It's still fun in the Philippines!

testing test okay there we go okay thanks so much everybody for your patience the last one I just did had an audio issue um but this should be good I'll just wait for the first person to hop on

here great so we're going and the audio is on um yeah feel free to chime in with any thoughts you have any questions you have we'll wait for the first person to hop on here I do apologize about

the audio um yeah I've got a little indicator down here where I can uh make a determination as to whether or not it's getting picked up so you should be able to hear me loud and clear um and

let me know too if the background noise is a little bit too much and of course we can always hop on here later on when I'm at home um but when I'm at home it can be a little

bit challenging because uh sometimes there's background noise there as well just a reality here in the Philippines I'm having a a great time I just recorded a video with a fellow YouTuber and um I've got a couple in

the tank I've got to edit so that may come out this upcoming weekend we'll just see how long it takes me to um get caught up and of course next week I've got to make a determination I'm leaning

toward going to SIU next um I should find out tomorrow to whether or not I'm getting the job offer back in California if I don't get that then you can expect more content if I uh from here in

the Philippines if I do get that um I've got some ideas of where the channel direction will go um there's a lot I could talk about in relation to the challenges in the US there's a lot I could

talk about in regards to why so many why I think so many guys will be coming over here to the Philippines gals too but most of my channel member or subscribership is male and not just Philippines but Thailand

as well some of you may be aware that I spent a year in Thailand and some time in Vietnam about a month in Vietnam before I came here to the Philippines and I can get into the reasons why

I think a lot of guys will come over here but that's my goal I would say in probably three or four years to make the permanent move over here uh because I just enjoy it a lot and you

know just a great Community here a lot of interesting people come through the Philippines uh dumag Getti is certainly high on my list but I'm also interested in SIU and also interested in exploring some other parts of the

country that I haven't yet visited um but yeah we got three folks watching feel free to chime in in the discussion and uh introduce yourselves you can always uh ask any questions that come to your mind happy to

respond and um yeah just uh a beautiful day here it's we might get a little bit of rain I noticed the forecast said there's about a 40% chance of rain and uh I'm not sure you know whether or

not that will roll in but uh if it does I'm hey Gerard good to see you welcome welcome um yeah thanks so much for being a subscriber it's always nice to see your name in here feel free to

chime in on any questions I'm just kind of discussing a little bit about the direction of the channel if I don't get the offer I'm looking for this week then I'll just keep vlogging over here if I do

get the offer the channel will have to go in a bit different direction um it's you know I've got to make the responsible decision I'm not at my financial Independence Point to be fully transparent but you know if

I get the right opportunity back home that's going to push me along further further toward the goal I think it's doable in probably three or four years I've also got things to handle back home one of the things

I'm gonna have to get rid of is my storage unit I have a storage unit back home I'd like to ultimately get rid of that Hey Jake welcome welcome good to see you in here Jake Jake's been a

subscriber for a while uh always good to see Jake and and um yeah feel free to chime in everybody we got five people watching I'm sure some of you are new subscribers as well I want to thank you

for subscribing to the channel you probably came from some of the recent content I've done with some of these vloggers that I really uh respect in a lot of ways these guys who I would call Pioneers uh guys

who are long in the tooth over here right they've been here for uh five you know two three four five six seven years in the case of Paul and uh yeah you know I'm confident like I realize that

there's a better life over here for me that may not be the case for you but for me personally there is a better life here and it's really just once you figure out your plan it's just a matter

of repeating steps it's a it's a matter of making money and living below your means and doing both of those things at the same time will help you move in the right direction financially I call it Financial Independence

retire early the retirement part is not as important as the financial Independence part for me retirement just means that uh you're no longer sacrificing today for tomorrow that you get to a point financially you have enough income coming

in it covers your expenses you're not uh you know you're not delaying gratification in the same way that you would be when you're working a full-time job back in the west um I feel confident the channel will continue

to evolve if the channel grows substantially enough to the point where it's covering all my expenses and then some uh then certainly I could pull up stakes in the US earlier I also have a car which before moving

over here I'll likely uh want to sell because it's kind of what some people would call an albatross it's this thing that is difficult to store it's costly to maintain of course registration is not free um but yeah

these are just some of the things on my radar and I hope that documenting this process the journey to financial Independence the journey to get rid getting rid of my things in the US will be helpful for you

because I'm sure many of you you're not quite at the point where you're ready to move over here full-time but you want to see what that looks like and of course there's other channels that cover that goo covers

that Gio's the individual that I interviewed earlier this morning Mike does Great Stuff Mike's pH retirement of course Paul old dog new tricks there's quite a few guys R light beyond the sea is another popular uh channel that

have the blueprint sorted out they can give you these uh intellectual Frameworks with how to approach this uh so you know yeah feel free like I said chime in with any questions or thoughts we'll go for about an

hour uh and yeah it's uh it's good to see though four or five folks are on here that's pretty decent for my channel so uh yeah this will probably a decent time for those especially those on like West

