expat in hot water

While I'm doing some research, how about you post a histogram with the age of the subscribers on this forum and then do one for the ones you personally know in Dumaguete. That might shed some light. Walking down the street it's hard for me to tell tourists from expats.

 

Interesting information……thanks. Before I comment, I just want to level set the conversation. I think we have deviated from the original thread, which was originally about 30 year old living in the Philippines as being odd from my frame of reference (more on that later). Correct me if I’m wrong, but what you seem to be poking at is what percent of expats that I think are 30 years old, although no where did I try to quantify the number until terms like “heaps” where tossed into the discussion. You asked:

What would his age or state of origin have anything to do with his ability to sustain himself overseas?

I still think age is relevant, not because a 30 year old can’t live in the Philippines, but because of what most 30 year olds are doing at that time of their life. Things like having a family, working, saving for retirement, etc. It’s that aspect of age that I think is relevant. If age isn’t relevant, then I guess a 10 year old would fair just fine. I don’t think the state is relevant at all and only mentioned it because those were the specifics of the story. Why do you think they mentioned it in the original article?

If asked for that specific information around the number of 30 year old expats, I’m sure my estimate would be on the low side for several reasons, like my lack of understanding the military component and how the average person has the resources to quite working at 30. Both of which you have educated me on. Even if half of all the expats are 30, it doesn’t invalidate my statement of it being odd for a 30 year old to be hanging out in the Philippines. There are over 2 million men that are 30 years old in the US and probably less than a thousand of them are expats in the Philippines. In addition, you support my contention yourself.

I know many more that are older than that that are retired and living here

It find it curious that someone who makes statements like:

I don't have much faith in my fellow expats. There are a whole lot of scum out there that come to this country.

Wants to take me to task on calling a 30 year old expat odd, when they use terms like "whole lot" and "scum".

I think the challenge here is the relativity of our views. It’s a bit like me saying only crazy people climb El Capitan in Yosemite and you being a rock climber, tell me all your friends climb it and they aren’t crazy.

Now to answer your two questions.

For question #1. I was able to some information on the number of expats living in the Philippines, but as you say that information is suspect because it doesn’t go into age details, if working, retired, student etc. Here is the link.

Foreign Citizens in the Philippines (Results from the 2010 Census) | Philippine Statistics Authority

Majority of foreign citizens come from the United States of America

The largest number of foreign citizens in the country came from the United States of America (29,959 persons). The next largest numbers came from China (28,750 persons), Japan (11,583 persons), and India (8,963 persons).

And

https://www.iom.int/files/live/sites/iom/files/Country/docs/CMReport-Philipines-2013.pdf

Table 10, page 47

Here is where you can look at the US statistics.

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For question #2, no, those statistics didn't provide the information you asked for.

I like being made to think. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and the time you spend keeping this site running.

Just in case you are wondering I don’t speak German.

 

I would have placed the Korean presence at worth mentioning also, just a comment, carry on.

 

I think that maybe be a whole other topic, with potentially strong feeling on that issue. I did seeing something that they might be #1 these days. All I can say is in my most recent visit to Cebu, last July, the hotel (Rengency Hotel) now has some Korean across the front of it and they seem to come in bus loads. I also went to Boracay, which I hadn't visited in 13 years, and there has been significant investment by Koreans to support the large number of Korean visitors. When I was on a Cebu Pacific flight their inflight magazine had an article with the top 10 reasons Koreans visit the Philippines. Times are a changing.......