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Originally Posted by zippyt
So Slang , I might have missed it but are you in the PI again or are these just pics from your last trip ??
Oh and who is that Little Quitie ? Yours , Hers , Yours/Hers ??
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These are from this last trip, 3 weeks long. The next trip will be in August and I'll be staying for 3-6 months.
The objective is to learn enough and to prepare myself for moving there long term. As America changes into....whatever it's morphing into, I want options. There seems to be a polar shift in politics, hard left - hard right, every 8 years. On the off 8 years, I'll be gone.
Learning Tagalog is a priority now as well as history and the workings of the government there. How do you get things done there? Who do you speak to? What are the systems there? All these things will be important when I'm there long term. There is much to learn.
There is no plan to change citizenship, just geographical location. A place to get away from those things that I find completely unacceptable....like Dem policies.
There is plenty of time to build a place that I'll be happy and that is exactly what I'm doing.
The little girl is Lorin, she's my neice.
Pinang and I are collecting and saving money (I'm collecting and she's saving
) to build a comfortable life there for us. With a little luck and planning there will be a time that we're just as comfortable there in the Philippines as a middle class existence here in the US.
We're both pretty easy to please as far as lifestyle goes. She's more frugal than I am and that's saying something.
My work nowdays is becoming more and more intense in the way that employers ( that pay anything anyway ) want you to work 100 hours a week to get things done or corrected....then they want you to go away until the next time that they need you.
Shareholders don't want people on the payroll that arent contributing (IE the old way of doing engineering projects, 40 hours a week even when things are slow) and when they DO need you, they pay. This works for me! Six months in the US, six in Luzon.
Being a US citizen will also help with certain assignments and I'll have the flexibility that few Americans can afford, six on six off.
That's fine. The life that I'm building will work around that quite nicely. Everything is paid for and hopefully for the first time in my life I can fucking relax for a few months without stress of paying for the stupid shit that I never really wanted in the fist place.
The land and housing is still cheap in rural Luzon. Her relatives have some influence and have been accumulating land there with the monies sent back from US by family.
Will it be the US? No. Will I personally like it there? I dont know. When the taxes jump up to 50%, I'll just clap the dust off my hands and say fuck it, I'm going home.
Any way we look at it, it's a win. As things deteriorate in the US, I'd expect many more to do the same.