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Stinking Rich in the Philippines ?
Would I live in the Philippines if I was stinking rich? No, I wouldn’t. Perhaps the primary lure of the Philippines to foreigners is the cost of living. If however, you were so wealthy that the cost of...
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Dog Gone! And a Viewer Question.
Remember a while back I told you about the security incident at my house? I said in the article that we were going to get another dog, one that would be better in terms of a guard dog or watch dog. We...
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NIS – Not in Stock – The Third Time!
I live in the Subic Area of Luzon and the shopping here is very good because of the high numbers of Kano’s Canadians, British, Australians and plus a few folks from Europe who live and shop here. The...
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Bugs
I absolutely hate bugs. They are weird, creepy and annoying. Unfortunately for me, the Philippines is packed full of them. My Dad sometimes tells me about people who come here and see a roach and...
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Is subsistence fishing in the Philippines sustainable?
“You aren’t going to throw my first fish back in the water, are you?”, my then new wife asked my father on her first fishing trip in the USA. “Sorry this flounder is no more than 14 inches long and it...
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Politically Incorrect Marriage
When two USA citizens of similar background get married, the politically correct assumption is that they are in a 50/50 relationship and that they will make financial decisions together. What happens...
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American Battleground Monuments Commission
I recently learned some things from a friend that surprised me. The things my friend told me were actually the exact opposite of what I had been told by others. I had heard for years that several...
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Let There Be Light
In 1999 my house was completed on a mountain in Bataan, and we moved in. I was heading to San Francisco to be assigned to a new ship. The USNS San Jose (T-AFS) which was tied up in Singapore so I had...
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Tsunami Warning
A few days ago, Mexico was hit by a strong earthquake, I think it was an 8.3. The earthquake caused a tsunami that could hit the Philippines. There were a couple things that kinda shocked me when it...
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A Changing Country
We moved to the Philippines just a few months ago, after planning and preparing for years. I’m no stranger here. I’ve been visiting since the mid-1990’s, usually every other year. That gave me the...
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Boracay
About a year ago, my wife, myself, and some of her cousins spent 3 nights on the Philippine Island of Boracay. None of us had ever been there before but knew that the island was considered to have one...
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Questions Galore from Viewers
It’s another episode of the Expat Answerman Video Cast today! No monologue today, I have several viewer questions that I want to address! We start out today’s show with a question from an anonymous...
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The Ber Months, and it’s not even cold
The Philippines reminds of the Spanish Caribbean Islands, and South and Central America. Which has gotten me used to the Christmas Season Starting in September or as it is referred to here in the...
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LTE
A few months ago, while waiting for my flight from Anchorage to Seattle, I spent the whole time waiting to talk to my friends through Discord, a chatting and voice call program designed for gamers in...
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Jackfruit, Nature’s Laffy Taffy
I love eating ripe jackfruit! Ripe jackfruit is one of the tastiest things I have ever eaten. Recently we had a potluck dinner at our home and we invited two couples both of which included an American...
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Little Pink Houses
My wife and I reside in a small Cebu town. Two homes stand out among my immediate neighbors, ours and a home across the street. They both stand out because they are larger than the other homes, and...
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Martial Law in Mindanao
It’s Friday and that means another episode of the Expat Answerman Videocast! You know, lately, I have been getting a lot of emails from people asking about travel to Davao City. They are concerned...
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It’s All Woggly
I’ve mentioned before that I am a big fan of e-readers and an even bigger fan of reading. In the 1950’s and 60’s my father would come home on payday with an armload of comic books (I think for some...
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By being bilingual, am I special?
For most of my life I’ve been bilingual (trilingual if you count Bisaya and Tagalog as different languages). It never occurred to me that it was a special skill to have, a good percentage of the...
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Rebel Without A Phone
You can’t call me. You can’t text me. It’s not that I don’t like you, it’s just that I don’t have a phone when I’m in the Philippines. Based on what I have observed in public, I might be the only...
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