What struck you about Costa Rica?

When I lived in Costa Rica as a young man,everybody would genuflect the sign of the cross for anything and everything.I kept that custom for the rest of my life,no matter where I went in this world.In San Jose,it was social suicide to wear shorts for an adult male.Everyone was so well dressed,Costa Ricans would starve,to save money to dress well,you hid your poverty.Now that I'm back in Costa Rica,after being gone all those years,I don't even recognize my own people! Believing in God and dressing well here, that went out the window as soon as Ticos would rather copy foreigners in everything,the worse the better.

Yeah Don Edwin, things change a lot over time everywhere.
Everyone copies things in the USA. Tom Brady and the Kardashians vacation in Costa Rica and dress down. Attorneys and real estate agents cheat people. Gringos come down with their money and raise all he property values and only create mediocre jobs for locals.  Hard to keep believing in god with those things going on.
And the Tico government copies the USA with massive spending backed by debt. Raises taxes and protects the few rice producers with high import duties in the country so as to make poor people pay 40% more for the basic food staple.

Used to be in the 1800s Costa Rica Had no electricity nor anti biotics, nothing modern maybe it would be best to revert to those days.
Would that be best?

Rodo.  Very well said and 100% the world changes daily and can be a tough place to adapt or survive
Not just the United States move fast but now the little countries that need the United States and other powerful countries to survive. These little  countries need to adapt to these fast and financial ways with out choice and of course corruption and greed still hide behind the curtains in these small countries when large sums of money are gifted to them for being an allied
Which yes is sad because it’s hard to find that true laid back Gilligans Island we search for

We need to see the beauty in the small things that carry no Cost.   Respect and love your fellow Man and Woman
Let’s just try and enjoy this nutty journey we decide to take

I dont think having a country without electricity and antibiotics among other things is not such a good idea.  I totally understand how Americans have the habit of landing in a place and most of them starting changing things and usually not for the good but they all cant be bad.  Unfortunately things are changing economically with CR and of course that is expected anytime tourism plays such a huge part and governments dont really care about the labor force, but it’s not always the government alone, big private companies can be guilty of this as well.  Just like here in the US.

Well said.  Large countries who are extremely corrupt are “gifted” large sums of money, think China???

It doesn't matter what time period,basically we have lost many of our customs that defined us.Believing in something higher than oneself has been replaced now,with what newcomers like doing best,"Rubbing their dimples raw,by sticking their fingers in there twirling them,chirping Pura Vida,and tattooing that slogan all over their face and body".Ticos,barely say"Buenos Dias"anymore,they hide behind the iPhone like everybody else.The propaganda machine,that has commercialized the "Blue Zone/Zona Azul",like it is a gym membership,has done a great job to bring in the global capital.The only good I can find from this---it raises the bar for who can get legal residency in Costa Rica(We have open border with Nicaragua,not the U.S.)When our Grandparents, parents and all those who lived past the honorable age of 100yrs,that is the end of the Blue Zone.The only thing left will be all these Gordillos,walking out in the middle of our dark country roads,with their face buried in their iPhone getting runned over !