I decided early in my visiting of Costa Rica to not live in the big capital city of San Jose because I wanted a more tranquil retirement life than most big cities can provide in their, busy, hectic, crowded, expensive and sometimes dangerous ways.
My first choice was always to live in the woods away from everything, but that would require an expensive 4WD car which I early decided I would do without plus in many cases it is actually more expensive, plus generally no where near the needed shopping and medical care a retiree needs.
Thus the “happy medium” or compromise location of the “Central Valley” of Costa Rica within easy bus or other transportation to the best shopping and medical facilities in the country (like most retirees to CR), yet still a somewhat easy trip to escape into the national parks and forests of Costa Rica which has worked well for me. And nature in the far corners of Costa Rica continues to be my focus. 🙂
BUT . . . sometimes there are fun reasons to visit the big city and especially an old, historic and artsy Latin-American city like San Jose (see my Trip Galleries below). Christopher Howard also explains it well in one of his latest blog posts:
Why Expat Retirees Shouldn’t Ignore Costa Rica’s Capital
And in that article you can see why I love the many parks in the city, plus the architecture, a tour I made of just the old colonial churches, the arts, the many museums, art in general and as shown here, as an example, some of the many public art sculptures in San Jose:
See my photo gallery San Jose and/or
My SAN JOSE TRIP GALLERIES:
- 2019 Feb 9-10 – DoubleTree Cariari, San Jose overnight
- 2018 Sep 22 – Costa-Rica-Dance-Fest, San Jose Convention Center
- 2018-March-4 – Little Theater, San Jose
- 2018 February 18 – Cirque du Soleil – San Jose
- 2017 Nov 14 – Atenas Expats Tour of San Jose
- 2017 October 15 – San Jose Cuban Ballet Performance
- 2017 February 16-18 – My Solo San Jose City Photography Visit
- 2016 Jan 27-30 – Healthcare Tour
- 2015 Mar 29 – San Jose with Kevin
- 2014 August – “Live in Costa Rica” Relocation Tour, part in San Jose
- 2010 December 29 – Day 10 Caravan Tour, Morazan Park Holiday Inn
- 2010 December 20 – Day 1 Caravan Tour, Sabana Park Barcelona Palacio
¡Pura Vida!