See, you can be positive about Costa Rica! Just kidding….Some of the other posters here make valid points.

The government could be more efficient by asking THE PEOPLE what they need, in the way of improvements, that are reasonably fesible. The OAS toll road could have been built with the government covering half the cost and then, only charging half the toll rate. This would have been a good compromise.

Also, someone in this government, not on the take, needs to survey the bridge problem and make a PERMANENT fix, not constant temporary ones. They need to use proper engineering techniques and build the bridges to LAST through the most rainy of rainy seasons. This would save a lot of money in the long run.

Prefab housing could help a lot of folks too get out of poverty. The Costa Rican government could partner with a group like Habitat for Humanity to make this happen. At least in Costa Rica, if you build good, strong, earthquake resist homes, you won’t have a military attack blowing them up so it’s a good investment.

Just some ideas.

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and other Season’s Greetings to all of you down there. Hope to return that way within a year or two, bringing a car down for an eventual relocation soon afterward.