posted 08-26-2008 06:45 AM            

i'm a 26 year old canadian interested in escaping canadian winters for the rest of my life. i've lived in belize before & guatemala a bit but never went further south than that.. i've heard tons of great things about CR.

i'm interested in buying some land and building on it. ideally i'd be an hour or two outside the city, (further if that's what's necessary for peace and quiet). i'd like to be no more than 15-20 minutes from a good beach or a good lake where i can swim daily. i've got about $100k to spend, but the less the better.

i'm not fussy about location as long as it's near a place where i can swim and i'm not near very many people. i'd be there about three months out of the year. i plan on making a lot of noise while i'm there, so i don't want neighbors nearby. i don't really care much for a luxury house, but i'd like to build something modest so having access to electricity/water would be great. i'm also fine with building a house that's completely solar powered.

anyway this is my first foray into CR research so i apologize if this has been heard a thousand times beforehand. i'll keep looking stuff up. if anyone can suggest a beautiful place to look into that has what i want, that would be fantastic. if anyone else can give me approximate costs to build that would be cool too. also it'd be awesome to be able to buy a large chunk of land and preserve almost all of it.

posted 08-28-2008 04:05 AM            

i'll be down there around feb or march i think, so i am planning to check things out for myself. suggestions on places to check out would still be helpful. i understand the need to see things for yourself, but it can't hurt to arrive as prepared as possible.