(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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CoCo and Deitrick Bates have made some pretty big leaps of faith in the past few years. They married within three months of ...

Zachary Gerth is a 37-year-old American who moved to Costa Rica in February 2022 with his partner. He wanted to buy a house, afford childcare, and have a more laid-back lifestyle. He is now raising ...

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 ...