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Travel, Retire, Work and Live in the Philippines
Get There
This is an index page that leads you to every article written under the category of getting to the Philippines,… [more]
Live There
This is an index page that leads you to every article written under the category of living in the Philippines,… [more]
Airline Information
Here, in alphabetical order are the major ways to get from the US to the Philippines. Some of these airlines… [more]
A Bit About PhilFAQS
On this site you’ll find 5 plus years of my personal experiences Moving to the Philippines, Making a living in the Philippines and hints about how you can also. I’m a 66 year-old US-born man who has lived abroad extensively and I chose the Philippines as the best place for me. Why? … [Read More...]
Eight Reasons Your Philippine Business Will Fail
A while back I cam across an excellent article detailing way Americans tend to fail when they rush off to start a business in a foreign country as a way to make a living ... or even grow rich there. The article was written by a fellow with experience in Panama, but I couldn't help noticing the similarities to doing business in the Philippines. Especially for foreigners trapped in the belief that "they know better" and that "good old American … [Read More...]
It Doesn’t Matter What “They” Say
A few days ago I read agreat article on my blogging colleague' Chris Brogan's site which really caught my attention. Chris eloquently addresses one of the biggest problem most of us have in holding back our lives ... making decisions based on what other people say or think. Taking Other People’s Word For It by ceb More and more, I see evidence that people don’t form their own opinion. It’s easy to determine, if you know what to look … [Read More...]
Buying a Condo in the Philippines — Intro
Buying a Condo in the Philippines? Here's an update/primer on a subject that's always in demand here at PhilFAQS. Seems like almost everyone who comes here is looking to buy a place to live. In many ways, renting a home in the Philippines is going to be a better choice, but I'm not here to tell people what they want. You want to buy, then by all means buy. But do remember. As a foreigner, you can't own land in the Philippines, … [Read More...]
Move to the Philippines — Kiss 2
Move to the Philippines ... next installment in the Keeping it Simple series. Yesterday I published an article that urged people to stop making it so complicated. I want to publish some more along the same line, but I just realized I need to deal with a pesky little problem for most of my American cousins ... the Metric system. Why has America, almost alone in the world, refused to use even the basics of this system? Why do our … [Read More...]
Move To The Philippines — KISS 1
Move To The Philippines. Always a popular subject here at PhilFAQS. But you know what I hear very, very often from readers with moving to the Philippines on their mind? It's too hard? Too hard? Yep. Didn't seem that hard to me, I put our house on the market, threw some household goods in a container, my wife and I packed our bags, got on a plane and there we were. I failed to see the "hardness' involved. Perhaps we should … [Read More...]
Who’s Your Cousin?
Who's Your Cousin? Whatever can he mean by that I am sure a number of you who clicked to read this are wondering? Well actually, it's just me being cute (I know, I really shouldn't try, most of the time). But the phrase also came into my head while thinking of a title because of the popular colloquial phrase, Who's your daddy" ...which turn out to have a LOT more background than I first imagined it to. But the reason I thought of … [Read More...]
Top Ten PhilFAQS Living in the Philippines articles of 2011
Happy 2012! I won't be boring you with a list of boring New year's Resolutions. Most of which I won't keep anyway. But I did think a nice way to kick off the New year would be to review what you, the reader found most interesting in 2011. 2011 Articls arrnaged by Popularity Percentage: 63% More About Foreigner Jobs in the Philippines 50% Your Best Places To Live In The Philippines 28% Start a Business in the … [Read More...]
More About Foreigner Jobs in the Philippines
Foreigner Jobs. This is always one of my popular and searched for items ... Jobs for Americans in the Philippines. Personally, if I had to have a J*O*B I'd rather have one in the US, but who am I to tell others what to do. Jobs for foreigners in the Philippines have traditionally been hard to come by ... at least decent ones that pay anything like US-style wages. There are some number of Western corporations with operations here and … [Read More...]
Past, Present, Future — Living in the Philippines
Recently I came across some results from a blogging colleague who had surveyed his readers regarding some of their biggest regrets. I've been holding off on publishing this for sometime because I stupidly lost the link and therefore can't credit it ... so if anyone recognizes this, please shoot me a note straightaway and I'll recognize your work. Meanwhile, these are some of the responses. that rally rang true to me, especially with my … [Read More...]