Coast United States it's not too late for them I imagine for East Coast is quite late we're approaching midnight um but yeah I'll try to do them at different times to try to collect different people right different people

have different um time zones and different times in which they're free and able to age but I just want to be fully transparent um so yeah if I don't get the offer I'm I'm looking at SIU because I

am uh talking to a lady in SIU and I'd like to go meet her actually I met her through her aunt uh I don't want to get too much into it I want to respect her privacy but she's

uh yeah she's just a really interesting person and I really enjoy chatting with her and there's uh yeah there's just something about the people here that's so special I I don't miss the US you know for those who

might be wondering what do you miss about the US Hey Ron good to see you welcome welcome the only thing I miss about the US is earning potential of course as a US citizen I can work most jobs

uh I can work multiple jobs I can make quite a bit of income but but aside from the income I don't miss the us at all I don't miss the division I don't miss the aggression I don't miss

the culture I don't miss the weather and much of the US uh there's just uh not a lot I miss back home yes Gerard I'm at a restaurant right now um I don't want to disclose the name just

to maintain privacy I'm starting to get recognized around town here in dumag and so I want to uh maintain my privacy and and not uh yeah not not get too much attention not that it's bad you know not

that it's negative but um it's it's just definitely a strange feeling right because I'm not like some A-list celebrity I'm not a famous sports player so getting recognized is still something I'm having to adjust to something that is

not something I've experienced before uh Gerard uh runell says will you travel forever so I think that's like in the far future right now I'm not at the income point where I could just travel in perpetuity I also

don't know if it's lifestyle for me I like breaks I like to break up my time in a location oh by the way please run up the likes if you can give us a thumbs up it helps with

the algorithm uh but you know I'm not in the play I'm not in the point where one I could uh budget to just travel and uity the more you move the more you pay nightly rates for hotels uh

you may overpay for Transportation uh you may um you're paying for a place like in your home City and you're playing and you're paying for your accommodation in the new place so it's much more economical to stay in

one place at a time and you can uh you can build up relationships there you can build up friendships there you can get to know people a bit better there um hey solo transient uh good to see you

um yeah it's always always good to see you solo transient uh ronell says true it adds up fast yeah it can really add up a lot uh in surprising ways I mean you get a delay on your tra

uh travel now you've got a book an extra Hotel uh you go to a restaurant and the foods is not so good so you go to a different restaurant when you stay in one place you really know where

you want to eat uh the coffee shops you want to get coffee at um you have you know the economical opportunities to have fun you're not always having to spend on having a good time okay Billy welcome okay

Billy I think this is the first time I'm seeing you on the channel can you describe what's your favorite scity in the Philippines you know I'm partial to dumag I really like it a lot I've spent more time

here than anywhere else in the Philippines it's uh what Gio would call a soft Landing you've got your western style restaurants you've got your foreigners that speak your language and also understand your backround they probably worked a long

time in the US or Australia Canada they know what's going on over there they can relate to you you've got uh you know plenty of English because of the college here Simon University so if you're needing to get

services like phone service um if you're needing to uh get a ride you know all these things become easier in dagate it's also a city that's growing a lot lots and lots of people are moving here so it's

got this energy about it that's uh unique even for the Philippines I'm also a fan of SIU for what it's worth SIU treated me well I think SIU is great uh okay Billy this is going to lean into

your question what's a good City to do date I think Manila and SIU are going to be your best options uh because in Manila and in SIU then you've got um you just got so many people and people

from all over the country like uh when I was in Manila or rather when I was in SIU I was meeting people from all over the Philippines not just the bayah region but also people from indan now probably

some folks from Manila as well so it's just uh the numbers right I look at it like dumag has a population of 150,000 split that in half if you're a guy looking to date a woman you got 75k

maybe a third or uh are above the age range that you're looking at a third or below the age range that you're looking at and so then you got 255,000 okay maybe half of those are in relationships now

you got 12,500 uh maybe another half of those for whatever reason are incompatible so I would say it's just uh you know dag is not going to be um you know it's a place I think more oriented toward

couples like you've met a lady in another city and you want to move here now that you're committed now that you're settled down that's a little bit different story but if you're looking to uh meet single people in

general like I'm sure there's some women on my channel that want to meet a nice man then once again Manila and cuu are just going to have your largest populations uh single people solo transi says stay there in

the Philippines your channel will grow quick quickly thank you so much solo I'm just more of a fan of having multiple streams of income so my concern in the back of my mind is what if something happens what

if my YouTube channel for whatever reason Fades out or goes away I don't want to be in this position scrambling to go back home and um okay I've been away from home for several years where's my career at

I don't have relevant recent job history so my ideal is having investment income and YouTube income and perhaps some other online income I think having multiple income streams is a way to protect the downside right I could be

very very successful on YouTube I could be a YouTube rockstar I do think my channel is growing a lot I've had 400 people in the last three weeks subscrib to my channel uh but you know I I like

