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[i]Our [/i]friends, who have lived in CR for the last 12 years, returned at the weekend from Ecuador and really liked the country. Cooler temps than here, due to the high altitude in places but prices were much lower. For example gas was $2.50 a gallon.
Said the roads were amazing, people were friendly, nice hotel rooms $40-50.
Only negative was the mountainous and windy roads, although in good condition, and she doesn’t care much for heights…:roll:When a ‘couple’ retires here, there is usually [b]or will be in their future, two sources of income[/b], not only the guaranteed source required for residency.
The main thin is that your 5 amazing children be given the chance to excel where quality education is available and getting scholarships are relatively easy.
Many living here only on their SS or pension, especially a low pension from years ago, rely on buses and/or taxis. With there being six in your family, most taxis will not accept all of you at once, so this also needs to be taken into consideration.
Most [i]Ticos[/i] do not have hot water, anywhere in their home…nor do they have kitchen cabinets, as we know them.
They very often just have a tin roof with no ‘ceiling’ on the inside.
No closets, either.
Laundry facilities are usually outside.
Usually, no window or door screens.
In other words, a [b]very[/b] basic residence… but I have seen many, that are much more rustic.[b]barbara ann[/b] you haven’t been keeping up with the news! You cannot now get your drivers license until you get Residency and a [i]cedula[/i]. You can use a valid one from your home country, but then have to leave the country for a short time to ‘re-set’ your drivers license and renew your tourist visa for hopefully another 90 days.
It is also easier to live on $1000 [b]if you own your home[/b] and don’t have to pay rent.You haven’t responded to the main question, is she a Costa Rican citizen too? Will she be applying for residency as a [i]Rentista[/i] which requires $60K be placed in a bank for her monthly expenses, where $2500 a month, will be placed into a separate account for the first two years? After another $60K is deposited to continue to support her for the second 2 years. Or [i]Pensionado[/i] which requires a pension from a guaranteed source or SS with a minimum of $1000. This [b]cannot[/b] be from alimony.
For $1500-$2000 per month she can live well in a decent home or condo with the all the utilities and payments you mentioned although maybe not running and maintaining a car, if she wants to continue living and spending as she did in the USA. This will really depend on where and how she choose to live, and how she manages her funds.
If she is a citizen, then she will live well on her alimony.
Please read the info on [url=www.residencyincostarica.com]Residency in Costa Rica[/url] which will explain it, better than I can 😉Today on [url=http://insidecostarica.com/2012/11/13/costa-rican-doctors-calling-for-pneumonia-vaccination-after-425-deaths-in-2011/]Insidecostarica[/url] doctors are calling for pneumonia vaccinations.
If we choose to live here, we have to consider, if we rely primarily, on how well the CAJA medical system can treat pneumonia and some of the other treatable diseases that can be transmitted if one decides not to get vaccinated.
It [b]isn’t[/b] necessary to have a typhus vaccination to visit Panama from Costa Rica. Nor is a Yellow fever vaccination required to travel [b]to[/b] CR from some other Central American countries, [b]if you are over 65[/b].
I agree that one person can live very well for $2000 a month.
Two people could live ‘pretty good’ for this amount.
But whether or not she will [b]like living in Costa Rica,[/b] only time will tell.
You mentioned that she ‘will get benefits’ and to get residency she is required to already in receipt of a guaranteed pension of $1000, minimum. Of course, if she is also a Costa Rican citizen, this is a moot point.My sister is considered ‘legally blind’ from having measles. I also had a friend who totally lost her sight, again, she had measles.
Where we lived in Canada recently had an outbreak of whooping cough cases due to not vaccinating children.
Back to the schooling issue, be advised that many public schools will not permit students who do not speak Spanish.Read the interview on the ‘Home page’ of the Canadian family, and see where they share their views on the medical and school system.
BTW this is one on the best and down to earth interviews written for this site[b]Vern[/b], no one is forcing you to purchase property, so consider what many of us suggest and rent. At least until you determine whether CR is right for [b]you.[/b]
[b]David,[/b] like you, we are explaining that we [b]know,[/b] and are not just passing on second hand information.
The following was copied from [url=http://thejacoblog.com/costa-rica-vaccinations-required-again-for-children/]this webpage[/url],[i]”Just announced last week in the media, Costa Rica vaccinations of over 700,000 children are set to be re-immunized. Most of the general public does not question such programs and generally go along with it, after all, when they show up at your children’s school, [b]you do not have much choice unless you stay with them all day”[/b]. [/i]Don’t get me wrong, in that I feel children should be vaccinated against the parent wishes, but that they know that is a requirement if they want their child to attend the public school system, so if they don’t like it, they need to chose somewhere else to live.
[i]”Some affluent Tico folks that I know of that do NOT believe in Vaccinations made a few financial contributions and went there merry way”[/i] probably sent their children to private school.
You are wrong!
The public school will [b]not[/b] allow non vaccinated students in the public school system. This is not so, for [b]all[/b] private schoolsCheck out previous newspapers reports.
And [b]maravilla[/b] is correct. I too, had American neighbors who were forced to send their children to a public school because the were ‘home schooling’.
One of the Real estate agents who used to post on this forum, left the country due to ‘home schools issues’
One [b]may[/b] get away with the ‘home schooling; if you are only in the country for a short time. I have a friend who has 4 children and they do ‘home schooling’ but they return for many months at a time to the US where they attend ‘regular’ classes.The parents also know that they could potentially, be charged or made to put all the children in school.
