that's cause the brochures only show the fucking trees and shit. rain forest, volcano, beaches.
it doesn't show you the signs welcoming you in the airport.
Welcome to Costa Rica. Please Do Not Have Sex With Our Children.
(no lie)
you go rent a car, you leave the rental agency with an armed guard with a shotgun in the backseat and another car following you. You go to the hotel, the armed guard gets out, gets in the second car and goes back to the agency, they just delivered you safely to your destination, now if you get jacked for the car, it's your own fault.
Imagine if you want to take Dev out in the backyard to play on the swing set, you had to first drag the swingset out of the garage and assemble it, then when he was finished, like in 15 mins, you had to take it apart and store it back in the garage.
Imagine your home have gates ten feet high, with the top of the gates, the roof of your house, the bars on the front door and garage door all wrapped in razor wire.
Kind of bad huh?
Now imagine a 22 year old with ripply abs, toothy smile, and massage therapy license rubbing your feet, rubbing oil on your sunburn, ironing your clothes, fetching your meals, washing your rental car, muff diving for hours, and letting you do anyting you want to him even if it is laying a steaming load in his hair.
for only $40 a day.