I said I like protecting downside I like having multiple stream the idea of having multiple streams of income I want to get to the point where when I come over here I don't ever have to go back I

choose to go back to see friends but that would be the only reason I want to go back is that I actually want to go see people I haven't seen in a while maybe to take maybe to take

care of some business needs but not oh man I'm out of money or I'm low on money I need to rush back and try to put my life back together that's that's not what I'm looking to do I

understand maybe it's unlikely I don't know what the odds of that are but it does happen to some guys and I don't want to be one of those guys I think it's a bad look for the xack community

it's a bad look for the Blogger community and uh yeah I think you know when you're not Reliant upon one stream of income you can be more honest you can uh you know you're not you're not being overly

salesy or overly commercial uh in what you present on YouTube you I I think that some channels can be a bit too salesy they only want to uh share a certain way of like getting you hooked like oh

it's gonna it's it's Paradise it's perfect that's not the case there is no Paradise there is no perfect place it's all about tradeoffs in my opinion um what do you got back home and what would you have here

they're not the same right there's some things that Miss back about back home conversely there's a lot of things I don't miss about back home and I think every one of you will feel the same way there's going

to be some things that you're giving up and there's going to be some things that you're getting okay Billy have you been to Deva I hear it's clean and organized but moring I have not been to Deva so

I've been to other parts of minda now have not been to Deval I would like to go to Deva it's high on my list as far as places to go I think it's you know the big city and

mindo it's got a lot of your conveniences it's got the modern shopping malls it's got a lot to offer that is unique within minda now um to me like when I hear boring I get excited about that I'm

not looking for the most exciting nightlife town I'm not looking for the wildest uh party scene to me I'd like that so it is high on my list uh maybe for different reasons than some people would think but

I like the idea of Deva I've had several friends go down there and enjoy it a lot and certainly it's uh ranking high on my list uh Gerard says a digital Nomad may have a pay scale like the

USA and still stay where you're at now yeah if I earned what I'm capable of earning in the US here it would be a no-brainer I would never go back like I said except to see friends and family

and to well friends not family and to handle uh different kinds of business errands that kind of thing but typically digital Nomads their income potential for many not all but many is less than what they'd have back home

especially in the early stages maybe they're more established maybe they've been here for five years they've had a lot of time to compound uh growth and Investments compound their channel uh but for a lot of guys initially it's

a pay cut I mean for me it's a pay cut I can earn a great income in the United States uh and not so much about here um have you been to bagio City they have a nice upscale

Starbucks ronal asks no I haven't I haven't been to bagio yet I haven't been to that many places in the Philippines so I've been to now uh four places in the Philippines I've been to cigan Island kaga andoro

SIU and now doag uh I'd like there's some other places I'd like to go Deva is up there uh bagio is up there Malai balai is up there there's quite a few places I do want to go but

there's a thousand populated Islands so there's potentially a thousand different islands that I could go to and uh yeah there's just so many possibilities here it's really mindblowing how much variety there is in the country I don't differentiate

as much about environment differentiate the islands more by population do you want a Big City Vibe you're probably going to want to go to Manila ceu Deval do you want a provincial life you're probably going to want to

go to a less populated area you want something in between maybe a midsize city is what you're looking for uh if you want cooler weather of course bagio is popular it's probably the most well-known of the cooler uh

places due to due to altitude if you want to be around a lot of foreigners then certain areas are going to have more of that if you want to be on fewer then you're looking more provincial H let's

see how would you describe life in the Philippines I lived in Thailand but there's a language better in most cities I would say in the Philippines you are trading your conveniences for Freedom so you may have to wait

a bit longer than what you're accustomed to at a restaurant uh depending on your city traffic may be more than what you're used to uh there may be an occasional uh you know Brown out but the upside is

you have more many of us will typically have more Financial Freedom we'll have better relationships because we'll be able to invest time into our relationships unlike in the US where people are in go go go go go mode

uh then you know the weather like if you're in a cold part of the US you're not going to have to deal with the extreme cold here that you would there uh if you're in like the UK where

you've got half the year is super rainy and overcast there is a rainy season here I find it's not as extreme it's all about tradeoffs uh and it also comes down to your preference right if you'd prefer to

be in a big city you're going to have the challenges that come with living in a big city the traffic uh potentially the noise um but then you get your conveniences right if you want to fly out fly

to Japan you want to fly back to the US easier to do for Manila or SIU you're not going to have to fly up to one of those cities or take a ferry up to one of those cities

it's a quicker uh you know jet out and Jet back in so you really I think have to think about tradeoffs when you think about life in the Philippines um you know if you're more provincial yeah you can

probably grow some vegetables you can probably uh get to know people a little bit better it's just going to be not the same Fast Pace that you'd have in a manila or SIU by the way real quick we

