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This Central American country offers a piece of Caribbean coast for less than $60,000 or a three-bedroom house in the Central Valley for $160,000

This Central American country offers a piece of Caribbean coast for less than $60,000 or a three-bedroom house in the Central Valley for $160,000

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Costa Rica is not a “new” destination for International Living. Back in the early 1980s we regularly encouraged readers to put Costa Rica at the top of their list of overseas retirement havens. Readers who took our advice reaped big rewards. Costa Rica caught on…and became the number-one destination among foreign retirees and investors looking for land buys with big upsides. The upsides were realized. Through the 1990s, the market boomed. Prices for beachfront property along the Pacific coast increased 6-, 8, 10-fold and more… But as property prices rose in Costa Rica, we (and our readers) began looking elsewhere.