Poll How Many Years in the Philippines?

I did not answer the poll because I find that length of time in Philippines and/or when a person first visited have no direct correlation to how "experienced" people are.

Example: Someone who is out and about, exploring and living in different areas, socializing, walking everywhere and meeting the locals and is basically an out going, inquisitive type, is going to be more experienced in 10 years than a guy who moved into a subdivision 20 years ago with a wife who won't let him go anywhere alone and he stays home and gets all his info on forums or CNN.

But this is just my opinion.

 

" Someone who is out and about, exploring and living in different areas, socializing, walking everywhere and meeting the locals and is basically an out going, inquisitive type, is going to be more experienced "
That's me. Landed in Zamboanga January 1982 (Dumaguete one month later) being with my boat on the way from Bali to Japan/Californie.
Have lived here since with three absents of together 6 years. Allways have been happy to be back in the PH.
Made a living with taking "paying quest" on board so I sailed/dived/fished in many places. Being based 10 years in Cebu and 10 years in Palawan in the pre mobile phone / motorbike period.

There's a lot of things nowadays I do not like but the PH is in general still OK for a lover of nature and hot climate like me.

 

1964 Subic Bay for JEST (jungle survival course).
2007-2009 Makati working
2010-present Dumaguete/Bacong

 

Who voted here and is currently not living in the Philippines?

Me being still in Switzerland and my last visit was in 2013. My wife visit was in last year. And she was not in Dumaguete even when she was in Negros Oriental. She preferred to use the west route over Dumanjug and Guihulngan to go to her parents living in Tayasan.

 

I first set foot in the PI in Jan. 1967. During the War in Viet Nam.
In 1987 came here to marry a Dumaguete girl almost 30 years ago.
Our first 22 years was in Alaska and we came back to Dumaguete once and some times twice a year during that 22 years. We moved back here to stay in June 2010. For me there are more dangers to living in the US than there are here. Will I ever go back to the US? HELL NO! Wife has orders to scatter my ashes here and I have told my family in the US to not expect me to return, not even for a funeral.
I'm here for the duration.

 

Interesting poll, but another poll might be "When did you first visit" AND "If you live here, when did you move?" (us- 2000 and 2016)