Best area of Costa Rica???

Question

I am considering moving to Costa Rica and am wondering where the best area is. I would like to live close the the beach, preferably the Pacific side. Where has the best weather, meaning the lease amount of rain. I've read that 6 months of the year is "rain season". Does it rain all the time or just in the afternoon? Also, do you have to worry about hurrincanes there?

Answer 1

It depends what you llike.  Guanacaste is a very beautiful and peaceful province, and it has some of the most beautiful beaches of the nation, my opinion.  It is hot though like 90 or 95 degrees almost year round.  Nights are cool though.  It rains about six months of the year, but only like afternoon or nights except in October or September when it rains constantly.  We actually have never been hit on whit a hurracane.  We get the heavy rains and flooding in low areas though when hurracanes hit the area, but a full grown bad hurracaine that hits woht its eye or nucleus to the land, never that I can remember

Answer 2

Costa Rica has become a very popular (and now expensive) place to move to.

If you want to live in San Jose, best areas are Escazu and Santana. (West part of town). If by the sea, Pacific Ocean area is probably your best choice. Try the northern pacific area of Costa Rica called Guanacaste. 6 New Hotels (5 stars) are being build right now! Expect to pay huge amount of money for real state. World class prices!

Rain? Yes. It rains heavily from June to November. Normally it rains after noon time. No hurricanes here, but sometimes we get heavy rains and flooding because of near-by hurricanes in the Caribbean.

Answer 3

Try Quepos on the Pacific side of Costa Rica approximately 55 miles south of San Jose.

Its a small fishing village with about 4,000 souls living there and has excellent weather all year around.  It is only five minutes away from Manuel Antonio Nature Park Preserve/Beach that is world famous!

No Hurricanes and the rainfall is not that great to cause any kind of distraction from all of the other things you can do and enjoy!

Going there myself again in June!

Answer 4

I tend to favor the Caribbean side.  For one, it has not been discovered by as many Americans meaning the cost of living is lower.  Also, it is much more multi-cultural to include the Indigenous people (most of Costa Rica's Indigenous people live in the south Caribbean or Talamanca region of Costa Rica), Costa Ricans, the Afro-Caribbean descendants of Jamaicans and the other foreigners living here.  Contrary to what you might read it is not dangerous here but one of the most beautiful places I have ever been in my travels.  I have lived here three years and now have a tourist business strictly to introduce people to this side of the country.  Check out Cahuita National Park, Manzanillo-Gandoca Wildlife Refuge and Tortugero.