You can’t call yourself fluent in Costa Rican Spanish unless you understand its slang. Tiquismos, as they are known, play an important role in most daily conversations. Despite having been a Spanish ...

When I tell people that I have lived in Costa Rica for 42 years, they inevitably ask me, “What brought you here in the first place.” I begin by telling them that my dream to live in paradise began as ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kathleen Peddicord covers moving, living, and investing overseas. Costa Rica is perhaps the world’s best-known foreign retirement ...

There are so many reasons to retire in Costa Rica. Chief among them is that life is easy in the tropical land of “pura vida” — and so is making the decision to relocate to this small Central American ...