Mindanao for me. I like living on the edge.. Seriously I like where the Mrs lives. Its nothing fancy just a nice place. And the people are respectful.
Mindanao for me. I like living on the edge.
where Emma would love to live is not where i want to be, dasmarinas where her sister lives or marikina where her dad lives, i want a view, not looking into next doors windows or across the street at a big brick wall, so to me a lot of 1000 sq meters would be nice in pangla or bohol, but most important is for us both to be happy, heath well i know i cant and i will not pay more then i think for heath, silly you may say, but i am sure no stress and sunshine will help my life improve, plus i am sure some one says, that you can pay as you go sort of thing for doctors visits and so on, yes lots to talk about and think about before that move, but i am open to any thoughts and views too, rome was not built in a day and so wont our home and life in the phils
Originally Posted by Terpe
Maybe it's just that we have different understandings of what we call cheap.
A lot depends a lot on what you look for and where, and where you come from. If you replace a London place with a Phil place the latter will be very much cheaper. If you're from Anfield it won't be.
If you want a flat in Manila or Davao, then the prices (that I see on websites, resumably you can save if you look locally) won't be much different from flats in much of the UK (30-40k for a flat when we checked this winter, the flat that we got in the end would have been maybe 5-10k more expensive in Reading). Of course decent houses in the UK are ridiculously overpriced, so if you are looking for a decent house will be much lower in the Phils, especially if you go out of the cities. Houses elsewhere in the EU aren't as overpriced, though. Anyway, just because things are cheaper doesn't necessarily mean they are cheap, maybe they are just less expensive.
Of course there's the additional problem that as a foreigner your buying options are limited.
Yes. The sum $2000 per month was mentioned in this thread. I would be surprised if that was possible - house, nurse, health insurance would eat much of it I'd imagine.
Yes. A lot depends on what one wants from the health insurance and if you insure in country or not, I guess. The mileage will probably vary wildly.
Does anybody here have experience with Bluecross or any other private phil health insurance? How reliable they are? We're thinking of setting one up for the family of my fiancee (brother, wife, 2 kids).
Yes.
Btw: None of the above has much influence on my thinking regarding retirement in the Phils. The things that scare me away are:
1) Poverty. I really don't want to see that every day.
2) Corruption. Anybody can trump up any charges and if the right people are bribed you're in deep sh*t.
Of course there's also:
3) Why invest into someone/something who prevents my Asawa and Anak from being with me?
My personal concerns with retirement to the Philippines would also include the tendency for the country to be disaster prone and the uncertainty of the Chinese problem.Maybe it's just that we have different understandings of what we call cheap.
A lot depends a lot on what you look for and where, and where you come from. If you replace a London place with a Phil place the latter will be very much cheaper. If you're from Anfield it won't be.
If you want a flat in Manila or Davao, then the prices (that I see on websites, resumably you can save if you look locally) won't be much different from flats in much of the UK (30-40k for a flat when we checked this winter, the flat that we got in the end would have been maybe 5-10k more expensive in Reading). Of course decent houses in the UK are ridiculously overpriced, so if you are looking for a decent house will be much lower in the Phils, especially if you go out of the cities. Houses elsewhere in the EU aren't as overpriced, though. Anyway, just because things are cheaper doesn't necessarily mean they are cheap, maybe they are just less expensive.
Of course there's the additional problem that as a foreigner your buying options are limited.
Yes. The sum $2000 per month was mentioned in this thread. I would be surprised if that was possible - house, nurse, health insurance would eat much of it I'd imagine.
Yes. A lot depends on what one wants from the health insurance and if you insure in country or not, I guess. The mileage will probably vary wildly.
Does anybody here have experience with Bluecross or any other private phil health insurance? How reliable they are? We're thinking of setting one up for the family of my fiancee (brother, wife, 2 kids).
Yes.
Btw: None of the above has much influence on my thinking regarding retirement in the Phils. The things that scare me away are:
1) Poverty. I really don't want to see that every day.
2) Corruption. Anybody can trump up any charges and if the right people are bribed you're in deep sh*t.
Of course there's also:
3) Why invest into someone/something who prevents my Asawa and Anak from being with me?
Ah I'd be too old to care anyway.
Could always spend the last few years nodding away in an old folks home, looking out at the rain and wondering what could have been.
thats what frightens me Graham, i know where i would want to spend my time,
I cant see you wondering what could have been, Graham.....Ah I'd be too old to care anyway.
Could always spend the last few year nodding away in an old folks home, looking out at the rain and wondering what could have been.
Well, my boy leaves home (so he says) later this summer, so for the first time in 20 years my life will be my own again...to do as I please.
Hmm. It will be something interesting, no doubt about that.
get your missis over just in time for our summer but blink and you shall miss it, the summer i mean
She has 2 years to do in Singapore unless I can mount a rescue job.
I'm not actually sure whether I want to bring her here after how that affected the last one.
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