got 11 people watch watching please give us a thumbs up it really helps with the YouTube algorithm to uh share this content with more people and also to share the stream with more people 15 wow I think 15

is the most people I've ever had on my uh on my live stream I really appreciate all of you sharing your time with me and uh that I'm able to bring you enough value to uh yeah to help

you out great question okay Billy uh are the province people more genuine versus the city people you know I don't know I I I think it's hard to figure out it's really a hard determination to decide it depends

on your personality your temperament how skeptical are you uh how well do you know people the biggest thing that is not easily easily solved is time I think time on the ground is going to really help you to

sort out who can I trust who can I not trust I've found value in vlogging because for vloggers I can go and watch all their content I mean some of these guys have a thousand plus videos where I

can get a sense of their character I can get a sense of who they are yes they have a persona but there's only so much you can hide as far as a Persona goes when you are live streaming

when you are uh putting content out there I did enjoy Thailand a lot that was probably the biggest challenge I faced in Thailand was that uh you do have a language barrier there right for most Thai people they

speak one language and that's the Thai language I don't speak Thai I tried to learn but I really struggled there uh so you know certainly the Philippines has a big appeal in that regard for people from uh Canada

United States Australia uh New Zealand um let's see it's all about how much you save yeah I think that's an important point if you're uh making 10,000 us per month in the United States but you spend 99,999 you're

really spinning your wheels you're not moving forward toward Financial Independence conversely if you make 7,000 a month and you live on 3500 you're making steady gains every single month if you're able to replicate that of course getting laid

off or losing your job will chew into that um conversely if you get a promotion and you start making more money and you keep living below your means then uh you know you get the advantage of moving towards

your goals faster so it's really for the younger guys it's more often a financial equation than it is a concern for health uh or uh you know other things it's really what's your income and what are you going

to spend and if you're in the west how can you maximize your income and minimize your expenses and that will also train you to be more economical here if you're used to living below your means in the west

you can bring that mindset here and live below your means here just because you move halfway around the world doesn't mean you're turning into a high roller will your uh foreign currency purchase more than it would back home

typically yes but you still got to live below your means you're not uh for most of us moving into a penthouse in Bona pasio Global City eating at the finest steak houses every night buying a BMW is going

to put us back at square one now of course I know most of us aren't looking to do that but you still have to live within your means you still have to find a city a location housing that

is in line with your budget you have to decide what can I afford to eat what kind of coffee shops can I afford to frequent uh do I have a mall kiosk budget do I have a street food

budget do I have a uh a high-end coffee shop budget do I have a BGC budget or do I have a more provincial budget these are all things worth considering okay Billy says I looked at teaching online was

not easy for me yeah teaching English online I look at it as something more for a year or two not necessarily something most people will be able to sustain long term I think a lot of people uh they

get bored with it it may not pay enough to for them to save money right maybe they are able to cover their expenses but they're not able to put money in the bank every month and I think most

people in the long term should be aiming to be putting money in the bank every month for emergencies for a repatriation budget all these things that can come up and really take us by surprise uh anono welcome anono

great to see you on here uh Drew love your Vlog with Paul thank you so much Drew I really appreciate that I had a great time uh sitting down with Paul and we may be doing a follow up

later this week actually after this stream I'm be reaching out to him to try to set something up because I'll probably be hitting the road uh let's see next Tuesday or yeah next Tuesday I'll likely be hitting the

road um okay Billy maybe it could be jobs on LinkedIn back office work but may need a phone yeah I just uh yeah I just you know have mixed feelings about doing that I think having a uh having

you know a vlog for myself you know I think it's just having a business for myself is going to be more efficient because I'm able to uh you know have the Lion Share of the revenue if you're working

for someone else they're having to spend money on training you and some cases providing you with equipment uh if the needs of their business changes you may find yourself without a job so I think having your own uh

having control of your own streams of income is more ideal um than being an employee of somebody else maybe in some cases you could be an independent contractor you get a skill set you offer that skill set to

uh perspective uh buyers who need that service but trying to rely on somebody else I think is just not as strong in the long term uh Fred great to see you Fred hi Alex good talk thank you absolutely

always good to chat with you Fred Gerard says what sparked you to start your channel yeah Gerard so I was in Thailand six years ago and I uh I tried Ty Redbull didn't know it was a Thai product

and wanted to just share my reaction to it my thoughts about it and uh yeah it just uh it kind of went from there and then when I went to Peru a few years later I started to make

content about Peru just trying to show off the architecture because I thought the archit and Colombia as well I thought the architecture was super cool it just looked so different from what I'm used to in North America and

I wanted to share that with the audience there wasn't really the intention to make money as much as just having fun and trying to have kind of a video diary of my experiences making videos that I could reflect

on my experiences and uh yeah just going from there um okay Billy what's your average monthly pay so my budget would be 75,000 pesos I think 75,000 is a reasonable amount uh but really the idea would be I

look at it in dollars I try to denominate my budget in dollars because that's where my income is more often coming from I think $1,500 US dollars is ideal uh to start with above that certainly great below that

