Goodbye to a fellow Brit
I have now been living here for two years permanently and many more years just visiting. And as mentioned many times before the very act of traveling allows me to meet many nationalities that are living in this country amongst them some fellow Brits, who share with me the same understanding of British life and our peculiarities and the many differences from us and our USA cousins.
So I was a little sad this week to say goodbye to a fellow Brit who is now returning to the UK to restart his business, which in itself is brave considering the state of the British economy.
My friend will be leaving because of many factors that are common to many expats here, the main reason is perhaps his business did not bring enough money in for him and his family and that with the recent unrest in certain areas of Mindanao he feels for the sake of his beautiful kids that it is time to take their safety as his number one consideration.
His wife is fully supportive of the decision but both are so sad to be leaving the country and in particular the weather the fantastic people of the country and of course all the friends.
I know that he is fighting in his mind the decision and I know he really wants to stay and if he did not have the responsibilities of the kids I feel he would stay. He perhaps is one of many now thinking of leaving because of the credit crunch now biting this fragile economy along with the unrest in the far south.
I wish him the best of luck and that his family will settle down again in the UK.
Hi John. Your friend will do just fine in UK. The State has taken over the economy.
Gordon Brown and his friend George Bush has found a comrade in Hugo Chavez. If the free market gets too painful…..socialiase it!
Here’s an anecdote with Churchill vs. the Labour Party:
Churchill drove a sharp needle into Labour policy one day when he met Attlee (leader pf the Labour Party) in the House’s men’s room. Attlee, arriving first, had stepped up to the urinal trough when Churchill strode in on the same mission, glanced at him, and stood at the trough as far away from him as possible. Attlee said, “Feeling standoffish today, are we, Winston?” Churchill said: “That’s right. Every time you see something big, you want to nationalize it.”
well John this current crisis and its “solution” King Bush and his minions are putting together this weekend is the “Hail Mary” (an american term refering to a last ditch effort to win the game by making a long long pass into the endzone of a football game) of economic recovery…if this does not work we may very well lose and be in for a very rough ride. The great depression was primarily concentrated in the USA , one downside to a ‘world economy’ is we ALL may very well go down..making the depression of the 30’s pale in comparison. the current living generations I feel do not have the resolve or grit to weather such an event as our grandfathers did. Society has had it to cushy to easy for far to long to even think of a soup line. Blows my mind howthe greed of wallstreet and lack of foresight & history got them into this position inthe first place. I feel we should repaint all the ‘Welcome to the USA’ sighs to ‘Welcome to the United Federation of States Comrade’
Thank you comrades I will pass this on to my British brother. Long live the state
There are two type of migrants, those who retired and have enough money to settle here. This group will not have much of finance problem then the other, who have family usually ph wives and children and to earn a living and support the family here. It would be a bit of a struggle first having to settle and compete with others in either business or jobs. It would be interesting to find out how this group are doing but i think Bob and some of you are settling quite well.
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Its not easy as Bob will be the first to tell you, and now the credit crunch is here its going to get a little worse
Hi John, I’m one of the regular readers on this site. Sorry to hear your friend leaving Davao but I have a British family friend of ours who is planning to settle down in Davao. I hope I could introduce him to you one day (maybe this coming November) for him to know more about the risks and benefits of living in the Philippines. He visited more than 20 times in the Philippines but he did not really live there as long you guys do. Apart from my advise he would certainly appreciate to hear opinions from Expats living in Davao.
Hello John, Sorry to hear about your friends moving away because of the economy and unrest in the Philippines. I’m planning to move my family to Davao City from Florida in the next few months. I would like to know what you think about that idea? Good or bad? Or what? Do you think it is to dangerous to live in Davao City?
Thanks,
Jack
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Jack
Remember I do not haver kids so my responsabilty is for myself and I choose to live here as I find it safe and if you have common sense and are a little streetwise I think its honestly ok.
You always hear of bombs going off near Davao but they could be hundreds of miles away and my friend Tony has the common sense, but maybe his kids had not yet grown to the age where he could rely on them to keep themselves out of harms way.