Costa Rica - Growing Old in a "Socialist S_ _ _ hole"

Just yesterday, we spoke to an intelligent person from the United States, who suggested that Democrat policies were the road to Socialism and Venezuela.  The irony was that in the next breath, she said that she wanted to retire to Costa Rica.

Using Life Expectancy as an admittedly arbitrary indicator, life here would appear to be not too bad:

In May 2018, the Guardian carried a refreshing account by Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, of how Costa Rica is successfully swimming against the global tide of "strong man" populism