David Forester Searches for Truth

To be healthy is not only a state of physical health, but one of character, of attitude, a devotion to Right Choices. Health arrives not in the form of a pill or potion, but on the wings of fortitude. Real health today is a struggle to live the Right Life in a Sick World. Most products advertised are unhealthy. McDonald's and Burger King food will steal years off your life. Prozac brings new addictions to an already depressed mind. Sugar burns you out and coke burns you up.

Costa Rica has been called the jewel of Central America, certainly for the rich it is, as they have benefited handsomely over the last 10 years from the increased tourism and technology export sectors. But the average person has tightened his belt in the same period as increased taxations, fuel costs, government red tape and other burdens of corruption and greed have increased the cost of basic food, clothing and transportation for these otherwise gentle people.

When i meet new people and tell them I live in Costa Rica, they invariably ask me, "But why did you choose to live in Costa Rica, of all the countries of the world?" To which I have my pat answer:

"The weather is excellent, perhaps a bit too rainy, the women are beautiful and sexy, the land is inexpensive, and the beaches are untouched ..."

This answer is no longer completely valid as the beaches are being overrun by foriegners with too much money to throw away and the land is no longer inexpensive anywhere in Costa Rica. But the women are still sexy and beautiful.