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Amazon.com: Happier Than A Billionaire: The Sequel eBook: Nadine Hays Pisani: Kindle Store





Happier Than A Billionaire: The Sequel, continues the journey of one couple’s adventures in Costa Rica.

Follow the author and her husband as they move to the beach to build their dream home. Although the seafood is fresh and the sunsets are golden, it doesn’t take long for Nadine to find that this process won’t come easy, even when living in one of the prettiest places on earth.

In the midst of it all, Nadine entertains her parents and mother-in-law, kayaks crocodile-infested waters, and obsesses over howler monkeys that reside above her neighbor’s house.

She also discovers that not all dreams come in the form of brick and mortar. Some appear after taking a chance when all odds are against you.
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Happier Than A Billionaire: The Sequel Kindle Edition
by Nadine Hays Pisani (Author)


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Publication Date: December 4, 2012
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Language: English
ASIN: B00AIVD8CI
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Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #260,652 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
#129 in General Central America Travel Guides
#46 in Central American Travel
#73 in Costa Rica Travel Guides


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Nadine was born in Elizabeth New Jersey and attended Rutgers University. She lives in Costa Rica with her husband where they both run their successful bed and breakfast, The Happier House. When not writing, you can find Nadine at the beach, frolicking under waterfalls, or entertaining guests.

You can follow her adventures on her blog, youtube, or her facebook page: www.happierthanabillionaire.com
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D. Strong
5.0 out of 5 starsThank you, Nadine!March 22, 2015
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I have now read both of the "Happier Than..." books, and they are worth double the price just to laugh out loud so much! Truly, I can't remember the last time I read one book that made me laugh so hard, let alone two.

I have been to Costa Rica twice now, and I intend to spend at least my winters there once my last teenager goes to college in a couple of years. I have seen enough of the country to experience the absolute awe and amazement at how a place can so capture your soul...exactly what Nadine writes about. And at the same time, I have also experienced the necessity of leaving one's expectations of efficiency at home in the States...which she also writes, so eloquently, about (although many times I have also been pleasantly surprised). There is so much to Costa Rica, and although I was just there a couple of months ago, I miss it terribly, and reading Nadine's books makes me feel a bit better.

Trust me, even with all the true stories of the good, the bad, and the ugly in Nadine's books, I would move myself and my family down there in a minute, if only my husband was as enthused (which is why I will probably only be able to spend winters there...there's a limit to his understanding, and his willingness to spend time alone). So, in the meantime I will continue to study Spanish, clean out my closets, do all the good I can here in Montana, and dream of my next visit to "The Land of My People," as my friends have taken to calling Costa Rica when they hear me extolling all its virtues. I am planning to make a month-long visit next year. Thank you, Nadine, for helping me stay sane while I wait and plan.

And I apologize if this is more a thank you note than a book review, but let me leave you with this: if you have any interest at all in Costa Rica, and have dreams of living an expat life, or even just vacationing in a peaceful, lovely country with a starling variety of climates, and you like to laugh out loud, then this is the book for you. If, however, you are a whiney, stick-in-the-mud, with no sense of adventure and a penchant for control and immediate gratification, then you will neither like this book nor the country it is written about.

And now I am going to go buy Nadine's latest book...

