If you are looking for a place with a lower cost of living, "Check This Out"

We have been living in Costa Rica for the last 6 years and going through all this economic turmoil, sometimes is difficult to have a clear picture of how we are in relationship of other countries Cost of Living.

So, I decided to do a little research and find out if our decision of choosing Costa Rica as our Retirement Home was still that little corner of paradise we dreamed of.

After surfing for information, to my delight I found that Costa Rica is still a great country with a low Cost of Living and a lot of interesting benefit that I would like to share with you in my next post.

The web site where I found this information is:

http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/

This information seems to be as reliable as the information on the surveys from Mercer LLC, Consulting Group and The World Factbook, which makes me feel that the Information I am sharing with you is accurate.

Country	United States	Canada	France	Germany
Consumer Price	13.71% Higher	38.57% Higher	60.20% Higher	36.47% Higher	Than	COSTA RICA
Consumer Price including Rent	21.10% Higher	43.14% Higher	60.20% Higher	37.46% Higher	Than	COSTA RICA
Rent Prices	53.30% Higher	63.63% Higher	66.24% Higher	41.91% Higher	Than	COSTA RICA
Restaurant Prices	20.71% Higher	52.82% Higher	104.10% Higher	52.91% Higher	Than	COSTA RICA
Groceries Prices	9.43% Lower	26.03% Higher	13.01% Higher	0.53% Higher	Than	COSTA RICA
Local Purchasing Power	110.62% Higher	96.51% Higher	61.68% Higher	111.63% Higher	Than	COSTA RICA

Numbeo is the biggest free Internet database about cost of living and housing indicators worldwide!

Numbeo is a collection of Web pages containing numerical data, designed to enable anyone to contribute or modify content.  Numbeo provides statistical analysis of collected data, calculates various indexes using aggregate data and periodically publishes analysis of collected data.

In the past 18 months, 169711 prices in 1725 cities entered by 16594 different contributors (information updated 2011-08-11)