14 min
My First Solo Rant (About Responsible Expat Hiring Practices in Costa Rica) The centralamerica.com Podcast
-
- Destinos y viajes
The sixth episode of the centralamerica.com podcast where this week, we do something different. This week is a shorter episode because it's James on his own.
There are a couple of reasons why we're rolling solo this week. The first reason is to experiment. We're still trying to get a hang of this podcasting thing, and we want to mix it up a little. Most of the time we'll have a guest, but if we want to get something off our chests then maybe this is a way to do so? Vamos a ver. The other reason is, as we say, for venting purposes. Sometimes events happen and we'll talk about them. This seems like an easy, quick way to do so. But overall, we're just feeling our way through this new medium.
This week, James talks about a couple of (related) things regarding expat life in Costa Rica. Anyone in the Costa Rica expat Facebook groups knows about a series of recent posts by a lady in Canada looking for a "house sitter" to run her tourism business. If you don't, then check out the article below, where we wrote about it:
What's the Difference Between House Sitting and Property Management in Costa Rica?
Today, James admits how this lady is living rent free inside his head and expands on the above article with a plea to foreign tourism business owners to NOT follow her lead in a country with at least one in five people out of work.
Related to the above topic, James touches on another post in the Facebook groups today, where someone posted a 2019 article from Atlas & Boots about Costa Rica coming in at #9 in a Gallup survey about the most stressed-out countries.
In the Facebook post, the author expressed surprise about how Costa Rica could be so stressed out. After all, he's probabaly a retiree down here on a fixed income living in a beautiful place. Doesn't everyone in Costa Rica live like that?
James takes a few minutes to set the record straight, by pointing out that a great many people in Costa Rica don't know where their next paycheck is coming from and how to pay their rent/feed their families next month. All this is especially true since the pandemic began and Costa Ricans begain losing their jobs at one of the fastest rates on earth.
He pushed back at those well-off expat posters who are incredulous that anyone experiences stress in Costa Rica and urges them to remember that Costa Rica isn't a tropical playground for people like that, it's a real country with real people living in it who are facing a hard time right now.
The sixth episode of the centralamerica.com podcast where this week, we do something different. This week is a shorter episode because it's James on his own.
There are a couple of reasons why we're rolling solo this week. The first reason is to experiment. We're still trying to get a hang of this podcasting thing, and we want to mix it up a little. Most of the time we'll have a guest, but if we want to get something off our chests then maybe this is a way to do so? Vamos a ver. The other reason is, as we say, for venting purposes. Sometimes events happen and we'll talk about them. This seems like an easy, quick way to do so. But overall, we're just feeling our way through this new medium.
This week, James talks about a couple of (related) things regarding expat life in Costa Rica. Anyone in the Costa Rica expat Facebook groups knows about a series of recent posts by a lady in Canada looking for a "house sitter" to run her tourism business. If you don't, then check out the article below, where we wrote about it:
What's the Difference Between House Sitting and Property Management in Costa Rica?
Today, James admits how this lady is living rent free inside his head and expands on the above article with a plea to foreign tourism business owners to NOT follow her lead in a country with at least one in five people out of work.
Related to the above topic, James touches on another post in the Facebook groups today, where someone posted a 2019 article from Atlas & Boots about Costa Rica coming in at #9 in a Gallup survey about the most stressed-out countries.
In the Facebook post, the author expressed surprise about how Costa Rica could be so stressed out. After all, he's probabaly a retiree down here on a fixed income living in a beautiful place. Doesn't everyone in Costa Rica live like that?
James takes a few minutes to set the record straight, by pointing out that a great many people in Costa Rica don't know where their next paycheck is coming from and how to pay their rent/feed their families next month. All this is especially true since the pandemic began and Costa Ricans begain losing their jobs at one of the fastest rates on earth.
He pushed back at those well-off expat posters who are incredulous that anyone experiences stress in Costa Rica and urges them to remember that Costa Rica isn't a tropical playground for people like that, it's a real country with real people living in it who are facing a hard time right now.
14 min