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I knew a German butcher in Los Angeles. He was a GSD breeder and Schutzhund competitor. He fed his dogs lots of meat, chicken, vegetables and I don’t know what else.
His German Shepherds all lived extraordinarily long lives… one even live to be 17 year-old… (or 19? I can’t remember). Extremely long for the breed.
But he obviously knew how to balance their diet, properly. He may have supplemented with some kind of kibble– I don’t know.
I DO KNOW that every client who showed up at South Bay K-9 Academy and had been feeding their dogs some kind of all natural diet they prepared… every last one of those dogs looked horrible. Dry coats, temperament problems, inability to focus. I’d have them switch to a high quality kibble, and within two weeks, it was like a different dog. Great looking coats, much calmer, etc…
I think there’s a lot of conspiracy theory against the dog food companies. People who are inclined to buy into that will find their own justificiations.
Sure… crime happens everywhere. It’s all the same. Bogota. Bagdad. Managua. Beverly Hills.
Crime happens everywhere.
Uh, huh.
That’s why we all had our our Nicaraguan guards with shotguns, our razor wire fences and our cell-block windows and guard dogs back in Vancouver, too.
And oh, yes… victims are to blame for crime. It’s all their fault, because of how they carried themselves when they walked. I forgot.
Sure.
Kudos to Scott for even allowing this thread of discussion. The folks over at CostRicaLiving Yahoo group wouldn’t even let my post go through, as it was based in “opinion” — as if everyone else there posts only facts. LOL.
I may be an a–hole, but I’m an a–hole with a valid point.
I believe it is. Look at the rising crime in La Fortuna, Quepos, Jaco… compared to 10 years ago.
Ask the locals and they will tell you. Ignore the developers, promoters and touts.
I love Costa Rica, but y’all are deceiving yourselves.
Costa Rica is not like every place else.
I can walk around downtown Austin, Texas at night without tripping over 9 year-old kids sleeping in cardboard boxes, who don’t have shoes but do have bottles of glue they’re sniffing.
It’s a great country, but to suggest that it’s as safe as any place else is a fallacy.
I’ve always been an advocate of Nutro-Natural (haven’t seen it here, but occasionally I do see some of the other Nutro products, but rarely) … and Pro-Plan. Also seen rarely.
The dog I just placed with a family actually did better on “Super Perro” — the cheap stuff you buy at the super market, than he did on the expensive Science Diet.
Dogs have evolved into hearty animals. The trick is to find out what your specific dog does best on. You can always supplement with cooked chicken, carrots, eggs and oil. Your dog will be fine.
As a side note: The owner of one of the largest privately owned kennel and training facilities in the States spent six months researching dog foods. He came to the conclusion that a certain brand (a specialty food) was the most balanced and nutritious. Also supplemented the food with the supplements recommended by the company. (This was a good sized company in the “specialty dog food” industry.)
Well– after much testing, both of their breeding lines (GSDs and Goldens) started throwing litters of dogs that were stunted (minaturized).
After eliminating all other variables, they switched to another brand and lo and behold… the problem fixed itself.
Moral of the story: Pay attention to your dog. Watch to see what he does best on. Teeth. Eyes. Breath. Weight. Feces. Personality. Allergies, etc…
Regards,
Adam.
Dogproblems.comBoo-hoo-hoo… the sky is falling! The sky is falling!
1. We have the highest standard of living in the world. Source: The OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development).
2. We are the most productive society in the world. We produce more product per capita than any other country in the world and outproduce our nearest competitor, Japan, by about 35 percent. Source: The OECD.
3. We are the largest economic producer in the world. It is hard to believe that we produce 38 percent of the entire production of the world. Source: The OECD.
4. Americans win more Nobel Prizes in science than any other country in the world. In fact, we frequently sweep those prizes 100 percent, and our normal take is 70/80 percent of all prizes awarded. Source: The Nobel Foundation.
5. We have the largest manufacturing industry of any country in the world and it is expanding as a percentage of the total economy! Source: The Bureau of the Census, OECD.
6. American manufacturing production is is larger than any other total economy in the world with the exception of Japan. Source: The Bureau of the Census, OECD.
7. We have one of the lowest tax rates in the world of advanced industrial nations, bar none. Source: OECD.
8. We put more people to work any way you want to measure it in the past decade than any other country in the world, not only in the actual number of jobs but also as a percentage of the labor force. We added more than one million jobs a year for the past decade! Source: BLS.