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Carolyn M. Suess
5.0 out of 5 starsHilarious, helpful, and life changingApril 4, 2015
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I'm so jealous of Nadine and Rob. I read her first book-which is amazing and the reason I couldn't wait to read the next two. I'm currently on the 3rd book, which is a detailed guide on How to move to CR and not wanna hang yourself with all the crazy stuff you have to go through. Her stories literally laughing so hard I was crying. It's the life I have wanted for a few years now-life on a beautiful island with genuine people, that is safe, and where family can't wait to visit. I have since planned my trip to CR in August. I have been to alot of the Caribbean islands, but I have a feeling CR is going to be life changing and I hope I get the same feelings Nadine gets while visiting-that CR is the most beautiful place on Earth. Being from New Jersey I definitely relate to her complaints about the stressful lifestyle. It sucks! I now find myself saying to my fiancée (we own our own business together) whenever something stressful or crazy happens, "Costa Rica" looks better every minute. I don't know if we could do it though. We are so used to having the finest things in life it would be a huge lifestyle change for us I'm not sure we could adapt like Nadine did. But hey you never know until you try. Who knows what the future holds for us. But I won't wait too long. Life is too short to not enjoy every day. And knowing there is a place on this earth that is pure perfection in paradise, it makes me want to go there permanently. Thank you Nadine for sharing your personal experiences and thoughts. And thank you for putting yourself out there and making the world see there is other ways to live. And thanks for the laughs I really really enjoyed your book and I've told all my friends about it.


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Sconion
5.0 out of 5 starsBUY THIS BOOK OR SOMEWHERE A CROCODILE WILL STARVE AND IT WILL BE ALL YOUR FAULT!! Probably.December 23, 2012
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Happier Than A Billionaire: The Sequel by Nadine Hays Pisani

The author's first effort was insanely funny. From first to last, it was a charmer full of raucous good humor, low-impact cultural crashes, a fair amount of slapstick and characters who were, and presumably still are, barking mad.

It was so funny and well written I frankly didn't believe Nadine Hays Pisani would be able to write a sequel equal to the first book. I was not mistaken in my belief.

Indeed, the Sequel does NOT rise to the level of the first. It surpasses it in every conceivable way.

You saw that coming, of course, but let me explain all the same.

There really isn't a way to compare and contrast the two books, but comparisons are inevitable. Events in the first book were new and fresh to the author and told in a voice that was new and fresh as well.

This book is, I felt, more insightful without the usual over-thinking that happens when authors try too hard to be perceptive and take themselves too seriously. In the Sequel, the author casts into deeper waters and the catch is something that will surprise and delight you and that you will savor for a very long time.

Mrs. Pisani is not afraid to show us she has grown in wisdom. She makes it clear that she takes it as read, her life and that of her husband is waist deep in a sea of lunacy, but that she is wise enough not to take a moment of that life for granted. She also isn't afraid to demonstrate she hasn't lost her sense of head-banging hilarity.

She ignores the easy route of glossing over the stuff of day-to-day life in favor of the easy laughs that can be found in over the top situations. That would be an easy trap into which many authors have fallen. Mrs. Pisani is a woman comfortable with her subject and she makes us understand that she revels in the rich minutiae of her every day life in Costa Rica and wants to share that joy with us.

The author's treatment of the subjects covered in The Sequel is rich in understanding, but not just of the life and people she has encountered in Costa Rica.

Mrs, Pisani gives us more and does it with wild humor and charming good grace. With a light touch and palpable kindness, she opens a door for us to a better understanding of our own lives, our own loves, and, ultimately, ourselves.

Although an extremly talented writer, her real talent lies in another direction as well. The author has the matchless ability of letting us know in pants-splittingly entertaining ways the depth of enjoyment she gets out of life is something is that is available to us all no matter where we are.

Although her setting in a small Latin American country, Nadine Hays Pisani has not limited herself or us to this time or that place. Generously, she takes us along as she explores the zaniness and the poignancy of life as it exists everywhere and at any time.

There are those who will with a scowl decry the author's view of Costa Rica.

"Hey, that's not the way the real Costa Rica is!!!" some might glare and say. Some people feel, apparently, they are the arbiters of what is and isn't real. I, for one, am glad someone is in charge of reality.

To them I can only respond with unreasoning sincerity, "Buy and read Happier Than A Billionaire: The Sequel by Nadine Hays Pisani. Apply yourself to its study, leave a nice review here on Amazon then go write your own damn book."

Don't hesitate. Don't analyze the relative merits of one travel memoir over another. They all have much to offer. However, Nadine has laid out the welcome mat for you.

Buy this book right now and enjoy yourself.

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