OROTINA

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Since we have returned from Guanacaste trip we have been living in Orotina, a neighboring town to San Mateo where our kids will attend school this year. Living in a town is definitely a game changer for us, there is traffic noise, dogs barking all night, loud motorcycles, neighbors burning leaves but there are also few things that make this town a perfect place for us to pause for a moment.


Orotina's location in the Central Valley couldn't be any better, it's 45 minutes to san jose and 30 minutes to our favorite beach Punta Leona. It allows us to live in the moment and if we feel like going to the beach and seeing sunset we jump on 27 and within 40 minutes we are in Jaco watching the waves and drinking margaritas. We weren't able to do this in El Cajon, Grecia, the mountain roads are not well lit at night and its just too far. 

While the town itself is small it has everything we need from groceries to art stores. We made friends with local mechanics, have a favorite fruit guy in town and we visit the laid back town park quite often. Our kids love visits to the local playground from "hell" as we call it, where most of the swings are broken and nails are sticking out everywhere but the kids take it as a challenge and whomever gets hurt first is a loser. You could film a horror movie in there, but we embrace its "uniqueness."
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The trip to town wouldn't be completed without going to Cosechas, a national chain of smoothie shops. the smoothies are super healthy and delicious, much better then local ice cream shops.
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With smoothies in hand we walk to the park to visit our friend slowpoke, a name kids gave to the local sloth that lives right in the middle of the park. Most of the towns we have lived in Costa Rica have a green central park, where all the locals are hanging out. In Orotina its a little different since you won't see any expats here and our kids get all the attention from the locals being the crazy white kids singing spanish songs in the auditorium. Finding a sloth is an easy thing since he is most of the time hanging out on the same tree, on the same branch but once in a while we worry for a minute until we find his laid back ass hanging somewhere else. 
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We are used to the drain ditch jump, on occasion the water picture has raw sewage in it!
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While we won't be living here forever, its a fun adventure and we enjoy living amongst the locals even tough our spanish is still quite broken, we laugh a lot and our arm muscles are getting stronger everyday. you learn the personality of the country much faster that way and you can make your decision if living here in Costa Rica is a right choice for you. Its very different from living amongst other expats, very different, not better or worse just different.
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