ticos near finca las brisas a costa rica property

Tico is a colloquial name for the natives of Costa Rica. The locals refer to themselves as tico or tica (female). The tico ideal is that of a very friendly, helpful, laid back, unhurried, educated and environmentally aware people, with little worry for deadlines or the "normal" stresses of life in the United States. Visitors from North America are often referred to as gringos, which is virtually always used in a good-natured way.

We have found the gringos to be the most friendly and helpful Americans we have met anywhere in the US or abroad.

Costa Rica also has no military or navy, but an abundance of wildlife, it has been said that the soldiers are the leaf cutter ants, the pilots are the macaws and the navy ships are the whales. Over 25% of Costa Rica is composed of protected forests and reserves.

The tico above is one of our neighbors and we first met him when he was walking his two prized oxen with traditional headdress up the road. The tico to the left came to the fiesta we had to meet our neighbors and raise money for the local school.

When you drive down a road near your Costa Rica property you are likely to encounter more than just other vehicles. People walking, riding bicycles, and on horseback. Also seen on most drives are dogs, school children, cows, iguana, tropical birds, horses - all who seem friendly and unhurried. Dogs for example seem to be found in most places including restaurants and they all seem to get along everywhere we have gone. 

So right now, we are broadly using tico to refer to all of the wonderful people and creatures of Costa Rica. 

Typical dogs found in most restaurants	Colt on Road to Nosara	One of our more noisy neighbors
Black iguana found everywhere	Traffic jam on the road to Playa Buenavista where Mel Gibson just purchased his finca	Adrian at La Roca where we eat when we are working on the finca
One of our neighbors Santos Garcia	Coto, Wayne and Howie	This dog is in every cafe
There are at least 10 local sawmills close by	Local children art	Local children's art
Rafa, owns the finca next to ours	Howie, our neighbor who's house we can see from our finca loves basketball. He put up a hoop in his village.	During dry season the local farmers make molasses from sugar cane for their cattle
Drying bean on the mountain road above us	Soccer team at the school playing a game at the fiesta we held to meet our neighbors	One of our neighbors
Christoph lives in Nosara and is our reforestation consultant	Gerald our road guy	Our maintenance crew