Nice Paul...this November will be 2 yrs. Full time for me been coming here since 2018..no way would I ever consider going back to the states ...life is great here
Excellent video Paul! It's really nice to hear the positive side of the Philippines. I agree with you regarding the people and especially the nature! I can't wait to visit again!
Good vid. Youre right on the part about how in the west its about keeping up with the jones'. Really gets on my nerves. Alot of my friends and family look at me crazy when i say i want to get rid of my car and that i dont want to buy an oversized house in the suburbs etc. That stuff doesnt make me happy and i dont care to fit in with people that value that kind of stuff. Id rather travel, be in nature and be a comfortable minimalist
Well done Paul! I love the Phillipines too. I’ve been watching your videos for a while and honestly you look much happier in your life. You cannot beat the tropical 🏝 paradise or nature in comparison too many places. The women are young , beautiful, and good hearted. The people are very sociable and very friendly. Thumps up 👍🏼☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️
I observed there are 2 kinds of retirees -- one that looks a Europe due to the castles, coliseums and cobblestones and the other one that looks at Southeast Asia due to the nature. Paul is more of a nature-lover so I can see why he chose Philippines.
Thank you for this video! I enjoyed hearing why you love the Phillipines and also finding out a little more about you (I saw you on Gio and then searched out your channel). I live in the US, recently turned 50, and am researching the Phillipines as a possible place to retire. 🇺🇲🛫🛬🇲🇫 I will check out your other videos. Thanks again for your perspective.
Great video 👍 I’m 58 now . Monday will be my last day of work. I have worked for more than 40 years and now I am retiring . I have been too many Asian countries but never the Philippines 🇵🇭 can’t wait for the Philippines to open up 👍🇵🇭🇺🇸🙏🙏🙏
Would love to be there, I retired in Jan, and had planned to come over to the Philippines. Wanted to visit you, Gio, and Old Dog Paul. But no luck with the virus.
Really great, informative and insightful video Paul! God willing I'll be heading over there in March 2022. Me and someone else I know are traveling together to finally physically meet with our fiancé s, who we've been dating for about 3 years. I've rented an air bnb in Davao, because each fiancé lives about 3 and a half hours away in opposite directions. Anyways, the point is that being born and raised in nyc I've always had to have a level of aggression in order to survive, so it is going to be a very welcoming thing to experience the calmness and beautiful things of that country and its pe. Again, great post... Thank you!
It does seem like there's less pressure compared to the US. I'd love to focus on a TH-cam channel for traveling as an amputee. Looking forward to watching more videos to keep me motivated!
With regard to the looks, the summer heat thaws out any lipids that accumulated during the snow-less winter there. Also, Pinoy culture is very outgoing. Hence, more opportunities to walk. And you won't even feel the walk (unless you have a condition like RA) because you are distracted either by the nature, the babes or just the surrounding. This makes everyone there, including you, shed pounds and look more attractive, and very important, healthier. Every time I go there, at start, I have a tight jeans on my waist, but at the end, I had to use a belt to tighten it as it keeps falling. Btw, I heard enough from you to like you Paul. Subscribed!
Super video about stress and the aggression level being at all time high! I live it everyday and I can’t wait to maybe go to the Philippines to retire, relax and experience all that I’m missing, that’s if I can survive that long!
06:10 : This i think depends where you stay in the Philippines. Generally speaking, those i have spoken to or those i know, its evident there are pockets of people who like to gloat, wear name brands, etc. 14:02 : Cheap living if you having a strong base currency, though i think cost of living has definitely increased a lot, not ideally "cheaper" with a currency less than 6x to the Peso would be a fair statement. Acceptance , yes that' a huge thing to carry out. It takes time to manage for each important category for a person in the Philippines. Not to be politically influential or being an expert, it is cool to chat to locals and understand "really" what they would like to see different here. As an expat its great to come and live but at the same time you know u have option to leave and or you have an aircon or a nice shower at home etc...
I typically wear plain white shirt lol. Probably bec of my father but I got used to it, it’s soft and comfy. It’s not fancy but hey it works for me. You guys do have big houses oh my god
I fully agree with u about the beauty of nature in the Phillipines,I am a keen gardener and love nature.Paul how long must we still wait for the country to open their borders,seeing that their economy is depended on tourism.
Paul, a good clear 5 point synapses of why PI is so nice a place to live. Comparing notes w a Vlogger in Cavite who loves it (Steve) it sounds cleaner, quieter and more “law abiding” in the Cebu area than near Manila. Have you traveled up there? What do you think?
