The Costa Rica guide
Logistics · Costa Rica

Sequence the move to Costa Rica. Order is the whole game.

Shipping, pets, housing, and mail all depend on each other, and doing one too early or too late breaks the next. The move to Costa Rica does not fail on the big decisions. It fails on a container that leaves the wrong week. Put the pieces in order and the whole thing stops feeling impossible.

Topic
Logistics
Destination
Costa Rica
Origin
United States
Source
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Common questions

Logistics in Costa Rica, answered.

Should I ship my things to Costa Rica or start over?
It depends on the container cost to Costa Rica and what is genuinely worth moving. Build a plan and we walk you through the ship-or-sell decision early, because the answer changes when the container has to leave and what you budget for arrival.
What do people forget until it is too late?
The unglamorous tail: mail forwarding, the car, insurance overlaps, and the dozen subscriptions tied to a home address. Each is five minutes before you leave and a headache from abroad. The plan puts them in your final weeks so none survive the move.

Turn this into a dated Costa Rica plan.

Start a plan and the logistics work becomes dated tasks, sequenced against your move date alongside the visa, the documents, and everything else, so nothing for Costa Rica surprises you on the way out.

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