Ever wondered what it’s like to leave the hustle of big cities behind?

How did you end up in Costa Rica? I spent most of my career working in New York City as a technical recruiter and leading recruiting teams at companies like MTV and Viacom. So I had a fun New York experience working in the entertainment and music business there. I moved to San Francisco Bay Area to get closer to tech and work at earlier stage companies, helping them build out TA teams and recruiting teams from the ground up. And in doing so, we had two daughters while living in California and then had a third daughter, Fiona, and my wife was on paternity leave. I had started Honnit. She was working out of coffee shops, working for a tech company as well, and we thought we could be working out of coffee shops kind of anywhere in the world. Why are we paying Bay Area rates? So this was back in Craigslist days where we just posted our house on Craigslist to see if we could maybe sublet it for 6 months as a furnished rental or whatnot. And sure enough, got a bunch of interest quickly that night or the next day, and we said, well, I guess we could sublet our place for 6 months and give it a spin. So this was essentially November 2016 when we posted it, and we moved down here January 2017.