Did you ever notice that sometimes you have a perception of how something is, yet when you put it to the test you find out that you were wrong? Maybe you aren’t 100% wrong, but you are also not right. This happened to me last week, and both Feyma and I were kind of shocked […]
Lost and Found
Regular LiP reader Macky sent me an e-mail and told me about this video called “Lost and Found in Mexico.” The video is about some Americans who moved to retire in a town in Mexico. Yeah, this blog is not about Mexico, but the situation of the people in this video fits in so well […]
Middle Class in the Philippines
For today’s Podcast, Dave Starr and I will be talking about a variety of financial subjects related to living in the Philippines. Basically, we start off the conversation about the Middle Class in the Philippines and how we have seen it grow over the last 20 years or so, and believe me, it is growing! […]
Price Comparisons
As I told you in yesterday’s column, the cost of living in the Philippines is rising dramatically. Because this is something that is on the minds of many ex-pats here, I decided to do a little side by side comparison. For purposes of comparison, I have converted (and adjusted pricing) all into Pounds instead of […]
Cheap living?
Living in the Philippines is not something that the majority of people even consider. Heck, to be honest, a lot of people don’t even know where the Philippines is, unless they have some connection to the country (a friend from there, a wife, served here in the military, or something like that). I know that […]
Get it Fixed!
Much of the world today has turned into a throw away society. You know, in the United States, some 50 years or more ago, this was not the case! If something was broken the first reaction was to get it fixed. Take it to the repairman! Send it to the service center. Today, though, many […]