I'd check out the bar girls.. Just be sure they're REALLY females. LOL
Posted on 08/03/2012 4:09:01 PM PDT by BenLurkin
In particular if any of you retired there.
My brother did. He loves it but misses the US a lot too. He hates the cold and snow and there is very little of that there.
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There’s a guy on the NASCAR dot com message board who retired there. He also snagged himself a very young and pretty wife as a bonus, so he says. You might go there and pose your question.
The only reasons I could see why anyone would go to the Philippines is for missionary work or sex tourism. Hopefully not both at the same time.
I'd check out the bar girls.. Just be sure they're REALLY females. LOL
Concur w/GSC. I have a friend who built a beautiful retirement home there. She summarily informed us that she needs bodyguards when she stays there and said it’s entirely too risky for any of us to visit her. Grandson #1 vacationed there w/a tour group and they all stayed close secondary to same.
No thanks, I’m not interested in traveling overseas to have sex with 12 year olds.
Hope you’ve had all your shots, dude.
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I haven’t been there but my husband used to fly in and out very often for the Air Force. Even years ago when he requested to get stationed there he said we’d have to hire guards to guard our home 24/7.
With the Muslim Extremist groups that are there now I would think it would be worse. But as I said, I’ve not been there and my husband hasn’t been there recently.
I know Coast to Coast’s Art Bell lives there, but I’m sure he’s in a very secure compound somewhere. I also have heard via the grapevine that the military is considering reopening 2 bases there. How that would affect the status quo I’m not sure.
Good luck on finding the info you want! Here are a few websites that may help:
http://www.retireinphilippines.com/
This site was last updated in January of this year and might help:
http://retiringphilippines.org/
This is silly. I have heaps of friends who have traveled there, all for good, wholesome fun. Just from their pics I can see that the Phillipines is an incredibly beautiful country with tons of clean, fun adventure to be had. Yes, there is a seedy side, as there is with Thailand and MANY other countries, but don’t avoid the Phillipines just because of the bad apples.
I went there once to see the Liberty Bell.
My wife is from the Philippines - my 18 year old son just came back from visiting his cousins.
There is a lot more to the Philippines than girls, bars, and crime. What is missing here is that the Philippines is not just what guys saw that were there while in the military.
It is a pretty conservative country and the economy is improving ( unlike the USA ) as a lot of the population engages in wealth producing work overseas and brings back hard cash.
There are bad places in Manila I would not go to at night - there are similar places in Kansas city I would avoid - I suppose the Philippines is worse, but we are catching up.
The Philippines currency has gained against the dollar for many years now..
http://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&chvs=Linear&chdeh=0&chfdeh=0&chdet=1344038204264&chddm=2900100&q=CURRENCY:PHPUSD&ntsp=0
There are a lot of people working in call centers, IC manufacturing etc - doing things that produce wealth. They have a long way to go, but at least they are headed in the opposite direction than the socialists that run the USA.
I’m sorry. Even in high school I had a hard time figuring out where countries are. I almost failed geometry.
My brother tells me it’s an island by island thing. He lives on a deeply Catholic island and Muslims are not common or welcome. Very little crime where he lives and he even started a Rotary chapter. Their outreach is to coordinate facial corrective surgery for cleft palate done by volunteer surgeons and support staff from the US and other western countries.
I was there over Christmas and felt perfectly safe. There is crime just like here but most of it is theft from what I could tell. Everyone speaks english to some extent and some of the islands are truly tropical paradise.
I sort of worry about their economy. I have never seen so many cranes on tall buildings. Manila is growing at a very rapid pace. My Father in law says its money pouring out of China.
They have very good hospitals for those that can pay. Your medicaid stops the minute you move there but the costs aren’t like here.
Beef and gas are not cheap. Lots of motorbikes and more traffic in Manila than I care to see again. We had a driver but I don’t think I could stand to deal with it myself.
Go for a visit.
I plan to retire there in about 11 to 12 years.
What, specifically, do you want to know?
Hello...Just got the heads up from others...
While I am an old Tennessee boy, I moved here to Cebu island from central Europe in Jan. 2009.
Cebu is rated by Travel and Leisure magazine as the third best island in all of Asia, next to Bali and Maldives.
There is no way that I would return to Obozoland.
Just the thought of it makes me sick.
The US no longer, in anyway, resembles the country of my younger days.
I started international living in 1999, and last took off from Memphis in Jan. 2005, moving to Slovakia.
I made a one month exploratory trip to Visayas, the best part of the Philippines, in 2004.
I was very lucky to have Qatar Airlines that flew me from Vienna to Cebu city with only one stop in Doha.
I was also very lucky to find a Philippine couple in Vienna that ran a shipping company.
They picked up my fairly small shipment of belongins the evening before I left.
A month later, a truck pulled up to my door on Cebu, and unloaded all. It was just as it was when leaving my apartment in Bratislava.
My gitl, our 18 month old boy,a passel of cats, and myself have a nice cottage on a beach, living on less then $1000 per month.
Transportation is great, and no need to own a car here.
It is a great way to spend my retirement years.
My social security comes by direct deposit into my Philippine bank on the 4th of each month.
Life in a third world country is not for everyone.
You have to be laid back and go with the flow.
Every area has numerous expats from Europe and the US.
Feel free to email any questions.
Thanks — I’m looking at possiblities for small pension retirement and the P I ihas recently been brought to my attention.
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