Costa Rica keeps showing up on lists of best places to live abroad, but where you actually live changes it all. From the developed beaches of Guanacaste to the mountains of the Central Valley to the ...

(CNN) — When Kema Ward-Hopper and her then-fiance Nicholas Hopper, both from the US, decided to get married in Costa Rica, they had no idea that they’d end up relocating there a few years later. But a ...

Moving to Costa Rica with six weeks' notice and no prior visit sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. Here's the honest story of how one couple made the leap from Germany, what blindsided them upon ...

Newcomers to Costa Rica have it much easier today. When my then wife and I made the decision to come here in 1989, there was no internet, no Facebook or message boards where all of the questions we ...

Experts say the appeal goes beyond beaches, thanks to reliable infrastructure and a slower pace of life.