Make a plan to visit at least 5 places you might want to retire in then visit them all live there a few months and decide l, no need to make a choice while not here
Pretty much covers all the basics, good chat..Thailand much the same…generally it’s pre-materialistic, there are some areas of course where people have a lot of “things”…when they talk cars it’s 1.4 or a 1.8 or a 2.0 if you live in a hilly area…I don’t like heat but when I’m there nothing hurts, etc…it’s up to an individual’s needs or wants…tak sa mycket..🙏🏻✌🏻🕊🇹🇭
when you like so much nature like you always say, you stay at wrong place in mactan. i think for myself there should be a place there where you have all advantages, close by to everything like mactan and around the corner full nature. i suppose can't have everything in one hand. i believe too, staying in relationship like you makes everything easier with a positive view
For me a big point would be also the weather/heat because i love it ;D I guess many would try to live there too, but are too young or/and don´t work online & havent enough savings, so they can´t Anynway im exited when i can come next year so i can see all that for myself ^^
Blessings Paul and Mia You have everything that means something to you , ... Mia 13:31 minutes , Mia Smile , love , Happyness , Enjoy always , Blessings
Paul, I think your repetition on the quality of the ladies serves to emphasize this point. It also says something about the inability to express the relationship paradigm shift
Funny how most of us by default revert to calling it a "simpler life", when in reality it is what life was meant to be, and should continue to be. You have found your place and your happiness Paul, and we are happy for you. My day is coming.😊 Stay safe my friend
Wow big decision for you to live there instead of Norway. i would miss my western comfort and my electronic music events living there. U get crap music in asia i witnessed. But u get good women and peaceful life, good smiling ppl around you. We always want the best of both worlds right?
What was your total net worth when you decided to stay in the Philippines? I'm just trying to get the courage to do the same thing once the situation is over. Thanks!
5:37 I feel here in the US if you want to go out and approach girls to ask ask them out for a bite or coffee and you plan to, say, do it in a mall and ask as many as you can until you get one, you could almost certainly be reported by one of them or worse, by an "activist".
I don't understand Paul how you can be pressured into buying a rolex watch because your neighbor did. I never experienced that in the US, I don't think the US does that to you, I think you did it to yourself and now are looking to blame somebody or something else for the bad decisions you made. I see so many bloggers say similar silly things, blame the US on many of their issues, issues I never experienced because I don't blame others or the US. I am in with people who do this kind of stuff but never do it myself, it does not prevent me from being in with them. Why oh why would anyone let their neighbor determine what they'd buy goes way beyond anything I could comprehend. Set your own path, don't follow your neighbor's path. Choice is yours. I just bought a new phone recently on sale , paid $150 from Amazon, nice phone rated the best phone of all the budget phones. I don't need a top of the line I Phone to hang with people who have a top of the line I Phone, that is silly logic Paul. Nobody cares that I have a budget phone, so the only pressure you feel comes from yourself and your ego to keep up with others to somehow feel like you belong. If that is what another person wants for me to belong, to associate with them, then I doubt they'd be worth my time associating with them.
Yes. Although you don't need to be. Those who stress themselves out are those keeping up with the Joneses. But me, I know Pinas is where I want to be so no need to stress in US. Just a regular staff working and doing what I like stress-free even if the pay is not as big as the Joneses.
Your message was confusing today. At first, you mention that you can only see so many waterfalls and beaches, and then you go about explaining how much you love the nature there... Doesn't finding "real happiness" just boil down to knowing what makes you happy, being true to yourself and executing the plan? And I agree with you on the women there. Thank you for sharing.
It's a great place for an expat who doesn't need to work or only works 25 or 30 hours per week, but what about the poor Filipinas working 12 hours per day, 6 days per week as a caregiver or some other manual labor job, paying them only $7 per day, or selling fruit on the street, I think seeing all the poverty in the Philippines would bother me too much, along with the noise, including the roosters.
Paul would never be able to move back to the feminist controlled U.S. The U.S. women sometimes have their own money and a good job but that is usually the only positives about them. In the U.S. most men don't have young attractive GF's. I would rather just live single in the U.S. until Thailand opens up more so I can go back there. I may also travel to Philippines when it reopens I have never been there. I refuse to settle for what American woman have to offer as a GF or wife.
