Best Posts in Thread: Is it getting close to bugout time?

I'm not so sure a storage business would work so well. You rent out a 3x3 meter cubicle with a metal shutter and charge a couple thousand a month? After that you'll also need a round the clock security guard or workers because if you have a dozen cubicles storing stuff suspected as valuable like a person's house furnishings and such that would make it a prime target robbing 10 houses for the price of one. Value isn't really there and multi level cubicles don't go over well.

However the bigger issue I see here is what to do when someone doesn't pay? If they are 1 month, 3 months, 6 months late you'd think you could open it up and sell off whatever is inside to recover your loss but if the person shows up to try and reclaim w/o paying or taking you to court because their stuff came up gone after months of not paying I don't see the courts siding with the business owner even if their is a written agreement / contract.

In the end the space you would consume to do a storage facility could be rented out for the same price or more where you have no liability and no need to hire and pay security guards. Here in the Philippines its cheap and easy to find some crappy 3-5k hole in the wall apartment that you could reinforce the door and any window (which there usually isn't) and have far more space and better security as its not known what is stored there if anything. However in western countries there lacks other options other then storing with a friend/family and space for such a business is cheap.

 

I certainly don't know all the background or facts about what is going on there, but I do know Boracay has consistently been rated as one of the top destination islands. But it recently has developed serious problems which I'm sure we all know, and it seems to me the situation got to the point where something drastic needed to be done. Now, I don't know if the way Duterte is handling it is the right way or not, for awhile it seemed very suspicious the deals that were being made with the Chinese casino developers, but now it seems that is not going to happen. It also seemed clear that the local population and businesses had no intention of dealing with the problems, and so Duterte stepped in with his authoritarian style. Now, in six months if Boracay reopens with cleaned up businesses and beaches and is better than ever, then maybe the end justifies the means in this case. It's going to take time to see what the results and true motivations are. But in any case, I think that it is still a pretty big leap to go from what is happening in Boracay to the idea that it is now time to "bug out". In the end this could turn out to be a good thing both for Boracay and for the property values in the surrounding islands.

 

Duterte's just trying to clean the place up....Boracay is the Jewel in the crown, and lazy developers are wrecking it. Well done Mr. President.

 

First off I'll just mention my desire to find someplace else is mostly a change of scenery and boredom with the Philippines and its issues. Not really an anti Duterte thing (I like he's trying to do things while some things I disagree with) but more of wanting a change up.

Catch is just how to relocate. If you don't own a house then you sell or give stuff away but maybe have a tight budget. But what other countries to go to you can stay like you do in the Philippines and for those of us who have a Filipina wife or serious GF and maybe even kids it gets even harder. I've been looking for that golden ticket where I could bring my fiancee and kid along with myself at 38 years old to live in Thailand or some other cheap but relatively safe country. For many of us its just not possible/allowed.