We Got Robbed! | Answering YOUR Questions About Living in Costa Rica 

We just moved a month ago, any tips? 🥲🌄🌴👌🇨🇷

Gringos are ruining costa rica

It seems like you're speaking specifically about San Jose. We don't live in San Jose. We live in a very rural town. Like most major cities, crime is higher there. Your experience isn't mine or someone else's and I've been living here for over 2 years now and I can only talk to my experience as well as others who live around me.

This year so far close to 900 violent crime,and in general the country is in the top of the crime rate in the area only below Hunduras.Ticos don't feel safe in their own home,so sorry your are in the honeymoon of Pura vida and soon the reality is going to heat home.

I definitely agree to the extent that discussion about crime, security and personal safety issues need to be more emphasized/recognized due to the yearly increase in violent crimes. However, I wish extreme success and happiness in their choices to the authors. Recently the U.S. Embassy in Costa Rica did raise their travel Advisory to level 2, including increased reports on violence and occurrences of home invasion, grand larceny... Still, with caution, common sense and immersion, I'm hoping the authors can find the same pura vida as the natives. @@user-wy3jc1lt4l @hopscotchtheglobe

COSTA RICA HAS A SEVERE HOMICIDE PROBLEM NOW.

I lived in Perez Zeledon outside a rural village called Palmar. We were robbed while we were inside the house. Someone stuck a long bamboo stick through the window bars and got purses on the dining table out of the house. After that,--someone pulled off the bars from the back of the house and robbed us a month later. We decided to move into town and live in an apartment. The investigators suspected it was a neighbor who robbed us. Unfortunately, all Ticos know of someone who was robbed at gunpoint at home or on the street.@@hopscotchtheglobe

I know!!! It will be done so soon

WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO SELL IT.

So glad you enjoyed it! We just did another Q+A the other day which is on our channel if you want more :)

Tico time can definitely be frustrating. It's definitely teaching us to be even more patient and surrender...but also not get taken advantage of. I think that being able to speak Spanish has helped us a lot.

Our pleasure:)

It's incredible how fast they learn. They are little sponges!!

You're very welcome. Let us know if you have any questions. We love answering them

@@hopscotchtheglobe We will be neighbors and are in building phase. 🙌🏽❤️

Awesome!!! Very exciting!

Muchas gracias mae! Nos encanta Costa Rica!!

Thank you! It's very exciting to see it come together.

We will have a shop. We can easily get things delivered. We've been doing this a lot. We also have a town really close by that has grocery stories, post office, etc.

@@hopscotchtheglobe amazing, in many places they don't deliver in countryside

Interesting considering it's the law...

I'm not sure about citizenship but residency we know about. We'll talk more about this in an upcoming video :)

Couldn't agree more! We've been here for almost 2 years and we love it.

Welcome :)

Thank you! We appreciate that. Bad things happen everywhere. We still love Costa Rica just the same :)

It’s irony and a tragedy that rich Americans wanted to create something different - a more natural relaxed place, a balance on nature - and now have created hotels by the beaches for wealthy Americans and Europeans making the most of the real estate profit… Destroying nature for dollars - repeating the mistakes again and again… I can’t help but wonder, when will Americans stop over consuming the world!?

Muchas gracias! Always trying to get better at Spanish :) welcome to the channel

I just looked the place up and I've added it to our list! Thanks for the recommendation.

We did talk about when we spoke about safety

Because it's not our story to tell. It's their story and they can share it.

It might not be, but the question is: what the value for quality of life? It will vary by individual, but that's worth a ton for some :)

It's in the part where we talk about safety :)

​@@hopscotchtheglobe So it was clickbait, as again, I didn't hear anything about that ..

It's true. Everywhere has potential threats. It's about being educated and we are definitely doing our best to learn and inform and be aware of our surroundings.

