im costa rican and with that money i wont be living here
Grass is always greener somewhere else, eh? You'd live where? Miami?
If you where a Gringo that wanted to get away from cold weather and heavy taxes, where would you go? Certainly not Canada. And Europe is neither light in taxes nor easy to legally emigrate to.
Staying in the Western Hemisphere that means Mexico + Central America + Caribbean + northern & coastal South America. Costa Rica is at least in the top 10 of any list you can make of that.
As for Islands, I wouldn't want to live on an island; but if you haven't lived on an island for a significant amount of time you may not understand what I mean. Scratching islands that probably leaves Mexico, Panama, Costa Rica, Colombia in top 5.