9. We graduate more people in the sciences than any other country in the world. Source: Department of Education, Bureau of the Census.
10. We graduate more engineers than any other country in the world. Source: Ibid.
11. More women graduate from college and higher institutions in the U.S. than any other country in the world. Source: Ibid.
12. The SAT scores of high school students are rising and have been rising for 20 years, contrary to popular notion and mythology. Source: The Rand Institute.
13. We conceived, developed, and paid for the modern day world of satellite communications. Source: NASA.14. We conceived, developed, and paid for the modern world of satellite navigation for which no country in the world has paid one penny. Source: The Defense Dept.
15. We spend more on medical research than any other country in the world, no matter how you measure it. Source: The Bureau of the Census.
16. The American people have the largest level of savings in the world; some $13,000,000,000,000; $13 trillion ($13 thousand billion) NET (assets minus liabilities). Source: The Federal Reserve Board.
17. The American people have the highest level of disposable income per capita (income after taxes, per person), and in the aggregate of any nation in the world. Source: U.S. Dept. of Commerce.
18. More Americans own their own homes than in any other country in the world, both in the aggregate and per capita. Source: BLS.
19. The United States admits more political refugees than any other country in the world, and they come from all over the world! Source: Dept. of Justice.
20. The United States is the only country in the advanced industrial world that does not have a defined class structure based on heritage. Source: Travels in Germany (Baron), France (Count), Italy (Count), England (Lord), Japan (Baron), Canada (Lord), Belgium (Baron), Holland (Count), etc. etc.
21. The United States has one of the lowest Federal debt ratios (debt as a percent of total production) of any of the advanced industrial nations in the world. Source: Federal Reserve Board.
22. The United States won the Cold War with the Soviet Union and did so without an atomic war, in spite of prevailing predictions to the opposite. Nor did the United States ever go to war with the Soviet Union. There is no major hostile power in the world at the present moment. PEACE IS BULLISH! Source: Everyday knowledge.
23. In 1970, 54.5 percent of the persons 25 years of age and over completed 4 years of high school. In 1994, that figure had climbed to 80.9 percent. In 1970, the percentages for the blacks was 20.1 percent. In 1994, it was 72.9 percent. Source: Statistical Abstract of the U.S., 1995 edition.24. In 1970, the teacher-to-pupil ratio was 26.4 or 26.4 students to each teacher, and in 1994, it was 17.2 students per each teacher. Source: Ibid.
25. In 1984-1985, 77.7 percent of all elementary and secondary schools had microcomputers for student instruction. In 1993-1994, it was 97.5 percent. In 1984-1985, there were 631,983 minicomputers available to students. In 1993-1994, there were 4,470,573. Source: Ibid.
26. In 1973, high school dropouts represented 6.3 percent of enrollment. In 1993, they were 4.2 percent. The rate of dropout for blacks was 10.1 percent in 1973 and had dropped to 5.4 percent in 1993. The rate for Hispanics was 10.0 percent in 1973 and 5.4 percent in 1993. Source: Ibid.
27. In 1971 there were 230,509 people that earned Master’s degrees. In 1992 there were 352,301! In 1971, women represented 40.1 percent of the total. In 1992, they were 54.1 percent! Source: Ibid.
28. In 1971, there were 32,107 people that earned Doctorates (excluding medicine). In 1992, there were 40,659. Women were 14.3 percent of the total in 1971 and 37.1 percent in 1992. Source: Ibid.
29. In 1970, 16 percent of all college freshmen earned A- to A+ grades. In 1994, the percentage had risen to 28 percent, while at the same time grades of C- to C+ declined from 27 percent in 1970 to 15 percent in 1994. B grades stayed pretty much the same. Source: Ibid.
30. In 1976, 179,000 foreigners came to the United States as students of American colleges. In 1994, there were 449,000 who came to American colleges! Source: Ibid.
31. Salary offers for graduates of colleges in 1990 in all recognized fields ranged from $21,000 to $35,000. In 1993, (just 3 years later) that range had risen to $24,000+ to $39,000+. Source: Ibid.
32. Voluntary financial support for higher education in 1970 was $1,780,000,000 ($1.78 billion), and by 1993, it had climbed to $11,200,000,000 ($11.2 billion). Source: Ibid.
