Welcome to Living in Costa Rica!

[Sam Wilson]

Please join in our friendly unmoderated discussions about living in Costa Rica -- the good, the bad, and the ugly.  Really any discussion about living in Costa Rica as an expat or as a native (and anything related) is welcome.  Spammers will not be tolerated.  Be civil and let's all enjoy discussing the related topics.

My name is Sam.  I live in Guanacaste, the NW province in Costa Rica (on the Pacific-side up by Nicaragua.)  I've been living and working in Costa Rica for awhile and have plenty of good (and also some bad) experiences to share.  Please join in and share yours, or feel free to ask any questions about Costa Rica.

If you have any trouble joining or don't see a join button, try this link:  JOIN, or email me and I'll send an invite directly to you.

Welcome to Living in Costa Rica!   ¡Pura vida, mae! 

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Sam, in Guanacaste -- living the Pura Vida off the beaten trail in Costa Rica

[Berni J]

Not sure where you are going on this board Sam.  Do you want to try and rescue the members from CRL and the inevitable fate of yahoo?  As obviously the more constructive contributing members you have here, the more valuable the discussion?  Berni

On Thursday, April 5, 2018 at 11:44:32 PM UTC-6, Sam Wilson wrote:

Please join in our friendly unmoderated discussions about living in Costa Rica -- the good, the bad, and the ugly.  Really any discussion about living in Costa Rica as an expat or as a native (and anything related) is welcome.  Spammers will not be tolerated.  Be civil and let's all enjoy discussing the related topics.

My name is Sam.  I live in Guanacaste, the NW province in Costa Rica (on the Pacific-side up by Nicaragua.)  I've been living and working in Costa Rica for awhile and have plenty of good (and also some bad) experiences to share.  Please join in and share yours, or feel free to ask any questions about Costa Rica.

If you have any trouble joining or don't see a join button, try this link:  JOIN, or email me and I'll send an invite directly to you.

Welcome to Living in Costa Rica!

[Sam Wilson]

Hi Berni,

I think it would be a good place for moving on from the Yahoo! mess.  I've avoided doing any sort of broadcast invite to everyone, but instead have been taking a little more subtle tact of mentioning this forum as an alternative from time to time and now I include a link and mention to it in my tagline when posting on other groups.  I know there have been many reasons for the decline of the Yahoo! CRL forum for years.  Many of the regular posters in the past have left (or become muted,) some due to a perceived heavy-handed censoring of their posts (to wit, the CR Reality group) and others because of petty squabbling.  I'm sure there are many other reasons as well.

What would you suggest?  Me?  I just like talking about Costa Rica topics because I live here and find them interesting.  I don't care for the "board politics" we've seen in the past on CRL.  My take on it is that we are all adults and really until it gets out of hand, there should be little need for strict moderation of discussions.  For example, Gene had some cement problems we discussed earlier (some online, some offline) which probably would not have happened on the CRL list, but they were real issues he faced probably as a result of living in Costa Rica where he didn't have access to the professionals or Hope Depots he might have used in the past.  While we don't want to turn this into THE Cement Forum of the Internet,

nobody took issue with the topic and perhaps his Costa Rican pigs, cows, and chickens will benefit because of it.  ;-)

Please invite folks as you see fit and let's make valuable discussions together!  (Should we sing Kumbaya about now? jajaja.)

Seriously, your opinion on these matters is respected.  How would you like to see this evolve?

Thanks,

Sam

[gene]

I sure hope this group suceeds...would be nice to a place less moderated and more friendly....just my 2 cents

Gene

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[Berni J]

Sam,

On the mods issue - I am an honorary CRL mod and have seen some things, there have been some bad vitriol and mighty unruly members, particularly when politics is an issue.  Finding a balance where essentially we can be self policing and find ways to sweeten up sad posts or freeze out some over heated folk with africanized bees in their bonnet is obviously the best way to go.  Just be ready with the football and a nuclear option :-))

Why not chat with the mods?  They are as fed up with yahoo as anyone - more so?  Berni

On Thursday, April 5, 2018 at 11:44:32 PM UTC-6, Sam Wilson wrote:

Please join in our friendly unmoderated discussions about living in Costa Rica -- the good, the bad, and the ugly.  Really any discussion about living in Costa Rica as an expat or as a native (and anything related) is welcome.  Spammers will not be tolerated.  Be civil and let's all enjoy discussing the related topics.

