Looking for advice on moving to the Philippines

[DavidNRockies]

My thoughts on a similar thread:

Best countries to retire to...?

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,…