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Schools/Universities, High Crime Areas, Flooding Areas During Rainy Season, Emergency Phone #, Police, Fire, Water, Electrical, Hospitals, Etc.

 

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"Rizals Revenge" - the shits, named after Jose Rizal, "the Aquino two step" - the paces and manner in which one hops to the CR when suffering the shits. No implication toward anyone living or dead intended. I would say the same if living in India, "Ghandi's revenge" for example...

 

Understand your potential partner has an extended family, and blood is thicker than water. Be careful buying a used car or bike.

 

For prescription meds one can join MIMS which lists available drugs by country. HTH

 

Locations, maps, directions and pedi-cab fare for getting to the most likely needed to get to spots for an expat's first week here. This could include major shopping areas, utilities, immigration and whatever else. For directions and fare, I would use the market as the starting point.

 

Local names / brands of common OTC meds.

How to eat and drink here without getting the shits (if this is even possible.)

First X days setup guide. Things you will probably need and where to get them. This could be things like picking up drinking water. Renting a motorcycle. Locating the visa renewal location. I suppose this would be a combo of many other things, but it could be sort of like a checklist format.

Maybe some of these are general for the Philippines though.

You could also create a page with a nice printable format which would be sort of like a Dumaguete cheat sheet. This could include important numbers and other things which would be useful to have in your pocket.