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THREE QUESTIONS THAT EVERY VISITOR ASKS: #1
People who have never visited Costa Rica always ask me the same three questions. Is it safe? How is the medical care? Is the real estate market going up?
Let's start with safety. Having lived here now for nearly three years, and in two different areas, one being the beach areas surrounding Tamarindo, the other being the mountains outside San Jose, I have accumulated some sense of life here and a feeling for the question of safety.
Personally, I feel much safer, physically, living in Costa Rica than I did living in either Miami or L.A. The stories that I hear from friends and acquaintances confirm this feeling. For the Canadian, American or European, violent crime resulting in personal harm is very rare. Extremely rare. As anywhere, you need to use common sense, but your chances of being assaulted or hurt are much lower here than in the United States or Canada.
This personal experience is backed up by statistics. I found a fascinating web site, www.nationmaster.com, that collects country statistics from official sources, then compares them. In assaults, the United States leads the way, but is nudged out of first place in assaults per capita by smaller places. In both absolute and ... more

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