Maybe it sounds funny, but once you live in Costa Rica, the rest of the world is suddenly not so important to you anymore. Where you came from, you had so many ways to keep yourself informed, that in a way it would be the focus of your life, your discussions, your Sunday get-togethers and talk at the country club. From now on that’ll be over, I promise you. But for those who still want to stay in touch with the world news, you'll have C.N.N. on T.V. For Costa Rica news, only the Tico Times is in English, which is a newspaper that generally talks only about the bad things in Costa Rica: all the rapes, the robberies, the complaints, the badly managed country and whatever else you can imagine. You have to understand that it is not easy to fill up a newspaper once a week when nothing really important happens in this country! So, you can just sit back and enjoy yourself and do all the things you always wanted to do.

You can of course have all the newspapers and magazines from where you come from flown in. The best way to go at it is get in touch with some delivery services who will sell you a P.O. Box in Miami and you can have all your mail sent there. Several times a week they will deliver it to your door. It is much faster and a better service than the Postal service, especially when you order products over the internet. They will even take care of getting it through customs for you.