I'm an American born in Mexico. My step-father was the hardest working man I have ever known. He supported 11 kids, thirteen of us including him and my mom. In the traditional Latino culture, he was always served first and he definitely deserved it!!!
Real talk! Been here three months living with my fiance.. at first I started cooking her breakfast and doing some chores around the house because she works for a call center and is basically on American time. Well, that turned out to be a mistake and I started to get disrespected. Learned my role finally and she complains from time to time about doing chores, but now I'm respected. I just have to treat her how she really wants to be treated. She wants to feel wanted by doing those things for me and my son. Good traditional values..
Anyone who works and the other person doesnt is going to feel that way. Plus she feels she shouldn’t have to work if she has you. Don’t get married to her.
@@moblack5883 She works to help support her family because I don't want to give what they want. Sure I help with them also, but supposedly it's not enough. Also, I'm a disabled veteran so I'm limited in what I can do and provide. Basically, everything is for my son. That's what is most important to me.
I understand. My woman there takes care of me in every way. Prepares my meals, my clothes, etc. i provide the $$. It’s a great deal to have a woman who appreciates and respects me.
That's very true having lived six years in Ph. I haven't thought about who eats first, I always wait until everyone is seated and my girfriend always serves me the first plate😊wishing a "Happy Birthday " to Marilyn 🎂
Know guys with Eastern wives and amazed they don't have issues with this. Was in the military. Some actually made lunch for them for work and brought it to work to them on occasion. Some called it a bento box. 7:42
Your story of redemption and starting a new life in the Philippines has inspired me greatly! It has taken 3 trips to the Philippines to finally find my wife. I will be living in Cebu half time and here in USA the other half. I will keep you in my prayers! Escaping the Matrix is real….and most times we just can’t leave it here in USA. It has taken God’s grace to heal not only my mind, but my soul as well. When I return I would love to take you and your family out for a nice dinner! You have helped so many men! God bless!
This is very great information about the Philippines and comparing to America 🇺🇸. Dollar, Philippines 🇵🇭 Pesos rate must be learnt. King 🤴 Calvin, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO QUEEN 👸 Marylyn. Thank you 😊 Calvin.
Brother. This is why I watch your program, brother. I'm so tired of the disrespect that are given to men, especially black men, from the type of women with there this respectful attitude and the way they speak. Is when I plan to retire get a great place to come over there and live before I come? I'm already learning to speak Tagalog am looking forward to the same thing that you have come accustomed to. please keep the contents coming. Thank you
The foreigner is rich once they get to the Philippines but I think a lot of Filipina's see us as rich in general and can't understand most of us are paycheck to paycheck and think we have endless money to send them.
Its like comparing pennies to dollars, and the foreigner is making the dollars. You can do more with more $$$, so cash is king in the Philippines. The guy with the cash has the advantage in the Philippines , if you spend it right.
@@Slim1423 You also have more expences, like pay for Visas, Pay for Healthcare and pay for a western lifestyle (import foods,entertainment,travel,GF) ect. So if you are on a fixed Income? Budget can fast be tight.
Calvin, you are absolutely correct. But compared to most Filipinos you are. If you can help them, then by all means help but you have to let them know that there are limits.
For me and my wife we came here to the Philippines 14 years ago to rebuild, recover financially and then go the heck back home and that time is almost here it is at first fun and exciting but to truly live here in the Philippines it becomes more and more exhausting especially when you get older, living here made us realize how awesome it is and how blessed we are to be American.
Yeah I feel bad for these who are stuck here, as for me and my wife we would have never moved to another country with out knowing that we could go back, these vlogers are making the Philippines look way better, cheaper to live than it really is this ends up trapping a lot of guys.
