[ 2 Comments ] Posted on 12.22.08 under Iloilo City, Philippine Retirement
Our monthly expenses living in Iloilo City. We find that we can live fairly well in Iloilo City on about $1,700 per month. The main cost of living questions you need to adjust for are: Prescription drugs and medical care. A $1,700 per month budget may cover routine medical and dental care for a reasonably healthy [...]
[ No Comments ] Posted on 12.22.08 under Philippine Retirement
Our budget in the Philippines. We find that we can live fairly well in Iloilo City on about $1,700 per month. The main cost of living questions you need to adjust for are: Prescription drugs and medical care. A $1,700 per month budget may cover routine medical and dental care for a reasonably healthy couple. Someone [...]
[ 4 Comments ] Posted on 12.22.08 under Medical and Dental
Carol’s sister had a cesarean (caesarian, c-section) section at a Philippine provincial hospital in Lucena City, Quezon Province in 2006. The total cost was P34,000. FilHealth, the Philippine national health insurance program, paid P8,000 of the total for a net cost of P26,000. This shows why making sure all members of your Philippine family are [...]
[ 2 Comments ] Posted on 12.22.08 under Medical and Dental
Carol’s sister had ovarian cyst surgery at St. Luke’s Hospital in Manila in 2004. The total cost was about P70,000. If she had been a foreigner it would have cost more, but still affordable for most. One peculiarity of Philippine hospitals is that the better hospital room you have, the more you may be charged for [...]
[ 3 Comments ] Posted on 12.18.08 under Boracay Island, Where to Dine?, Where to Stay?
Boracay – spoiled, overdeveloped, garish, tacky — a Coney Island, a Disneyland of the tropics or a great vacation destination? Here’s our verdict.
[ 4 Comments ] Posted on 09.30.08 under Services
We’ve had good luck with both of the big international shipping firms; DHL and FedEx. Here are the details and another option; Johnny Air Cargo
[ 1 Comment ] Posted on 09.15.08 under Our House Project
These are snapshots of other tropical houses, tropical house details and so forth to help us define the design of the retirement house we plan to build on our Tigbauan, Iloilo land. They are an unorganized hodgepodge of things we’ve seen, things which caught our eye. Maybe something here will be an inspiration to your [...]
[ No Comments ] Posted on 09.14.08 under Iloilo Real Estate, Services
We have had very good luck with Attorney Jeanette Ong, Casa Plaza Building (a former hotel which is now an office building, it adjoins the Atrium Shopping Center), Suite 210, Iloilo City, +63-336-3826, mobile 09209188170. Jeanette is a former Iloilo Registrar of Deeds. She specializes in real estate and has treated us in a honest [...]
[ 6 Comments ] Posted on 09.04.08 under Iloilo Real Estate, Medical and Dental, Our House Project, Perspectives, Philippine Retirement
Buying rural real estate in the Philippines. Real estate in the Philippine provinces. There are so many beautiful rural areas in the Philippines. I think of the lush, unspoiled area around Lucban, Quezon Province, I think of the spectacular rural landscapes in the hills of Bohol. Closer at hand for us, are the mountains and [...]
[ 7 Comments ] Posted on 08.30.08 under Heritage, Tigbauan, Iloilo
Tigbauan, Iloilo history, heritage, architecture. Unquestionably there have been many changes to this old Spanish church over the decades and centuries. One major change, the concrete belltowers seem to rest on a massive concrete structure, plastered and finished to mimic stone blocks. But, if you look closely behind the concrete bell tower supporting structure, one [...]
[ 7 Comments ] Posted on 08.26.08 under Heritage, Tigbauan, Iloilo
Tigbauan history, architecture, heritage. In the larger Philippine cities history has mostly been obliterated, but places like Tigbauan still retain a distinct and important historic integrity.
[ 14 Comments ] Posted on 08.12.08 under Iloilo Real Estate, Our House Project, Perspectives, Tigbauan, Iloilo
Our new home in Tigbauan, Iloilo where we’ve learned a whole new meaning for “small town” and “rural”.