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Are you aware of human nature:

1. Partnerships with family or others can end in disputes (different ideas, different amount of the workload being carried out by each person)
2. Some smart looking guys are crooks and will fleece you. So know your partner very well. Many schemes sound great on paper but often fail in reality.
3. Not a good country to have partnerships with locals - you will be seen as having money and they will think they should have some of it! Not all - but most I think. Foreign wise men say here something like 'if you want to have 10 million pesos here in your bank account then come with 15 million.'
4. The people who look sound will be very cautious of dealing with you - they don't know you. It may be that the keenest to work with you might be the least suitable.

 

For those of us wary about having anything put into our body (e.g. a vaccine) without a high degree of certainty of the downsides (which could take years to show), I feel we may be pressurised by countries issuing some form of Vaccination Certificate (referred to by some as 'passports') and using it like the quarantine passes in allowing entry to shops, restaurants, bars etc only by showing the VC plus ID. Even possibly barring entry to some countries without having a VC - that would include re-entry for Visa runs.

I can see a whole pile of things possibly coming along, including higher taxes, some capital controls, near 100% cashless transactions and perhaps vaccination being necessary, even if not forced in the physical sense.

 

Uy matiao has remotely controlled garage doors. Their office is on the street between their retail store and the boulevard.
It's a roll up/down steel door double car.
They did a good job installing the door.

 

We used Wedo Trucking to move our furniture from Bantayan to Talay. A quality service... arrived bang on time... not the cheapest around but very reliable.. we recommend them.

 

No mistake, I think it is a great thread, examining the pros and cons of bringing aging parents to retire in the Philippines. I have asked my mother to come here and I would help her in her octagenarian years but she doesn't like the Philippines as a place to live.

I think it could be done with a decent standard of living at a better cost than other parts of the world. It's not for everyone though. One big concern would be protection. Octagenarian, foreign retirees would be seen as a juicy target for criminals.

 

I have just seen it didn't. No, I mean literally just "seen". As I walked by and had a look. There was a building that burned to the ground and there was a huge concrete firewall on either side of it, so the buildings beside it escaped serious damage. The building that houses the BI is on the "good" side of the firewall. No damage.

 

Today's effort was the last before the new year. I took advantage of the workers' absence to bring in a compressor and spray gun and have a go at painting the railings and steel sheet with black enamel as planned. Bloody hot work today but very happy with the result - far better than the original idea of removing them and replacing them with hollow block. Looks far better and saved a few bob in the process! Happy New Year to all!!!!!