Originally Posted by WarChild

You're completely wrong.

Costa Rica belongs to Costa Rica. With an EU passport you can easily buy property, and you will get a 3 month visitors visa no problem. You can leave the country every 90 days for a few days and rewnew it, or apply for some different residency options including owning a business, investing in tourism, having a stable income from bonds or pensions or the like, etc etc. While you apply for residency, you will not need to leave to renew the visa either.

Anyway, that's the short story.

Oh and Costa Rica has no income tax on money generated outside of the country, like on the Internet for instance.