International Living.com IL Omitted critical information, incomplete information, false information promoted Internet

IL excludes certain country's facts that could be deemed negative in reports and thus misleads the reader/subscriber. This is done blatantly, as IL reports on many countries and the same information is not presented on each country. And miraculously, when the information is negative for a country, it is simply not addressed. And in some cases, is presented incorrectly. The errors I speak of relate to the cost of vehicle ownership in Costa Rica.

For example, to import my 11 year old car worth 5k in the US, the taxes in CR are a little over 5k dollars US. NOWHERE in the IL products they sell is any information even eluding to this fact. The one comment they make says it basically costs a percent or two to transfer a vehicle. This in in contrast to their report on Panama, for example, where they say you can import a car every two years with a tax exemption.

Another example is an article they publish about a US couple who were denied medical care in the US. They state Medicare "denied" a surgical procedure for the husband because of his age. I worked in medicine for two decades and have never heard of MEDICARE denying a needed procedure based on someones age. Maybe an insurance company they signed up with that is NOT Medicare but receives funding from Medicare could have denied the procedure, but again, I would be shocked if it was due to "age". This story is possible in a socialized medicine country, but not in the US at the present time.

My recommendation is read IL products as entertainment, not facts. Too many omissions and misleading stories to use their products as facts and to base important decisions upon.