Where to live in the PI for what I'm looking for.

[Peter Magnolia]

My friend who visited the Philippines 64 times with the USN told me there are Islands where the inhabitants have never even seen an English man or experience modern conveniences like flushing toilets! If one can believe that! Does anybody know where I can find such a place? I might like to visit for a short while and try the lifestyle out for myself.  

[hk blues]

2 hours ago, Peter Magnolia said:

My friend who visited the Philippines 64 times with the USN told me there are Islands where the inhabitants have never even seen an English man or experience modern conveniences like flushing toilets! If one can believe that! Does anybody know where I can find such a place? I might like to visit for a short while and try the lifestyle out for myself.  

You don't have to go far to find places with no flushing toilets, it's commonplace here and indeed my wife's family have a flushing toilet which they disconnected as they think it wastes water!  I can give you their address if you like and you can try it out! 

Good luck with living totally off the grid - it's not something I'd contemplate back home never mind here.  

Edited January 16, 2023 by hk blues

[Old55]

2 hours ago, Peter Magnolia said:

My friend who visited the Philippines 64 times with the USN told me there are Islands where the inhabitants have never even seen an English man or experience modern conveniences like flushing toilets! If one can believe that! Does anybody know where I can find such a place? I might like to visit for a short while and try the lifestyle out for myself.  

Peter, you could visit Seattle we have a number of large communities the inhabitants don't bother to use toilets or other modern conveniences.

[Freebie]

Bantayan is great, have been there many times for a months at a time. Unfortunately the new airport has or will open, and great hordes of Cebuanos ( and maybe even the chekwas )  will invade the place.

Used to be quaint and charming and full of chickens/egg farms but not sure will be returning.

Lots traffic in the main town ( its the Philippines !), the rural hospital is not somewhere you would want to go in an emergency, there are a few nice beaches, a few long term expats... But not a place Id live full time.

[Kingpin]

7 hours ago, Peter Magnolia said:

My friend who visited the Philippines 64 times with the USN told me there are Islands where the inhabitants have never even seen an English man or experience modern conveniences like flushing toilets! If one can believe that! Does anybody know where I can find such a place? I might like to visit for a short while and try the lifestyle out for myself.  

You could just move to a city and crap in the river, at least you'll still have decent internet.

[Dave Hounddriver]

9 hours ago, Peter Magnolia said:

there are Islands where the inhabitants have never even seen an English man

I've never seen one.  But then, I wouldn't, would I.

[baronapart]

8 hours ago, hk blues said:

You don't have to go far to find places with no flushing toilets, it's commonplace here and indeed my wife's family have a flushing toilet which they disconnected as they think it wastes water!  I can give you their address if you like and you can try it out! 

Good luck with living totally off the grid - it's not something I'd contemplate back home never mind here.  

My wife's family built a new outhouse for my first visit there in 2017 (Mindanao, Zamboanga del Norte). Excellent nipa and plywood construction, concrete floor and a standard American toilet without seat and flushable with a bucket. I really wonder what was there before the upgrade.

[Mike J]

Here in Moalboal the locals will say; "I need to find a mango tree".  

[Snowy79]

On 1/16/2023 at 2:21 PM, Peter Magnolia said:

My friend who visited the Philippines 64 times with the USN told me there are Islands where the inhabitants have never even seen an English man or experience modern conveniences like flushing toilets! If one can believe that! Does anybody know where I can find such a place? I might like to visit for a short while and try the lifestyle out for myself.  

I hiked from Abra De Ilog in Occidental Mindoro to Puerta Galera through the jungle a few years back and came across a small village where everyone ran away and watched me from a distance.  Only about ten homes made out of what they found in the jungle. It was weird as there was about half adozen fires with water or food cooking but the locals had dropped everything and legged it. 

[Possum]

48 minutes ago, Snowy79 said:

I hiked from Abra De Ilog in Occidental Mindoro to Puerta Galera through the jungle a few years back and came across a small village where everyone ran away and watched me from a distance.  Only about ten homes made out of what they found in the jungle. It was weird as there was about half adozen fires with water or food cooking but the locals had dropped everything and legged it. 

It's a spooky feeling. I was working in Indonesia and wanted to do some hiking. I took along a Indonesian work mate who knew the hinterlands of Borneo. After a day we came across a little village and the reaction was almost the same. My friend called them back and we had a good meal and a discussion of their history and way of life. During the discussion the leader said they used to be cannibals until the missionaries came and told them that wasn't good now they just eat animals and what the land provided. He said he always wanted to eat a people, especially a white people but he never had because it was forbidden. Though they were very nice we did not spend the night. Hiking was over in Borneo for me.