I am from New Zealand and went to the Philippines to meet my Filipina, the New Zealand dollar won't go far in the USA or Europe but man in the Philippines it's great, New Zealand hotel very cheap $80-$100 per night Philippines, $30 😊
Thanks for the shout out Calvin. Keep explaining this opportunity to guys who haven't been to the Philippines yet. The life men want is easy to get in the Philippines and all we have to do is hop on a plane. A buddy of mine got married last weekend to a Pinay and his whole outlook on life has changed. More men need to make the leap.
Calvin it’s true we are rich here in the Philippines as foreigners. But remember your 400 pesos a day only applies to all the single moms and the many women working entry level jobs, which of course are the ones seeking foreigners with no regard to age gap. Here in Cebu we meet many women making much more than that. Teachers, nurses and even call centre workers make double or triple that. Oh and don’t forget to mention that career women tend to have a 25-30 age gap max.
All true Calvin … compared to local household incomes we stand out or up with doctors, layers, judges and pilots. Not to mention the simple fact that … well, most of us don’t even work for it. So on top of having better incomes we also enjoy the advantage of TIME - which is priceless. A far as who is served 1st? Not an issue, they always put me on the front of the line. I feel guilty at times and push back a bit but …. learning to embrace it - slowly. 🤷🏽 PS: Happy birthday Marilyn!!!! 🍾🎂🎭
* 💯% agree with you brother Calvin. I regularly send funds to the Philippines and because the HK dollar is pegged to the USD, the FX rate is great. btw 🎊🎂haPPy b'day Marilyn!🎈 God bless 🙏🏻
I'm an American man living in Bohol. Have a provence filipina girlfriend that stays over 2 or 3 nights a week. She cooks some and I cook other times I enjoy making meals for myself (and need to when shes not around) and appreciate when she wants to cook for me. Its not an issue between us.
Hey Calvin, I'm enjoying your videos and appreciate what you do. I've been living in Thailand for the past 9 years. I'm really thinking of making a visit to the PI soon. I'd like to catch up with you while I'm there. What's the best way to connect with you? Happy Birthday Marilyn!
They think that because of how much money we make compared to what they make here. Most only make 500pesos a day. We are very rich with family here. Our money makes us rich here but my girl and I are cheap and don't spend money on too much dumb stuff. Our kids have what they need and mostly get what they want when they've earned it.
Cavin great video!! I have the same thinking process when I come back to the Philippines!! My vacation money goes alot farther in the Philippines than me being in America!!!
"The government hasn't supplanted the man as the head of the household over here as it has in the West." "Even the pedicab driver over here, the lowest on the totem pole, he gets big respect over here because they know the sacrifice that he is making to bring home the rice or the fish . . . ." Great stuff!
I tell the filipinos most foreigners here are not rich. But the darker ones are more rich! I think to be rich as far as income. More like 5k usd a month Many rich filipinos in my area. They are land rich!
Thus, expect to be constantly targeted here by your spouse, her family, neighbors, beggars, for loans, handouts, gifts, donations and, sadly, a skin tax. This is part of what makes it hard to settle here. Add to many foreigners hitting you up for loans, and you start to hold on tight to your wallet. Even though we don't like to be called a 'cheap Charlie,' a Spendthrift Spenser will not long survive in the Philippines.
The problem is this: You as a foreigner say that you are not wealthy (in say, America or Australia or the UK). You’re being honest. In the Phillipines this is seen as false modesty. After all, you had the money to fly there, and by extension MUST be well off, if not rich. This view of the world can have tragic outcomes when Philippines locals marry foreigners, and then discover their partners weren’t kidding (or in a number of cases wildly exaggerated their assets).
Actually don't have to be. Started planning for retirement over 60 years ago. Save a little every payday. Don't buy sh!t you don't need ($7 coffee every day). Try to have at least 1 year's basic expenses in bank and don't touch it for car, vacation, etc. Don't max out credit cards. Most important if access to 401k and IRA plans - put as much as you can in. BTW = HS grad 1965 - no college, just common sense.
As someone who has always liked cooking for my girlfriend, I guess I'm going to have to make some adjustments! Lol what a wild video. Appreciate the insight, I never would have guessed.
