You Don't Have To Earn Where You Live
There Is No Profit in Being a Skeptic.
If you are interested in learning how to make a living online (or off), I recommend you take the time to read this great article my blogging colleague Chad Hamzeh recently published. [Read more…] about There Is No Profit in Being a Skeptic
How To Retire in the Philippines With No Money.
OK, just on the face of things this is a really silly title for an article. You can’t retire in the Philippines (or anywhere else) with no money.
But since more than 150 people a month come here searching for that exact phrase, I figured I better say something about it.
Actually, my blogging colleague Dave Dewall said some more about it, word for word. Two sandwiches shy of a whole picnic I think was one of his expressions. Made me laugh. Go read what Dave had to say here, it’s good stuff:
Now you might think that Dave’s article upset me.
Not in the least. We’ve both been in the Philippines a lot of years now, and we’re both US retired men married to wonderful Filipina wives.
In other words, Dave knows whereof he speaks and so do I.
There are a number of prices and techniques he brings.. out in his article that I haven’t covered.
Well worth a read if you really want to know just how “low you can go” with monthly costs of retiring in the Philippines. [Read more…] about How To Retire in the Philippines With No Money
By Atty. Rita Linda V. Jimeno
The story of Rosanne in my column last week triggered numerous reactions from readers that merit discussion. As a jump-off point, we shall encapsulate Rosanne’s case. Her Filipino husband who used to be loving and conscious of his familial obligations, abandoned all his duties toward her and their children when, as a result of his prolonged employment abroad, he found a new love. He then divorced her and married his lover with whom he now has two children.
We said that there is a gap in our family law because while her husband is no longer married to her, she remains married to him, an incongruous situation which our family law offers no solution to… Read Full Article Here
I’ve had a number of online conversations lately about folks in the same or similar situations as the lady described in Attorney Jimeno’s article.
There is always a lot of discussion when a foreigner and a Filipino marry, often centering around where the marriage should take place and where, or when (if ever) they could divorce.
Now to most people’s logic, “marriage” and “divorce” (or “annulment”) are binary options. You can’t be in both situations at the same time.
Home Country Things You Better Hold On To.
Just recently I was telling a reader that writing about moving to the Philippines seemed very boring to me.
I had gotten very old and stale.
But then I just had a conversation with a fellow US military retiree here in the Philippines and I realized there’s a whole raft of things out there I should be writing about.
One thing people always ask about over the years I have been writing about is:
Well, I think rather than a blog article someone could write a whole book on that subject. Sorry, that won’t be me.
But one thing that did come up with my retiree friend recently is something many westerners who move to the Philippines don’t think about a lot when packing their moving boxes. [Read more…] about Home Country Things You Better Hold On To.
Why You Can’t Get a Job.
From time to time here on PhilFAQS, the destination site for information about living in the Philippines, I actually try to give useful advice.
One query I get often, both in personal contact and via searches that lead people to this site via Google and other search engines is: Finding a job in the Philippines.
Another top topic here and among a large percentage of Filipinos I know who are looking for work is resumes and job qualifications.
So this post series is going to apply pretty much equally to foreigners wanting to find a job in the Philippines and Filipinos wanting to find a job … in the Philippines or. well, anywhere I guess 
Or finding a job anywhere else on earth. It’s a broad and complex subject. More than I can possibly cover adequately in a thousand words or so here.
Both of these issues center around one fact of business life … you are typically one of many applicants and a lot of the initial screening process is done via resumes.
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Destinations Close To Manila.
(Updated 23 July 2018)
I don’t want to drift too far into geography here, but there are some good reasons to think about destinations close to the Philippines.
One common reason is a destination for a required “onward travel” ticket. Technically, everyone entering the Philippines as a tourist must have travel booked back home, or to some other destination, within 30 days of their arrival in the Philippines.
The reason I used the word “technically” above is that although that is the law, Philippine Immigration seldom asks people for proof of onward travel. (but they do, sometimes.)
The agency that almost always asks, though, is the airline you are planning to fly to the Philippines.
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