The dollar exchange keeps climbing, closing last Friday (Mar. 7) at \u00a2567.81 in the wholesale market, the highest level since January 2010. During the week ending Friday, the rate rose \u00a212.95 colones, despite the Central Bank injecting US$141 million in the dollar supply.<\/p>\n
Will it reach \u00a2600 or even beyond? Maybe.<\/p>\n
Click here to check the official exchange rate, update each morning by the Central Bank<\/a> That is great news for mongers visiting, as they get more bang (literally) for a buck. But, the sex social workers (SSW) \u2013 we don\u2019t call them prostitutes or whores here, after all they do perform very much needed social work \u2013 they know how this works and that is why they always quote in dollars.<\/p>\n But, at the massage parlours\u00a0 and the still uninitiated SSW\u2019s, will be working for colones. After all, how does not explain to hubby at home the job at the local hotel or restaurant pays in dollars?<\/p>\n So, lets do the math;<\/p>\n US$100 at \u00a2505 is \u00a250.500 colones or 2.5 times the bang for your typical \u00a220.000 SSW.<\/p>\n Now, at \u00a2560 colones to a buck, that is \u00a256.000 or 2.8 times the bang, at \u00a2600, 3 times the bang.<\/p>\n Not so good for the locals, but\u2026<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" More bang for the buck! The dollar exchange keeps climbing, closing last Friday (Mar. 7) at \u00a2567.81 in the wholesale market, the highest level since […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costaricasex.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costaricasex.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costaricasex.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costaricasex.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costaricasex.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/costaricasex.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5527,"href":"http:\/\/costaricasex.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/5527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costaricasex.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costaricasex.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costaricasex.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costaricasex.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nClick here for the exchange rate at local banks<\/strong>, update as changes occur<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n