Tagaytay

[subseastu]

Thanks for the replies folks and the offers of help from Marie and Juvyjones. I've been thinking about it a bit more and I know what you mean about the risk of eruptions etc from an active volcano, it does seem strange to want to live next to one let alone ON one!! I think we'll end up going for a look though I've a feeling it'll be overly expensive considering the location and the exchange rate!!

Juvyjones - that is a good rate for apartments, actually I'm amazed at the price, i'd have thought they'd cost alot more considering the location. Do you know how much a 3 bed furnished house would cost to rent on average?

Marie - Thanks for the offer for help, I think my wife and I will be looking to move sometie towards the end of the year. Maybe october - december time. I'm asking this early so I can start to plan things out.

The other place I was thinking about (though I have to perseude the wife) is peurto galera. Does anyone have any ideas about this place?

Thanks again everyone

[Englishman2010]

The other place I was thinking about (though I have to perseude the wife) is peurto galera. Does anyone have any ideas about this place?

Northern Oriental Mindoro is a nice place Stu and you can get to Batangas port from either Calapan or Puerto Galera. The fastest boats from PG to Batangas take about an hour but the big ships from Calapan take 6 hours or more. The sea can get very rough in bad weather and boats are often cancelled or delayed between Aug and Nov (as I found out). As you're going to be flying in and out of MNL for work, I'm sure you don't want to find you can't get to the airport because your boat was cancelled. The only airport in Mindoro is about 6 hours drive away at Roxas in Occidental Mindoro, and the roads are terrible - or were last year when I spent about a week travelling around Mindoro.
You obviously know what you're doing and what you want, but if it were me, I'd want to be within driving distance of NAIA if I had to fly out to meet work deadlines. I wouldn't want to be at the mercy of boats and possible cancellations in bad weather