In my ten years in the Philippines, I have lived in five different houses. I’ve mostly lived in rather large houses, since I have a large family. We did live in one house that was quite small, but it was only for about 6 months or less, because we could not find a larger house […]
You say you want an American Style house?
A lot of Americans who plan to move to the Philippines and live here for good tell me the same thing – “I want to live in an American style house.” I think it is kind of natural to feel that way, given the fact that mostly have lived in the USA for their entire […]
Living on the Ring of Fire
As anybody who follows any news at all knows by now, there was a major earthquake in Chile on Saturday. The magnitude was 8.8 on the Richter Scale. Remember the January earthquake in Haiti? It was a 7.0 magnitude. Do you know what the difference between the two is? I knew it was a big […]
My almost ruined day
As I mentioned in an article earlier this week, my birthday was last weekend. I woke up early on Saturday morning and had a number of plans for the day, and was in a happy mood. It was my birthday, after all, so why wouldn’t I be happy. Well, I suppose that if I considered […]
Our new neighbors
In the Philippines, there basically is no zoning when it comes to real estate, so you never know for sure what kind of neighbors you will be getting. In most developed countries, land is zoned – there are areas that are designated for businesses, industrial, residential, etc. In the Philippines you might have a business […]
Birthday Bash!
Well, since you read my last article, I’ve aged another year! Yep, my birthday was on Saturday! I normally don’t enjoy having a birthday party or anything like that. In fact, I can’t really remember the last time I had a party for my birthday, other than just enjoying a good meal with our immediate […]