Costa Rica pool leagues

[middleofnowhere]

I was in CR a couple years ago for vacation and found a pool hall. Here is a thread I made at the time about my experience there:

Pool in Costa Rica

Greetings from Costa Rica. I’m here for a few days on vacation and heard the distinctive sound of balls clacking against each other driving by and said to the gf let’s go play pool there is a pool hall here. The gf says no way, how can you possibly hear that? Ha ha The place was open air...

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I think you were very lucky, I think you put you and your girlfriend in a pretty dangerous situation going into that dumpy pool room. Contrary to what people like to say, the Costa Rica homicide rate is double that of the US. Petty crime is off the charts break-ins robberies strong arm and so on.

 

[Rimfirejunkie]

I think you were very lucky, I think you put you and your girlfriend in a pretty dangerous situation going into that dumpy pool room. Contrary to what people like to say, the Costa Rica homicide rate is double that of the US. Petty crime is off the charts break-ins robberies strong arm and so on.

Have you ever been out of the country?

 

[garczar]

I think you were very lucky, I think you put you and your girlfriend in a pretty dangerous situation going into that dumpy pool room. Contrary to what people like to say, the Costa Rica homicide rate is double that of the US. Petty crime is off the charts break-ins robberies strong arm and so on.

Couldn't be any worse than Chicago or D.C.

 

[middleofnowhere]

Couldn't be any worse than Chicago or D.C.

You would be just as cautious in that case too and not do something dumb.

 

[middleofnowhere]

Have you ever been out of the country?

You obviously post without bothering to read the thread.

 

[Rimfirejunkie]

You obviously post without bothering to read the thread.

Oh I read your sky is falling post. How did you survive? You didn’t want to be an expat. You wanted to be an American in another country. Very different things.

 

[middleofnowhere]

Oh I read your sky is falling post. How did you survive? You didn’t want to be an expat. You wanted to be an American in another country. Very different things.

To be an expatriate would be to assume that there's something there that's not here. If you read my unusually long post you would see that in our search we discovered that there was nothing better somewhere else.

That was my only point. This actually goes way back with me. If my father had not died when I was 21, and I had to basically take over everything. At that time I was in the process of moving to Australia. I sometimes wonder what my life would have been. I've always been a little adventuresome. For me life has always been too short and never enough hours in the day.

 

[Rimfirejunkie]

To be an expatriate would be to assume that there's something there that's not here. If you read my unusually long post you would see that in our search we discovered that there was nothing better somewhere else.

That was my only point. This actually goes way back with me. If my father had not died when I was 21, and I had to basically take over everything. At that time I was in the process of moving to Australia. I sometimes wonder what my life would have been. I've always been a little adventuresome.

It’s living there because it’s different. If I wanted to see the same shit everyday I’d never leave the house.

 

[middleofnowhere]

It’s living there because it’s different. If I wanted to see the same shit everyday I’d never leave the house.

Yeah but therein lies the problem for places like retirees moving to Mexico or places like Costa rica. They move there not like tourists or vacationers but they live in communes of other expatriate Americans. I would think that would get really old quickly just going there because it's cheap.
And in a lot of cases it's really not it's just a poor quality of life.

 

[Rimfirejunkie]

Yeah but therein lies the problem for places like retirees moving to Mexico or places like Costa rica. They move there not like tourists or vacationers but they live in communes of other expatriate Americans. I would think that would get really old quickly just going there because it's cheap.
And in a lot of cases it's really not it's just a poor quality of life.

That was my point. Americans living in another country. They don’t want to live there. It’s strictly monetary. By poor quality of life, are you referring to food of medics care? Lots of places have both in spades. Sorry for the derail folks.