Hey Calvin. I'm a Fil-Am currently living in the South. If I'm still in Philippines, I would think all foreigners are rich. If I move back there, people will think I'm rich -- I guess relatively speaking like you said. But I have say, I find it interesting since I haven't heard or witness that men eat first -- we ate at the same time.
Calvin yes we may be rich but I am rich because I have the honor at 67 being married to a beautiful 42 that love me and I know that because of how she looks at me. But it’s cheaper to live here but you have to watch how you spend your money because the peso spends so easy so beware. Great video
A LOT OF FOREIGNERS ARE BROKE ,LIVING PAYCHECK TO PAYCHECK.THAT IS WHY THEY ARE LEAVING THEIR COUNTRIES AND THEY ARE MOVING TO ASIA.THEY HAVE NO CHOICE.
I have to disagree. I spend most days adding a simple: "not all foreigners are from the U.S.A." to most vlogs about Philippines. If you live in totally 1st world Western Europe you earn well below $2k / mo. For example, in Italy you earn about $1,500 / mo with a white collar job. In Spain (where I am now), another totally 1st world Western Europe country, you earn from $800 to $1,200 in the less rich regions. Now try call yourself "rich" if you earn $800 / mo and come over to the Philippines, just to find out cost of living (for a foreigner) is higher in the Philippines than in some regions of Europe. Also, I've not included Eastern Europe, where people earn $400 / mo to $800, even in countries that are members of the European Union. American vloggers have the "to an hammer everything looks like a nail" mindset. You are rich, so you believe everyone else is rich too. No. USA are #7 in the top average income countries in the world. If you exclude fake fiscal paradises like Luxembourg, the USA are #4. USA are the top #4 earners out of 195 countries. Think about that.
Very true and if you don't count those who contribute nothing from birth to death - generational poor - the position would be even higher. In US 12% are considered poor = 37,900,000 but in other counties they wouldn't be. Not just money - standard of living..
Many Africans think the same because of the reality that in USA we have freedoms, opportunities, and can work and make money. You are looking great Calvin and HAPPY BIRTHDAY to your beautiful lady Marylyn. I am living below poverty level where I live but I have everything I need and all that I want. We women need to build up the man that our society has broken and devalued. It to me is sickening when watching a tv show and a man is portrayed as a useless clown. I love the greenery in your videos...I finally turned 60! so far still have my arms and lega attached and head attached to neck lol...I am thriving! Last night when I caught part of your livestream, you once again motivated me to break up with sugar. Thank you for sharing your experiences and for the community of many men you have built that help me understand a male perspective. We need to really love and respect each other. My husband loves cooking..he loves to cook! But he best not wash those dishes..that I feel is my job..no matter how some folks might say. A woman has to serve her God and then her man first....period. The strong couple will have thriving fruit/ children. But some women are really alone and left with both roles..it is hard. Many men have been raised by amazingly strong women who were forced to do a lot to survive. Anyway, you sir..are a good man and deserve the best life. Once again, Happy Birthday to your lady! I love cake but NOPE...you do inspire this older white liberal mud-western transplant to Cali piscean woman. Glad you got rain..we did too...water is life.
Calvin I am curious about what you do to protect yourself from the sun? I am a bald guy thinking of making my first visit to the Philippines in November, do you wear a hat, do you put sunscreen on your head? Just curious because I bet the strength of the sun in pretty intense in the Philippines.
Thank you. For the truth! Like it was in Mexican culture. Men eat 1st. Sadly western influence has tainted our Mexican women. So.... I make about 6k and kept wondering where I really sit. I was worried about it not being enough and believing that most you tubers are lying. But 3808 is a very precise # Out here in California. Im almost bankrupt. You have me 99% convinced on moving. What's your point of view on having kids here in the US and living there ? Is it difficult or do your kids resent ya? Sorry if it's too much to ask. Thanks !
