I will be specific and see if you can understand any of it (not likely since you have been mumbling the same thing for the last year and a half)
"If you think that's what living in the U.S. is about, then I guess you don't get it. I've seen a lot of Ticos move to the states and end up right back in CR because they couldn't cut the mustard in the states. I'll admit that it's easier in a way to live in CR."
This is generic nonsense, same can be "said" for any latino not just CR, perhaps you haven't noticed that the % of latino population in the States is about 10% and keeps growing, I supose that's why they all "come back", also let me explain this to you, many go to the States to make money and come back to a better life, it's not that they all necessarily go to stay and live there forever.
Sure, some will fail, but many suceed but it's not like 100% of them (or 10% for that matter are Costa Ricans). Also many come back simply because it's not easy to work illegally (as most of them do) where they work for peanuts and risk immigration raids every day.
"The expectations are so low in CR that they don't even expect fathers to help support their children because they have a hard time just supporting themselves"
Another nonsense, expectations are the same here as everywhere else, you are suposed to support yourself and your family, at least here there is still a lot of positions available, anyone can get a job and the one that claims that "can't" its just full of it, everyday more positions are created as US/European corporations outsource jobs to reduce costs and leave a bunch of qualified people unemployed. What does this means? That is the person flipping the burgers might very well be someone with a university degree and not just the typical loser that barely completed highschool and is destined to make 5 dollars/hour. Everyone here tries to go to college (and they typically can finance it because the prices are not as ridiculously expensive as in the US where you better start saving for your kids education 5 years before they are born).
Most see sportsbooks as temporary jobs, with the way that things are "handled" in the industry how many clerks do you think can say that their job is secure? With the issues that most sportsbooks owners have drugs/alcohol/women/gambling/money management/ego issues of the "new millionaries" its not hard to imagine them all folding (yes, I know there are many well run outfits but out of the many operations I have seen most owners/managers have at least 2 of the "traits" I listed above= don't count on your booking job, just enjoy it while it lasts
You have been "predicting" the end of Costa Rica for a long long time, however here it doesn't look as any armageddon is taking place, people keep builiding houses/office centers etc etc.........next time take a look at how the US economy came from having a superavit to the biggest deficit in recent times. I am starting to think that I might have to diversy my savings in case the dollars value keeps going down and down. (I would imagine it was going to improve since the end of "major combat" except that it was another hoax that they sold to you, it just keeps getting worse and worse)
In the end...........all I can say is keep sending jobs to us......that surely benefits you by giving you the lowest available prices (and next time that your dell "american" computer breaks then you end up calling here or India), of course, I wonder what exactly are US workers going to do, they have removed almost all manufacturing plants from the US and now the internet allows even MORE jobs to disappear such as any support/call center and now even your Uncle Sam returns get processed outside the US by your helpful Indian/Costa Rican/Philipinon accountant.
