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Baby Boomers Love Costa Rica!
With it's spectacular beaches, amazing sunsets, lush rainforests and hospitible locals, investing in property in Costa Rica is at an all time high, and especially from the Baby Boomer retiree demographic!
With a $1.9-billion-a-year tourism industry, Costa Rica is the most visited country in Central America, with 1.9 million foreign visitors in 2007, which translates into a relatively high expenditure per tourist of $1,000 per trip.
As interest increases, as do the property prices, so even though the time where you could pick up land at rock-bottom prices has passed, you can still grab a very good deal!
Foreigners can purchase properties freely in Costa Rica, apart for beach front land. The first 50 metres above the high-tide line is public property. The next 150 metres can only be leased to foreigners who have lived in Costa Rica for at least five years.
For more information on investing in Costa Rica, read up on our Legal Information page.
Check out our listing on Baby Boomers Abroad.
Energy Efficiency Center in Costa Rica
The government of Costa Rica, along with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), will create an Energy Efficiency Center in Costa Rica that will train and certify professionals in energy efficient technology and auditing procedures, and help expand the technical knowledge base and capabilities of countries across Central America. Once established, the Center will partner with leading energy efficiency organizations to conduct its own research on efficiency programs and energy savings in tropical areas. The results of this research would benefit the Central American and Caribbean region as a whole, as well as provide important information for other nations with similar climates. The project will bring together DOE, Costa Rica’s electricity and telecommunications group ICE, the NRDC, and the University of Costa Rica to create the program and training materials, train the Center’s future instructors, and run two initial energy efficiency auditor training courses.
At an event earlier this week in San José, Costa Rica, Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sánchez joined with DOE officials and representatives of Costa Rica’s Ministry of Energy and Environment, ICE, NRDC and the University of Costa Rica to launch the Center.
Read the full article from the US Department of Energy here:
http://www.energy.gov/news2009/8499.htm
Costa Rica Voted the Worlds Greenest and Happiest Country!!
A new world poll, the Happy Planet Index (HPI), has voted Costa Rica the worlds greenest and happiest country!
The poll combined measures of their ecological footprint with the happiness of their citizens.
Countries like the US and Britain feature at 114th and 74th, respectively, out of 143 countries polled, with the top 10 dominated by Latin American countries!!
Costa Ricans top the HPI list because they report the highest life satisfaction in the world, they live slightly longer than Americans, yet have an ecological footprint that is less than a quarter the size.
Check out the full story from the UK Guardian here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/04/costa-rica-happy-planet-index
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