Try living in the Philippines working for 10 dollars a day to support a family. . Most foreign wouldn’t last one week It is pretty much same thing if you are working a job in the Philippines or usa. You still living paycheck to paycheck. The foreign have advantage due usa dollars currency over Philippines pesos. This is apply every country around the world based on their minimum wage around the world.
He is not making a point between the definition of rich. His point was probably that there needs to be limits on spending. While "rich" to a Filipina, there is a limit to what he can spend and stay "rich".
It's not true a million pesos would last less than a year for an American...so even if you had 10 million pesos you still just have enough to about 8 years of your lucky and live a modest life
Sounding old American, Cal. If you have a problem, you deal with it and maybe seek an expert. Also include prayer over yourself for God's spirit, gentle indwelling.
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I'm an American born in Mexico. My step-father was the hardest working man I have ever known. He supported 11 kids, thirteen of us including him and my mom. In the traditional Latino culture, he was always served first and he definitely deserved it!!!
damn thats insane! lol wow interesting stuff
@JOEJOSEPHHones Thank you! My step-dad was a great man!
I Salute that Great Man! God Bless Him!
@@HasanWarrior Thank You!
Real talk! Been here three months living with my fiance.. at first I started cooking her breakfast and doing some chores around the house because she works for a call center and is basically on American time. Well, that turned out to be a mistake and I started to get disrespected. Learned my role finally and she complains from time to time about doing chores, but now I'm respected. I just have to treat her how she really wants to be treated. She wants to feel wanted by doing those things for me and my son. Good traditional values..
Anyone who works and the other person doesnt is going to feel that way. Plus she feels she shouldn’t have to work if she has you. Don’t get married to her.
@@moblack5883 She works to help support her family because I don't want to give what they want. Sure I help with them also, but supposedly it's not enough. Also, I'm a disabled veteran so I'm limited in what I can do and provide. Basically, everything is for my son. That's what is most important to me.
@@moblack5883 I replied to this, but I guess my comment was deleted.. not cool.
Tell them Calvin! Most of us are multimillionaires in pesos! We have more money than what they can make in a life time! No brag just facts!
Good, i thought that most Americans was broke
Why would a broke man move to a country that has no back system if you run out of money? That would be a unwise man!
@@franktate9873 Maybe because he is most happy there ? He can travel back when/if hes down to his emergency funds.
You are so correct! If you think in Peso’s you feel happy. Happy Birthday to Marylin
Glad Calvin shared this important message about true Financial status living in the Philippines. I feel more comfortable now about sharing the wealth.
GOOD VIDEO. THE DOLLAR AND THE POUND WILL CARRY YOU FAR IN THE WORLD.
I understand. My woman there takes care of me in every way. Prepares my meals, my clothes, etc. i provide the $$. It’s a great deal to have a woman who appreciates and respects me.
They don't think U R rich....They KNOW U R 🙂
Happy Birthday Marilyn! 😊😊
Thanks!
I was in the Philippines 35 years ago been married to a Filipino for 32 years the Filipino women run the Philippines
The people you dealing with they cannot make a living on their😊
If you do not believe that the women run the Philippines while having America had a woman
That's very true having lived six years in Ph. I haven't thought about who eats first, I always wait until everyone is seated and my girfriend always serves me the first plate😊wishing a "Happy Birthday " to Marilyn 🎂
Now I understand why my prior pinay gfs always got upset if I tried to cook sometimes or help clean the house.
Know guys with Eastern wives and amazed they don't have issues with this. Was in the military. Some actually made lunch for them for work and brought it to work to them on occasion. Some called it a bento box. 7:42
In Minnesota at my work. A guy has a Filipina wife who does that 😮 Just mind blowing for us to see that.
