CR!S – The site that bills itself as the “World’s Most Nutritious News Source”, El <\/a>Pejibaye, offers a satirical insight in to the “slimy gringos” in Costa Rica, rating San Jose\u2019s \u201cGringo Gulch\u201d and\u00a0Jac\u00f3 as world\u2019s best spots to be an anonymous expat sleazeball with no repercussions.<\/p>\n From the El Pejibaye<\/a> – SAN JOSE \u2013<\/em> Traffic slowed to a halt in downtown San Jos\u00e9 today as drunk and slovenly dressed gringos took to the street to celebrate Costa Rica\u2019s designation by think-tank Transient International as the world\u2019s top refuge for expats fleeing seedy pasts to dodge arrest warrants and indulge in the excesses of sex, drugs and, well, marimbas.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s not often that Costa Rica is ranked number in the world at anything, and we could not be prouder to be recognized for the sordid, shadowy community of expats we have willfully given asylum to over the years,\u201d said Culture Minister Sylvie Duran at a press conference held in the casino of San Jose\u2019s Hotel Del Rey. \u201cIt\u2019s a reminder to the international community that, if you are looking to have an affair, easily obtain illicit drugs or change your name to avoid the law, come to Costa Rica!\u201d<\/p>\n The study conducted by the Geneva, Switzerland-based research group found that Costa Rica has the world\u2019s largest population of \u201cfat, Hawaiian shirt wearing, pill-drunk expat slobs,\u201d narrowly edging out Thailand and the Dominican Republic. The Central American nation was also rated the world\u2019s top destination for 23-year old expats pretending to learn Spanish, dabble in Yoga, or teach subpar English to locals for six to eight months before returning home to live with their parents.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m much happier here than I ever was in Mississipi, uh, I mean Michigan,\u201d said Chaz PureLife, a U.S. expat employed at a cocaine-fueled SportsBook in the basement of Mall San Pedro. \u201cAs long as I travel with my fake passport, I have no problem avoiding Interpol in the U.S. and always get back into Costa Rica with a fake itinerary I update in Microsoft Paint.\u201d<\/p>\n After word of the news reached the Pacific\u00a0coast beach town of Jac\u00f3, local establishments the Beatle Bar, Hotel Cocal and Le Loft offered free drinks all day to expats with proof of an outstanding arrest warrant in another country, according to a posting in a local Facebook group. Escort services also offered temporary 2-for-1 deals to men exceeding 300 pounds and dressed in Hawaiian or Imperial beer t-shirts, according to local tourism site http:\/\/www.grimygringos.org<\/a>. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" CR!S – The site that bills itself as the “World’s Most Nutritious News Source”, El Pejibaye, offers a satirical insight in to the “slimy gringos” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5779,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costaricasex.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8958"}],"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=8958"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/costaricasex.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8960,"href":"http:\/\/costaricasex.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8958\/revisions\/8960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costaricasex.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costaricasex.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costaricasex.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costaricasex.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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