Goddam Rain and Visas

Well i thought i knew how much rain this country could give out but man this last 10 days has been just shocking, it all started with a little hurricane near Puerto Rico, not to be confused with Costa Rica, well the hurricane was creating this huge circular weather pattern all around the Caribbean, this was forcing high speed air to pass over CR and drop its full load of rain here, it was unbelievable, it was raining non-stop day and night, just buckets, it was flooding all the pacific coast, washing away roads and bridges and houses and people, we even had a small bridge disappear here in my town of Santa Ana, it was making me miserable as we couldn't get out to do anything, it felt like being back in the UK again, plus at the same time, my wife has been getting new passports for herself and the little tinker, this itself was pretty easy but to allow her to travel properly they both need USA visas, this allows both transit through and holidays in the USA, getting these are getting progressively harder, the amount of paperwork required is silly, plus getting official paperwork here in CR is just crazy, you have to go to one government dept to get a birth certificate and then go to another to get it certificated to say it is real, isnt that just silly, so we had to provide house details, bank account details, car details, childs school details, recent holidays in the USA, recent transit details through the USA, it was silly, but i am looking at spending a year or so in my Spanish house as it will save us some money while we are waiting for house prices to fall. Now this is where the amount of paperwork gets incredible, we had to obtain a letter from the spanish embassy to allow the CR gov to give us the correct document, details if criminal record for my wife and child, bank account details, letter from the lawyer stating I am married and will support my wife in spain, details of my house in spain, my spanish ID number, my employment details, the little tinkers permit to leave the country, both Jenny and the tinker had to have medicals to prove they were healthy, and all these documents also had to be certificated at the relevant government dept, it has been ongoing solid for two weeks, non stop everyday, driving into San Jose after the rush hour, going to one office and then another. Pure madness, but i have to keep telling myself it will all be worth it, moving everything to spain seems a bit severe but i will save about $15,000 a year, which is a not inconsequential amount, plus we are looking at doing some major modernisation on the house, adding a third floor and a large walled garden, the third floor will be a master suit with walk in closet and on-suite bathroom, I am also looking at adding solar powered hot water system and solar powered central heating for the winters, which are cooler than what you think for somwhere so far south, it is only 150 Km from north africa, my first year in Malaga there was a snow storm that swept through spain and onto Morocco where it killed 300 folks.
Also I am looking at getting my little tinker British Citizenship, it is a tricky thing from here but as we are only 10 minutes from the British Consulate and I am known to the Vice-consul, there are only 400 brits registered at the Consulate. Again it requirtes loads of paperwork, which all has to be translated by an official translater at $20 a sheet,

Man i am going crazy with all this paperwork, life will improve i am sure.