Cal be speaking straight facts 💯
Your story of redemption and starting a new life in the Philippines has inspired me greatly! It has taken 3 trips to the Philippines to finally find my wife. I will be living in Cebu half time and here in USA the other half. I will keep you in my prayers! Escaping the Matrix is real….and most times we just can’t leave it here in USA. It has taken God’s grace to heal not only my mind, but my soul as well. When I return I would love to take you and your family out for a nice dinner! You have helped so many men! God bless!
Real talk and facts! Happy Birthday 🎉🎁 Marylin….
This is very great information about the Philippines and comparing to America 🇺🇸. Dollar, Philippines 🇵🇭 Pesos rate must be learnt. King 🤴 Calvin, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO QUEEN 👸 Marylyn. Thank you 😊 Calvin.
Brother. This is why I watch your program, brother. I'm so tired of the disrespect that are given to men, especially black men, from the type of women with there this respectful attitude and the way they speak. Is when I plan to retire get a great place to come over there and live before I come? I'm already learning to speak Tagalog am looking forward to the same thing that you have come accustomed to. please keep the contents coming. Thank you
ALL you do us speak truth😊
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Thankyou Calvin for being on the front lines.
Perfect LINE. Perfect talk.
Thank you, Calvin. Blessings for you & birthday wishes for the Mrs. Smitty
The foreigner is rich once they get to the Philippines but I think a lot of Filipina's see us as rich in general and can't understand most of us are paycheck to paycheck and think we have endless money to send them.
Its like comparing pennies to dollars, and the foreigner is making the dollars. You can do more with more $$$, so cash is king in the Philippines. The guy with the cash has the advantage in the Philippines , if you spend it right.
To send them? You ain't rich until you move there. Gotta tell them that.
@@Slim1423 You also have more expences, like pay for Visas, Pay for Healthcare and pay for a western lifestyle (import foods,entertainment,travel,GF) ect. So if you are on a fixed Income? Budget can fast be tight.
You are helping me brother
Thank you for the info
I’m new in the Philippines and it Definitely seems to be the way that I’m looked at so far..
Calvin, you are absolutely correct. But compared to most Filipinos you are. If you can help them, then by all means help but you have to let them know that there are limits.
Why are foreigners always told that ?
Now yall know why Filipinas love foreigners, and treat them like kings . Right?
Wrong, you can find Girls/Womans like that everywhere. In The Phillippines you have a far better chance to find a good woman that not just looks for $
Bro Calvin,
You are bringing it... Outstanding content. Great delivery. Stay Strong.
For me and my wife we came here to the Philippines 14 years ago to rebuild, recover financially and then go the heck back home and that time is almost here it is at first fun and exciting but to truly live here in the Philippines it becomes more and more exhausting especially when you get older, living here made us realize how awesome it is and how blessed we are to be American.
Yeah I feel bad for these who are stuck here, as for me and my wife we would have never moved to another country with out knowing that we could go back, these vlogers are making the Philippines look way better, cheaper to live than it really is this ends up trapping a lot of guys.
And Happy Birthday, 🎂🎉🎈🎂😁😀 Marilyn!
I am from New Zealand and went to the Philippines to meet my Filipina, the New Zealand dollar won't go far in the USA or Europe but man in the Philippines it's great, New Zealand hotel very cheap $80-$100 per night Philippines, $30 😊
Probably the best video I’ve watched of yours. Thanks! Especially the part explaining the roles and leaving the matrix
I like your nuggets of truth man. I have gained new knowledge from your channel
Thanks for the shout out Calvin. Keep explaining this opportunity to guys who haven't been to the Philippines yet. The life men want is easy to get in the Philippines and all we have to do is hop on a plane. A buddy of mine got married last weekend to a Pinay and his whole outlook on life has changed. More men need to make the leap.
Great subject and lesson on culture. Thank you.
Wisdom.
Calvin it’s true we are rich here in the Philippines as foreigners. But remember your 400 pesos a day only applies to all the single moms and the many women working entry level jobs, which of course are the ones seeking foreigners with no regard to age gap. Here in Cebu we meet many women making much more than that. Teachers, nurses and even call centre workers make double or triple that. Oh and don’t forget to mention that career women tend to have a 25-30 age gap max.
