what’s she look like?
I’m an American and too much blood sweat and tears has been expended to abandon her.
I also notice that there is no mention of islamderthals.
I believe FReeper AlexW lives there.
Not for me. The USA os the only place I ever want to live!
Top that off by recognizing that the US could not have had more loyal and fierce fighting partners against the imperial japanese invaders.
My father gained lifelong friendships with the guerillas and their families after the war, having run operations for th coastwatchers (many a brave man was discovered later by radio triangulation, and beheaded—and the partisans wreaked their vengance on the japanese who did this and to the japanese soldiers permanent horror and fear).
The descendants of these heros are God loving and God fearing, and with the exception of crazy islamics and a few commie outfits— largely beautiful friendly people. We pulled Clark Base, to our utter detriment— as the chicoms continue to encroach building bases on Phillipine islands.
Uh, no thanks.
Our forefathers fought to establish the greatest country the world has ever known.
I’m proud of it and I’ll stay and fight it out.
Working with Filipinos here in FL...this is not much different than what I hear from them.
Many Filipinos, even after becoming US citizens, retire to the Phillipines....because they really can live “like a King”
Personally, I could not retire in the Phillipines....it is quite hot and humid all year...and the reason I want out of Florida. Sweating to death in December is not fun. I am willing to trade some cold weather for some dry weather
I’m happy for the gentleman, if he has the life he wants, but it doesn’t sound at all appealing to me. For one thing, there’s something deeply pathetic about a man of nearly 70’s rhapsodizing over the low cost and easy availability of young Asian women.
NO
THANKS
I would rather head to the Outback of Australia.
I wanna live like Imelda Marcos!
Well, I’m not retiring to the Philippines, but there must be something about Filipinas. I recently attended a birthday party for one of my wife’s co-workers. The guy married a Filipina. At the party, I ran into two more ex-co-workers (I retired last month). They both had married Filipinas as well. The birthday boy’s Filipina wife had made some treats from the Islands. Pretty good chow.
I’ll take a pass on moving there.
Terrorist Groups in the Philippines
Philippine terrorists demand $22,000 for kidnapped Australian
Al Jacinto and Lindsay Murdoch
December 28, 2011
Kidnapped Australian Warren Rodwell.
Ransom: Warren Rodwell.
THE kidnappers of Australian adventurer Warren Rodwell in the Philippines have demanded an initial ransom of about $22,600 - but his family there say they do not have the money.
There are four major terrorist groups active in the Philippines today: The Moro National Liberation Front, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, Abu Sayyaf and the New People’s Army. The first three are Islamic groups that operate primarily in the south of the nation, where most of the country’s Muslim minority live. The Communist New People’s Army operates in the northern Philippines.
Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF)
Emerging in the early 1970s, the MNLF sought an independent Islamic nation in the Filipino islands with sizeable Muslim populations. In 1996, the MNLF signed a peace agreement with Manila that created the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), an area composed of two mainland provinces and three island provinces in which the predominantly Muslim population enjoys a degree of self-rule. MNLF chairman and founder Nur Misuari was installed as the region’s governor but his rule ended in violence when he led a failed uprising against the Philippines government in November 2001. He is currently in jail and MNLF leader Parouk Hussin took over as ARMM governor in 2002. Nur Misuari reportedly still has a small band of followers who remain actively opposed to the current arrangement.
Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF)
The largest Islamic extremist group in the Philippines, the MILF split from the MNLF in 1977 and continues to wage war against Manila. Headed by Islamic cleric Salamat Hashim, the MILF seeks a separate Islamic state in the southern Philippines. Although it signed a peace agreement with Manila in 2001, MILF-sponsored violence has continued. Manila accuses the MILF of responsibility for the March 2003 Davao City airport bombing that killed 21 people, and for harboring members of the small militant Pentagon gang accused of kidnapping foreigners in recent years.
The MILF has an estimated strength of 12,000 members.
Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) The smallest, most active and most violent Islamic separatist group in the southern Philippines, Abu Sayyaf (Bearer of the Sword) emerged in 1991 as a splinter group of the MNLF. Its founder, Abdurajik Abubakar Janjalani, was a veteran of the Islamic mujahideen movement in Afghanistan and was killed in a clash with Philippine police in 1998. ASG’s current head is thought to be Janjalani’s younger brother Khadafi Janjalani.
Abu Sayyaf engages in kidnappings, bombings, assassinations and extortion from businesses and wealthy businessmen. Most of its activities are centered in the southern island of Mindanao, but in recent years, the group has broadened its reach. In April 2000, ASG kidnapped 21 people,including 10 foreign tourists, from a resort in Malaysia and in a separate incident, abducted several foreign journalists and an American citizen. In May 2001, Abu Sayyaf kidnapped 20 people from a resort island in the Philippines and murdered several of the hostages, including American citizen Guillermo Sobero. In June 2002, U.S.-trained Philippine commandos tried to rescue three hostages being held by Abu Sayyaf on Basilan island.Two of the hostages, including American citizen Martin Burnham, were killed in the resulting shootout. Philippine authorities believe that the ASG had a role in the October 2002 bombing near a Philippine military base in Zamboanga that killed three Filipinos and a U.S. serviceman.
In February 2004, Abu Sayyaf claimed responsibility for a Philippine ferry fire, but at this writing, Philippine authorities doubted the claim.
The group finances its operations primarily through robbery, piracy and ransom kidnappings. Both the MNLF and MILF condemn Abu Sayyaf’s activities. Philippine forces have apprehended a number of Abu Sayyaf terrorists. Most recently, in December 2003, Philippine soldiers captured senior Abu Sayyaf commander Ghalib Andang, a.k.a. Commander Robot. Andang is suspected of involvement in the April 2000 kidnapping of Western tourists in Malaysia.