33. From 1985 (the first set of comparable data) to 1993 (preliminary), all national air pollutants declined. Lead air pollutant emissions declined from 20,124 thousands of tons to 4,885 thousands of tons in 1993. Source: Bureau of the Census.
34. From 1985 to 1992, total dollar expenditures for pollution abatement and control expenditures increased from 72.8 billion to 87.6 billion. Source: Bureau of the Census.
35. In 1985, there were about 6,000 elected black officials. In 1993, there were 7,984. In 1985, there were 3,174 Hispanic elected officials. In 1993, there were 5,549. Source: Bureau of the Census.
36. In 1980 there were 31,020 doctorates conferred by American universities. In 1993 there were 39,754. In 1980 women received 30.3 percent of all the doctorates, in 1993 it had risen to 38.0 percent! Source: Ibid.
37. In 1985, there were 107,150,000 Americans employed. In 1994, there were 123,060,000; that represents an average increase of 1,767,000 per year, which no country in the world can even come close to matching. Source: Bureau of the Census.
38. Unemployment dropped from 7.2 percent in 1985 to 6.1 percent in 1994. Source: Ibid.
39. In 1985, there were 11,500 workers killed on the job. In 1993, there were 9,100 workers killed on the job. Better, but not yet good enough.
40. In 1985, the gross domestic product (the total value of all goods and service produced in a year) of the United States was $4.036 trillion; 4.036 thousand billion dollars or $4,036,000,000,000,000! In 1994, according to early estimates, it was $6,738 trillion or $6,738,000,000,000,000! Source: Ibid.
41. Personal income (the total income of individuals) was $2.265 trillion in 1985 and more than doubled in the years to 1994 to $5.458 trillion. Personal savings (about which there is a plethora of nonsense) rose from $154 billion in 1985 to $203 billion in 1994. Source: Ibid.
42. Personal income PER CAPITA was $13,922 in 1980, and in 1994, it had risen to $16,867 in constant prices! Adam of the Internet comes from California or goes to school there, and he will be interested to know that CA ranks 14th (1994) in the nation on this basis of measurement at $17,396 (CT is 1st). Source: Ibid.
Disposable personal income per capita (income after federal, state, and local income taxes), and a better measure than personal income, rose from $12,001 in 1980 to $14,466 in 1994. CA, on this basis, was number 9 in the country. CT remained number 1. Source: Ibid.44. The gross savings of the United States in 1980 was $465.4 billion. In 1994 it was $920.6 billion. Our savings, about which sheer nonsense has been written by the media and the politicians, is greater than the TOTAL production of most countries in the world. Germany produced the equivalent of $1.8 trillion 1994. We saved the equivalent of 50 percent of their entire production! Source: Ibid.
45. The net income of non-farm proprietorships in 1987 was $106 billion. In 1990 it was $141 billion. Small business shares in the wealth. Source: Ibid.
46. Business expenditures for new plant and equipment (does not include maintenance) was $424.5 billion in 1985 and $616.3 billion in 1994. The figure for 1995 will be about $700 billion and for 1996 about $750 billion. The figures for 1985 and 1994 are in constant prices (inflation removed). What’s this the media and the Japanese say that we don’t invest in the future! Source: SAUS.
47. Our business contractions are getting shorter, and our business expansions are getting longer. The average of all business cycles from 1919 to 1945 was 18 months for contractions whereas from 1945 to 1991 it was 11 months! Source: Ibid.
48. R & D (research and development) expenditures have risen every year since the data began to be gathered in 1960! In 1985, those expenditures were $120.6 billion and in 1994 were $172.6 billion. Both the preceding figures exclude inflation since they are in constant prices! CONTRARY TO POPULAR MISCONCEPTIONS, defense spending was 33 percent of the total in 1985 and had declined to 25 percent of the total in 1994, but the total still rose! What’s this that one Jerry Goodman (so-called Adam Smith) of PBS in New York and the Japanese that say we don’t invest in R & D? Source: Ibid.
49. Spending for R & D as a percentage of our Gross Domestic Product (production of all goods and services) is the second highest in the world and materially above other industrial nations. In 1993 (after defense spending adjustments), we spent 2.77 percent of our GDP on R & D, Japan spent almost the highest percentage in the world on R & D, and since we are the biggest economy in the world, by definition we outspend everybody in dollars committed to the future! Jerry Goodman of NY PBS years ago pointed out that Japan spent 2.9 percent, and since we only spent 2.8 percent they materially outspent the U.S. for R & D. But he failed to point out that since we are bigger, our dollar spending was far more than theirs! Source: Ibid.