Your mate who wants to buy a sailboat & sail round the Philippines.... Maybe a closer look..... I have about 25k offshore miles & been going to PI since 84, lived in HK for 12 years..... But... Piracy offshore espcially south of Palowan & of course in tje Sulu Sea forever. Thieft inshore, about 2 metres of tide, 4 knotts of current ptetty much all over, lowsy holding ground wotj lots 0f coral so you drop the hook & your doing damage. Just shy of 20 years in asia & will tetore there but saling there.... Dangerous. So will take my lady, fly out, & cruise in my 12 tonne steel sloop, probably in Atlantic as very likely war in wesyetn pacific coming which of course the yanks are horney to get going.... Big money & they can just draft all those "free" people. Oh, the big commercial harbour on south end of Negros has hundreds of yachts,( best phoon hole around) and they are ALL, 100% for sale. Yachts go to the Philippines to die.
Good Video. I am moving there from the USA 2022. I am 62 retired and ready.
An inspiring video, Paul...thanks! I do hope that Cebu opens up someday soon
I hope so too!
Nice Paul...this November will be 2 yrs. Full time for me been coming here since 2018..no way would I ever consider going back to the states ...life is great here
Enjoy to the fullest
"He who dares wins" Paul ! Nice one and your an inspiration to us all !!!
Thank you.
Excellent video Paul! It's really nice to hear the positive side of the Philippines. I agree with you regarding the people and especially the nature! I can't wait to visit again!
Good vid. Youre right on the part about how in the west its about keeping up with the jones'. Really gets on my nerves. Alot of my friends and family look at me crazy when i say i want to get rid of my car and that i dont want to buy an oversized house in the suburbs etc. That stuff doesnt make me happy and i dont care to fit in with people that value that kind of stuff. Id rather travel, be in nature and be a comfortable minimalist
Thanks For Sharing Paul . When You Finally Find Happiness , Well , At the End of That Pretty Rainbow , Is Mia and The Philippines ! Stay Blessed .
Well done Paul! I love the Phillipines too. I’ve been watching your videos for a while and honestly you look much happier in your life. You cannot beat the tropical 🏝 paradise or nature in comparison too many places. The women are young , beautiful, and good hearted. The people are very sociable and very friendly. Thumps up 👍🏼☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️
I observed there are 2 kinds of retirees -- one that looks a Europe due to the castles, coliseums and cobblestones and the other one that looks at Southeast Asia due to the nature. Paul is more of a nature-lover so I can see why he chose Philippines.
Awesome! Thank you!
Thank you for this video! I enjoyed hearing why you love the Phillipines and also finding out a little more about you (I saw you on Gio and then searched out your channel). I live in the US, recently turned 50, and am researching the Phillipines as a possible place to retire. 🇺🇲🛫🛬🇲🇫 I will check out your other videos. Thanks again for your perspective.
I went over to one of the islands off cebu got stranded because of the weather had a family take me in for the night loved it
Great video, Paul! I really appreciate your clarity and the way you see all of the positives in living a simpler life!
Thank you 😊
Great video 👍 I’m 58 now . Monday will be my last day of work. I have worked for more than 40 years and now I am retiring . I have been too many Asian countries but never the Philippines 🇵🇭 can’t wait for the Philippines to open up 👍🇵🇭🇺🇸🙏🙏🙏
Best of luck
New subscriber. Nice channel, appreciate your candor being a straight shooter.
Would love to be there, I retired in Jan, and had planned to come over to the Philippines. Wanted to visit you, Gio, and Old Dog Paul. But no luck with the virus.
Maybe one day!
You wear that happiness pretty well Paul. Glad for you. 4 years to go for me and not a day longer.
That's pretty good!
Hi Stephen, I was thinking 3 years for me. I'll be in a year earlier,. We'll get there some day bro.
why 4 years away ?
Really great, informative and insightful video Paul! God willing I'll be heading over there in March 2022. Me and someone else I know are traveling together to finally physically meet with our fiancé s, who we've been dating for about 3 years. I've rented an air bnb in Davao, because each fiancé lives about 3 and a half hours away in opposite directions. Anyways, the point is that being born and raised in nyc I've always had to have a level of aggression in order to survive, so it is going to be a very welcoming thing to experience the calmness and beautiful things of that country and its pe. Again, great post... Thank you!
Hopefully Philippines will be open soon.
It does seem like there's less pressure compared to the US. I'd love to focus on a TH-cam channel for traveling as an amputee. Looking forward to watching more videos to keep me motivated!