My name is Sam.  I live in Guanacaste, the NW province in Costa Rica (on the Pacific-side up by Nicaragua.)  I've been living and working in Costa Rica for awhile and have plenty of good (and also some bad) experiences to share.  Please join in and share yours, or feel free to ask any questions about Costa Rica.

If you have any trouble joining or don't see a join button, try this link:  JOIN, or email me and I'll send an invite directly to you.

Welcome to Living in Costa Rica!

[Roger Pilon]

Sam,

I am not sure this forum is a good idea!

I am seeing myself spending a little more time hanging around in this forum each day! 

With all these pictures, videos and so on I think I will have to start behaving myself...or maybe not!  Eheheeh!

Roger Pilon

NOTE: keep on the good work! This forum will get more and more members quiet fast!

[Sam Wilson]

Jajaja...  Thanks Roger!

Just a word of caution about pictures.  Be very careful around Gene when he's got his camera.  He has a... shall we say, very interesting way of making money with his pictures.  What might seem like a beautiful moment in nature with friends, perhaps skinny-dipping at the waterfall, can quickly turn into a Go-Fund-Gene's Pension sort of thing.   I think in Costa Rica it would be called "chantaje".

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Sam

[gene]

Great idea sam...maybe i will share the "two moons of cataratas de cortez" with the group!!!

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Baby needs new shoes!!!

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Have a good one sam!!

Gene

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Date: 4/30/18 8:26 AM (GMT-06:00)

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[Sam Wilson]

On Monday, April 30, 2018 at 9:10:44 AM UTC-6, gene wrote:

Great idea sam...maybe i will share the "two moons of cataratas de cortez" with the group!!!

Only Gene could get a Catholic priest to shoot the moon with us...  Wait a minute!?  Us???  Us as in everyone doing it except for Gene with the money making camera!  Now I am on to his evil scheme!  ;-)   Better not post those Gene.  It could be the biggest scandal since Michelangelo mooned the Pope with his God painting back in the 1500's.

I don't know what the big deal with that is all about, of course it is logical that after creating the Sun, God would show us the moon!  jajaja

Plus there is that unwritten rule that what happens in Costa Rica, stays in Costa Rica.  And don't give me any phoney baloney about this forum being "virtual" Costa Rica and therefore everything is fair game or I'll convince María to come join us here.  I'll bet she can kiss and tell with the best of 'em!

You know, this would be a good time to return to Catarata Llanos de Cortes, one of the best warm-water waterfalls in the entire country.  It is very accessible just outside of Bagaces about 2 km off the interamericana and has a wonderful shallow water pool with a nice sandy beach.  And it is a very nice example of how not everything is about the all might buck.  A long time ago this wonderful waterfall was on some private property owned by a gringo.  One day he decided to donate the waterfall to the school kids of Llanos de Cortes.  He could have sold that property for millions of USD, but instead, everyone gets to enjoy this wonderful spot and the school gets the proceeds from the "donations" paid to the official watchimen in the parking area.  However I've heard they've now got a gate you have to pass through and it is a little more formalized.  Most of the times I've gone out there there was just the one sign carved in a bolder with an arrow pointing to the waterfall.

If you can't get there in person to see this jewel, at least you can salivate over its awesome natural beauty:

Llanos de Cortes - Guanacaste, Costa Rica ¡Qué buen lugar! (video)

Yeah, forget fishing, Gene.  Let's pack a picnic and take the family out there before the rainy season makes the swimming pool a little deep for the young'uns.  That is definitely one of my favorite spots in Costa Rica.

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Sam

[gene]

I second that emotion...and truly a beauty!!!!

Thanks for the pic...

I will forward to lt. Dan!!!

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Gene...

Ps..i see more new posts...

Congrats on the coffee shop group!!!

Looks fun!!

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