Why go from your country.

[Jollygoodfellow]

1 hour ago, kuripot said:

Not always as easy as it sounds. If you have only a backpack and no persons left behind, I would be gone yesterday. I used to think I could spend rest of my life here (I supposedly have decades left to live) but I overestimated the progress that would take place. I don't notice much of anything improving at present, some things are going backwards.

Can I ask you if there is a day where you have a good day. Surely you dont need customer service everyday?  Could it be where you chose to live? If you are working and have to live in the city and stuck in traffic then it's not going to be a good day. If you are retired normally no hurry, chose a nice location to live then there must be something positive at times. 

I understand at this time it's frustrating and it is many times but there must be days when you or anyone else thinks that this is the place to be. 

 

[stevewool]

Have you cut all you ties to your homeland and if not could you go back there.

I know I could not live there permanently myself , holidays would be enough for me, and like you say out of the cities it’s a beautiful place to be.

[Mike J]

5 hours ago, Jollygoodfellow said:

I understand at this time it's frustrating and it is many times but there must be days when you or anyone else thinks that this is the place to be. 

Each of us has our own levels of comfort, expectations, and personal circumstances.  It is not really surprising that many expats who dream of living here find out they are not happy and either move back to their home country or try another country.  For me most of my days are "this is the place to be".   A person should never say never, but it will be seven years this October and I do not see any reason that I would move back to the USA or anywhere else for that matter.  

[Clermont]

Why is it that people that live there have to justify living there. If I'm unhappy about a place I move on, if I'm unhappy about something I don't prat on and on, I have my say then ignor barbs and move on. If a person dosn't like the PI's, traffic, getting diddled because they don't know, or are slow learners, it's not the readers fault, why do we have to read about their inablity to handle hickups. Sometimes we make mistakes in life and we have to wear them, by all means let us know of the pitfalls where you stay in the PI's, maybe some-one can help you fix the problem, this is what the forum is about, helping and learning.

People get on this site and run the PI's down, sighting I'm going home and use some lame excuss. I'm no physco, but if the truth is known, their bloody homesick, nothing more nothing less and they give the PI's a bad name using their cock and bull story to justify their going home. All countries have there idiocities, without siggling out a country, foreigners get murdered, raped, swindled in every country and the list goes on and on. 

So before you head home, how about writting something positive, you must have had some positives not all negatives, anyway enjoy the rest of your life.

[hk blues]

Some days I (hey, probably all of us) feel just like Kuripot but these are few and far between.  Most of the time I can be philosophical and, when comparing quality of things and service, I remind myself (sometimes after the event) that things are cheap here for a reason.  I'm not saying everyone should accept it as it is, but if they cannot then this isn't a place that will make them happy.

[Joey G]

"Why go from your country?"...  everyone has a reason... as do at least 1.8M Filipinos living in the USA alone.

[jpbago]

2 hours ago, Joey G said:

"Why go from your country?"...  everyone has a reason... as do at least 1.8M Filipinos living in the USA alone.

They like Canada too:

The findings indicate that a total of 837,130 people of Filipino ancestry were counted on Census Day on May 10 last year.

The last Census established that Canada has a total population of 35,151,728.

With a number of 837,130, Filipinos now comprise 2.3 percent of the Canadian population.

[Dave Hounddriver]

59 minutes ago, jpbago said:

They like Canada too

I know my lady likes Canada, but she has not yet seen the cold.  A friend married a filipina and brought her to Edmonton.  She lasted almost a year before moving back to the Philippines.

[Jollygoodfellow]

17 hours ago, Mike J said:

Each of us has our own levels of comfort, expectations, and personal circumstances.  It is not really surprising that many expats who dream of living here find out they are not happy and either move back to their home country or try another country.  For me most of my days are "this is the place to be".   A person should never say never, but it will be seven years this October and I do not see any reason that I would move back to the USA or anywhere else for that matter.  

kuripot wanted me to delete his posts but I think they are a good discussion point so I wont delete.

Now for those who have such a hard time here or just want to go home I have a bit of a theory as to why so what do others think.

If you came from a small village say in the UK and suddenly found yourself in a big third world city such as Manila or Cebu could it be that its very hard to adapt to a change like that?  Or the other way around where you might have come from a big city in the home country and found yourself out in the province with almost no internet or anything else but barking dogs.

You may have chosen these places to live for example you still need to work so city life can offer more opportunities for that but then you have to put up with long commutes , smog etc when perhaps thats not your usual way of life so its hard and wears you down.

Maybe you choose where to live because of your partner which might also put you out of your normal comfort zone so again makes life hard so little things can get to you.

It's certainly not perfect here and I often complain about this or that or perhaps more so say, why dont they do it this way but I was the one who decided to come here and knew of all the downfalls before hand so it is what it is. Funny thing if I complain or ask why my partner says, look around, where are you  "Why" is something I want to remove from my head like the other day I messaged a store and asked if these items always available in store, yes sir as they are our main item but when I got there they said I had to order and pick up next day. Example of just shake your head and move on as no point getting upset about it.

Anyway I hear the same things from other places popular with expats such as Thailand expats wanting to move. They have better roads and internet but have other issues such as language barriers and visa problems so where is the perfect place to live?

My guess where you make it home and adapt the best you can.

I remember the same sort of frustrations from my home country, stuck in traffic, internet going down but not as often to the latter and the same frustrations when out buying something but thats how it is. I think many forget their bad days back home or issues they had there once living here because this is now daily life and reality before was daily life as well.

Perhaps like some others I often think I would like to spend my days on a nice beach sipping gulping beer but I'm sure no matter in what country there would be something that gets to me after the novelty wears off so there is no perfect place.

On another point, they say money can't buy you happiness and thats something I will never experience but if you have lots of money I bet life here would be easier. If you have to spend 3 hours to get a Globe account you would probably send someone to do it for you. You could buy the foods that you like that you pay premium price here for. You can live where you want or move with the flash of pesos anytime. 

Or if like myself and many others have to make the best out of what we have and can do and this would be the same if we packed up and moved back home.

What's your theory on why some practical hate it here?

[stevewool]

Hate is the wrong word for me .

On my visits to the Philippines as a tourist life was great and the places we seen was great too and I could see myself living somewhere in the Philippines, Bohol was my choice but not my partners as she would say ‘ I don’t know anyone there ‘,

She wanted to be close to the family and reading and listening to how the family life in the Philippines is , it sounded something like my life growing up in England as a youngster was, I was so wrong .

So while there are certain members of the family around In the Philippines , then it will not be my home in the future