Where is the best place to live in the Philippines

What sort of budget do you allocate for seeking "the remainder of one's life IN PEACE and not being bored to death, in the process?”  - @manwonder

Great question Man, and no-one's allowed to answer US$100,000,000

Manwonder quote. . . . .What sort of budget do you usually allocate for seeking "the remainder of one's life IN PEACE and not being bored to death, in the process?”

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What sort of budget do you usually allocate for seeking "the remainder of one's life IN PEACE and not being bored to death, in the process?”

This at least will give a rough idea of the prospects/best location that your budget range can provide.

- @manwonder

Dumaguete sucked - plain and simple.  There were some greman guys that were bullying everybody on 'the strip' while we were there.  The locals didn't like it...  We weren't there long!

On panay island we found Iloilo - a big and very rich city.  It was pricy.  We went all the way around.  Sna Jose de Buenavista is on the water and nice, in an interesting area, too.  Anitki, As I remember.  But there literally were no canos...  and in Roxas City, also very nice, there were even fewer.

Some have asked - what do you want?  Just to live out the remainder of my life IN PEACE and not be bored to death, in the process. 

So I add my voice to the question, 'where should we go?'

We could always stick around here and wait for the nukes to fall...

- @The Cold War Kid

Whats bad with few foreigners???     You told a bad effect of expats in Dumaguete yourself , and a biger part of expats than they are in our home countries are sexpats and/or what I call "bar people" who drink to much alcohol, who I wouldnt want to socialice with anyway...

In the parts of Palawan, which I mensioned in earlier post,  I know three foreigners there, all are nice - well one of them is a bit grumpy  - and there are a few more who I dont know.

-Its so crazy so it become a funny story, which you can tell your grandkids when you are old and tell them how the - then big - business started 

I have allready mensioned to him my idea of adding a fiesta similar to Swedish Midsummer  - the family day part, not the evening drunk part    -   Later when the business have profit to sponsor it with.

There are so many fun hobbies so there arent enough time to do all... When my father had retired he was TO SHORT of time for his hobbies so he wondered how he had managed before he retited        (He:  Music, play and organice boccia league, participate in quiz competitions, exersice profesional dogs...)   Before internet added more and before I got injuried so I cant do many of them, I counted not even if I would skip sleeping I wouldnt have time for all my hobbies...   

What sort of budget do you usually allocate for seeking "the remainder of one's life IN PEACE and not being bored to death, in the process?”  This at least will give a rough idea of the prospects/best location that your budget range can provide.  - @manwonder

Everywhere in world there is poverty you want to know where there is less of it here. Makati!

But, if we were new to Palawan, I'd say you'd currently be wanting something around US$125,000 cash in hand, and around a US$2,500 per month income?  This should set a couple up quite well, keeping you both suitably happy, and reasonably well satisfied with your daily lives. By the way, this sum would include a maid/cook and driver/gardener couple and a solid, comfortable and attractive new home.

- @PalawOne

(I did spend very litle back when I earned as most too by being economic - not kuripot (=stingy)       E g many of my hobbies cost to buy the equipment but (almost) nothing to use so in the long run its very low cost.  (As billiard, music instruments, small sailing boat, geneology, dance, nature, writing, table tennis, chess, canoe...)

/I hardly want wife and kids living in same house as me     so sure no maid.  Not having any full time employee for personal service, but having some working in the business, they can do some for me personal things too as e g cut grass, driving fetching things when needed.

((No maid of security reason too - Filipinos are world champions in tsismis =gossiping they say themselves        So not showing any private equipment for anyone except wife and kids - by not leting anyone else to the separate second floor. Bottom floor made to have visitors, but not even a TV there       But a combined billiard/table tennis/dining table. Beside the billiard, the modification is low cost.))