You can do it!
i plan also to live in Cebu Paul after a lifetime of stress in Belgium
With regard to the looks, the summer heat thaws out any lipids that accumulated during the snow-less winter there. Also, Pinoy culture is very outgoing. Hence, more opportunities to walk. And you won't even feel the walk (unless you have a condition like RA) because you are distracted either by the nature, the babes or just the surrounding. This makes everyone there, including you, shed pounds and look more attractive, and very important, healthier. Every time I go there, at start, I have a tight jeans on my waist, but at the end, I had to use a belt to tighten it as it keeps falling. Btw, I heard enough from you to like you Paul. Subscribed!
True, Thank you for supporting my channel!
Super video about stress and the aggression level being at all time high! I live it everyday and I can’t wait to maybe go to the Philippines to retire, relax and experience all that I’m missing, that’s if I can survive that long!
You will of course survive and truly live just have faith !
Good video,Paul !
Thank you !
Thank you as well
YOU A GOOD GUY
Good advice.
Thanks for watching!
Great one Paul .
06:10 : This i think depends where you stay in the Philippines.
Generally speaking, those i have spoken to or those i know, its evident there are pockets of people who like to gloat, wear name brands, etc.
14:02 : Cheap living if you having a strong base currency, though i think cost of living has definitely increased a lot, not ideally "cheaper" with a currency less than 6x to the Peso would be a fair statement.
Acceptance , yes that' a huge thing to carry out. It takes time to manage for each important category for a person in the Philippines.
Not to be politically influential or being an expert, it is cool to chat to locals and understand "really" what they would like to see different here.
As an expat its great to come and live but at the same time you know u have option to leave and or you have an aircon or a nice shower at home etc...
The Simple life , with different values...How the world was many years ago....
Filipino old adage: Be grateful even of the smallest things.
You are one of the very few expats there whose attitude manifests your genuine appreciation. Enjoy listening to you.
Thank you
I typically wear plain white shirt lol. Probably bec of my father but I got used to it, it’s soft and comfy. It’s not fancy but hey it works for me.
You guys do have big houses oh my god
I fully agree with u about the beauty of nature in the Phillipines,I am a keen gardener and love nature.Paul how long must we still wait for the country to open their borders,seeing that their economy is depended on tourism.
minimalism helps Paul oo
Tanks for tips and triks.
Welcome
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Really agree Paul
I view here very much the same way.
Paul, a good clear 5 point synapses of why PI is so nice a place to live. Comparing notes w a Vlogger in Cavite who loves it (Steve) it sounds cleaner, quieter and more “law abiding” in the Cebu area than near Manila. Have you traveled up there? What do you think?
Make a plan to visit at least 5 places you might want to retire in then visit them all live there a few months and decide l, no need to make a choice while not here
Can you create a video with your best relationship advice?
Pretty much covers all the basics, good chat..Thailand much the same…generally it’s pre-materialistic, there are some areas of course where people have a lot of “things”…when they talk cars it’s 1.4 or a 1.8 or a 2.0 if you live in a hilly area…I don’t like heat but when I’m there nothing hurts, etc…it’s up to an individual’s needs or wants…tak sa mycket..🙏🏻✌🏻🕊🇹🇭
when you like so much nature like you always say, you stay at wrong place in mactan. i think for myself there should be a place there where you have all advantages, close by to everything like mactan and around the corner full nature. i suppose can't have everything in one hand. i believe too, staying in relationship like you makes everything easier with a positive view
For me a big point would be also the weather/heat because i love it ;D
I guess many would try to live there too, but are too young or/and don´t work online & havent enough savings, so they can´t
Anynway im exited when i can come next year so i can see all that for myself ^^
Blessings Paul and Mia
You have everything that means something to you , ... Mia
13:31 minutes , Mia
Smile , love , Happyness , Enjoy always , Blessings
Paul, I think your repetition on the quality of the ladies serves to emphasize this point. It also says something about the inability to express the relationship paradigm shift
Funny how most of us by default revert to calling it a "simpler life", when in reality it is what life was meant to be, and should continue to be. You have found your place and your happiness Paul, and we are happy for you. My day is coming.😊 Stay safe my friend
Well said! thank you and stay safe as well
Wow big decision for you to live there instead of Norway. i would miss my western comfort and my electronic music events living there. U get crap music in asia i witnessed. But u get good women and peaceful life, good smiling ppl around you. We always want the best of both worlds right?
Are you religious Paul? And if I'm not will it make things difficult?
No you not being religious won't make a difference
Can you get work as a Software developer over there? Meaning, is that a job, they don't have enough locals for?
How did you meet mia?
At a restaurant
*_Have a good day!_*
you too
Thats what I experienced a layed back easy going life style,much enjoyed the night life.
What was your total net worth when you decided to stay in the Philippines? I'm just trying to get the courage to do the same thing once the situation is over. Thanks!