3800 USD is rich in most other countries. Philippines is nowhere close to the cheapest country.
Grateful for what I have, whatever it is, and wherever I’m at. I worked hard for it.
I hope you and Marilyn enjoyed her birthday present Kuya Cal😎
This is a hella good video bro. Keep them coming. Valuable and real information.
That's real talk brother Calvin 👍👌
Happy Birthday Marilyn 🎉
Thank you
Thank you Calvin i needed this am here in the Philippines with a woman that i love very much but I forgot I was not in the usa.
All true Calvin … compared to local household incomes we stand out or up with doctors, layers, judges and pilots. Not to mention the simple fact that … well, most of us don’t even work for it. So on top of having better incomes we also enjoy the advantage of TIME - which is priceless. A far as who is served 1st? Not an issue, they always put me on the front of the line. I feel guilty at times and push back a bit but …. learning to embrace it - slowly. 🤷🏽
PS: Happy birthday Marilyn!!!! 🍾🎂🎭
* 💯% agree with you brother Calvin. I regularly send funds to the Philippines and because the HK dollar is pegged to the USD, the FX rate is great.
btw 🎊🎂haPPy b'day Marilyn!🎈
God bless 🙏🏻
I dont eat a lot of Filipino food because of gastric acid, so I cook. Happy birthday Marilyn
And a very Happy Birthday to Marilyn.
I'm an American man living in Bohol. Have a provence filipina girlfriend that stays over 2 or 3 nights a week. She cooks some and I cook other times I enjoy making meals for myself (and need to when shes not around) and appreciate when she wants to cook for me. Its not an issue between us.
Bohol also - near Tubigon. Our house is in family compound. She's at sister's or family house most of the day. In ours maybe 2 / 3. Fine by me.
I had girlfriends like that. No matter what u give them they want more. No No is the first thing i gonna make clear.
And then you will find yourself alone. Have a nice day.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MAR.....AND MANY MORE....
Thumbs up number 1000
Happy birthday Marilyn 🎉🎂
Keep up the good work uncle calvin.
The real perspective from a different angle.
Hey Calvin, I'm enjoying your videos and appreciate what you do. I've been living in Thailand for the past 9 years. I'm really thinking of making a visit to the PI soon. I'd like to catch up with you while I'm there. What's the best way to connect with you?
Happy Birthday Marilyn!
Tell Maryland Happy Birthday many blessings Calvin keep telling guys like u always do the real truth and man I truly thank you for all you do
Love it
I have much less than 3800 USD, monthly, and I am living richly here in Rizal province, Luzon.
Happy birthday to Marylyn, a great lady for a great guy.
They think that because of how much money we make compared to what they make here. Most only make 500pesos a day. We are very rich with family here. Our money makes us rich here but my girl and I are cheap and don't spend money on too much dumb stuff. Our kids have what they need and mostly get what they want when they've earned it.
Cavin great video!! I have the same thinking process when I come back to the Philippines!! My vacation money goes alot farther in the Philippines than me being in America!!!
Happy Birthday, Marilyn. Hope I spelled her name right.
Happy birthday to Marilyn
Happy Soul Day Mrs. Sunshine Shoulders💥
Alot of wisdom in 14 minutes.
Happy Birthday Marilyn.
"The government hasn't supplanted the man as the head of the household over here as it has in the West." "Even the pedicab driver over here, the lowest on the totem pole, he gets big respect over here because they know the sacrifice that he is making to bring home the rice or the fish . . . ." Great stuff!
I tell the filipinos most foreigners here are not rich. But the darker ones are more rich!
I think to be rich as far as income. More like 5k usd a month
Many rich filipinos in my area. They are land rich!