50. Graduate science and engineering degrees granted by doctorate-granting colleges rose from 353,800 in 1985 to 394,800 in 1990 and 427,800 in 1992. The female participation rate rose from 34.5 percent in 1985 to 38.6 percent in 1992. The foreign student participation rate was 25.6 percent in 1990 and 25.1 percent in 1992 (no other figures available). In spite of media claims, Americans receiving doctorates in engineering and science have been steadily rising. In 1990, there were 293,731 American doctorates and in 1992 there were 320,422. According to all the media about our granting of doctorates, they always claim that the foreign students take an increasing percentage and the number of degrees earned by Americans is declining! Source: Ibid.
51. No one in the history of the United States has attempted a military coup to overthrow the government. Compare that to the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain,the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Denmark, Latvia, Estonia, Yugoslavia, Turkey, Egypt, most African nations, almost all the South American nations and the Middle Eastern nations! Our political stability is unmatched in the world with the exception of the UK and Canada.
52. We have the oldest written constitution in the entire history of the world! The UK does not have a written constitution but Germany, France, Japan, Italy, Canada ,etc.etc. have constitutions all of which were written after 1946!
53. We are the most productive agricultural society in the world and outproduce every other country in the world in terms of agricultural production per capita and per farm worker.
54. We are among the lowest priced countries in the world; Switzerland is the highest priced country of all, Japan is second (ever been there-you wouldn’t believe it!) and Europe is not far behind. There are only three countries in the world that have lower prices than we do and they are Canada, Portugal and Turkey! Every other nation in the world listed in the OECD (the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development comprises 24 nations ). Here are the figures of the 24 nations in chart form (sorry about the country abbreviations). Source is page 198 of the February, 1996 issue of the OECD, data is for November, 1995.The most advanced industrial nation in the world (that’s us) with the highest standard of living in the world has lower prices (for the same basket of goods and services of every country in the OECD [about 96 percent of world production is represented]) than any of them but three-Canada, Portugal and Turkey! If you don’t believe it then go abroad and weep for yourself! Source: Ibid
55. Transportation deaths and accidents have gone down steadily from 1985 to 1993. In 1985 there were 19,322,000 transportation casualties. In 1993 there were 11,928,000. Still too high but down!
56. In 1985 new plant & equipment expenditures totaled $410 billion. In 1994 they totaled $634 billion.What kind of media nonsense is there that we don’t invest in the future? Our new plant and equipment capital expenditures in 1994 equaled about 33 percent of the entire German economy! Or almost the entire Canadian economy!
57. Fatal motor accidents in 1985 totaled 39,196. In 1993 they totaled 35,747. Total number of people killed in fatal motor accidents in 1985 were 51,091 and in 1993 they had dropped to 40,115.
58. Hijacking incidents on U.S. registered aircraft totaled 4 in 1985 and there were 0 (none, zip) in 1993. Hijacking incidents world wide totaled 26 in 1985 and in 1993 there were 31.
59. Aircraft accidents for general aircraft were 2,738 in 1985 and in 1993 they had declined to 2,022.
60. Fatal accidents per 100,000 aircraft hours flown in 1985 were 2.2 and in 1993 they had declined to 1.67.
61. Consumer Complaints against aircraft carriers totaled 10,533 in 1985 and by 1994 they had dropped to 5,179. I am not sure what this means; do people complain less because it is hopeless or have they become resigned?
62. Passengers en planed on Commuter/Regional airlines totaled 26 million in 1985 and were 52.7 million in 1993. In other words more and more of the country is being covered by commuter and regional aircraft carriers. Service is wider spread! I know since I live in Nantucket and I think the service here is superb, considering that Nantucket has about 7000 permanent residents (but it jumps to about 45,000/50,000 in the summer moths).We residents get service all year.
63.The value of farm production in constant prices was $146 billion in 1985 and it had increased to $164 billion in 1993. The farmers are sharing in the wealth although all we hear about is the disappearance of the small farm but cash receipts keep on going up.
64. The United States produces 46 percent of the corn production of the entire world, 52 percent of the soybean production of the entire world and 21 percent of the cotton production of the entire world!
