Moving to Philippines , I need suggestions.....?
We are soon retiring. I have seen some houses. Some can be bought furnished. I prefer this. I would also like to sell my house the same way. Are there any other places as cool as Baguio? Is it better for me to stay in a hotel and choose after I'm there? I would like a gated subdivision. What do you think? Where should I go. What is Important to me is , Cable, Air conditioning, servant quarters, maybe a pool. all for $350,000 US Dollars or less.
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- i love the phillipines
- Freakin awesome!!! Can I go w/ you? I'd like to stay in a guest area. I would stay at a hotel and look around after I'm there. Definitely. You dont wanna make any huge mistakes. Good luck w/ that and have fun!!! =(
- Cool like Baguio, consider Tagaytay. There are a lot of gated communities there too.
- The best thing is to come and stay in hotels and move around until you find an area that feels like home and then live there. I live north of Cebu City and love it here. You should also join the group below and you can talk with others that are moving and living in the Philippines.
- Try Camiguin,there you don't need gated houses for the people there are truly harmless as well as the place.I'ts so wonderful there.We've been there once and my b/f dream of having house there.good luck
- i think you need to be a citizen to buy property
- I think that basing your retirement location decision on a 10 degree overall climate differance is foolhardy. Have you been to Bagio lately ? It's not the paradise it was 20 years ago. The city has become crowded, polluted and housing prices are artificially high due to all the expats living there. The things you said were important to you are availible in most places in the Philippines. Finding furnished housing here is expensive and difficult to find in anyplace other than Manilla or Cebu. AC units can make up that differance for the 3 months a year when it gets really hot and uncomfortable here. I think your doing yourself a disservice by not looking at other places like Iloilo City or Bacolod in the eastern visayas (region 6). I would recommend to anyone moving here for retirement they stay in a hotel/pensionne house for at least a month while they check out the availible housing. I would also recommend renting for a year in the subdivision you want to live in. You cannot rely on realators telling you the truth as to flood plains durring rainy season etc. Plus the fact that if you move in a subdivision with loud/rude neighbours it can turn your retirement dream house into a house of horrors. P 16 Million would get you what you wanted here on a 1,000 sqm lot in a nice gated/guarded subdivision depending of course on how big a house and how you finish it. Property here runs between P3,600 psm to P 6,000 in a gated/guarded subdivision with a clubhouse with swimming pool and tennis courts. I think you have the rest of your life to decide where would be the best place for you to retire in the Philippines.
- stay first in hotel then look for a house my suggestion is in tagaytay if you want you're near in manila 2 to 7M pesos you can have a house in lot in tagaytay. i can assist you if you want there are many subdivision in tagaytay with gate and with guard (exclusive) subdivision
- you need to see the place first personally.
- Put your money in a CD. You can live comfortably on the interest renting. A foreigner cannot own property there. You could probably get a condominium but not land. Besides that, there a million and one ways the for the people there to swindle you out of your money. And they will. I'm not trying to bad-mouth the filipino, just stating facts. Spend some time there and see lots of places before you dive in head first. After a month or so there you don't even notice the heat and humidity. There are many many more desireable places than the usual tourist traps.
- try ayala alabang village in muntinlupa metro manila. . they have a country club. . and it's safe there and they have freakin' nice houses
