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	<title>Living Abroad in Costa Rica &#187; infrastructure</title>
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		<title>Flying from San José, Costa Rica, to the Nicoya Peninsula: SANSA vs. Nature Air</title>
		<link>http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/2011/10/flying-from-san-jose-costa-rica-to-the-nicoya-peninsula-sansa-vs-nature-air/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 22:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Getting Around]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guanacaste]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dogs on small planes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[driving]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nicoya Peninsula]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sansa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Santa Teresa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shipping policy on surfboards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tambor]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The biggest difference between the two airlines is location. Sansa is located within walking distance of Juan Santamaria Airport. You can fly to San José, Costa Rica, from the U.S., then roll your suitcase over to the Sansa terminal. NatureAir flies out of Tobias Bolaños Airport, a 20-minute cab ride from the international airport.]]></description>
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		<title>Parklands in Costa Rica help reduce poverty</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 12:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guanacaste]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sustainable Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eco-tourism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parks]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wealth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A recently released report from Georgia State University gives us yet another reason to protect the rainforest: parklands, it turns out, can also help with economic development. Studying data from Costa Rica and Thailand, researchers concluded that national parks in developing countries can actually help to reduce poverty in the areas surrounding the preserves. &#8220;The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Expat residents must now enroll in Costa Rica&#8217;s medical system: So how is it? Four views</title>
		<link>http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/2010/02/expat-residents-must-now-enroll-in-costa-ricas-medical-system-so-how-is-it-four-views/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/2010/02/expat-residents-must-now-enroll-in-costa-ricas-medical-system-so-how-is-it-four-views/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 04:26:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Expat Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health and Medical Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[caja]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clinica biblica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clinics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hospitals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With the new immigration reforms that go into effect in Costa Rica next week, it looks like expats who are legal residents in Costa Rica must enroll in the national healthcare system,  the Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social. Known  as the Caja, the system gives its members low-cost access to neighborhood clinics, pharmacies, and public [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Costa Rica elects female President</title>
		<link>http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/2010/02/costa-rica-elects-female-president/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:38:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Costa Rican Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chinchilla]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday Costa Ricans went to the polls and overwhelmingly elected Laura Chinchilla president for the next 4 years. Chinchilla, who was Vice President in the current administration of Oscar Arias, resigned that post so she could run for president. She ran a campaign that declared her &#8220;firme y honesta&#8221; &#8212; firm and honest &#8212; and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boom time greed and condo ghost towns in Playas del Coco</title>
		<link>http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/2009/12/boom-time-greed-and-condo-ghost-towns-in-playas-del-coco/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/2009/12/boom-time-greed-and-condo-ghost-towns-in-playas-del-coco/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 00:48:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guanacaste]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Real Estate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sustainable Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Playas del Coco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rancho Armadillo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[real esate agents. condos]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“Do you live here?” I asked.

“For better or worse,” he said, “I guess I do. Or I’m trying.”

He’d bought a pre-construction condo from Mapache and, four years later, it still wasn’t built.]]></description>
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		<title>La Ruta del Agua: tourism initiative to promote Nicaragua’s southern waterways</title>
		<link>http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/2009/12/la-ruta-del-agua-tourism-initiative-to-promote-nicaragua%e2%80%99s-southern-waterway/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/2009/12/la-ruta-del-agua-tourism-initiative-to-promote-nicaragua%e2%80%99s-southern-waterway/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nicaragua]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Things to Do]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[el castillo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ochomogo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rio San Juan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ruta del agua]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[San Carlos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tarpon]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Navigating the Rio San Juan in Southern Nicaragua today, you won’t see much traffic. There are the local fisherman, a few sportfishermen, and the small boats that ferry local residents from very isolated towns to marginally less isolated ones. But in centuries past, the river was a busy thoroughfare. Spanish conquistadors sailed upriver to Lake [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fuentes Verdes: Keeping Lake Arenal blue, the lakeside green, and developers honest</title>
		<link>http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/2009/12/fuentes-verdes-keeping-lake-arenal-blue-the-lakeside-green-and-developers-honest/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/2009/12/fuentes-verdes-keeping-lake-arenal-blue-the-lakeside-green-and-developers-honest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:34:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sustainable Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arenal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indigenous]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“We’re not the ugly police,” says Ed Yurica, president of Fuentes Verdes, an environmental watchdog group in the Lake Arenal area of Costa Rica. “What we’re about is water. No one gets to mess with our water.” He and Sandra Shaw Homer (the former president of Fuentes Verdes) are catching me up on all the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two more bridges shut down yesterday</title>
		<link>http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/2009/11/two-more-bridges-shut-down-yesterday/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/2009/11/two-more-bridges-shut-down-yesterday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:48:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Getting Around]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bridges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[driving]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, reports La Nacion, two other bridges were shut down due to structural damages, stranding townspeople who rely on the bridges to get them to the main highways. One of the bridges is over the Burro River, on the road between San Ramon and Tres Esquinas de La Fortuna. The other bridge is over the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bridge collapses on Osa Peninsula—and it’s not the first</title>
		<link>http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/2009/11/bridge-collapses-on-osa-peninsula%e2%80%94and-it%e2%80%99s-not-the-first/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/2009/11/bridge-collapses-on-osa-peninsula%e2%80%94and-it%e2%80%99s-not-the-first/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Getting Around]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bridges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[driving]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dios mio! How’m I gonna get to Puerto Jimenez?]]></description>
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