Your welcome blessOriginally Posted by bless.books
Hello September! Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I don't think I could add more to that...
Your welcome blessHello September! Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I don't think I could add more to that
Hello Sophie! Wherever our plans/goal will take us, home will always have a special place in our hearts.Yeah, no place like home as they say....My hubby loves tagaytay when i brought him there a couple of times before....
And the weather is cold there so he won't struggle with the heat unlike in the city (las pinas) where i live.... So tagaytay is a place worth considering in the futureBut that's still a long long way ahead, plans could still change...
shoooooshh . . .
it's oh so quiet, it's oh so still, it's all so nice and so peaceful UNTIL
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Hello Pepe n Pilar! Thank you for sharing. And though it seems too early to tell, it is good that this topic has become part of your discussion. Retirement will come whether we do something or not. It will really come. It is just good to note where we gear up ...I have opened this topic to my husband but can't decide yet. Actually either of the 2 as long as we are together. If not in the Phils probably in Spain because of the weather, beaches, the culture and the food (i love paella huh!
Hello tiN! Thank you for post. And yes, keep going and keep saving!Well as for the 2 choices, I know for a fact that we will be retiring in Philippines when the time (savings) comes... But just now, we are both enjoying life here in the UK, as we both know that we have more opportunities here to save money for our retirement
Hello Tawi2! Thank you for asking and sharing your thoughts. So, do you speak Spanish? You seem adept on Philippines stuff. I will always go back to my home. I've lived in one or two places (countries) I could say home, but there is nothing like my (our) home - Philippines.Whats your retirement plan Bless?
Rather six months in one and six months in the other. Why have one when you can have both.
The Wife loves Phill, but Loves much of her life in the UK.
The other intresting fact is how many newcommers to a country always say they will go home where ever home is and in the end, end up staying in the country they moved to for various reasons.
Also those who know they will go home have you children or planing to have them in the UK? From experience that seems to change plans for many.
Oh lord why did you make so many clothes and shoe shops
Hello again Pepe n Pilar! What you shared is another angle to look at. I was just wondering if you've read the article at yesterday's (Saturday) Daily Mail? I haven't read it yes, am still reading the Friday's issue. It is about John Suchet and I am quoting those words on print - 'a news reader reveals about his grief, guilt and crushing sense of failure after putting his Alzheimer's victim wife into care' ...You're right i agree with your statements about getting old here they will stay in the home for the aged. There are advantages and disadvantages staying in the nursing home. But sometimes it is better to be with the same age group and being accepted, taken cared of and needed rather than being with relatives and not to feel the same.
Hello September! Wow, so more or less you are sorted out. That is really amazing -pension plans and all that. Working at home is quite a bit establish in a sense that - working at private/government, there is a pension scheme, no matter how little.Yes, I am homesick, unfortunately
Hello again September!Your welcome bless
Hello Somebody! Yeah, by observation that is what they do. But if you are in your 60s,70s,80s or to say the ugly truth - incapable of going out of the door ... that is where the question needs to be answered. Where do you plan to retire, Home or Away?
it seems I'm not the only one whose computer won't let me multi-quote. Joy!
Yeah, so true
"10% of life is made up of what happens to you, 90% is decided by how you react"
"The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost"
Me and hubby was thinking in PI. In 25-30 years time I guess
I agree with you September.. I told that to my hubby as well that when we're old it's better if we are in PI. But hopefully not really old. I don't want to die old and ill
Hello adam&chryss! Thanks for joining inMe and hubby was thinking in PI. In 25-30 years time I guess
I speak a tiny smidgeon of spanish Bless,not enough to converse sadly,I was based on Gib for a while and should have tried to learn but I was too lazyI am wondering if I ever met your husband Bless,ex-forces?Very well travelled,without delving too deeply works in a sort of intelligence gathering role at................
The guy I met once told me his wife was an aspiring writer
Sometimes you're flush and sometimes you're bust, and when you're up, it's never as good as it seems, and when you're down, you never think you'll be up again. But life goes on.
