The Latin America Diaries Entry VIII: What makes you local?
In Santa Teresa, a coastal town in Costa Rica, a question lingers: Who's local now, anyway? The town is filled with immigrants, and everyone claims to be local, despite being from somewhere else.
A question arises: can a foreigner who has lived in Costa Rica for two months, two years, or even twenty years call themselves local? An analogy is drawn: a papaya on the shelf at Woolies doesn't make it a local fruit of Australia.
Just living somewhere doesn't make you local. The word carries weight – it grants authority over a place.
This issue is not unique to Santa Teresa, but it is particularly pronounced in this immigrant town on the Pacific coastline.
Author's summary: Defining what it means to be local in a foreign town.
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