Dressing Down

[Old55]

I receive regular requests from foreigners, asking about living in the Philippines on usd $600 per month or usd $800 per month or usd $1000 per month. And, have met some of these people in real life as they get by on these amounts. Usually happily! I personally could get by on usd $300 per month but would prefer the lifestyle I can achieve on usd $800 per month.The original pooreigner article, about 8 years ago, was about foreigners living in the Philippines, surviving on next to nothing. Sometimes begging to get by. I have met some of these people too!.I am also aware of foreigners who work for Filipino wages as they have no means to get back home and no means to survive in the Philippines. One was a dishwasher in a restaurant.Regards: Jim

Jim, I have very high regards to your posts here and other online outlets over the years. I know you have walked your talk. When are we going to see some new video? Many foreigners could survive on about 5,000.00 Peso a week in the Philippines. That amount would provide for adequate food and basic shelter but not much more.We met an American early this year living with his eight month pregnant GF who worked as a house keeper near our place. He was begging for money from anyone who would give. He had the typical long sad story, anyway the moral is ALWAYS having enough cash for an exit plan including for airline tickets and emergencies. The only way to know what budget fulfills your needs is to live in Philippines and find out for yourself.

[Travis]

thank you for inviting me to the topic. :thumbsup: I have a few minutes before going back to work. I do not doubt that a person can live on just about any amount but what I do doubt is that they can live like a king on less then say $1500 a month while living in or near a major city. I do not drink & I do not do barfines so I am talking about renting a decent place with cable a water heater & dsl & a ref & electric & that alone cost over $300 a month unless you do not use a/c but even then a ref & water heater uses a lot of electric so while I could have stayed in a pension house with no privacy or rented outside Cebu city & taken cold showers & taken only jeepneys & ate only rice then I still could not have lived on $500 a month & I would have been miserable but I could have moved in with my ladies family & probably lived on $300 a month or less but I did not come to the Phils to live like a poor Filipino & I have a standard that I wished to keep up which included decent clean clothing & especially while out & about & a few showers daily coz seeing smelly dirty looking white guys use to make me wish they would go home coz they are an embarrassment to me. maybe those same white guys were pigs back where they came from but I am not a pig & I shower often & wear only clean untorn clothing so as Art says to each his own & many I see are in such a drunken stuper all the time that they probably only care about staying that way so they do not even notice that they would be miserable sober & how bad they smell :1247:

[Dave Hounddriver]

I do not doubt that a person can live on just about any amount but what I do doubt is that they can live like a king on less then say $1500 a month while living in or near a major city.

I agree with your message. I just want to add a few things. Perhaps you can live like the king of Sealand on $1,000 a month. Perhaps its just that filipinas TREAT you like a king when you have $1,000 a month, but my idea of living like a king in Cebu, (more like a celebrity actually), would require about $2,000 a month or more.

[Jim Sibbick]

I receive regular requests from foreigners, asking about living in the Philippines on usd $600 per month or usd $800 per month or usd $1000 per month. And, have met some of these people in real life as they get by on these amounts. Usually happily! I personally could get by on usd $300 per month but would prefer the lifestyle I can achieve on usd $800 per month.The original pooreigner article, about 8 years ago, was about foreigners living in the Philippines, surviving on next to nothing. Sometimes begging to get by. I have met some of these people too!.I am also aware of foreigners who work for Filipino wages as they have no means to get back home and no means to survive in the Philippines. One was a dishwasher in a restaurant.Regards: Jim

I bet you, if Traveler read your post, he would be knocking your statement big time, because he couldn't live on $1,000 a month the way he was accustomed to living a westernized lifestyle, ---------------------snip--------------------Well, "different strokes for different folks" as I always say!

You said it well. Different strokes for different folks.I am very much tied to Palompon Leyte. That is where I can live happy on usd $800 per month. This last 3 weeks has confirmed for me that I can still live well in Cebu City on P40,000 per month. IE Live a lazy life permanently at the Cebu Century Hotel where all my needs are taken care of, eat out for every meal, have a massage every day and socialise with friends every day. Although I would prefer the lifestyle I can achieve on P60,000 per month.For OLD55. The video incentive is not there anymore. When I started putting video online in 2001, there were no videos of the Philippines. Now they are everywhere!However, I will add a few videos of accommodation next week which probably won't be of interest to many. Such as White Sands on Malapascua and Skip's Beach resort in Daanbantayan.Regards: Jim

[Mugs]

I do not doubt that a person can live on just about any amount but what I do doubt is that they can live like a king on less then say $1500 a month while living in or near a major city.

I agree with your message. I just want to add a few things. Perhaps you can live like the king of Sealand on $1,000 a month. Perhaps its just that filipinas TREAT you like a king when you have $1,000 a month, but my idea of living like a king in Cebu, (more like a celebrity actually), would require about $2,000 a month or more.

i know a number of people living in the US on $2000 a month so besides the women what else makes it worth while to live there?