The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It's the passion that she shows to the outside world.
Hello Tawi2! Spanish is part of Phils. Curriculum for a time, that was long time ago. It was scrap. Students are not that keen. I like Spanish but am no good, just self taught. My husband is on the same line but nearI speak a tiny smidgeon of spanish Bless,not enough to converse sadly,I was based on Gib for a while and should have tried to learn but I was too lazy
Maybe Bless
Sometimes you're flush and sometimes you're bust, and when you're up, it's never as good as it seems, and when you're down, you never think you'll be up again. But life goes on.
The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It's the passion that she shows to the outside world.
Well not always that old.
Plenty of Asians and West Indians I have met say yeah I was only here for a college course or a few years of work. Then I would go back when I had saved enough, then we had kids then etc etc.
One West Indian man who came in 1946 I think to study and then go home is still here I used to chat to him at the Gym, so I think he was healthy enough to travel home
He mentioned the country he had known had changed so much as had his friends and family back "home" and had bulit up relationships with his family and friends here he didn't want to lose. His sons and daughters would not leave and he said he didn't want to miss his grand chilldren growing up..
People deciding where to retire in thirties years I belive are counting there chickens i belive.
30 years ago 1979 the Phillipines was very different to today as was the UK.
But of course you have to plan today for the future. But how much will your British pounds be worth in thirties years?
Oh lord why did you make so many clothes and shoe shops
yeah... I got loads of friends working in Congress too... you can take a 6-month leave? hmmm..
Hello somebody! I am afraid that is the reality. Good for those who had got both currencies. Or should I say good if you have options. Since we are in PHIL/UK forum, which obviously we are part PHIL/UK memebers, it is worth knowiing where are are heading. Of course, we can't always plan the future. Who knows, we might be dead tomorrow?Well not always that old. Plenty of Asians and West Indians I have met say yeah I was only here for a college course or a few years of work. Then I would go back when I had saved enough, then we had kids then etc etc. One West Indian man who came in 1946 I think to study and then go home is still here I used to chat to him at the Gym, so I think he was healthy enough to travel home
Hello again Tawi2! Do you know about donuts? It is associated with work?Maybe Bless
Cheltenham?
Sometimes you're flush and sometimes you're bust, and when you're up, it's never as good as it seems, and when you're down, you never think you'll be up again. But life goes on.
The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It's the passion that she shows to the outside world.
me and hubby decided that we are going to live in philippines for our retirement 10 to 12 years from now.
all things are possible!
Hello Tawi2! I thought you might guess.
Hello vbkelly! Thanks for sharing your plan. Far to go for both of you, still good to know at this early stage, isn't. As they say, if you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
Anyone read/know about the article at Saturday's Daily Mail issue? It is about John Suchet and I quote - 'a newsreader reveals about his grief, guilt and crushing sense of failure after putting his Alzheimer's victim wife into care' ... It is very sad to read a story like this, a thing to ponder about ...
me and hubby 46years old at that time still young but thats the plan of our life to enjoy while still young lol.
interesting thread for us i fell not only in love with my fiancee but with the philippines to, but the provinces not manila cebu is nice outside of the city but i do like the look of garden city lights condos towers 3 and 4 lokk special...annabel province is siquijor and absolutly fell in love with this island !! so long term plan.... well here is home for now if we get posted well that will be home whereevr that may be but to answer the question would hope to keep property here but to make the philippines my home i love the place...and i am a diver and a sailor and as a place to explore se asia what could be better..mind you someone i know has just bought a condo in singapore and absolulty loves it oh welll just some rambling thought as i wait for the visa heheheh
jonathan and annabel
Hello Jonathan! Thanks for giving your input. It is good to think far ahead. We've been to Siquijor - Dondesco and the lovely Coco Beach - an upmaket one! Funny to think and say that home is Philippines. Not many would say that.
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