Three Reasons I Chose to Raise My Kids in Costa Rica (and I'm from the United States of America)
For historical reference, I was born in 1984 in Wisconsin. Wisconsin is one of fifty of the United States that exist between the land borders of Mexico to the south and Canada to the north.
In 2019, I gave birth, on purpose, over the soil of Costa Rica. This person has two passports. Costa Rica and the United States of America.
I chose to move to Costa Rica in 2017, after Trump won the nomination from the Republican Party. My first child has just one passport because he was born in Texas. And, even though, every human has a different perspective because of free will, I talked a lot about why moving away from the USA towards another country might be a good idea to raise a second child.
This is what I know to be true so far.
Historically, Costa Rica got rid of their military. The population is much smaller. Geographically it’s tiny compared to the USA.
I could just for funsies stop at these three and go into detail as to how when living in a country that has not had a military for a while feels.
The USA currently uses 50% of it’s money to keep the military open. And there are 350 million paying people there. Costa Rica only had 5 million paying into it when they did have a military.
Reason #2
Costa Rica has the funding to have a government branch that will go through your family tree and find a member that says, they can live with me.
This applies to whether you are aging or without a house. In the USA, if you are homeless the police/military will put you in a prison that gets their moneys more when full.
And right now, ICE people, they get a financial bonus of $15,000 everytime they “catch a real one.” So what’s happening is neighbors are being encouraged to call the ICE on people that may or may not be illegal. Because the cop friend gets $15k in their checking account. And this money is coming from that 50% the military uses from the tax monies of the 350 billion people.
Reason #3
Costa Rica doesn’t participate in Daylight Saving Time and sits at 9 degrees on the North Latitude line.
This matters because people live to be well into their 100s in Costa Rica while people are dying in their 80s in the USA because of everyone's central nervous system shock twice a year by swinging clocks backwards and forwards for no good reason.
As a mother, changing naps times twice a year, I was like, “get me outta here!”
In Costa Rica, the sun rises at the same time every day and the sun sets at the same time every day. And it never changes. So the Central Nervous System doesn’t have that twice a year jostle. But it’s a very “normal” thing in the USA that you can’t even really start to understand until you’ve been away from it for an extended period of time.
In conclusion, I moved on purpose to Costa Rica to move my child (and now children) out of the USA school system. Way before I even became a mom I was a human during Sandy Hook.
And when the USA did nothing but send prayers after Sandy Hook, I made up my mind. There are 196 sunsets to chase in this world.
If and when I run to be the President of the USA, I will use this blog post in my evidence of better ideas for the future of the “free” world.
#puravida
Tomorrow we can talk about Australia and buy your guns for money programs and see how the energy can shift on a floating rock full of water and spinning at an incredible rate in an infinitely expanding Universe.
Because the accessory you allow in the hands of your peoples matters. And the rate in which the matter inside travels towards the alive human its pointed at. You can understand that when two small children fight with sticks and they might hurt each other that as the more “emotionally” intelligent person would first, take the accessory away. Because what if we were throwing flowers instead of bullets. And we were using our hands instead of our guns.
Put your finger in your belly button and say, “I am…” and then think about your tailbone. “I feel…” And the space in-between: I create.
Visualize the space between the brows, “I trust…” and the energy floating about the head, “I honor…” Using your mind’s eye, travel the energy into your throat, “I speak…” and then in the center of your chest, “I love…”
Thank you and more tomorrow.