Today, Abu Sayyaf is composed of several semi-autonomous factions with an estimated cadre of several hundred active fighters and about 1,000 supporters.
New People’s Army (NPA)
The NPA is the military wing of the Communist People’s Party of the Philippines (CPP). Founded in 1969 with the aim of overthrowing the Philippines government through guerrilla warfare, the NPA strongly opposes the U.S. military presence in the Philippines and publicly expressed its intent to target U.S. personnel in the Philippines in January 2002, warning that any American troops who enter their stronghold areas will be considered “legitimate targets.” The NPA primarily targets Philippine security forces, politicians, judges, government informers and former NPA rebels. The NPA’s founder, Jose Maria Sison, lives in self-imposed exile in the Netherlands and reportedly directs operations from there.
Manila is committed to a negotiated peace settlement with the NPA but peace talks between the CPP and the Philippine government stalled in June 2001, after the NPA admitted killing a Filipino congressman. In September 2002, the NPA claimed responsibility for assassinating a mayor, attacking a police station and killing the police chief, and blowing up a mobile telecommunications transmission station.
The NPA derives most of its funding from supporters in the Philippines and Europe and from so-called revolutionary taxes extorted from local businesses. Together, the CPP/NPA has an estimated strength of over 10,000 members. have links with international terrorism, particularly with Jemaah Islamiyah and Al Qaeda. The MILF is suspected of training JI members at MILF training camps in the southern Philippines.
It is suspected that early funding and organizational support of Abu Sayyaf was provided by Osama Bin Laden associate and brother-in- law Muhammad Jamal Khalifa. In 1997, the U.S. State Department designated Abu Sayyaf a foreign terrorist organization.
In January 2002, Filipino police arrested Indonesian Islamic extremist Fathur Rohman Al-Ghozi, 31, a self-confessed member of Jemaah Islamiyah and an Al Qaeda explosives expert. Following his arrest, Ghozi led Filipino authorities to a large cache of arms and explosives in Mindanao and told a Filipino court that he planned to use the explosives for jihad attacks in Asia. He was sentenced to 17 years in prison. In July 2003, Al-Ghozi escaped from prison and in October 2003, Philippine forces tracked him down and killed him. In November 2003, the Philippines arrested Taufik Rifki, who reportedly admitted he was the financier for a Jemaah Islamiyah training camp in the southern Philippines.
Most recently, in February 2004, Filipino Jaybe Ofrasio, 31, was arrested in Belfast,Northern Ireland, and charged with funneling money to JI.
The U.S. designated the CPP/NPA a foreign terrorist organization in August 2002, and listed NPA founder Jose Maria Sison as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT). Authorities in the Netherlands froze assets in his bank accounts there and cut off his social benefits.
Dude says that the gets a lot of good stuff for not much money but he says that that’s not the main reason that he’s happy. His biggest win is finding a culture that he can feel comfortable fitting in with. I take him at his word and I say good for him. However, the fallacy contained herein, if there is one, is that some other person would find the culture an equally good fit. Maybe they would, maybe they wouldn’t.
Being happy here is all in attitude and ability to adjust
to third world life.
It is not for everyone, and as with most tropical “paradises” is rarely equal to the travel brochures.
January will start my fourth year here on Cebu (NOT THE CITY)
I would never consider living in a large city here, and not even on Luzon.
True, one can live on less then $1000 per month, and still have creature comforts such as A/C, satellite TV, DSL or cable internet, and western style features.
Keep in mind, non-citizens can not work or own property here, so the expat population is mostly older people with a pension. I live on my social security which comes by direct deposit to my bank here.
If you are young and wealthy, all the better.
When I left the USA in 2004 to become an international person, I left with nothing more then a suitcase, leaving behind not just a house, but an entire two story school building full of possessions and plenty of junk.
I really do not miss any of it.
I started out in central Europe for the first five years, but after a one month exploratory trip to the Philippines in August 2008, and spending that month with each of four young ladies, I decided this would be for me and my senior years.
I now live on a beach, in a fine small town, with a sweet lady and our 10 month old baby boy.
www.dalaguete.gov.ph
There are seven references in this article to living like a “king.”
This guy was just lonely and tired of working. And he resented that his years of labor didn’t make him rich, only comfortable. He was looking for a way to quit early — yet he STILL wanted to be rich — a ‘king.’
Since he couldn’t get rich and find a young hottie to marry him here, he’s moved to the Third World — the Valley of the Blind, where the one-eyed man is king.
Americans who don’t realize they’ve already won life’s lottery by being born here don’t deserve to be here. And we don’t need them.
Good. Riddance.
Good. Riddance.
I then considered the Phillipines and some central american countries but I am addicted to senior softball and volleyball and none of those countries have such a thing.........
So, for now, I'm stuck here in the cold, snowy S.E. Michigan
Shakeys still exists somewhere in this world?
My wife and I might be interested but woner what the chances of are getting a place at about 4,000 feet in the mountains of Luzon?
When I lived in Asia, I knew quite a few Americans, Brits, etc, who retired in Thailand. They seemed quite happy. Basically they drank a lot, hung out with like minded expats and retirees playing golf, darts, pool, etc, and usually found various temporary girlfriends to keep them company. Most seemed like adults who refused to grow up, but the majority that I knew or ran into were quite nice and seemed delighted to be out of the West. I’d say most of them were people who had had jobs that required them travel a lot and they just picked their favorite spot, some were former military and others had worked on oil platforms or the like and had always come to South East Asia to spend their money on holiday anyway.