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i have not heard about the exit tax from SJO to US, but we did not pay any fees to brings out dogs into CR other than the requisite fees to the USDA, vet, etc.
some airlines have a maximum weight allowance of BIG dogs. if yours exceeds their limit, you need to do the broker thing no matter what.
good idea. sometimes the lawyers here think they can run a number on your for whatever reason. you always have to do your homework so you don’t get screwed by the very people you are paying to protect you.
if your corp was originally registered as inactive, its status cannot be changed with the wave of a wand. it sounds like your lawyer is overcharging you — if you corp is STILL listed as inactive, then the fee is $190 ma’ o meno’
uh, something’s fishy. i have an inactive corp that holds my house. i paid $190 this year for that privilege. your lawyer has some ‘splainin’ to do.
an area that has been taken over and is controlled and corrupted by drug cartels and where law enforcement is effectively nonexistent;…
wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwnwell, we DO have law enforcement, but they are only marginally good at catching the massive amounts of drugs that transit through this country at any given time. and if you watch the news in Spanish, you’d know that drugs are the biggest problem CR has at the moment.
some months back when Laura was muttering about legalizing drugs in Costa Rica, that was all the US had to here and Janet Napoltano was on the next plane to CR to straighten her the hell out. All of these problems could be solved by legalizing this $h*t — but there is way too much money to be made and too many governments are making it to legalize it. As I said before, and nobody believed me, Costa Rica IS a narco state.
the video is frightening in its accuracy, not its bias. sheesh. the average person isn’t getting richer; he is getting poorer, and the struggle is just to maintain the status quo. abject poverty is a fact for most of the world. go to nicaragua and you will see what i mean (although the same level of poverty exists here in CR as well). the very lovely, restored area in Granada that is host to all the tourists also has a wandering population of beggars, in both human and animal form. dirty children will come up to you while you are eating and ask for something off your plate, or they will ask to eat what you left on your plate. one night i bought a dinner for a starving dog — as i was cutting the food into pieces to give it to the dog, 4 children ran up and begged for a piece of meat, or a french fry, or a piece of lettuce. the doctor with whom i was having dinner told me that whatever i had given these children was probably all they had to eat that day, or maybe for a day or two. these kinds of conditions are deplorable by any standard, and yet, there are more people like that in the world than there are like you, Victoria.
when i renewed my license last year they asked for my email addy, but i ain’t takin’ any chances so am going to fill out the form for me and hubby and drop it off at transito.
ecuador is getting a big push right now, so in a couple of years there will be so many expats, you will think you are still in the states. i’m in nicaragua right now and even here there are so many expats that it seems like a very odd place indeed. most of the talk around here is how expensive costa rica has become and that is why people are going to ecuador and nicaragua. once that happens, a place usually has a run of 5 – 7 years and then it’s glorious cheap days are over!!!
