discuss in this Discussion Forum?
Moody’s and all the other credit rating agencies were less than useless during the world’s worst financial crisis and gave nobody any notice of the ENORMOUS problems to come…
And with regards to your second point about Panama being a ‘friendlier business environment’ – would you care to give us some reasons why you think this is true?
And your “friends” are seriously choosing to live in Panama because of Costa Rica’s “… rising debt burden, fiscal deficits and stalled legislation to address the problems”?
Can we name many countries that don’t have these exact same problems?
Scott
Ja! No liquids are allowed anywhere near my computer …
Scott
PS. You don’t think I have lots of employees do you? I’m a “one man band,” with zero employees and only hire people for specific jobs when required…
As you well know ‘davidd’ Labor laws in Costa Rica are very much slanted towards the protection of the employee which – depending on your politics – is great for the employee and maybe not so great for the employer.
Think of the power that the Unions had in years gone by and that’s where we are today in Costa Rica. Costa Rica is very much more Socialistic than where most of our VIP Members are from …
However, this hasn’t stopped hundreds of international companies from opening up their offshore operations in Costa Rica and hiring tens of of thousands of Costa Rican employees.
PS. I hate mopping too… 🙂
Scott
Please take a look at our Affordable Car Rental sponsor on this website …
[ https://www.welovecostarica.com/public/Affordable-Car-Rental-In-Costa-Rica.cfm ]
Scott
I have bought a few BBQs and other items as gifts for family and clients from a store in Santa Ana called [url=http://www.attrezzocr.com/]Atrezzo[/url]…
You can see their [url=http://www.attrezzocr.com/productos/index.php?option=categorias&cid=76]smokers here[/url].
Hope that helps …
Scott
I have been here since September 1999 – nearly 14 years…
According to the [url=http://www.census.gov/hhes/migration/about/cal-mig-exp.html]United States Census[/url]:
“Using 2007 ACS data, it is estimated that a person in the United States [b]can expect to move 11.7 times[/b] in their lifetime…”
According to the [url=https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2102rank.html]CIA[/url] – and we know they would never lie to us, right? – The life expectancy of the average American is 78.62 (at # 51 on the global scale of life expectancy) then we should expect a move every 6.7 years, no?
In which case if you have been in one place for 13+ years then you have been here for nearly TWICE as long as the average….
Would this not suggest that you have been happier than the average person in that one place and this would be considered very positive news?
Scott
This thread is about travelling to Cuba…. I visit Guatemala regularly because my wife’s family are all from Guatemala.
[quote=”costaricabill”]If so, please share your travel info. I have been 7 times (by power boat, sailboat, commercial air) but each time from the States. We are planning a trip with friends in November, but looks like air travel is very difficult with Avianca no longer offering their flights.
Gracias,[/quote]
I received this promotion (below) this morning from Avianca which clearly states they have flights from San José to La Habana for $379. The promotion does NOT make it clear if there are stops…
[url=][img]https://www.welovecostarica.com/members/images/Avianca.jpg[/img][/url]
I have just emailed it to you ‘costaricabil’ – Hope that helps…
Scott
