Why rica

Americans tend to gravitate towards each other when living abroad. Those looking for a change and to distance themselves from the divisiveness and other issues that are currently plaguing the U. More choices for living whether it be the Central Valley, the beach areas along the Pacific coast, San Isidro de general to the south and the Caribbean side of the country. I once had a woman who was living in Panama as a client. You can have breakfast on the Pacific side, lunch in the Central Valley and dinner on the Caribbean.

Few countries can offer this. It is easy to go back and forth to the U. Miami and Houston are only a few hours away. Traveling to some retirement havens like Colombia or Ecuador often take two days and with a layover, depending from where one leaves in the United States. If you have university age children they can study here for only a few thousand dollars a year. My son attended one of the best private universities in Costa Rica for a fraction of what a university education would have cost in the U.

Costa Rica is user friendly country for digital nomads and has a special program that makes it possible for them to have a long-term stay. The opportunity to adopt a new indoor or outdoor hobby. Good shopping with a variety of local products and many items from the U. Year-round weekend farmers markets where a huge variety of affordable fruit and vegetables are sold at rock bottom prices. Good Internet and cell phone service.

But how practically applicable is that? They could simply claim that their SIM card was stolen. Oh yes, please, lets fill out a full crime report.

Do we have enough police officers to catch all these RICA offenders, even if that were their only duty? I highly doubt that, just as I highly doubt they could ever completely stamp out littering. No doubt RICA will be marginally useful to the police in being able to record calls between suspected criminals, but without a way to definitive link those SIMs to their owners, this is of limited use in getting them convicted.

If they catch the robbers or hijackers red handed and confiscate their phones, then RICA may be useful. Probably less probative though, than the stolen cash boxes, AK47s and security camera footage.

All RICA does is give us a false sense of security that bad guys can be tracked down. It makes phone tapping by private investigators and voicemail hacking by journalists explicitly illegal. This is a good thing. It also makes it harder for the state to abuse its power by regulating its ability to intercept our communications. Also a good thing. The problem is that most ordinary people will benefit from none of these things. Instead they will be forced to jump through pointless bureaucratic hoops — none of which are needed by the sensible portions of RICA.

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