living In The Philippines For Cheap
By admin On June 21, 2011
Under Call Center Philippines
I just finished one blog about the Philippines not being cheap but nowg I’m going to talk about leaving in the Philippines for cheap if you are a single guy. i might contradict my self but what the hell.
If you live in a far away place from Manila you are live for really cheap if you are just a single guy because allot of things in the province are cheaper then in Manila.
“If you have a family it will cost allot more”
When I first got to Manila the dollar to Peso was about 1 dollar to 55 peso so we were rocking but later on it dropped to 43 which sucked. I lived in Ortigas in a place called City land Mega Plaza in a studio for about 250 dollars a month and maybe around 200 dollars for my power and water ect and then going out and buying food was about 300 to 400 dollars a month and I was living on about 1000 dollars a month.
There are allot of cheap places or bars in the Philippines but you gotta know when to go when its happy hour because you will save allot of money, some thing like buy one take one, most places around 5pm to 8pm to get the best deals. Try not to eat out because you will spend allot more, buy food at the store and just make it at your house and if you are working then make a lunch that you can take with you. If you want to get out of town you can take a bus to pretty much any where for about 5 dollars but you are going to have to do some research online to find some cheap places to stay. If you want to buy a car, you can get a cheap one for about a 1000 dollars that should do just fine when you need to get out of town if you don’t like to take the bus.
One thing when living in the Philippines that happens to about every one I know is they get married because the girls are good looking and there are allot of them but a couple of things you need to know. You might be going to a strip club and meet a girl there and fall in love but you gotta under stand most of them are in it for the money or to get out of the country, try to find a girl that has a job or a business, some one that can support them self’s so you are not always there paying for every thing. You gotta remember that there are a shit load of girls in the Philippines. So if you fall in love with the first one you meet hold off and keep looking for a long time tell you find the right one.
Also don’t fall in love with your maid!
When a Filippina girl gets an American boy friend there family thinks they are set, some thing like they can come and stay any time they want and that couple be the brother, the mother and the sister at the same time and they might even say we are only going to stay a night and then a month goes by and they are still there. Or you are going to get a bunch of the relatives hitting you up for money for bull shit reasons and the first time you are going to be ok little Johnny is sick and he need to get some medicine and you are going to be like cool no problem I want to help, how much you need and at first they will be like 2,000 Peso and you are going to be like 50 dollars that’s it, hear you go but then word is going to get out to the other family remembers that you are giving or loaning money then your fucked. You gotta have thick skin or you are going to get taken over and over again, no matter what you hear allot of it is going to be lies.
If you are living out side of Manila you can get about 30% cheaper on about every thing but the only problem is there is not going to be much to do unlike living in Manila but its up to the person at the end of the day.
Also I know I’m going to get allot of Filippinos reading this so I want you to all know I’m not saying any thing bad about the Philippines, just educating people that might not have been there before or going there.
