Now, this is the deal

I'm a 29-year old Costa Rican woman and I've been living in San Jose, the capital city, since 1990.

Recently, thanks to my roommate's connection to Couchsurfing, and my foreign friends, I've come to realize people who visit Costa Rica have a somewhat distorted idea about San Jose.

Visitors consider San Jose boring, unsafe and uninviting. It's easy to see why people would think that, but I can't help feeling they're missing out on so much of what San Jose has to offer by believing outsiders.

Don't get me wrong. It's not just foreign people who don't seem to appreciate San Jose. Many locals don't either. I bhttp://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6116881807248196009&postID=4876292830041694604elieve that to really "get" a city like this one and taste its flavor, you need to be open-minded and objective about the good, the bad and the ugly. And San Jose has lots of the three.

This city can be hectic, dirty, drab and vexing but San Jose is also active, artistic, edgy, stylish and avant-garde... Just look in the right places.

So, I want to simply show you places to visit, events to attend, bits of information to help you survive in it and to have fun here. Just as plainly as I see it. I hope to get your comments and questions regarding my insights.

Welcome to the San Jose Insider!