How much does it cost to send a letter from the U.S. to Costa Rica?
Standard first class international air mail postage for an envelope 1 oz or less (one sheet of paper and one photo should be about an ounce) is $1.75. If you want to be safe, 2 oz is $2.49. The address format in Costa Rica is nothing like the U.S. For the most part there are no street name and no house numbers. There are also no postal codes for street addresses (only for po boxes called apdo. boxes). A typical address name description of the location town/city name province name country, region so for example Jose Martinez 50 meters north of the Catholic Church Ciudad Qusada Alajuela Costa Rica, Central America
Would it be possible to buy or build a small two room house for under $10,000?
Do you own the land?Total price? Nowhere I’ve seen. Any property worth having will cost at least 50–100K for a few acres.You can certainly build a modest home in rural America for that price if you start in the right place with the right property. You won’t be able to purchase such a property for 10K. There is cheap land in Texas, but you won’t have water. Plus it’s so hot you will need AC.You want a run down ranch that is falling apart. You don’t care about the house or the barn. You care about the infrastructure underneath.It will have a phone (land line,) well (water,) power, septic system and possibly a concrete foundation you can build on.Out in the sticks, it can easily cost 50K just to start building because the needed infrastructure isn’t there. You can find many houses that are falling apart but have the basics.Can you find work to support yourself out here? That might be the biggest problem. Building a nice small home if you have the basics done isn’t all that hard and has been approached from many people. How much space do you need? If there are just 2 of you, 1000 sq. ft. might be perfectly fine. Space utilization will be key.
Why are cars small in England?
Cars and houses are not the only things that are huge in Tennessee, your backsides and your mouths are huge as well...shame you have such a small town mentality to go with them... England is one of three countries on a small island, we do not have the space for large cars...neither do we require them...
Why do houses in the UK look like apartments?
They don't look like apartments to us in the UK. That is just normal British suburban houses. Older ones joined to the house next door at both sides are known as terraced houses and indeed, they often are small by American standards. I was brought up in a semi-detached house (pairs of houses joined together along the road) in an outer London suburb, built in the 1930s, and typical for the period had a considerable amount of pebbledash decoration - cement is spread over the brickwork and pebbles pressed into it. I always did wonder why anyone thought that was a good idea, as over time the pebbles start to fall off. Detached houses (not joined to any other house) are comparatively rare in the UK. In these days when we worry about carbon footprints, not having all four walls exposed to the outside world has the advantage of saving heating costs. Bear in mind that a) the UK has 1/5 of the US population squeezed into a space slightly smaller than Oregon, so we just don't have the room, and b) before the invention of the car, it was more practical. Have you found any of the terraced houses built in northern cities in their industrial heyday, where there isn't even a front garden and the front door opens directly on to the street? How do you mean "almost" made of brick?
How much do I need to pay to buy a house in the USA?
Anywhere between $1,000 and $30,000,000.If you're asking this, I'm assuming aren't from the U.S., and I hear that those not from the U.S. greatly underestimate the size and scope of America. I can get on the freeway, drive at 75 MPH for a day, and not leave my State. Heck, you can drive for an hour or more and not leave the Phoenix Metro (city) area. There's a lot of different houses for a lot of different prices in that area.I live in a neighborhood in Arizona that's full of ‘McMansions’. Houses here are 2600 to 3200 square feet, and pretty nice, and they go for around $300k, but I have to commute into Tempe to work, which is about 80 miles round trip. I think it's worth the trade because $300k might only buy 1600 square feet inside the city.The lesson here is that prices vary depending upon the location of the house. The more desirable the area, the more expensive each square foot becomes.
I want to retire in Mexico. Where are the best places to live ?
No one in his right mind wants to live in Mexico right now. We have serious problems with drug gangs going around killing innocent civilians. Cost of living does depend on the city, state, neighborhood, the lifestyle you want to live. In central Mexico, inland areas within a 250 mile radius of Mexico City a couple can get by on 40,000 USD a year if you a willing to just live there and have few luxuries. But, this area and the north are the most dangerous parts of Mexico. I have not yet heard any reports of heinous crimes on a massive scale in the states of Baja California Sur, Yucatán or Quintana Roo so those would be the leats dangerous places I think. If you really want to live in Latin America you might look into Costa Rica.
How do I drive from Los Angeles to Cancun Mexico?
My wife, and I drive to Cancun every year since I retired in ’95. We live on long Island, and leave the house every year on 12/1. It normally takes six days door to door. Those six days also include two days we stay on the Texas side of the border in order for the Dodge dealer to check the brakes, change the oils, and filters, and any other maintenance that has to be done. The distance from Long Island to Cancun is 3,500 miles. We leave Cancun around the first of March, and head further south and stop for a night or two in small towns as we get close to the Central American/Mexican border (the Central American border is only 4 ½ hours from Cancun.) We always cross into Belize, and then into Guatemala. If the political situation isn’t too bad in Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicaragua we may get as far south as Costa Rica. Sometime around the end of March we come out of Central America, and stop in Palenque Mexico before driving out of Mexico, and on to Florida to visit relatives. We’ll stay in Florida till it warms-up on Long Island before heading home. On a trip I just described we’ll put eight to ten thousand miles on the truck. If, however, we decide to go to Carbo San Lucas before Cancun we’ll easily put twelve to fourteen thousand miles on the truck. We normally get home sometime in the beginning of April. Your American car insurance isn’t any good in Mexico. You’ll have to get Mexican insurance before you cross the border (if you’re driving more than 75 miles into Mexico) and you shouldn’t drive at night. The highways are safe. There are no bandito’s lurking behind every bush and tree. The people you will meet along the way are friendly, and helpful. What makes the highways dangerous at night is the wandering of farm animals, kids riding bikes at 2:00 am, old men carting wheel barrels full of fire wood at all hours of the night, and dozens of other things we would take for granted that would not be on the highways at night. Even truck drivers don’t drive at night in Mexico. There are tons of Mexican insurance companies that will insure your vehicle, choose anyone you want. Most insurance companies will give you pamphlets with directions for your destination. I use a company called “Sanborns.” Google them.