65. The United States exports 36 percent of the wheat exports of the entire world, 69 percent of corn, 66 percent of soybeans and 26 percent of cotton!
66.In 1987 there were 2,087,000 farm operators. In 1992 there were 1,925,000 . The production of the farms in 1992 exceeded the production of 1987, with fewer farms and fewer farm operators!
67.The total value of farm exports in 1993 was $42.6 billion! Agricultural exports are a major part of our exportability in the world!
68. There are now fewer milk farms in the United States than there were in 1945 but milk production is the highest ever recorded no matter how you look at it; per cow, per farm, per herd and per agricultural worker! Milk production per cow ,was 13,000 pounds in 1985 and in 1994 it was 16,100 pounds!
The United States spends more per student at all levels of education than any other country in the world, figures are inconstant dollars based on purchasing power parities (how much a dollar will buy). In 1992 the U.S. spent $6,010 per student in primary and secondary schools and $13,890 per student in higher education. The average for the OECD was $4,700 and $10,030 respectively.70. The United States spent $3,299 dollars per capita (measured in purchasing power parities) in 1993 for health care, more than any other country in the world
71.The United states has the highest level of educational achievement of any country in the world. In 1992 , 24 percent of the U.S. population between the ages of 25 to 64 had university education. The next nearest country was the Netherlands. Japan is not listed in the data; France, Germany and Italy all had 12 percent or less! The primary source of the data is the OECD which includes Japan so that it is strange that Japan is not listed. Maybe the Japanese won’t tell because it is not as great as they claim?
72. The Gross Domestic Product of the OECD (about 96 percent of world production) in 1993 was $17.38 trillion . The U.S. contributed $5.765 trillion or 33.2 percent. The world population is about 5.8 billion. The U.S. population is about 255 million. With about 4.4 percent of the world’s population we produce one third of world production! Not too bad for a decadent country who only cares about the present and who doesn’t know anything about real production (words of Japanese critics). But then what would you expect from them except denigration; after all we should have lost the war.
73. We have the lowest savings rate (savings as a percent of income after taxes) of any industrial country in the world and that is supposed to be horrible!Just horrible! But we have more savings than any other country in the world stashed away primarily (about 30 percent) in cash (believe it or not). Everybody in the world forgets something rather basic. After World War II it took the victorious as well as the defeated countries in Asia and Europe about a decade to recover and there were no savings by anybody to speak of. During those same years we had no reconstruction and no rebuilding so that we saved our very normal 5/6 percent of our income after taxes each and every year. And of course none of our savings were wiped out as they were in Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, France, the U.K. et al. That is one of the ways we built up our savings to the multi-trillion mark; in fact about 15 trillion dollars! Why save when you have it? In addition to that there are technical questions about the ability to compare our figures with theirs but I am not about to burden you with that. Leave it this way: we are loaded!
74.The United States spends less of its income on food than any other country in the world (and too many of us are overweight anyway)! We spent 8.3 percent of our income on food in 1991 (latest data available) , Every other country in the OECD world spent double digit percentages for food! The highest was India at 53.1 percent and the lowest in the rest of the world outside the U.S. was Canada at 10.8 percent of their income. France was 16.3, Germany was 19.1, UK was 11.5, Italy was unknown as was Japan (does Japan hide all the negative international comparisons whenever she can?).
75.We have more radio and TV receivers than any other country in the world, per capita. Democracy requires an informed public and we certainly score number one on that accord, not even including the fabulous Internet (I am on “Internet Café Nantucket” which is excellent).Some of these facts may force you to blink your eyes in disbelief because in many cases you have heard the exact opposite of what I have written here. But these are the facts. All the sources are available to anyone with access to a library and the sources are common ones. They are not sophisticated documents. How can the media be so wrong about America? Simple, they make up the facts to suit their stories and predilections! If you don’t believe these facts, then go look them up for yourself.
Does the U.S.A. have problems? Absolutely, but, unlike most of the other countries in the world, we focus on our problems and not our successes, unlike the French (I am of French background), who focus on their successes and ignore their problems! Our focus is problems, their focus is successes (which may explain why we are more materially successful than they are).
Check with your local library. My parents’ local library in California offers Rosetta Stone online, if you have a library card.
Overpriced tourist trap.
The food is horrible and way, way overpriced.
I took my girlfriend and her mother there, for her birthday. None of us even had alcohol, and the bill still came to $130.
