Submitted 3 years 9 months ago by AlexP. I'll give you 10 good reasons to skip Costa Rica for women. There is a gringo stigma in other regions, such as Rio de Janeiro and Medellin, but it is on another level in Costa Rica.
Girls do not want to be seen with a gringo unless they are seriously dating. One way local Costa Rican girls would continuously diss you is by just speaking to you from a "transactional" standpoint of where they work restaurant, bar, club etc.
They still keep this "block" up with you; if you go there, you'll understand what I mean. Similar to Playa Del Carmen and Medellin, the vast majority of gringos who visit Costa Rica are incompetent dorks who don't know a word of Spanish. Depending on your age, you'll be painted as either a dorky tourist or a sexpat, none of which is flattering. The beaches on the Nicoya peninsula are beautiful, as is Tamarindo, but not as beautiful as many of the beaches in Mexico or Brazil.
Far too many gringos per capita reduces exotic appeal to zero. San Jose is the only place that is safe for online dating and nightlife, but it is also a dangerous city with little culture and little to do. If you're going to hang out in a dangerous city where you could get robbed or worse, make it Colombia or Brazil, where you can trade your craziness for female models.
There are no museums, music, or history. It's almost like a bogus republic. With the exception of December to April, the weather on Costa Rica's coasts is dreadful for months of the year, with nonstop rain and crazy thunderstorms. It is, after all, the rainforest. Only the very northern tip of Tamarindo, near San Juan del Sur, has pleasant weather for the majority of the year. Costa Rica has the third slowest internet in Latin America after Cuba and Venezuela , so expect mbps and regular blackouts unless you're in San Jose.
