(CNN) — When Kema Ward-Hopper and her then-fiance Nicholas Hopper, both from the US, decided to get married in Costa Rica, they had no idea that they’d end up relocating there a few years later. But a ...

Newcomers to Costa Rica have it much easier today. When my then wife and I made the decision to come here in 1989, there was no internet, no Facebook or message boards where all of the questions we ...

File this one under Clueless Gringos. I read an article recently about a young couple living in the far northern US who adopted a young child of “Costa Rican heritage,” as they put it. The child’s ...

CoCo and Deitrick Bates have made some pretty big leaps of faith in the past few years. They married within three months of meeting in Kansas City in 2019. And the “big bang” of the pandemic in 2020 ...

“Costa Rica ended up winning out over the other places that were on our list,” adds Ward-Hopper, explaining that they were impressed by the country’s health care and education system, as well as the ...