Ask HN: Digital Nomads: What's Your Setup?

Re:Ask HN: Digital Nomads: What's Your Setup? by tayo42 on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @11:55AM (#26568864)

Which part of Costa Rica? Funny I was just looking at spending a month or two on a work-cation after getting vaccinated. Looking at Santa Teresa or nosara, keep reading the internet is unreliable. That was my experience after spending a few days in Santa Teresa a few years ago

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Re:Ask HN: Digital Nomads: What's Your Setup? by jamal-kumar on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @12:03PM (#26568991)

Yeah man I just hang out in San José for the most part. Pre-pandemic, fun party scene for sure which is probably one of the big things that kept me here. Now it's just nice to be able to spend like 5 bucks on an uber ride and go climbing nearby mountains and volcanoes when I get time off. Great climate in the city and surrounding area. I suggest here or some of the outlying cities and towns around Alajuela. Monteverde, atenas, that kind of place out in the jungle is super nice too and the internet just tends to be a bit better.

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.

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Re:Ask HN: Digital Nomads: What's Your Setup? by res0nat0r on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @12:33PM (#26569449)

I have some coworkers in Costa Rica, it is close timezone wise to where I live in the USA now, and I saw this absolutely insane house at an unbelievable price a while back: https://www.coldwellbankercostarica.com/property/11337/

It looks like a fantastic place to live.

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Re:Ask HN: Digital Nomads: What's Your Setup? by jamal-kumar on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @03:02PM (#26571560)

My recommendation is to look at Banco Nacional's foreclosed properties. There's a website, it's all in Spanish but if you're coming out here not knowing the language like some kind of nincompoop you're going to be overcharged for everything anyways

https://www.bnventadebienes.com

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Re:Ask HN: Digital Nomads: What's Your Setup? by jamal-kumar on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @12:10PM (#26569106)

https://www.grupoice.com/wps/portal/ICE/en-linea/reporte-de-...

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

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Re:Ask HN: Digital Nomads: What's Your Setup? by klinskyc on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @01:44PM (#26570552)

I spent a month in Jaco in Jan/Feb this year. I found it to be a nice middle ground where it's on the beach, but is also a (small) city with reliable internet. It's easy to get to Santa Teresa/San Jose/Manuel Antononio, etc as well.

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.

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Re:Ask HN: Digital Nomads: What's Your Setup? by jamal-kumar on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @03:01PM (#26571543)

I find that whole garabito zone to be WAY TOO HOT. Like it's really dry there. The guanacaste region too gets really hot and dry. Somehow I think my health prefers hot and humid. My nose is all dusted up and clogged in those regions. That said this country has a TON of microclimate stuff going on, so there's something for everyone, because plenty of people don't seem to mind that at all!

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