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The Actual Cost of Expat Life in Costa Rica: A Family of Four’s Budget Revealed
Costa Rica is a popular expat destination due to a variety of appealing factors. These include easy entry requirements, beautiful surroundings, friendly people and low cost (allegedly). We spent two months in Costa Rica and would highly recommend it to anyone seeking an expat living situation. I have done posts recapping our budget and reflections…
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Breathtaking Sticker Shock Of Guam
Travel Log: Day 111 (10/16), Guam We were all up pretty early today, 4:30am for me. Due to that we got school started on time and had a mostly normal school day. We did take a break before the final two subjects to go walk on the beach. It was really nice in terms of…
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Sodas In Costa Rica: Not Even Good For The Money
Travel Log: Day 30 (7/27), Jaco Costa Rica Grocery Run JC and I went to the big grocery store again and came back with another full large haul for $120. I’m having trouble gauging what our grocery spend rate is going to be for our time here, but it seems pretty high. We took an…
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Did We Just Achieve FIRE?
Market Runup The US and international stock markets have been on a great run following the lows seen following the tariff announcement. With new record highs I wanted to check in on our progress toward at-home FIRE. At the time we left on our international trip, we were at FIRE for international travel but not…
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Frugal Musts In Costa Rica
Travel Log: Day 17 (7/14), Costa Rica We are continuing to discover more low or no cost things to do in La Fortuna. One of the benefits of a long stay is that we have time to research and try these various options. If we were on even a week long trip I’m sure we…
Traveling Toward Fire
A Premature FI Experiment