Happy birthday Marilyn
Bruh Shoulders dropping knowledge as usual. Happy birthday to the misses 🎊 🎉
Thus, expect to be constantly targeted here by your spouse, her family, neighbors, beggars, for loans, handouts, gifts, donations and, sadly, a skin tax. This is part of what makes it hard to settle here. Add to many foreigners hitting you up for loans, and you start to hold on tight to your wallet. Even though we don't like to be called a 'cheap Charlie,' a Spendthrift Spenser will not long survive in the Philippines.
One great thing when you live in my country is: you gotta be rich no matter what you think you were😅
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I’ll be there July big bro . I’m going to east samar
Watch the weather boss it gets nasty over that way.
The problem is this: You as a foreigner say that you are not wealthy (in say, America or Australia or the UK). You’re being honest. In the Phillipines this is seen as false modesty. After all, you had the money to fly there, and by extension MUST be well off, if not rich.
This view of the world can have tragic outcomes when Philippines locals marry foreigners, and then discover their partners weren’t kidding (or in a number of cases wildly exaggerated their assets).
From their point of view, we are. The culture is totally different from what is the norm in the US.
This is exactly what I'm saying. Why are people having a hard time understanding it?
Yea!!
You must be 100% service connected. I'm working on mine. If i get it, i will be heading that way.
No I'm not. I'm a retired insurance agent.
Actually don't have to be. Started planning for retirement over 60 years ago. Save a little every payday. Don't buy sh!t you don't need ($7 coffee every day). Try to have at least 1 year's basic expenses in bank and don't touch it for car, vacation, etc. Don't max out credit cards. Most important if access to 401k and IRA plans - put as much as you can in. BTW = HS grad 1965 - no college, just common sense.
@@calroach1 thank you for responding Calvin. I just subscribed to your channel. You and Reekay are the only ones i watch.
@@donmclemore1396100% p&t myself.. Soon as my kids complete college I’m moving to Davao
Hey Calvin ! I live in the Philippines. I have been here six years. I love your blog. How do I get in touch with you?
Thanks here's my email calroach1@gmail.com.
The final responsibility of a safe secure prosperous and healthy home is also on the man
As someone who has always liked cooking for my girlfriend, I guess I'm going to have to make some adjustments! Lol what a wild video. Appreciate the insight, I never would have guessed.
happy birthday from Pa.
Happy b day.. I'm next Tuesday 🎂
Hey Calvin. I'm a Fil-Am currently living in the South. If I'm still in Philippines, I would think all foreigners are rich. If I move back there, people will think I'm rich -- I guess relatively speaking like you said. But I have say, I find it interesting since I haven't heard or witness that men eat first -- we ate at the same time.
It may depend on where you grew up. I've discovered that each island has its own unique culture and traditions.
Calvin yes we may be rich but I am rich because I have the honor at 67 being married to a beautiful 42 that love me and I know that because of how she looks at me. But it’s cheaper to live here but you have to watch how you spend your money because the peso spends so easy so beware. Great video
Lol Awesome vid, Cal! 😊
"We are equal, but we are not the same." That has to be on a t-shirt brotherman.
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Animal Farm "All animals are equal but some are more equal than others" Different context.
A LOT OF FOREIGNERS ARE BROKE ,LIVING PAYCHECK TO PAYCHECK.THAT IS WHY THEY ARE LEAVING THEIR COUNTRIES AND THEY ARE MOVING TO ASIA.THEY HAVE NO CHOICE.
I have to disagree. I spend most days adding a simple: "not all foreigners are from the U.S.A." to most vlogs about Philippines. If you live in totally 1st world Western Europe you earn well below $2k / mo. For example, in Italy you earn about $1,500 / mo with a white collar job. In Spain (where I am now), another totally 1st world Western Europe country, you earn from $800 to $1,200 in the less rich regions.
Now try call yourself "rich" if you earn $800 / mo and come over to the Philippines, just to find out cost of living (for a foreigner) is higher in the Philippines than in some regions of Europe.
