Ive been coming here for years, e everytime I visit my Mom. Its a locals place and nice place to hang out.
Youll run across van dwellers, influencers making video/content for their YT channel.
Today im sitting next to sone socialists of America type chaps. They seem older than me but a bit naive. They want to make America great again through voting for the opposite of liberty, maybe they want some kind of slavery I dont understand.
From listening to their conversation most of our ills come from regulations, tax, debt and now money printing, which I doubt will be voted against.
These chaps are from California, so I understand why they want higher minimum wage, and lower rents but I dont think California voters will vote for liberty so the solution for some is to move.
As North Americans we are lucky we can move almost anywhere for better taxes, weather ect. Many have moved to Puerto Rico, which can get your taxes near zero. A better solution for some could be Saipan, a territory of the US. Taxes aren't zero but half as much as the States. The weather is nice much like Philippines, nice people, and easy to fly to Japan or Korea, or Malaysia, or Philippines for medical or dental.
The food prices can be high but they have their own island for cattle, so at least you get good beef and seafood. They import a lot of food from Asia and some from North America so it can be high cost.
The upside is you can have things sent from America through the US postal service for first class prices. Amazon works well. You can even buy and sell gold coins through the US postal service.
Of course theres no perfect place to live. They are going through the clean up of the latest bagio/cyclone. I understand it could take six months to get electricity and water back up to what it was, which is longer than the last bagio/cyclone, which took 4 months to clean up.
Those kind of down side I like. The people are independent, tough, and helpful people, the kind of men and women I like being around, resourceful, I mean.
Being in the middle of nowhere, where rent is cheap and you can buy cheap supplies in the wet market is pretty nice. Its a different version of the Philippines, anyhow not for everyone.
I forgot to mention its not easy to get a high paying job their, but if your willing to work online you can earn enough to live their and save for your retirement
The other thing is as a non local you cant own land which I like and doesnt really bother me but theres a few loophole s to get around that, much like the Chinese do in Thailand.
Anyhow enough for this morning. Thanks for reading.
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