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If all the pensioners and X-pats are CORRECT and it is the best financial decision to move to a lower priced Country that is nice and beautiful an not as many problems as the west and where you can live like a KING because your USD that is SO SO SO high allows that to happen. What happens since you R right and the USA is not good and the USD is Devalued by 75% and the it takes 15-25 PESO to each USD will they still live like a king. I think the USD could be devalued by 50-75% withing 2 years so if this happens will all the X-pat with their USD still live like a king?

Ya mates taking a gamble! Said hed never do it!

1.) Brownouts 2.) Water Disruptions 3.) Most restaurants suck-over cooked/salted food. 4.) Loud Karaoke late into the night. 5.) Boring Lifestyles 6.) Burning trash and dried shrubs daily. 7.) Diesel burning vehicles. 8.) Poor infrastructure. 8.) Chaotic driving. 9.) Poor Medical facilities and care. 10.) Mosquitoes and Dengue Fever. 11.) Foreigners can't own property. 12.) Weather is hot, humid, and typhoons to worry about. 13.) Lots of scams. 14.) Family members always want a "loan." 15.) If the $ runs out, 90% of the girls will leave you. 16.) Waiting in line for everything. 17.) Must use cash for most transactions. 18.) Always hear, " Sorry Sir, out of stock. 19.) Archatic banking. 20.) Visa rules suck. 21.) Dogs that bark 24/7. 22.) Legal system is not in favor of the foreigner. 23.) I could easily write another 77 things, but you get the point. Much better in Hoi An, Vietnam.

Filipinas cheat especially when you bring them to the west. If you are going to marry one, live with her for at least a year first and then see how your feel. If you still want to marry her after that, then do it. She cannot hide things that long. Do NOT bring her to the west especially if you have an age gap of more than 10 years. Instead, move to the Philippines.

Thailand 🇹🇭 is way better, in many ways. But I love both.

When i arrived in the Philippines 30 years ago, I was in a group with 43 foreigners in it, after 20 years me and another guy were the only two left in the country, all the others went back to their countries. Joined another group with 18 foreigners and after 10 years there was only 3 left. Its not easy at all here, you have to graft.

They told me 20k, not 10k. For retirement visa. Hmmmm?

Those standards are way too ridiculously

Mark I’m always stressing I’m a single person struggling living paycheck to paycheck it’s expensive now more than before I worry about things breaking my car bills ect ect it’s difficult the value of the dollar it’s less

Just stay single and don't commit to just one lady. Keep your finances for yourself.

Aging care might be cheap there but no cheap to an expats wife

Mark, mostly 4 things 1. Food is not great 2. Nothing to do in the boonies 3. Betrayal 4. Health??? Mark ur points are so valid. Don’t forget corruption. Senators have their hands on every thing from internet companies to power utilities and sales taxes

Humm🤔 Fantastic information!!👍👍 I'm having second thoughts about moving to the phillipines. Yes, the women are pretty, but there's alot more to consider, that's for sure.

I loved the place when I was there 2 times on deployment. My biggest problem? I can't bring myself to live on a pimple on the ocean's ass. I google earthed Olongapo. Every Marine that's been there remembers what it was like. A tsunami literally flushed the toilet on that island. You should see it now. It has regular stores and houses, the strip doesn't look like it exists anymore.

Mark l like yuor honesty not everything it’s paradise

If yuo have health issues Don’t go to there the health care system it’s nothing like America yuo will pay cash out pocket it’s not cheap

New car. Two years now. No plates

Rrriiigghhttt.. 🙄 I think the only honest thing this guy has said is that he is broke. Im thinking he didnt have much to start with, probably burned all the bridges back home. Then went to the Philippines and lived like a bigshot untill he ran out of what cash he had. He obviously did not prepair or budget. When he realized he was running out of cash and could not access any of his "hundreds of thousand dollars" why didnt he fly back to the U.S. and straighten things out? And now he is working a disability angle? Yeah sure.

BS detector is alarming like crazy!

A good video.

Texas expat living in Thailand when Covid started I was obese called doctor friend in states asked him what to do he told me to get healthy and lose weight a lot of the older obese people were dying went to RUclips first started Keto and now carnivore last year 70 lbs down now o statins or BP meds needed or wanted big Pharmaceutical companies and the highly processed food companies lost me as a customer oh I am pureblooded no issues here in Thailand

Maayong buntag Philippines 🇵🇭

Nice video Mark. I’ve been wondering about this for a while if guys that are well off enjoy living there, or it’s mostly budget motivated. I have no interest in having a giant house, and drawing attention to myself, but I sure would like a nice comfortable little place in nature. Thanks for the video.

