I love Costa Rica. Here is a list of things that make me like this country:
- Pura Vida lifestyle means life is good and time is slow. Donât stop to smell the flowers, sit, relax, and maybe build your house by the flowers, because theyâre beautiful and you like beautiful things.
- The TICOS! Nicest most welcoming people. Costa Ricans have so much patience for silly gringos like me who canât speak Spanish. Thank you!
- Everything in Costa Rica is naturally beautiful. Itâs ridiculous. Everything.
- Anything can be reused or up-cycled here. Itâs a diyâers heaven.
- So many places have recycling bins for glass, aluminum, and organics. Love it.
Donât get me wrong, Iâm a really quirky guy. So these country quirks arenât bad things, just⌠character providing aspects that I can rant about.
- Toilet paper must always go in the garbage can, and not the toilet. Why. Why. Why. Plumbing canât handle it? I call BS. Iâve unloaded some major kaka in my time here and have yet to plug these so called fragile systemsâŚ. Iâm sure the ceramic throne can handle a bit of paper. They must have fast degrading paper available. Not only will it not smell like kaka if you flush the paper, but you wonât have to collect bags of poo covered paper every day. Itâs quirky.
- All bathrooms have signs saying not to waste water because it is a ânon-renewableâ resource. Iâm all for water conservation, as it takes energy to filter the water we consume. However⌠From what I remember in grade 3 there is a thing called a water cycle. Example, you use the water to wash your toilet paper bin⌠Yuck⌠and then the water goes into the sewer. Eventually this water is going to join a river, evaporate, and come down as rain. Bamb. Itâs a resource, and itâs renewable. What I get from this quirk is that Costa Rica is just so cute and caring, and have the best intentions. A better solution would to be use low water toilets rather than the behemoths that are currently in use. I may also need to watch documentaries on this water thing. But I still think it is quirky.
- Cell phone plans are sooo cheap and cloths and food are expensive (relative to other costs). If I lived here I would have 3 phones and wear them as a man bikini. Problem solved.
- Erbody had a tall gate and or barbed fence in front of their house. however, there is barely any fence on the sides of the house. Who are we trying to keeping out here? The blind toddlers? thats just cruel. I think itâs a customary quirk.
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