# Looking for advice on moving to the Philippines **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 12, 2024, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-advice-on-moving-to-the-philippines/1007168 "2024-09-12T16:27:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 12
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2024, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-advice-on-moving-to-the-philippines/1007168/12 "2024-09-12T17:34:40Z")
My thoughts on a similar thread: > [@Best countries to retire to...?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-countries-to-retire-to/933667/14): > > I’m going to endeavor a wee tangent and hope that I’m not OT: Try it before you buy it. My passion was international travel, and I generally preferred ‘emerging nations’ to ‘developed.’ And I tended to spend a month at a time in a country so that I could learn a few things and not always stand out like a sore thumb tourist. And maybe figure out where I might like to land when the time came. Now I watch a lot of expat videos. The one thing they stress, and with which I wholeheartedly agree,… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-advice-on-moving-to-the-philippines/1007168)._