Monthly Costs

[AlwaysRt]

6 hours ago, BrettGC said:

Hi All,

I'm after ball park figures on what you spend each month so if you could answer the following it would be great (PHP would be good - it's our common currency):

Town/Province: Valencia

Number of people in your residence: 3

Type of Residence (house, townhouse, unit, studio etc): 3 Bedroom, 2 CR

Rent: p15,000

Electricity: p3,700 (1 - 1.5 Hp Split Inverter Aircon)

Water: p50

Gas (if applicable): n/a

Internet: p1,800 for Globe LTE wireless postpaid 10Mbps speed and 110Gb data

Landline (if applicable): Included with internet

Mobile/Cell: p500 for 2 Globe phones

Groceries (includes booze): p20,000+ (no booze, don't really track it so just a guess)

Car rego/insurance: ? Bike only, still new so haven't purchased renewal insurance yet

Fuel: p600

add p2,000/month for Tourist Visa. That's over but over doesn't hurt for budget planning

add p17,500 a year for Philhealth if you are interested in it.

[BrettGC]

5 hours ago, Jollygoodfellow said:

In your budget questions I dont see immigration costs.  

Still tossing up between SRRV - I'm ex-military so the deposit amount is only $1500US - or doing the tourist visa thing but yes, it's a good point.  

[Gary D]

5 minutes ago, BrettGC said:

Still tossing up between SRRV - I'm ex-military so the deposit amount is only $1500US - or doing the tourist visa thing but yes, it's a good point.  

Does that cover all ex-military or just ex US military.

[BrettGC]

Bigpearl, 

I'll be living comfortably (by my standards) but not on your budget though.  There's members of this forum that live happily on about 36kPHP/month so the immigration cost is not trivial to them and though it's not a deal breaker for me it is something that has to be factored in after weighing up all options:  Tourist visa, SRRV (situation as above) or Balikbayan privilege (not married yet but toying with the idea - those of you that met her, don't tell SAO! (Short Angry One)).  I'm actually grateful to Tom and the others that mentioned it for reminding me of the added cost.  

This thread is not just for my benefit that's why I'm after other locations as well so as much input as possible is not only welcome but encouraged and is seeking to establish a baseline of costs that can't be avoided by anyone every month. 

As some of you know, I have a background that involved statistical analysis at times (seems almost like a past life now), and although the sample here will be naturally small and inherently flawed at times, it will show certain trends that will assist all potential Philippine expats on this forum to form a reasonable expectation of what they should expect in terms of costs.

Remember, one person's triviality is another's nightmare sometimes.  If you don't want to contribute that's fair enough and I fully understand that.  There's plenty here that are happy to assist though so please don't trivialise their input.    

Cheers,

Brett

[BrettGC]

22 minutes ago, Gary D said:

Does that cover all ex-military or just ex US military.

All ex-military that have served in an "allied" country.  

[stevewool]

11 hours ago, BrettGC said:

Hi All,

It's been a while since this has been done, in fact when I went looking for the particular thread it actually stated down the bottom to start a new thread as that one was out of date (IamBob's thread).  So here it is:

I'm after ball park figures on what you spend each month so if you could answer the following it would be great (PHP would be good - it's our common currency):

Town/Province:

Number of people in your residence:

Type of Residence (house, townhouse, unit, studio etc):

Rent:

Electricity:

Water:

Gas (if applicable):

Internet:

Landline (if applicable):

Mobile/Cell:

Groceries (includes booze):

Car rego/insurance:

Fuel:

 

I'm in the process of fleshing out a budget now that my move will be happening in the foreseeable future so any assistance would be appreciated.  I'm going to put it all into an Excel spreadsheet and average it and share it with you all once we have a large enough sample.  I can also see more up to date numbers helping many other members too.  Think of it as a community service project

Thanks in advance.

 

Looking forward to reading what you will come up with .

[scott h]

13 hours ago, BrettGC said:

Town/Province: Paranaque Metro Manila

Number of people in your residence: 2

Type of Residence (house, townhouse, unit, studio etc): House, custom built upon retirement. 100,000 USD (wife inherited land)

Rent: none----so I will add 6000 peso per year property tax since we own

Electricity: 7000 peso average

Water: 300 peso for washing, 320 peso for drinking 

Gas (if applicable): 500 peso

Internet: 1500 peso

Landline (if applicable): bundled with internet. Use magic jack for calls to the states 

Mobile/Cell: 500 peso I suppose, never use one, wife just sends the maid to the sari sari for reloads 

Groceries (includes booze): 30-50000 peso varies on when big ticket items need to be restocked 

Car rego/insurance: own a 2006 vios. 2000 peso per year insurance

Fuel: 2000 peso per year on the high side, don't drive all that much 

Here is mine

 

 

[virginprune]

16 hours ago, BrettGC said:

 

Town/Province: Marbel/South Cotobato

Number of people in your residence: currently 6 inc child & teenager 

Type of Residence (house, townhouse, unit, studio etc): House

Rent: own. Property tax P3800 annually

Electricity: P1500 (no aircon) P1000 when just two of us.

Water: all inc drinking from our well

Gas (if applicable):P500

Internet: P1000 Globe Tattoo

Landline (if applicable): none

Mobile/Cell: P200 for partner, don't load mine

Groceries (includes booze): P20000 

Car rego/insurance: none

Fuel: none

Trike and bus fares around P1000 

TV P600

Imm P1000 + P3000 annual ACR renewal

 

 

 

 

 

[Jack Peterson]

23 hours ago, BrettGC said:

Hi All,

It's been a while since this has been done, in fact when I went looking for the particular thread it actually stated down the bottom to start a new thread as that one was out of date (IamBob's thread).  So here it is:

I'm after ball park figures on what you spend each month so if you could answer the following it would be great (PHP would be good - it's our common currency):

Town/Province:  Junob DUMAGUETE

Number of people in your residence: 4 Adults ( one a teenager of 18

Type of Residence (house, townhouse, unit, studio etc): House

Rent: owned property so no rent

Electricity: 4 to 5.000

Water: 500 approx

Gas (if applicable): 350(it is about 600 to 800 two monthly)

Internet: 999

Landline (if applicable): none

Mobile/Cell: mine 150 daughters 300/400 wife has a Work Phone

Groceries (includes booze): around 40.000 (depending on Events happening,  this Month 48.000

Car rego/insurance: Still under the 3 year LTO system but fully Comp addition is about 1.600

Fuel: 1500 (depending on Journeys taken in addition to the Normal use)

Immigration, 13a now so just 310 per year and 2800? every 5 years for ACR

School fees and allowances (daughter is in K12 at private (Silliman)  6700 approx

Pet Costs (not including Vets bills around 1.500

House & personal Insurance Including Burial plans 3500

 Medical Cost mainly my maintenance Prescriptions 4800

 Considering we own the Lot and House and all else is paid up and having no Credit payable we are a very expensive family but Happy, the figures I quote are known to me but as I was saying to friends last week, Money is going out that I have little knowledge of but such is Life.

I know I moan about things to the family but again we are a happy bunch

Jack

 Morning All

 Best I can do on this. But I am sure it will help 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited December 22, 2017 by Jack Peterson
Just because I felt the need ha ha

[BrettGC]

Thanks to those that added medical insurance and vet costs.. Two things I'd forgotten about somehow.   As well as the school fees.. SAO's daughter is in uni.

See, this is working already