I think you start to run into some risks uh let's see how much 15 u500 USD is in pesos so about 85,000 pesos is really I do know some people here on that 75,000 peso budget I think 85,000

is a little bit better because you want to account for currency fluctuations the exchange rate may weaken especially with dropping interest rates in the US that typically correlates with the exchange rate weakening in terms of US dollars to

Philippine Pesos um and so yeah I hope that answers your question okay Billy how long how long will you do you think you're staying in the Philippines yeah so it depends limay uh my your audience is growing rapidly

well thank you so much I really appreciate that compliment I've just been very fortunate to meet a lot of great mentors here in dumag that have helped to helped me to take it to the next level helped me

to improve my content thumbnails understanding like um understanding how to be more efficient understanding how to use my time here effectively of course featuring me on their channels which is a rare feat I think for me that's just

a a massive compliment that they would be willing to have me meet Their audience and get to know Their audience it's uh just so kind for them to do that because there's a lot more for these bigger channels

to offer me than I have to offer them but so to answer your question Lim say I am in the interview process for a couple jobs back in the San Francisco area these jobs are offering me uh what

I what I would consider pretty good compensation uh and I would just go back and stack money just live as cheap as I can and save and invest as much as I can and there's I only at the

income that I'm being offered the pay ratees I'm being offered then it would only take me a few more years at that income to be totally financially independent uh and to be able to come over here permanently I

don't want to be in this oh I lived here for five years and now all of a sudden I'm almost broke and I need to rush back and the channel you know I don't I'm not able to give

it any attention because I'm struggling or scrambling I like the idea of having a successful Channel but it's not easy if it was easy everybody right would have a successful Channel but we have this kind of bi because

we see the most successful channels that everybody can do and I don't feel that's the case it takes a lot of work it takes a lot of time it takes some luck it t it takes finding your product

Market fit understanding your audience and what would be of value to them because I have to respect your time the fact that 16 of you are giving me your undivided attention is so generous and I wanted to make

it worth your while over an extended period of time not just for today not just for tomorrow before a very long time and so yeah this is kind of a long-winded answer Lim say but great question Drew says

new subscriber for you Paul about two years coming this January hope to meet you Paul and Mike yeah if I'm uh here in the Philippines in January if I don't get that lucrative offer that I'm prepared to take

I'd be happy to meet with you drew it's uh yeah dumag Getti is just such a cool town I mean it has in some ways kind of a a Crossroads feeling to me like you're even though you're in

a modes sized town it's this Crossroads of uh you know foreigners coming through and also a lot of interesting local people cool coffee shops nice restaurants there's so much to see here so much to do here you can't

go wrong I think uh no of course it's not for everyone but I do think it does offer everyone something for a lot of people they might enjoy the restaurants for others they might enjoy the activities for others

Maybe they find a significant other here there's just uh it I look at it like it punches above its weight it's you know 15 150,000 people but it feels some ways Larger than Life due to the presence of

the vloggers Filipina P Paul old dog new tricks Mike's Philippine retirement Gio really talented and hardworking folks okay Billy why are some YouTube Fa YouTubers faceless on camera yeah you know some people just want to maintain their privacy

I don't blame him being a YouTuber especially early on can be thankless you can get some bad Trolls uh and some people they just don't want to be recognized in public they want they may have a job that

uh you know based on their content their job could be at risk there's a lot of reasons to be faceless I don't mind because I feel like it's on brand for me to be on camera I want to

be accountable to what I say I want be able to people to be able to push back on what I'm saying if it's genuine question or Genuine concern uh working in sales definitely made me have thicker skin and

so uh you know I don't mind being on camera I don't mind having a face attached to my content I've also checked in with my vlogger friends about that you know does it potentially risk your content and they've

gone through the scenarios with me and they're like yeah it's I mean I don't think it's a major risk I don't think what I have to talk about is of much interest for potential employers it's also not controversial

I try to stay away from the controversial stuff I don't really think that it's the uh sty it's not I don't think it's my style uh for other people sure they want to talk about certain controversial topics I'm

willing to talk about controversial topics but I don't like the idea of playing status games oh uh people are this or people are that or can you believe this vloger this can you believe this Vlog or that it's

just a very stressful subject and I'd rather be uh a be I try to be an optimist these days like not always successful at that um I also try to be a realist but if I'm too pessimistic I

think it would harm my audience who is looking for a better life for themselves for many of you you do want something different than what you're experiencing and just coming on here and telling you oh it was hot

today and oh this restaurant was out of mashed potatoes and this and that it's not helpful for the Philippines and it's not helpful for people who'd like to live here or at least visit here welcome welcome Tony always