Chickens in the Philippines
Chickens in the Philippines. Where did that idea come from? Well, as usual, it came from one of my most valuable assets in the world, my readers here at PhilFAQS (where yu can get the answers to Frequently Asked Question (FAQS) about living in the Philippines. Even about chickens in the Philippines. Now this isn't a post about fighting chickens in the Philippines. Cockfighting here is a huge sport/gambling center, but I'm not into … [Read More...]
Party Business in the Philippines
Party Business in the Philippines. I wrote about this idea just a few days back, regarding online business and the supposed "sleaze" factor. But if that article had a real failing, it would be that it didn't focus in any way on living in the Philippines ... a major reason many of you out there show up. (And thanks for showing up, by the way, many of you haven't missed one of my "highly irregular roll calls" in years and I appreciate … [Read More...]
Isn’t Making Money Online in the Philippines Kind Of — Sleazy?
Money Online in the Philippines. Isn't that kind of --- You Know, Sleazy.? That might seem a sort of strange question for me to start an article with, since many people know I make a little money online, and everyone who reads here ought to know that I live in the Philippines ... I've bene here more than five years now, as a matter of fact Money Online in the Philippines --- Have You Read What I Already Wrote? I get questions frequently … [Read More...]
Making It Hard On Yourself in the Philippines
You know there are lots of reasons that foreigners can have a hard time living here in the Philippines, so there is no reason to make it hard on yourself in the Philippines ... or so this old man opines at any rate. But it's likely you are saying, "How stupid is that, Dave? I mean, who, in their right mind is going to make it hard on himself in the Philippines?" Well it may sound stupid, but I've been working directly with thousands … [Read More...]
Start a Business in the Philippines — Do You Really Want To?
Start a Business in the Philippines. Yesterday I wrote an article about how to start a business in the Philippines. You might want to refer back to it if you are still in that Philippine business dream world. Start a Business in the Philippines --- Practical? One of my good readers here at PhilFAQS is pretty well along in the planning stage for starting a business here in the Philippines. Without revealing too many details of his plans, … [Read More...]
Start a Business in the Philippines
Start a Business in the Philippines Note to long-time readers: This post was originally published back in June, 2009. It's still one of my most in-demand subjects, though, so I brought it up-to-date, fact checked it and rolled it out again to meet reader demand. This is one of those sorts of posts that I really don’t care much about writing. This site is essentially a labor of love. I make a non-trivial income from a number of … [Read More...]
Casablanca Subic Yet Again?
Casablanca Subic ... I just looked at my calendar. Yes indeed, I just realized it's almost time. Time for something I have bene looking forward to for nearly a month now. The lovely Unofficial Cook and I are going to the Casablanca Resort and Hotel in the Subic Bay Freeport Zone yet again. (I've written before about this hotel in the past, see Places in the Philippines You Can Stay a While and Yes, We Went There Again — … [Read More...]
Philippine Attitude Toward Foreign Business
Philippine Attitude Toward Foreign Business I came across this recent article in a decent-size, respected newspaper in Cebu ... the second-largest city in the Philippines. So it is not just some off-the-wall crackpot writing from the hinterlands. A lot of people wonder why I am not big at all on the idea of foreigners starting a business in the Philippines. To read more about what I think, personally, you might want to start with … [Read More...]
Earning a Living in the Philippines — But Not From the Philippines
Anyone interested in earning a living in the Philippines who comes here often should remember a post I did a few months back about online business in the Philippines aside from the language Learning Niche … which I consider a pretty good prospect, but is certainly not everyone’s cup of tea. (By the way, unless I point out some specific difference here, every idea or website I write about is absolutely as possible for one of my Filipino … [Read More...]
Living in the Philippines — Remembering
Living in the Philippines --- Remembering Recently ... September 11th, as a matter of fact, I made a little trip to the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial in Taguig City (part of Metro Manila) (Formerly part of the grounds of Fort McKinley (later Fort Bonifacio) and, now, to most Americans living in the Philippines, simply "The Fort". It's now a very high-end residential and retail area, but the cemetery remains, hopefully … [Read More...]
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