Also, I've not included Eastern Europe, where people earn $400 / mo to $800, even in countries that are members of the European Union.
American vloggers have the "to an hammer everything looks like a nail" mindset. You are rich, so you believe everyone else is rich too. No. USA are #7 in the top average income countries in the world. If you exclude fake fiscal paradises like Luxembourg, the USA are #4. USA are the top #4 earners out of 195 countries. Think about that.
Very true and if you don't count those who contribute nothing from birth to death - generational poor - the position would be even higher. In US 12% are considered poor = 37,900,000 but in other counties they wouldn't be. Not just money - standard of living..
Many Africans think the same because of the reality that in USA we have freedoms, opportunities, and can work and make money. You are looking great Calvin and HAPPY BIRTHDAY to your beautiful lady Marylyn. I am living below poverty level where I live but I have everything I need and all that I want. We women need to build up the man that our society has broken and devalued. It to me is sickening when watching a tv show and a man is portrayed as a useless clown. I love the greenery in your videos...I finally turned 60! so far still have my arms and lega attached and head attached to neck lol...I am thriving! Last night when I caught part of your livestream, you once again motivated me to break up with sugar. Thank you for sharing your experiences and for the community of many men you have built that help me understand a male perspective. We need to really love and respect each other. My husband loves cooking..he loves to cook! But he best not wash those dishes..that I feel is my job..no matter how some folks might say. A woman has to serve her God and then her man first....period. The strong couple will have thriving fruit/ children. But some women are really alone and left with both roles..it is hard. Many men have been raised by amazingly strong women who were forced to do a lot to survive. Anyway, you sir..are a good man and deserve the best life. Once again, Happy Birthday to your lady! I love cake but NOPE...you do inspire this older white liberal mud-western transplant to Cali piscean woman. Glad you got rain..we did too...water is life.
Mudwestern was an error but sure is accurate when the snow melted lol. My area I grew up in had some tornadoes nearby..not too far.
Calvin I am curious about what you do to protect yourself from the sun? I am a bald guy thinking of making my first visit to the Philippines in November, do you wear a hat, do you put sunscreen on your head? Just curious because I bet the strength of the sun in pretty intense in the Philippines.
I'm over here in usa eating $17 tacos when i can get $1-$2 taco meals in ph
Thank you. For the truth! Like it was in Mexican culture.
Men eat 1st. Sadly western influence has tainted our Mexican women. So....
I make about 6k and kept wondering where I really sit.
I was worried about it not being enough and believing that most you tubers are lying. But 3808 is a very precise #
Out here in California. Im almost bankrupt.
You have me 99% convinced on moving. What's your point of view on having kids here in the US and living there ? Is it difficult or do your kids resent ya? Sorry if it's too much to ask. Thanks !
The exchange rate is great
Try living in the Philippines working for 10 dollars a day to support a family. . Most foreign wouldn’t last one week It is pretty much same thing if you are working a job in the Philippines or usa. You still living paycheck to paycheck. The foreign have advantage due usa dollars currency over Philippines pesos. This is apply every country around the world based on their minimum wage around the world.
He is not making a point between the definition of rich. His point was probably that there needs to be limits on spending. While "rich" to a Filipina, there is a limit to what he can spend and stay "rich".
That’s the truth
Oh yea…
🗣️AND DONT DO NOTHING STUPID!
It's not true a million pesos would last less than a year for an American...so even if you had 10 million pesos you still just have enough to about 8 years of your lucky and live a modest life
i,m lloking to visit silay city and possibly live there can we correspond
Talk your shit Brother Calvin!!
Well think again I'm pobre lol 🤣 gonna try stay there on $1000 usd month tight budget but single but who knows for how long there 😂
If someone had 25,000 - 30,000 USD would that be plenty over there??
Sounding old American, Cal. If you have a problem, you deal with it and maybe seek an expert. Also include prayer over yourself for God's spirit, gentle indwelling.