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  1. PatO

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    andyflip, not many of us here have a perfect situation here. Do you?
     
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    Nope but i don't want to be the last rat on a sinking ship either,, if you think this country will change or peoples attitudes forget it.. i have had it with trying to help here finding out later that most of the funds were stolen or "diverted" and no one was accountable..
     
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    I misread your post. It kind of read that you are jealous that some foreigners here have good looking young wives and are happy accepting the lifestyles here.
     
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    my story, the short version:
    i've lived in 8 different places in the duma area, two of them in the same house as the landlord and my current rental has gone from the quietest location to the noisiest in 1 year.

    the noise has become ridiculous, people have no consideration for others.
    i spend a large part of the day with all windows and doors closed to reduce the noise and i only have two neighbors within 100m of me and one of them is usually gone from 8am to 7pm.
    the neighbors sometimes shout at others in the same house to be heard over their audio devices. 6am to 8am is the worst, must be a cultural thing to start the day with noise.

    it's not only the noise, it's eye watering laundry detergent fumes and smoke; the air is blue with smoke daily, especially early morning and sundown. at 7 pm, i can turn off the lites in the sala and turn on a flashlight and see smoke in the house... and then there's the overly dramatic foaming at the mouth mind bending sermons. i wonder what God would say about all of this. praise the lord and pollute the earth.

    and this was a peaceful, end of the road experience when i moved here, now there's at least 100 mc's passing everyday on what was a footpath. i think the increase in traffic is due to a corona checkpoint where the area exit road meets the hiway; the road is the only way out of here except for the path that passes in front of the house. the reason people are passing here? maybe because they don't want to get stopped at the checkpoint?

    ufffdaaaaa!
    life in the fils isn't for everyone...
     
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    Be carefull you don't offend Pat he has a beautifull young wife..
     
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    I am not offended at all, happy with life, such as it is
     
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    helping them is a door once opened, cant ever be closed again
     
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    I would never be confident of any house here being well built and of a proper standard to withstand earthquakes and high velocity winds, even if built by a Foreigner, many of them become building experts overnight from what they have learned from their Filipino builder and it is highly unlikely that the Pinoy really knows his job?
    How can you tell if a house (the majority made with CHB) has been well built after it is rendered? it is impossible to know how the core of the house has been fabricated; how deep the foundation is; was good grade Portland cement used with the correct grade of gravel and sand mixed in the correct proportions? I have just given a couples of examples here but there is a lot more to a house being well built that just the above.

    There is one obvious clue when a CHB House is not properly constructed here and that is when cosmetic skinny pillars are used, if you ever view a house with the intentions of buying and it is constructed with skinny Pillars walk away from it, in the last few years more than half the houses have this feature, many of which are built by Foreigners and specified by the Architects (these guys know little about structural engineering) that did their drawings.

    How do I know all of the above and am I qualified to give this advice, I have not one qualification with my name to it, but I have done my research on construction here in the Philippines.

    Here are a couple of sites worth taking a look at; myphilippinelife, this is about a US guy who built his own house on Panay Island and it is not a stupid Youtube Video made by someone that just wants to hear and see himself on Camera.
    Another is a site where there is good information written by a Structural Engineer in Bali, just google Mr Fixit Bali and finally here is a Link to good building practise in the Philippines; https://www.unisdr.org/files/10329_GoodBuildingHandbookPhilippines.pdf

    I know there will be a few guys out there who will want to verbally attack me on my opinion of cosmetic Pillars, but before you do please take the time to peruse the above sites before you put your foot in your mouth.
     
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    I know this question was put to another on this site, but one good reason not to buy/build in a Sub-Division in my opinion is; most of us here are older than our partners and our reasons for buying or building here is to leave a place for them to live after we have gone, rather than them having to go back to the bamboo huts they were brought up in; but a SD is not a good choice for that as they will always have SD dues to pay, when you have gone where will their income come from? can you leave them enough money to last them the rest of their days? even if you can the family will wheedle it out of them, same goes if they sell the expensive house in the SD, there is also another problem with that the higher priced houses usually stay on the market that bit longer, so the Pinay takes out loans, then gets desperate for money and sell at a much reduced price.

    Houses in good SD's usually are more expensive, rather than pay that extra for a house better to get something on its own and spend the extra on gaining more land, perhaps even to build a second house on it.

    Added to the above if you can build a house that requires no AC add a solar system even better, then you have then left a house that is affordable on a very low income.
     
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