{"id":2579,"date":"2011-08-29T11:51:34","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T17:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pan-am.info\/?p=2579"},"modified":"2011-09-06T11:52:04","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T17:52:04","slug":"working-and-living-in-costa-rica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pan-am.info\/?p=2579","title":{"rendered":"Working and living in Costa Rica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_2596\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pan-am.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/my_future_room_now.jpg\" rel=\"gallery[Portfolio]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2596\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2596\" title=\"My future room?\" src=\"http:\/\/pan-am.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/my_future_room_now-300x156.jpg\" alt=\"My future room? I love this style but this guy will have to move out first... (from the now! furniture catalog)\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pan-am.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/my_future_room_now-300x156.jpg 300w, http:\/\/pan-am.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/my_future_room_now-1024x532.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/pan-am.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/my_future_room_now.jpg 1511w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2596\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My future room back in Germany?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Yes, you read correctly &#8211; <em>working and living<\/em>. My time here in Costa Rica is very different from the kind of nomadic lifestyle I followed the past couple of months. After eight months of travelling I started to get tired in some ways. Moving to a new hostel every other day, figuring out where to find a good place to eat, laundry, an ATM that accepts my credit card, places to go out, and meeting new people and tell them the same story all over again. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I still love to travel, but I just got a little tired. And I started to miss certain things. For example my own place. Since January I don&#8217;t have a home anymore. Over the last two months this desire for a permanent home has been growing. Eventually, I fell victim to the <a title=\"Fightclub: IKEA nesting instinct\" href=\"http:\/\/cruststation.wordpress.com\/2006\/08\/06\/ikea-nesting-instinct\/\" target=\"_blank\">IKEA nesting instinct<\/a>\u00a0and started\u00a0browsing online furniture catalogs and imagined how I will decorate my future home once this trip is over. My\u00a0favorite\u00a0one is the <a title=\"now! no.12\" href=\"http:\/\/now.hulsta.co.uk\/index.php\/gb\/en\/programs\/now12\" target=\"_blank\"><em>now!<\/em> no.12<\/a>\u00a0(here is <a href=\"http:\/\/pan-am.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/now12_magazin.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">the full pdf version<\/a>). I checked apartment listings online although I won&#8217;t move to any place before May next year. And in my mind I already assembled my next desktop computer, carefully\u00a0choosing\u00a0every component. Ha, it&#8217;s going to be super fast and gets a new <a title=\"computer case\" href=\"http:\/\/www.atomicmpc.com.au\/News\/261057,corsairs-new-600t-is-a-white-out-of-cool.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">ultra-cool case<\/a>. I even checked out reviews for vacuum cleaners (I&#8217;ll get <a title=\"Bosch Bodenstaubsauger\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bosch-home.com\/de\/BSG81466.html\" target=\"_blank\">this one<\/a>). No kidding!<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I needed this break. I rented a room in a house in San Sebastian (just South of the capital San Jos\u00e9) where I could work without hassles. It felt a lot like home. It was very safe, clean (okay, that part did <em>not<\/em> remind me of my place in Heidelberg) and with all utilities and facilities I could possibly need (even a gym! &#8230;that I never used). For the first time in months I cooked my own dinner. My landlady <a title=\"Vilma\" href=\"http:\/\/www.airbnb.com\/users\/show\/146452\" target=\"_blank\">Vilma<\/a> was very friendly and motherly to me and even cooked for me a few times. I got spoilt. But I got much work done this month and my financial situation looks better now. This was a good balance to all the non-stop travelling over the past months and I start getting this feeling of wanting to &#8216;move on&#8217; again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, you read correctly &#8211; working and living. My time here in Costa Rica is very different from the kind of nomadic lifestyle I followed the past couple of months. After eight months of travelling I started to get tired in some ways. Moving to a new hostel every other day, figuring out where to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[42],"class_list":["post-2579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pan-am.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pan-am.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pan-am.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pan-am.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pan-am.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2579"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"http:\/\/pan-am.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2657,"href":"http:\/\/pan-am.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579\/revisions\/2657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pan-am.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pan-am.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pan-am.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}