2016 Edition The Costa Rica Escape Manual is your guide for moving, traveling through, & living in Costa Rica. New chapters cover the logistics of starting a business, with examples of successful business owners and how they got started. Other topics include information on how to travel for less using buses, staying in hostels, and eating at sodas. Things change quickly in Costa Rica, and there is updated information throughout the new edition. In this perfect blend of information and entertainment, Nadine Hays Pisani answers all of your questions in her patented comedic style. She introduces you to her colorful cast of characters as you laugh your way through reading about how to obtain residency, avoid crime, get a driver's license, meet a trustworthy attorney, find quality healthcare, choose an area that is right for you, and much much more. Nadine interviews friends and experts on a wide variety of topics that are sure to be of interest to any aspiring expatriate. You'll never have so much fun while learning the steps it takes to move or travel to one of the happiest countries on earth.

This "How-to" guide contains information about the process of moving internationally, specifically to Costa Rica. The basics of what people need to know during the first two years after relocating are covered. Several topics are discussed-Schools, Banking, Housing, Work, and Transportation to name a few. In addition, the authors share stories of their personal experiences and insights about the process of relocation to the tropical paradise of Costa Rica. Tips give the insider information that helps smooth the process for re-locators. For those choosing the Tamarindo area, Recommendations are given for various businesses, restaurants, and professionals. Includes useful:¿ Tables¿ Equations¿ Websites

A combination travelogue and guidebook that tells the humorous tale of the authors' vacation in Costa Rica while also giving valuable travel tips.

Gringo Gulch is a spot in San Jose, Costa Rica, home of female sex workers who have male clients from abroad (from North America in particular). Rivers-Moore s work leads the way in a burgeoning scholarly initiative to explore global sex tourism based on long-term qualitative research. Her work on the gulch is populated not only by sex workers and their clients, but also by state agents and NGO workers. All of them, she argues, use sex tourism as a strategy for getting ahead. Rivers-Moore addresses central questions: why has Costa Rica (a middle-income country thought to be an exceptional success in Latin America) emerged as a major site of sex tourism? How do sex tourists and sex workers derive meaning from their experiences, in what way do they profit from their encounters with each other? And how has the neoliberal entrenchment of state services and provisions across Latin America affected the role of the nation-state in relation to sexuality? This book shifts the conventional analysis away from questions of whether third world women s participation in sexual exchanges with first world men in tourism economies are exploitative; it asks, instead, new questions about how something is gained by all parties involved (presenting opportunities for economic and social mobility in terms of class positioning for all). Audiences for the book will include anthropologists, sociologists, historians, geographers, as well as scholars in Latin American and Caribbean studies. "

When her son is recovered three years after his abduction, a mother flees the country with the boy and his sister to live with her former mother-in-law in a hotel where she uncovers the mystery of the boy's lost years.

The Costa Rica Escape Manual 2021 is your personal guide to moving to, traveling through, and living in Costa Rica. Nadine- author of the best-selling Happier Than A Billionaire series- has been your reliable source of all things Costa Rican for over thirteen years. In this updated edition of The Costa Rica Escape Manual, she covers: New COVID-19 traveling requirements and necessary paperwork Changes in taxes and how it pertains to you Proposed changes to residency rules and why you should apply Exciting updates for telecommuters Barry the Shipper's news concerning possible tax breaks on shipping your belongings New chapters from people who started businesses New chapter from Sarah, a real estate expert, who can point you in the right direction Touring the entire country, planning an intense road trip, renting a car without overpaying, hiring a private driver, and my seven lucky rules for avoiding crime Work permits, starting a business, and getting a driver's license Creating a budget Different paths to residency Opening a bank account Selecting the right school for your children. Dental tourism Buying, renting, and even developing raw land from scratch Convenient checklists to make sure you cross everything important off your list. New information is identified with an asterisk next to each chapter in the table of contents. The Costa Rica Escape Manual is a great addition to Nadine's bestseller, Happier Than A Billionaire: Picking a town, Finding a Home, and Creating a Budget in Costa Rica. So grab your passport and book those plane tickets. You're coming to Costa Rica!