My sunsets are now in the Philippines. I moved here at the end of February, and plan to spend the rest of my life. I started drawing Social Security early after the company went broke that I worked with. I worked with another and the same thing happened again. It wasn't me, it was the economy stifling the economy.
I tried living a year at the Armed Forces retirement home in Gulfport Mississippi, and a second near at the one in Washington DC. I was surrounded by old people, as nice as can be, but I'm not there yet. I just turned 66, and the average age of DC was 88, with one over 100.
This is quite successful in working, and did some good things with my money. But, I am now here living on my Social Security and wondering if it will continue to come. I formed a couple of not-for-profit's in the USA, and operate as an NGO over here. It keeps me busy, but there isn't much money left for my work. Most of my savings and investments went into a family trust for my grandchildren, because I already have everything that I need.
I am preparing to move from the small city of Ormoc, Leyte, to Davao, a city of 2.5 million. Some guy there in FReeperland was telling me about the crime and corruption in these “Third World dumps” and I just had to laugh. Davao City has some poor parts, for sure, but there are also seven large malls and subdivisions where I will be living is adjacent to a very clean beach, and it cost me nine pesos to take a jeepney ride to the mall. The current exchange rate is 43.19 pesos per dollar. I'll be renting a two-bedroom house for 5000 pesos per month and it's a three block walk into the sea. I'm moving from a two-story, five bedroom house where I only pay 10,000. You do the math!
I posted him a picture of Steny Hoyer, Nancy Pelosi, and a couple of the black caucus members, and assured him that corruption can be found just anywhere. With the present administration, Jimmy Hoffa's outfit looks pretty tame!
Davao City from the air...
