Costa Rica, sportsbook mecca
Johnston Farrow
Deep in the Central America jungle, one of the first gold rushes of the 21st century attracts people from far and wide. Only this time, the gold is a share of the lucrative online sports gambling industry that has exploded in the last decade.
If Dawson City was the boomtown of the Yukon in the late 1800s, San Jose, Costa Rica is the boomtown of offshore sportsbooks, housing a large portion of the Internet-based industry. Dozens of new sportsbooks pop up every year in San Jose. A stable democracy, a solid infrastructure, government tolerance, a better lifestyle and an educated, yet cheaper workforce are all reasons why the billion-dollar offshore sportsbook industry shifted from the island towns of the Caribbean to the Central American capital in the late 90s.
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Johnston Farrow
Deep in the Central America jungle, one of the first gold rushes of the 21st century attracts people from far and wide. Only this time, the gold is a share of the lucrative online sports gambling industry that has exploded in the last decade.
If Dawson City was the boomtown of the Yukon in the late 1800s, San Jose, Costa Rica is the boomtown of offshore sportsbooks, housing a large portion of the Internet-based industry. Dozens of new sportsbooks pop up every year in San Jose. A stable democracy, a solid infrastructure, government tolerance, a better lifestyle and an educated, yet cheaper workforce are all reasons why the billion-dollar offshore sportsbook industry shifted from the island towns of the Caribbean to the Central American capital in the late 90s.
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