good to see you Tony Everyone by the way I'll do another uh polite reminder we've got 18 people watching please give us a thumbs up if you haven't already it helps to uh increase and draw attention to the

channel share an algorithm and uh yeah I'm sorry Tony that uh I didn't I should have sent you a message but I'll be trying to do another stream probably this weekend maybe midweek this is another busy week for

me I feel like every single day here almost every single day unless I take a day off is jam-packed yeah it's Tony the growth has been wild I can't thank Tony enough everybody Tony is a channel member and

uh you know channel members get access to content early I'm also trying to start to do members only content content that is only for them probably what I call a little bit spicier content um so those are the

two main benefits when we build up enough channel members I'll do members only streams periodically where we can have uh a small group able to ask more pled questions maybe there's some things they wouldn't want to share with

the larger audience that they're more happy to share with membership or with members with their fellow members uh and it helps to support the channel it helps me to invest more time into the channel if the channel got

big enough that it far exceeded my um you know the my or even matched my earning potential back home then may be a situation where I go vlogging full-time uh so yeah that's certainly an appeal of membership not

a requirement but certainly greatly appreciate Tony Drew says new subscriber for you Paul about two oh yeah we already got that one uh Anita Marcado says good luck Alex thank you so much Anita that's so uh generous and

kind unano says I would be okay with a one-bedroom Place overseas yeah I mean for me per slay Studio or one bedroom is plenty less to keep uh less to clean up less to keep up with potentially more

secure easier to uh you know just drop and go traveling if you want to do that and uh yeah I mean it's uh you know I think there's some advantages to single family homes but I'm more of an

apartment guy it's just more in line with what I'm used to back home uh okay Billy what's your process extending your Visa tourist visa yeah so I just went down to dumag immigration and dropped off my passport paid

the fee it was 230 pesos to extend another 29 days uh they told me because I didn't pay for express that I'll be able to go in tomorrow probably tomorrow morning and pick up my passport from dumag immigration

uh and yeah and then I'll have to extend uh maybe another few weeks if I'm like I said if I don't get the offer I'll go back to extend again but it's really just uh answering their questions paying

the fee and giving them the time to process it you can pay for Express turnaround I think I don't know how fast they that expedites it but great question Gerard says how much is a decent one bedroom rent

for in dollars so Gerard that's a pretty uh complex question so a few of the qualifying questions I would ask you what city would you prefer to be in uh what neighborhood would you prefer to be in how

many square meters would you prefer to have um what amenities would you prefer to have all these locations factor into that the most expensive I would say is going to be a large Penthouse Style and bonao Global City

in Manila that's going to be your highest most expensive and your cheapest is going to be a more uh you know local style or uh you know a Filipino style very small apartment in a provincial area and everything

in between there's no real limit on the maximum I would say most guys are going to want something that's at least a few hundred dollar maybe three or $400 per month to to be comfortable now if you want

a local style apartment there's nothing wrong with that I am currently on Airbnb paying 250 per month and I don't have airon but I've got a fan um I'm comfortable with it I find that the Philippines is more

moderate temperature- wise where I'm at certainly some places are hotter certainly some places are cooler the uh cooler the coolest temperature- wise place is going to be bagio bagio does tend to run a bit expensive because a lot

of foreigners like that lower temperature closer to what they're used to um but yeah that's that's the question I asked for you Gerard is what city are you looking at um you are you willing to sign a year

lease that's going to bring your cost down as opposed to renting on a monthly basis uh do you need a lot of airon you rent aircon that's going to run your electric bill up do you need to uh

have the the swimming pool right if you want a swimming pool a gated community that's going to cost more uh so these are all questions to ask or to research when you are planning for your time over here

okay Billy says put money in your 401k I'm not sure how to go about doing that Billy as I'm not uh currently employed but I did Max it out in the US so when I've been working I definitely

max out my contribution because I typically get a match from an employer and that's like free money right it is delayed I can't I can't access access my 401k until I hit 59 A5 uh without a significant penalty

so that's another emergency fund I squirrel money away and that and uh that's another uh thing to um yeah to pull up um great question though okay Billy a great comment okay Billy un cono says do you have

to renew your be every 30 days at the border so it's not at the border it is at immigration say uh the first one is 30 days and then the subsequent renewals are every 60 days or 59 days

something like that so your first one you'll got it you'll have to get it done 30 days your second one I haven't done my second one yet but I'll get 60 days I don't know if it's like the

2030 pesos per month uh let me convert that to Dollars 2030 pesos to USD that's about $36 with today's exchange rates that you'll pay for the first month I don't know if that doubles for your second month if

that go up to $72 um but that's roughly what it costs now now that fee may go up the system may change but currently then you'll do that uh that first one 30 days every subsequent one every 60

days unless you get married if you get married then you'd be looking at a uh a 13A Visa you're as far as I know unono unono you're not at the typical retirement age so you're not looking at the