Yeah, that's how I lost 4 million pesos.... here 7 years, first 3 in relationships with philippina who totally played me.... build 4 mil house and then she unlawfully framed me and thx retarded laws here I couldn't do anything. If this happened in USA to me I could easy put her in jail....here I couldn't do anything.....

Good topics Mark...been here 5 years i perfer several highlights instead of two hours on crap like dating

these people jump the gun without thinking and think with their other heads.

You need family you can count on back home you need savings that you will only use to get back to your home country in a emergency situation and 1800 usd a month for a ok life / 3000 usd a month for a great life and of course common sense 😊

You have to be right for that life. I grew up in Indiana, lived for a few years in the Keys and everything was great for me. Now it's too expensive for an option but the Philippines will be like stepping back to that time. And with well planned funds & smart budgeting, passive income I'm sure it will work;. I don't plan to be alone but I'm not desperate for everything that comes my way either.

YOU GO ALSO....What are you doing in Philippines?..

Thanks for spelling it out.

That's why it's always good to have a plan B that way you don't have to tuck your tail between your legs😂😂😂😂😂,,, and move on to the next country that's why it's good to have a outside time in another country before you move to another country spend some time outside of America First and live and get an idea of the feel of outside of America way of life play thank God my moms married in military man back in 1965🎉🎉🎉🎉 it was a blessing he took us to Germany and the rest was history it took a year for me to evolve into that country after the first year it was a little rough year😢 but I got used to it and then I adapted to it LOL and I keep an open mind😂😂😂 then I think around the second or third year I finally started liking living outside of America it was beautiful then🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

I thought the Philippines was a Cheap Charlie Paradise!

Little Gwapo

Good, useful content today. Well thought, complete, detailed! Thanks!

Most of the issues that you mentioned that expats are having are due to poor, bad, or no planning. Bad decision making is also another major factor. Most only see the pros of living there and totally ignore the cons….ignore the cons until they can’t ignore them that is. I’m early 50s and could be retired like a lot of guys my age or even younger, but I don’t want to rush it and leave myself vulnerable in case of a problem. My girlfriend of 15 years is a dual Philippine/American citizen so she already owns land that we’re building on. We’re working on building our retirement incomes both here in the states and in the Philippines. Once we retire (probably 7-8 years now due to moving states for work) we’ll have multiple sources of income and we’ll be prepared for almost anything. Some don’t realize that the Philippines has zero services for the hungry and homeless and they aren’t required to treat you in the hospital if you can’t pay. What we don’t want is to not be prepared, have an issue, and then have to try to re-establish ourselves back in the states and go back to work.

Good video. You explain things just like they are.

Well said.

Great video Mark! Can you summarize what certificate is required to become an online English teacher there? Thanks!

The biggest thing is that at 40 you're most likely stuck in your ways. It's important to align yourself with people of shared values that includes the wmn you invite into your life.

Need to hookup with a bar girl, working girl or lady boy and live off their income🙂

If you overstay you Should be deported, no sympathy. And you shouldn't be moving anywhere overseas without a good emergency fund, more than $6000

Are they ?

The only way I'd build a house for a woman overseas, is if I had children with her. In my mind I could rationalize things not working and her having the house because the house is for the child

Woah, woah, woah, hang on! People can't get health insurance and can't afford health insurance in the Philippines? So why would ageing foreigners go to the Philippines if they can't get health insurance and can't afford health insurance??? This doesn't sound correct to me, my friend! Why do I hear that there are so many ageing foreigners in the Philippines, living the life, if they can't get health insurance??? I'd have to disagree that ageing foreigners can't get health insurance and can't afford health insurance in the Philippines!!

What company do you recommend teaching English online with?

Well said Mark!

Plus you can't buy property and have control of it. Just rent an apartment...

This question is easy to answer the reason expats are leaving is due to the looming large threat of A war tween China and Taiwan thus bringing the USA into the conflict with 9 military bases in the Philippines, do you not think China won’t launch missiles at those bases? Sorry for going off topic

Its getting expensive there too 😂

there is no perfect relationship anywhere, no perfect partners out there either