Moab762
American looking for information about Philippines
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Cebu quiet? Possible? by Moab762
I hope to move to Cebu Island from Panglou Island, Bohol next month. I'm hoping to find a quiet place to live. (I know that's an oxymoron in the Phillipines.) One to an hour and a half outside Cebu City is preferable. But outskirts is fine too. A ...
@bigpearl I know your area. My first 3 months were spent in San Fernando. I intended to spend a lot of time in San Juan. And planned to fish up near there too. But one thing led to another and I never got up there. I also didn't have a car then. ... Read More
Cebu quiet? Possible? by Moab762
I hope to move to Cebu Island from Panglou Island, Bohol next month. I'm hoping to find a quiet place to live. (I know that's an oxymoron in the Phillipines.) One to an hour and a half outside Cebu City is preferable. But outskirts is fine too. A ...
@bigpearlYou are exactly right! I found this in Bohol. You look at the map. You convert mileage, distance and drive times. But until you take a 2 hour trip into the mountains you don't get it. It's slow and exhausting. The roads are actually trails ... Read More
Cebu quiet? Possible? by Moab762
I hope to move to Cebu Island from Panglou Island, Bohol next month. I'm hoping to find a quiet place to live. (I know that's an oxymoron in the Phillipines.) One to an hour and a half outside Cebu City is preferable. But outskirts is fine too. A ...
@bigpearlAs to checking a place out at all hours of different days of the week. I'm with you there. That is something I even did in the US. I also owned a PI firm in LA and would run backgrounds on all the neighbors. Lol. I've realized after almost ... Read More
Cebu quiet? Possible? by Moab762
I hope to move to Cebu Island from Panglou Island, Bohol next month. I'm hoping to find a quiet place to live. (I know that's an oxymoron in the Phillipines.) One to an hour and a half outside Cebu City is preferable. But outskirts is fine too. A ...
@bigpearl The problem with online is my geo location. And the overly simplified security policies. I stayed in La Union 9 months ago. (Luzon - north of Manilla. Home to the largest sellers in the north part of PH)) That's where I set up my online ... Read More
Cebu quiet? Possible? by Moab762
I hope to move to Cebu Island from Panglou Island, Bohol next month. I'm hoping to find a quiet place to live. (I know that's an oxymoron in the Phillipines.) One to an hour and a half outside Cebu City is preferable. But outskirts is fine too. A ...
@bigpearl I'm not looking "in" Cebu City. I'm looking on Cebu Island up to an hour or two outside of the city. I started in San Fernando La Union. Lived on the beach in a top floor condo of sorts. My gf is from Bohol. So we moved here to find cheap ... Read More
Cebu quiet? Possible? by Moab762
I hope to move to Cebu Island from Panglou Island, Bohol next month. I'm hoping to find a quiet place to live. (I know that's an oxymoron in the Phillipines.) One to an hour and a half outside Cebu City is preferable. But outskirts is fine too. A ...
@dennis4040VPN has no effect. I've used a high quality paid VPN for years. Part of it is where your IP originates from by your internet service provider. And the other part is a security algorithm or policy. That treats changing locations as a huge ... Read More
Cebu quiet? Possible? by Moab762
I hope to move to Cebu Island from Panglou Island, Bohol next month. I'm hoping to find a quiet place to live. (I know that's an oxymoron in the Phillipines.) One to an hour and a half outside Cebu City is preferable. But outskirts is fine too. A ...
@Moab762 And yet both Shopee and Lazada retailers will ship to even the most remote villages/islands in Vietnam, many of which have a population much lower than the 90,000 of Panglou. Lazada is a Philippines company. I'm very surprised to learn ... Read More
Cebu quiet? Possible? by Moab762
I hope to move to Cebu Island from Panglou Island, Bohol next month. I'm hoping to find a quiet place to live. (I know that's an oxymoron in the Phillipines.) One to an hour and a half outside Cebu City is preferable. But outskirts is fine too. A ...
I feel your pain, Moab. We lived for several years in a high-end condo above Cebu that wasn't too bad for noise, but of course you had to go out into the madness that is Cebu City. We live near Valencia now (Dumaguete), because we have two boys in ... Read More
Cebu quiet? Possible? by Moab762
I hope to move to Cebu Island from Panglou Island, Bohol next month. I'm hoping to find a quiet place to live. (I know that's an oxymoron in the Phillipines.) One to an hour and a half outside Cebu City is preferable. But outskirts is fine too. A ...
@Aidan in HCMC It's not a Lazada policy. Their system just has a major fault. If your ISP ends up routing your IP thru Manilla, Lazada's system uses that IP location as your location. Even if your delivery address is different. Like mine in Bohol. ... Read More
Cebu quiet? Possible? by Moab762
I hope to move to Cebu Island from Panglou Island, Bohol next month. I'm hoping to find a quiet place to live. (I know that's an oxymoron in the Phillipines.) One to an hour and a half outside Cebu City is preferable. But outskirts is fine too. A ...
Lazada and shoppee are both China owned as well. And handle location as IP location in the same way. Trust me. I've spent months trying to change this. Bought additional sim cards, created new accounts laptop only, spoken to their deep customer ... Read More
Cebu quiet? Possible?
I hope to move to Cebu Island from Panglou Island, Bohol next month. I'm hoping to find a quiet place to live. (I know that's an oxymoron in the Phillipines.) One to an hour and a half outside Cebu City is preferable. But outskirts is fine too. A ... Read More
Moving to Siargao by Brendan69
Hi there, I'm Brendan, a newbie here, I live in La Union but am in the process of moving to Siargo. Any expats already living there?
I recently moved from La Union to down south - Bohol. Will give you a heads up. In the process of getting established here. Furnishing my apt, buying a car, outfitting it etc etc. I have found it extremely difficult to order from Lazada, AliExpress, ... Read More
WU Transfers by vehicross100
I found it interesting that through my WU app I can send $ using my debit card to Gcash, PayMaya, Shopee, Lazada, Bayad and a few more. This is all for $0 (FREE) transfer fee and at a rate of 58. My usual Bank to Bank is $2 per transaction and ...
@vehicross100 Hi, the most effective way is not to send a foreign currency to the BDO account but PHP. So, instead of 1000 USD you transfer 60000 PHP and the receiver gets exactly 60000 PHP. This avoids fees and taxes in the Philippines. The reason ... Read More
WU Transfers by vehicross100
I found it interesting that through my WU app I can send $ using my debit card to Gcash, PayMaya, Shopee, Lazada, Bayad and a few more. This is all for $0 (FREE) transfer fee and at a rate of 58. My usual Bank to Bank is $2 per transaction and ...
@Moab762 To Clarify, I use WF for the US and BDO here. I do not need to use Wise as a bank, i’m just using them to transfer $ from there to here. Like a WU transfer. I Simply set up a transfer from my WF directly into BDO via Wise. I ... Read More
WU Transfers by vehicross100
I found it interesting that through my WU app I can send $ using my debit card to Gcash, PayMaya, Shopee, Lazada, Bayad and a few more. This is all for $0 (FREE) transfer fee and at a rate of 58. My usual Bank to Bank is $2 per transaction and ...
@vehicross100 From my US CU to Wise I can do $1000 instantly. But can not do $2000 instantly. That jumps to like 4 or 7 days iirc. Transferring money from Wise to gfs local PH bank account is instant. But have not tried large amounts. Read More