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[quote=”Scott”][quote=”mollie-o”]”the only cheap things are property taxes, laborers, papaya, pineapple and bananas.”[/quote]
And healthcare is expensive here? You can get a mammogram in the US for under $100? As we have featured in recent days in this Discussion Forum?
And home insurance is expensive in Costa Rica? Is it?
And car insurance is expensive in Costa Rica? Is it?
I know people who are saving $25,000 per year just in health and home insurance living in Costa Rica compared to where they were in Florida!
The same couple pay a FRACTION of what they paid in property taxes in the U.S.
And you think taxes are going down in the U.S. in the future?
In total they are saving way more than $30,000 per year compared to living in Florida….
That’s more than $2,500 per month they are saving!
So when you say “life is expensive here” mollie-o what does that mean to you exactly?
Please help me to understand how exactly because the vast majority of Ticos aren’t even earning $1,000 per month.
Scott
[/quote]Americans always assume everybody is from the US. My comparison is with prices in Canada, not the country you consider the belly-button of the world, the great US of A…. And yes, I find car insurance expensive here, it is the same as in Canada.
I spend the same amount of money to live here as I did in Canada. You make it sound good that Ticos live on less than $1000 a month, you should open your eyes and examine how little they have and how they eat on less than $1000 a month. Do you see many Ticos buy fruit? Do you see many Ticos buying fruit? No, and why is that? Do you think they can afford fruit? Not on less than $1000 a month, they can’t.
One more thing, I would bet anything that you people writing about how cheap life is here have very substantial incomes, live in or around San Jose, in gated communities perhaps? Go out into the real Costa Rica and see how you like that Costa Rica, see how the other half lives. You know so many people who save $25,000 or more per year living here, I know lots of people who live on that much. You are only talking to and about a certain category of people, rich Americans.
For my part, I live in Costa Rica, and whatever size those baskets are, I’d really like to know where she shops, because I haven’t see those kinds of prices here for a year that I’ve been living here. Life is expensive here, the only cheap things are property taxes, laborers, papaya, pineapple and bananas.
