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Forget about any "official", i.e. doctored, inflation figures in the low single digits. In reality, prices rise like mad worldwide.
Leafing through the two latest print issues of Costa Ricas expat weekly Tico Times I stumbled about this ad posted in the January 28 edition.
Shipping a standard 40-foot container from Miami to your residence here was
That has changed dramatically. Only a week later the same service is offered for
So much about tame inflation. Don't expect that changing your residence could save you from the global inflationary onslaught. Bar chats revolve around the same central topic as everywhere else in the world. While official inflation is stated at 6.4% in this lovely Central American country, oldtimers here estimate it closer to 20%.