Last week’s column, with commentary on Costa Rican construction, led some to believe my wife Lisa and I had picked up sticks and become expatriates. Nope, not yet.
The plans are in the works, but it’ll be some months before we can pull it off; probably May at the earliest.
In the meantime, I’ll still write about homebuilding and development issues pertinent to Santa Fe and beyond. Maybe, even on occasion, that what makes Santa Fe similar and different than what’s being discovered about Costa Rica.
It’s not too difficult to keep up, with the help of Zoom, recorded meetings, email and other forms of communication — regardless of whether I’m in my home office in Eldorado or on a deck with an ocean view in Costa Rica. Actually, it just feels like an extension of pandemic practices begun nearly two years ago. My editor even kidded me for recently streaming a city Finance Committee meeting from Costa Rica when he thought I should be lounging with a cerveza.
As much as we may miss live meetings, the City Council’s chambers aren’t that warm and welcoming. County Commission chambers at least have a great mural to gaze upon when one’s eyes begin to glaze over from the droning. Hopefully, the interactive lessons of civic engagement will stay with us as life returns to “normal.”
One surprise about Costa Rica is that accessibility to…
