Erika Kennedy - What is Life in Costa Rica REALLY Like (with a family)

Extra Pack of Peanuts Travel Podcast

Travis Sherry

Society & Culture:places & Travel, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.6 • 890 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Ever dreamt of moving to a tropical country, beach breeze blowing through your hair, surrounded by lush vegetation, wildlife, and amazing surf? ("Uhhh, yea Trav, basically every day!") Well great - then you're in luck. Because 4 years ago, my great friend Erika Kennedy packed up her life in Canada, her husband, two kids, and mom and headed off for that dream lifestyle in Costa Rica. And after living there for 4 years, she explains what it is ACTUALLY like to live that beachfront paradise lifestyle - the good, the bad, and the WTF - including some of the most random things you can't get there. (oh, and she also renovated a decrepit mountaintop house, so she's really seen it all). Enjoy this behind the scenes look at what life in Costa Rica is really like...and maybe you'll be packing your bags sooner rather than later.

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0:00.0	Hello, podcast nerds and welcome to the extra pack of peanuts podcast.
0:04.5	I'm your host, Travis Sherry.
0:06.0	And with me today is someone I've known for 15 years, if you can believe that.
0:10.8	Oh, boy, don't zoom in too close to these wrinkles, who up and moved her family from Canada to Costa Rica in 2022 and who has turned down House Hunter International, House Hunters International.
0:23.1	Twice.
0:24.6	Erica, what's up?
0:26.4	Hey, Travis.
0:27.0	Thanks so much for having me.
0:28.2	Yeah, I am super pumped.
0:29.7	We've been behind the scenes.
0:31.3	By that, I mean, not all the podcast.
0:32.4	It's been chatting quite a bit over the last month, month and a half again. I thought, man, all these questions I'm asking, Erica, I got to just get her on and have her on the podcast so everyone can hear these before I, like, reveal all the secrets.
0:43.0	So here we are.
0:44.0	Finally, 15 years later.
0:45.4	Oh, crazy that it's been that long.
0:46.6	It has been, we'll get in a little bit.
0:48.3	We'll get in a little bit of the backstory for people as well.
0:52.4	But I've got an intro fact for you. You said you're cool with playing along.
0:56.4	And you'll either know this right away
0:58.9	or be like, why the heck is he asking me this question?
1:01.6	So we'll see which it is.
1:03.5	But the question is,
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