Sr RV uh but that's something to think about for those who are at more traditional retirement age how much is cell phone service and internet so I do what's called getting load I go to this uh third party

retailer you can buy load from uh you can buy load from uh you know anybody that has load they'll typically do like a 3% mark up uh so if I want just the data they charge me 102 pesos

they pay 99 pesos for that and they charge me 102 that's something like I think 10 gigs um and I do that every probably three or four days I go and by load if you extrapolate that over the

course of a month let's say just for sake of discussion I do it every third day 10 times that works out to be like 20 bucks I'd imagine you should budget 20 maybe $25 for data service great question

though on cono I mean definitely you want to have your data here uh it's that's what I'm using right now actually I may have to go and get more load after this live stream because uh you know live

streams can definitely chew up a lot of data so uh we'll see you know we'll see I they get send me a text message notification when I'm out of data and then I just go to the mall Robinson's

Mall here in dumag and pay 102 pesos or if I want text and calling which sometimes I do if a friend of mine texts me that I'll pay 155 pesos and that's super helpful unfriendly stoic you can H

so you can't do that unfriendly stoic that that's not doable you you cannot uh do 36 months that's just not uh yeah not applicable on the tourist visa Gerard says can one get permanent residence it's it's pretty complex

Gerard I think it's beyond the scope of my channel I'm not an expert I do know Philippine and I'll through his uh Channel PHX Pat prepper he's either attained that or he's working toward it I recommend checking his

channel out and he uh he'll probably go into more detail on that over there something that's very very long in the future for me in my channel something I may not be able to attain so uh that's something

I would you know if you don't find your answers there you might reach out to U an authorized licensed attorney here in the Philippines who could potentially set up a consult with you I'm not connected with any personally

at this current time uh but you could check out you know do doing some Googling to uh find that out but yeah guys we'll probably go for another 15 minutes or so feel free to chime in with any

questions or comments comments or thoughts that you have it's been a great stream the best stream I've ever done I greatly appreciate everyone's support and interest and uh it's just mindblowing to me that over 2,000 people actually are

enjoying my content and wanting to watch my channel I'm definitely starting to get hungry my tummy is rumbling I had a bunch of caffeine and so I'm going to go uh get something nice to eat to um yeah

just to to fill my stomach up I'm thinking about heading over to Robinson's to uh maybe go to you know one of the restaurants there they've got some great restaurants at Robinson's may eat somewhere in town may try

somewhere new there's a Chinese restaurant here in town called uh I think Chun long something like that that I've been wanting to try California bear 619 says I like your interviews thank you so California bear I've got two

more in the tank that I need to edit one I didn't use my mic for so it may not get the traction um and then the other one I did so I just recorded one with Gio Gio and

the Philippines for those of you who are familiar he's got a great Channel and sat down with him and chatt with him I've got to do some editing on that I'll probably tackle that this afternoon but yeah thank

you so much for the compliment California bear I'm going to be doing more and more interviews because one that's what everybody wants to see right I mean interviews tend to do very very well and uh I'm getting better

at them I've had a lot of coaching now and I just understand the process a lot better I'm also getting more and more confident to go and ask people hey you open to be interviewed I do need to

post in some Facebook groups to try to find potential guests if you know any potential guests you think would be interesting have them reach out to me I'll throw my email for the channel in the chat uh Eastern

dreamer pH gmail.com and uh you can also you know any questions anybody has feel free to reach out on there anano what do you think of the west future yeah I think it's just uh you know my personal

opinion I I think there's going to be a lot of struggle one I don't see the uh cost of living coming down in the West in our lifetimes I think that it will just continue to get more expensive

I use the phrase and you'll hear me say this a lot uh a while ago one guy typically a guy back then could support a family on an income a family of four and then it evolved toward you

need two fam two uh professionals working to support a family these days you got two people a couple that are both working full-time and they can't afford to have kids so I think that a lot of people in

the west will feel stress and struggle and frustration at the fact that they're unable to uh start a family like maybe they envisioned when they were younger certainly some do some people do I'm not here to decry those

people or to criticize those people but uh you really need a solid income to do that right I mean I know of several people uh who are acquaintances or friends of mine and they have children and they really

struggle um because even if they have a big income they've got a mortgage payment they've got one or two car payments their food bill is several $100 a week to feed their family vacations they you know all these

things it's like for one person okay it's expensive it's more difficult the more people you're trying to support I look at what's your income and how many people is your income supporting if you're making you know 200k a

year as a lawyer and you're only supporting yourself okay that's a pretty comfortable lifestyle if you're making uh 50k a year as a a librarian or 40K years a librarian and you're trying to support a family of four

that's a different conversation and everything in between right uh so you know I think the average American is making like let me see I'm GNA just Google this because I need to ask uh average household income USA so

the average household income in the United States a couple years ago 2022 was 75,000 per year um that includes New York City that includes San Francisco California those in the incomes in those areas skews really high so let's

say for Middle America it's 60k let's take let drop down by 20 25% uh you know how much are they how much are they paying in taxes if they're making 60k a year they're probably really coming out with

