Guanacaste in English: Dollars and Luxury Inundate Costa Rica’s Most Touristy Province

<p>A foreign tsunami is arriving in the form of investments, travelers, and new settlers on Costa Rica’s Pacific coast. The real estate business exploded after the pandemic and is now expanding, attracted by the “pura vida” industry and the pure market with little state control, with impacts that can be seen in the environment, inequality, and the displacement of locals. At the epicenter of this trend, a town called Nosara, ten swimming pools have been built in the last five years for every social welfare home.</p>

Álvaro Murillo