Teak clearcut

[teakwood]

If you bring savings then its ok. private taxes and rents are cheap. but if you earn your money here its hard.

In earning-buying relation Costa Rica is around 140s position worldwide, so imagine. expensivest country in central america and second in whole Latin america.

[Hiway40frank]

Wow im shocked that its not cheap, you see I have a small place in pourto rico where a 2l cola is 69cents and a pack of smokes is 2$. My mistake thinking it was not that much more expensive further south, but whats interesting is in PR its oppisite cheap cost of living but forget about buying land. 1-2  acres of "farm" land could be well over 150k. Almost all the land is inherited or abandoned, its also one of the poorest places in the world. I was lucky and my grandpa left me the place when he died. Why is it soo expensive there? And I would love to see your teak plantaion whenever I get down there, im very interested in wood plantations.

[teakwood]

I harbor visions of living in CR  ;)

I ll help you out if that vision comes thru some day

[teakwood]

yesterday i just took a big hit backwards with the quarry permits. Results that my plan of the finca from 1982 isn't exactly the same area as in existence today. So i need to hire a topographer to make a new plan (just 2500$) and a minimum of 6 month delay until everything is proper inscribe in the national register!!! :( :( Costa Rica: the most complicated country to make business. We foreigners always choke: Common sense isn't a birthright in cr, some gain it some not

[enigmaT120]

We thought we had it bad here in the U.S.  Maybe we do, I don't know as I've never tried to start a quarry.  I sure have lots of tough basalt though, sigh.