Brisa
Designed as a flat lot option for our Breeze model - Brisa retains the concept of blending home with nature - incorporating free plan space, openable exterior walls and refined materials. Taking advantage of a first floor capable of opening from the rear kitchen wall, through living-dining room walls, onto the deck and into the jungle – Brisa makes a bold proclamation of its extraordinary connection to the environment beyond its interior envelope. An ascending staircase, suspended over water below, leads to luxurious suites on the second floor. Conspicuously perched above water mirrors, waterfalls and the pool – the walls of your lavish bedroom open to a leafy garden deck – connected to activities below and open to the pure air in the lofty Costa Rican vegetation.

Model Home Construction
Construction progress on the Breeze in Black Beauty, the Mist in Ruby Sky and the Lush in Emerald Woods Villages.

We are nearing completion of our first three model homes. Below are some photos showing recent progress with anticipated completion of these first three within the second quarter of 2009. We have also broken ground on three additional models homes; the Luna, Tierra and Mariposa.

Breeze Model in Black Beauty Village

Mist Model in Ruby Sky Village

Lush Model in Emerald Woods Village

The "... World's Healthiest, Longest Lived People" - Right Here in Costa Rica
Written by Scott Oliver, the author of How To Buy Costa Rica Real Estate Without Losing Your Camisa and Costa Rica's Guide To Making Money Offshore and the founder of http://www.WeLoveCostaRica.com where you will find over 1,700 free articles and videos about living in Costa Rica.

Funded by National Geographic, Dan Buettner investigated several "blue zones", places where people tend to live healthier and longer lives. The Costa Rican town of Nicoya is one blue zone.

Here in Nicoya you can find 100-year-old women chopping firewood and washing their laundry by hand. Compared to men in the US or Europe, men in Nicoya live to the age of 100 four times as often.

These people are "the world's healthiest, longest lived people" and researchers believe that their long life expectancy is because of the dry climate, their outdoor lifestyles full of sunshine, a low stress life, a simple low calorie diet, low in animal protein but with lots of fresh fruit, vegetables with plenty of rice, corn and beans and always a light dinner. They also drink the local water which has a high calcium content.

"In most of the world, female centenarians outnumber male centenarians 7:1, here the proportion is closer to 1:1" (3) These centenarians have typically enjoyed a strong social network and a happy family life, some even have their 60+ year old 'children' still living with them and they know how to laugh and how to listen.

However they also know how to work, they have no desire or plans to retire and work all their lives, they have a strong sense of purpose, they are positive thinkers, they do not worry too much and have faith (Gracias a Dios!) that everything will work out well.

We can't guarantee that you will live to be 100 years old if you move to Costa Rica however, you might have more fun trying, eh?