The location, however, is magnificent. My advice: Go for drinks and tour the property. They have a chapel with the ceiling painted and it’s truly impressive. Go for a drink, tour the place, then get a taxi and have dinner at the Peruvian restaurant in Plaza Itzkatzu.
– Adam.
Here’s another quote from George Orwell:
“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. “
Despite what you may read in the liberal media, we are taking the fight to the Islamonazis. By their own admission, they wish to restore their caliphate and have all of you Liberal women wearing Burkas and being subjected to ritual honor slaying for doing things like, oh I don’t know… for example… showing your face in public.
Our war on terror has been a tremendous success, MSM media polls notwithstanding. We’ve kicked the living crap out of the Taliban. We’ve decimated Al Queda, and even created dissention with the ranks of the Extremists. We’ve got Osama (who many military reports suggest is already dead) … living in a cave somewhere. We’ve got jihadists, bent on restoring the Caliphate, flocking to fight our troops in Iraq, rather than FLOCKING TO AMERICA TO KILL OUR CIVILIANS. And most importantly, we haven’t had an attack on American soil since 9-11.
As for those of you who are under the delusion that you’re more free in Costa Rica than in the U.S., you are… only to the extent that incompetence is rampant.
But if we’re going to talk about corrupt politicians, why don’t we look at the fact that this country is equivalent in size to a medium sized American city:
Yet, the past three presidents have been convicted or are under investigation for outright fraud. Racism (or nationalism) is way, way higher here than in the States. I see flag waving here like I’ve never seen in the States, even on the 4th of July. And ask a Tico what they think of the Nicas, and you’ll find unapologetic racism (or nationalism) far worse than ANYTHING you’d ever hear from your average American.
The god-given right of a woman to defend herself using the superior technology against rape (that is, with a gun!) are being rapidly evaporated. As Oscar says, “Let’s ban rifles because they are military weapons.” Hello– what weapons AREN’T military weapons???
And her personal rights to have an abortion… forget about it? Where do they go when they the want an abortion? That’s right, baby… to Miami. The good ‘ol U.S.A.
Say what you will about our health care system in the States, but I can guarantee you that an illegal immigrant in the States will get better medical attention than an illegal here in CR. And in many cases, better than a Tico. Yeah, the medical services are great… if you can wait months to get an operation. Wonderful if you’ve got six months before you permanently lose your eye site, and the appointment for your surgery is 2 years away.
Walk into a bookstore in Moravia and you’ll find “The Protocals of the Elders of Zion” — a falsified text ripe with blatant anti-semitism used by Hitler, Stalin and every other Jew hater to propagate the lie that Jews use the blood of gentile babies to make their Matzah.
Now, before you think I’m bashing Costa Rica… let me say that I have my own reasons for liking it here, and the politics of this little country is not really important to me. But it irks me when Gringos (and yes, it’s only gringos– as none of the Ticos I’ve met in my two years here ever seem to be bothered by U.S. politics) … suggest that the U.S. is such an evil country, but turn a blind eye to far worse occurances here.
Pura vida.
You worked for Homeland Security for 10 years? Did I read that correctly?
Wasn’t the Homeland Security Department set up after 9/11 ?
I haven’t been to Boquete yet, but the problem– as I understand it– is that it’s far from everything, and there isn’t much to do– unless you’re just looking for a hide-away to cocoon.
Another issue may be proximity to quality health care.
I’ve read that the specialists spend 1-2 days a week in David (and I can’t remember how far David is from Boquete) …. and the other 4-5 days a week in P.C.
If you compare major city to majore city (San Jose to Panama City) … Panama City wins, hands-down, IMHO. It is cleaner, safer and has more modern infrastructure.
You can verify this yourself by going to the nicer parts of town and seeing that people leave high priced cars — Mercedes and BMW’s– parked in front of their houses without gates closed and without guards out front.
Even in the nicest parts of San Jose, you will never see this.
You will also see upscale, educated women walking their dogs alone at night in high-end commercial areas of Panama City. You will not see this in San Jose.
It all comes down to personal preference. There is no “best city” — it’s just an issue of what’s most important to you.
Personally, I think that if you’re going to live outside of either city, CR probably wins. But I’ve only lived in CR for a little over a year and a half, and I’ve only been to Panama City twice.
The big problem with P.C. is the heat. But I feel the same way about the beaches in CR, too.
