“Feyma can I make it to live in the Philippines for just a $1000?” I’ve been asked this questions through emails more than a dozen times. Questions from a foreigner that wanting to retire here. Before answering the questions, I have to ask some questions first. Are you single? No family here to support, I mean a lady or a lady with kid?  You have to tell me where do you want to live. Expenses here really varies from place to place. I answered the question not on how he should spend the money, but what can he spend on the basic needs here in the Philippines particularly here in Davao City. A single guy: A 1000 bucks in … [Read more...]

I will share with you an email from somebody who is wanting to retire here but because of the bad economy all over the world she has to put the thinking of retirement on hold and try to work harder and longer. I’m pretty sure a lot of our readers can relate to this. “Dear Feyma, how are you? I am an avid reader of your site for quite sometime now. I am a Filipina living in North America for over 15 years now. We have a few things in common. I am a little older than you. My husband will be turning 53 next year. I wanted to retire there, but my husband wants to wait until he is retiring from work and wants to saved ore money for us … [Read more...]

While watching TV on our cable channels, one of the topics on the show was how the poor people live in America. So of course I was fascinated by it. Hey, vast majority of the people in the Philippines live below the poverty line. So the host of the show was saying that they will tell how the people lived there in the USA after the commercial. So I was so intrigued and hooked to the TV. The guest host said that he is sick of the poor people in America, they are whining that they are really poor. But if you go see their houses they will have a pretty descent house, flat screen TV, microwave oven, stove, washer & dryer, dishwasher, cable TV, … [Read more...]

For the past few days now, it’s been raining heavily here in Davao City during night time. Last week there was bad flooding here in the city. We didn’t even know that it was bad until the next morning. We usually go to bed early because I would wake up the next morning so early. Well, I was talking to my sister, and her husband said something and I overheard when he said that their was a big flooding somewhere in Matina and some people were killed and missing. I told my sister that I did not watch TV yet, but saw on Facebook about a flooding. It was too early for people to post something. But the kids were preparing for school I … [Read more...]