I use personal capital, it's free, link below. Use that to see what your likely retirment will be.
@@paulsasianadventure8050 Thanks Paul! I'll take a look.
5:37 I feel here in the US if you want to go out and approach girls to ask ask them out for a bite or coffee and you plan to, say, do it in a mall and ask as many as you can until you get one, you could almost certainly be reported by one of them or worse, by an "activist".
I don't understand Paul how you can be pressured into buying a rolex watch because your neighbor did. I never experienced that in the US, I don't think the US does that to you, I think you did it to yourself and now are looking to blame somebody or something else for the bad decisions you made. I see so many bloggers say similar silly things, blame the US on many of their issues, issues I never experienced because I don't blame others or the US. I am in with people who do this kind of stuff but never do it myself, it does not prevent me from being in with them.
Why oh why would anyone let their neighbor determine what they'd buy goes way beyond anything I could comprehend. Set your own path, don't follow your neighbor's path.
Choice is yours. I just bought a new phone recently on sale , paid $150 from Amazon, nice phone rated the best phone of all the budget phones. I don't need a top of the line I Phone to hang with people who have a top of the line I Phone, that is silly logic Paul. Nobody cares that I have a budget phone, so the only pressure you feel comes from yourself and your ego to keep up with others to somehow feel like you belong. If that is what another person wants for me to belong, to associate with them, then I doubt they'd be worth my time associating with them.
Hello Paul,
my biggest problem in SEA is how to prevend sexually transmitted diseases, because they look so cute and you have to be mentally strong.
Condoms 🤷🏽♂️
Yes its true, easy going life in Philippines, here in U.S stressful lol
Yes. Although you don't need to be. Those who stress themselves out are those keeping up with the Joneses. But me, I know Pinas is where I want to be so no need to stress in US. Just a regular staff working and doing what I like stress-free even if the pay is not as big as the Joneses.
I want to go there to, but my problem is te get income there, how do you pay for everything.
You need to save and work on pension
Your message was confusing today. At first, you mention that you can only see so many waterfalls and beaches, and then you go about explaining how much you love the nature there... Doesn't finding "real happiness" just boil down to knowing what makes you happy, being true to yourself and executing the plan? And I agree with you on the women there. Thank you for sharing.
He's just saying it's a mix. While he likes the natures, life can't be 100% about that -- there's other things as well.
I cant agree with you as scamming and impersonation is topping the chat of Filipino online now-days..
By forgetting the red pill.
Just pump & dump. Keep the government out of the bedroom.
Western women--"hippos and whales with attitudes!" :)
im curious how u earn money enough to live there
Materialism takes a back seat when you’re hungry😊
I don't know, I guess it's also about age.
Your not telling truth that 30 percent reason being in Philippine for woman
Expats go philippines
80 percent reason is for woman not 30 percent
Different people reasons, this is MY perspective.
It's a great place for an expat who doesn't need to work or only works 25 or 30 hours per week, but what about the poor Filipinas working 12 hours per day, 6 days per week as a caregiver or some other manual labor job, paying them only $7 per day, or selling fruit on the street, I think seeing all the poverty in the Philippines would bother me too much, along with the noise, including the roosters.
Paul would never be able to move back to the feminist controlled U.S. The U.S. women sometimes have their own money and a good job but that is usually the only positives about them. In the U.S. most men don't have young attractive GF's. I would rather just live single in the U.S. until Thailand opens up more so I can go back there. I may also travel to Philippines when it reopens I have never been there. I refuse to settle for what American woman have to offer as a GF or wife.
If I go back to work usa, I would not date. I am done with them
Your mate who wants to buy a sailboat & sail round the Philippines....
Maybe a closer look.....
I have about 25k offshore miles & been going to PI since 84, lived in HK for 12 years.....
But... Piracy offshore espcially south of Palowan & of course in tje Sulu Sea forever.
Thieft inshore, about 2 metres of tide, 4 knotts of current ptetty much all over, lowsy holding ground wotj lots 0f coral so you drop the hook & your doing damage.
Just shy of 20 years in asia
& will tetore there but saling there.... Dangerous.
So will take my lady, fly out, & cruise in my 12 tonne steel sloop, probably in Atlantic as very likely war in wesyetn pacific coming which of course the yanks are horney to get going.... Big money & they can just draft all those "free" people.
Oh, the big commercial harbour on south end of Negros has hundreds of yachts,( best phoon hole around) and they are ALL, 100% for sale.
Yachts go to the Philippines to die.