There are a million of them already, everywhere, the red tape surrounding businesses in the Phils is huge, the people running these businesses can range from crap at the job to totally awesome but most will generally be pretty good at keeping kit running.Originally Posted by Timmy
It's risky being a westerner that is associated with a street level business anywhere in Metro Manila, you and any family you acquire over there can become targets.
Outsourcing as in software development and other services used to be a potential growth area but even that is declining these days, local market for software developers is pretty much sown up, bloody well educated developers every bit as good as their much better paid western counterparts working for 30,000 peso a month sometimes less.
Bottom end of an acceptable living income for most westerner's in the Phils would be around 70,000 to 90,000 peso a month, much less than that and it is not much fun.
I know guys (young guys) that are working for reasonable money around 15,000 quid a year for local IT companies but these jobs are bloody hard to get.
I don't want to put you off but be careful to be realistic about it.
Jim
