Making Sense of Living in Central America

I own property in Guanacaste.  I have met with four Architects in the past three years, the most recent in March 2909.  I have given them sketches of my ideas and some thoughts of construction materials.  My problem is that they all seem to want "South Florida Prices".  I would like to meet with an Architect/Builder who is more realistic with their pricing.  I have seen so many projects in CR that have been stopped because of the Economic Crisis.  I don't understand why they can't be more realistic.  By the way, all I have met with have been Tico's.

Any recomindations would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance.

RTC

We've just held a William Walker movie marathon - featuring Burn with Marlon Brando, then Walker with Harris/Cox.

Both of these films are inspired by the myth of William Walker but neither attempts to present an accurate history of the man.  Burn was my favorite of the two.  Located in a fictional Caribbean island, it tracks a "Walker" character who tries to keep the slaves in line for politicians and corporate power - for a fee due to Walker.

Here are a few items I've recently come across about Nicaragua worth taking a look at when considering Nicaragua and its historical relationship with the U.S.

Here is a semi-primary source called With Walker In Nicaragua by James Carson Jamison (who went with William Walker to Nicaragua in the mid 19th century).

Here is an unbiased semi-primary perspective by John Pilger about Nicaragua's "unique struggle to end the cycle of poverty and humiliation" -- well, except for the unbiased and unique part.  But if you're into gore or are a Somozista with no reservations, make sure you watch at minute 23 of the video.

Sometimes you read about the oppression of the Latin American countries at the hands of Spain, or the United States. Sometimes you read about the oppression of the Latin poor by their own aristochratic, monopolistic ruling classes.

Of course there's no one single answer to Who Is Responsible for The Poverty of the Latin Poor? But The question is an important one for understanding one's relation to those poor, whether one is from the U.S., Spain, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Norway, Iran, etc.

Are the precolonial Indian tribes responsible for the current poverty of the Latin poor?  Why weren't they wiser to keep their gold, to dedicate themselves to learning about the arriving adventurers and forming mutually beneficial relationships with them?  Or did those tribes actually form mutually beneficial relationships with those newcomers?

I just wanted to see if anyone has any feedback about a few items on the website.

First of all, regarding user profiles - currently, these are only accessible to registerd users who are logged-in to the site.  They are not visible to unregistered users or search engines.  Of course, anyone with an email address can register at any time on this website, so in a sense, what we have added to our profile (like to home page, name, etc) are still public.

I think in many cases, however, those who register would like to have their profile pages available to others - so that others can click to their home page / blog / etc.

One possible drawback would be that some users might not want to have their profile page added to search engines.  It might be possible to make the profiles publicly accessible, yet not accessible to search engines.  Or maybe it's no problem to have the profiles in the search engines.