Hello...Just got the heads up from others...
While I am an old Tennessee boy, I moved here to Cebu island from central Europe in Jan. 2009.
Cebu is rated by Travel and Leisure magazine as the third best island in all of Asia, next to Bali and Maldives.
There is no way that I would return to Obozoland.
Just the thought of it makes me sick.
The US no longer, in anyway, resembles the country of my younger days.
I started international living in 1999, and last took off from Memphis in Jan. 2005, moving to Slovakia.
I made a one month exploratory trip to Visayas, the best part of the Philippines, in 2004.
I was very lucky to have Qatar Airlines that flew me from Vienna to Cebu city with only one stop in Doha.
I was also very lucky to find a Philippine couple in Vienna that ran a shipping company.
They picked up my fairly small shipment of belongins the evening before I left.
A month later, a truck pulled up to my door on Cebu, and unloaded all. It was just as it was when leaving my apartment in Bratislava.
My gitl, our 18 month old boy,a passel of cats, and myself have a nice cottage on a beach, living on less then $1000 per month.
Transportation is great, and no need to own a car here.
It is a great way to spend my retirement years.
My social security comes by direct deposit into my Philippine bank on the 4th of each month.
Life in a third world country is not for everyone.
You have to be laid back and go with the flow.
Every area has numerous expats from Europe and the US.
Feel free to email any questions.
Thanks — I’m looking at possiblities for small pension retirement and the P I ihas recently been brought to my attention.