@@hopscotchtheglobe lived near Brasilito... Of all weird critters the one that almost costed my dog's life was a bullfrog. She messed with a poisonous one! Go figure. 😄🤷‍♂️

Ugh this frogs are the worse! What did you do to save your dog?

@@hopscotchtheglobe it was out first day in CR too! lol... Ran to the nearest vet. He saved her.

Our rule was...6pm... It gets dark... Kids and pets go inside.

I like that your building a house in Costa Rica it's a beautiful place

Heyyyyyy

@@2kruthlondon776 It really is so beautiful

I saw two snakes when we were camping at Envision but that's about 4 hours from us. I haven't seen any others in the past year. Siya saw a massive Boa in a community close to us.

I totally understand this and am very aware. While this happens, we as a community are also bringing in money to improve things like the economy, the roads and provide so many jobs to people. We personally are working with all local people to build our home. Our community is made up of 30% ticos (locals) and they got a better rate on their land. The local people who have rental spaces are full because people are coming and staying in these spaces and that provides them with more income. We as a community are also working with the city to discuss these concerns and do our best to make things as right as we can and be as involved. We want to be part of the community not separate from it. This is a loaded word and we can say so much but I thank you for opening up the conversation. Lo entiendo totalmente y estoy muy consciente. Mientras esto sucede, nosotros, como comunidad, también estamos aportando dinero para mejorar cosas como la economía, las carreteras y brindar tantos empleos a las personas. Estamos trabajando personalmente con toda la gente local para construir nuestra casa. Nuestra comunidad está compuesta por un 30% de ticos (locales) y obtuvieron una mejor tarifa en su tierra. La gente local que tiene espacios de alquiler está llena porque la gente viene y se queda en estos espacios y eso les proporciona más ingresos. Nosotros, como comunidad, también estamos trabajando con la ciudad para discutir estas preocupaciones y hacer todo lo posible para hacer las cosas lo mejor posible y participar. Queremos ser parte de la comunidad, no estar separados de ella. Esta es una palabra cargada y podemos decir mucho, pero les agradezco por abrir la conversación.

@@hopscotchtheglobe I see your point and please don't see this as a personal attack. The massive arrival of people from the global North deepens territorial inequalities, raises land prices, services, privatises access to beaches, turns the grandchildren of former property owners into domestic servants. These people are coming to our countries with a discourse of deconstructing their "problems" and "connecting" with their "inner self", but the effects for the communities is not sustainable and is in total contradiction with that rhetoric. This is not just me saying it, but thousands of social science researches that have been carried out in the region. Please see this comment as an opportunity to touch the ground and connect with a reality that you are not considering.

@@edgarciach Stop exagerating. You are not even Costa Rican.

mae osea pato .!!@@edgarciach

@@hopscotchtheglobe please dont listen to him of course there are always crazy people like him but thats any country . most of us dont have a problem with expats. well you live here you already know by now than most of us are really open people who just want to be happy so is the the opposite of what he is saying ..more often than not people gets happy to have neighbors from other places for example my neighbor is from switzerland and the whole barrio loves that guy hahah. i noticed that more expats now are choosing living near small cities rather than living literaly next to "paradise" beach which is better to be near a small city because is easier to get things also is cheaper this country is not huge althought sometimes it feels like it is but that is because of the topograghy so many mountains! but still is not so vast so getting to those amaizing waterfalls or beaches sometimes is just an hour drive, saludos desde perez zeledon if you guys havent check this area i highly recommend it to visit cause is one of those small cities but we have really interestin areas around. saludos y mucha suerte con su proyecto

It is not so dangerous here. Like any place in the world, there are dangerous people and situations that happen but it is not a dangerous country. I completely disagree with your comment.

@@hopscotchtheglobe Good luck with your compound. You just made yourself a target of local thugs.

I question your savy. I live here in costa rica, and the statistics reveal that the rates of alcoholism, drunk driving, and other alcohol issues is about 50% of the u.s. rate. Are you just inventing your own statistics to be mean?

What about them?