What are they, if you don't mind me asking of course.
I also got a couple of computer books. Concurrency in Go (oreilly) and this one thicc as heck tome which is the textbook for the SEED security labs which is also super good, because it comes with a bunch of virtual machines. Really nice source for levelling up your understanding of application vulnerabilities in C (and by extension other languages, but I was really glad to find something with these fundamental examples) https://www.handsonsecurity.net/
1944?
https://www.amazon.com/survive-atomic-bomb-Bantam-book/dp/B0...
Beyond that: San Jose is great to work from, but I didn’t find reliable fast internet anywhere else.
I find Tamarindo to have all the amenities, but also crowded and basic. Santa Theresa super overrated imo. Pretty sure they keep the roads dusty and rocky there to cultivate a certain vibe. Manuel Antonio mad touristy. Want to hit more Osa and Pavones next time.
My favorite spot was between there and Jaco.
How’s the pacific side? I heard the most party hardy crew is there.
San Jose was great, went to brunch in the Escalares or whatever. Good vibes, low key, girls looked nice and friendly, fairly safe, and fairly reasonable prices.
Once you've been approved, if you're going to be in the so-called "rentista" category (i.e. not retired, but not working in Costa Rica) you need to show proof of bringing in at least $2,500/month to the country for 24 months. That can be done by transferring $60,000 into a bank here, which will dole out the $2,500 to you every month, or, in some cases, you can provide a different proof of guaranteed income.
After three years you can apply for permanent residency, which at that point is more a formality, and is pretty automatic unless you end up with a police record or some other issue.
https://ticotimes.net/2021/03/05/costa-rica-an-ideal-destina...
I find Santa Teresa's internet to be somewhat worse than Montezuma area just to the south on the other end of the peninsula. Really though what kills things is power outages more than internet.
There's co-working spaces with fibre optic, but you'd be surprised how many cheap hostels and stuff like that are buying into these plans becuase there's tons of competition all of the sudden. It's either Kölbi or American Data Networks serving it up for the most part, but the cable companies Tigo and CableTica are activating dark fibre purchases around too.
It looks like a fantastic place to live.
Well it looks like they replaced their reporting website with a terrible app nobody seems to like at all. I guess now you have to rely on having decent Spanish and being able to navigate their phone line heh
It has a (not-entirely-undeserved) rep as being seedy/a party town, but I found the overall pros to outweigh cons related to that.
As for my setup it's literally just my laptop and some notebooks in my bag. I have two bags, one carry-on and one backpack, and minimalize as much as I can so that if I have to get on a plane for whatever reason in short order I'm pretty much already good to go. The heaviest things I own are probably books, but they're pretty sweet books so I take the weight.