Let me guess: your income is more than US$6,000 per year, the median per capita income for Costa Rica. For the United States, the median per capita income is about US$27,000.<p>It looks like electricity costs around US$0.30&#x2F;kWh in Costa Rica. In the United States, it&#x27;s about US$0.13.<p>So, the electricity in Costa Rica costs 2.3 times as much, and the income is about 20% of that in the United States, meaning that electric bills are effectively over 10 times higher.<p>Would you be willing to pay an electric bill that was ten times what you pay now? Even if you would, I assure you that many others would not.