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Is This Good News, Or Are They Missing Something?

My wife just pointed out this article from the Inquirer this morning: Read about the PRA and the SBMA joining forces on promoting retirement:

SUBIC BAY FREEPORT – Top officials of the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority want to grab a share of the growing industry of retirement-tourism and turn this freeport into a haven for [...]

Real Cost of Living, Philippines

Happy New Year 2010 to all my readers new and old.  This post is updated today, 27 December, 2009.  I really don’t see the need to change any figures right now on the attached spreadsheet breakdown, as virtually everything there appears to still be correct within pennies.  I’ll update again at intervals as I feel [...]

Get A Job

A significant group of readers who I have been in contact with are still of working age (who said retirement had to be age based, anyway?) and are conflicted with the seemingly conflicting goals of earning a living and a deep desire to live in the Philippines.
A large percentage of the folks who find their [...]

Why Choose the Philippines — Intro

One of the questions I have heard many times over the years is “why live in the Philippines”?  This is usually in the context of, why not “country X” or “country Y” instead?  So far as foreign expatriates are concerned there are probably as many answers to that question as there are expats themselves, but [...]

Just How Hard _IS_ Moving To The Philippines, Anyway?

A few days ago I posted an excerpt and some comments from my blogging colleague Ben who is living the life of a “Digital Nomad” … that is, earning a living independent of where he lives, and is thinking about travelling long-term, with plans to live for some period of time in a number of [...]