40K 48k a year so now they're getting 4,000 a month um if they own their house outright not bad if they're paying rent I know for a single family home uh you're easily paying 22500 a month so now

they've got a, maybe, 1500 a month to pay their bills um I I think a lot of people in the west are just unhappy things have not worked out in the way that younger people were promised it used

to be in the west that the older people would be broke and the younger working people lived really well a long time ago people assumed to live well younger they had the disposable income to have a family they

could take vacations now it's reversed now it's typically the retired people who have disposable income who live really well and it's the younger people who are struggling um so I think you're going to have more and more disaffected

young people men and women I'm not just talking to to men here but men and women who feel like uh the what they were promised as kids oh just get a job just go to college just do this

just do that that advice uh is not helpful for them is not relevant I can't tell you how much unwarranted advice I get Alex you just need to do this you just need to do that when they don't

know about my background they don't know about my life story they don't know about my skills they don't know much about me at all and so a lot of times I'm getting this terrible advice when I'm back home

that is irrelevant to My Life um especially outside of my career am I going to listen to my sales manager absolutely they probably have more sales experience than me am I going to listen to my VP of sales

absolutely probably much sharper sales person myself am I going to listen to to Joe Schmo or Uncle Billy about how I just need to go and give him a firm handshake and they'll give me a promotion now that's

ridiculous there's one of the things that we're dealing with in the west is an overs supply of labor make of that what you will there's just too many people competing for too few good jobs that can actually pay

the bills uh it's not like in the past where there was a shortage of Labor and it was much easier to get on a career track even without a college education I mean that's another thing that's a requisite

like I have an irrelevant degree a useless degree but a number of the jobs that I've gotten they've let they've said we don't care what it is we just want somebody with a degree because they've got so many

people uh you know applying for these jobs they need to have artificial ways of filtering out candidates so I think as it becomes more and more frustrated You' got more and more de dejected young people people who feel

like no matter what I do I'm never going to be able to uh have an enjoyable life that things will become less stable I don't know what that looks like I don't know uh exactly when you know that

will become more apparent but I find normal people are more and more uh open to me talking about this they see the crime in their City they see the houselessness in their City uh they [Music] see they see

the inflation I mean the inflation is like bonking people on the head every single day every single time uh they go to the grocery store they're getting hit with inflation every single time they pay their rent I mean

back in my hometown of Nashville I have friends that two years ago were paying a thousand a month for rent now they're paying 1,500 uh they've gotten uh pay increases but what does it matter matter you know it's

like if you get a 50% pay bump but everything else goes up 50% I mean you're really not increasing your standard of living that much even though you're older you should be getting compensated more for your experience your

lifestyle hasn't changed meaningfully um and so I think there's declining upward mobility in the western democracies uh I've been very fortunate to get into uh Bay Area Tech which has done very well over the last couple of decades

um very very fortunate to get my foot in the dorm barrier Tech I'm grateful to all the companies I've worked for who have invested money into training me but not everybody can work in Tech um the thing about

the tech industry is that you need small teams doing really amazing work with massive results to create that really high compensation level and as a result a bad hire in Tech can be extraordinarily expensive um and so they're

very very selective about who they want to bring on board because a really good hire can make them tons of money can bring in great salesperson can bring in tons of new business a great engineer can write some

code that creates massive value for a company uh but I think you know it's there's going to be some challenges in Middle America where many people uh if they haven't gotten a skilled trade or a solid education they

are really their quality of life is declining I think the middle class has been eliminated and much of the Western World um you've got people that own a lot of assets and don't have to work and you've got

people who own nothing and struggle month-to month you've got a small middle class of professionals lawyers doctors um tech technical people trades people uh but those people are finite right if everybody was doing those jobs the compensation would

not be where it's at just it just wouldn't um and so I think you know it's important to be mindful you know if you don't have an education maybe you don't want you don't want to make the investment

in that to look at skilled trades I'm not a trades person but it seems like that's a faster way if you uh you know to maintain an in demand skill I think with an aging population in the western

democracies it's uh having a physical job there's some elements that are benefit right there's some of disadvantages I'm not going to be here and sit here and tell you oh just go get a trade bro uh certainly trades

aren't for everyone but there's uh you know there's opportunity there it's certainly to start your own business I think if you're working for somebody else your income is going to be Capp they've got to make a profit on

you they've got to spend money to train you they've got to pay for your insurance so the ideal for a lot of people uh would be to eventually go on to start your own business right where you have

autonomy you have accountability you are responsible but you also have the potential upside that comes with that I hope that helped answer your question Gerard Gerard says I agree ronell says you can interview YouTube vloggers too yeah several

of my inter most of my interviews so far have been with other vloggers and I anticipate continuing to do so if you know of another vlogger who's looking for guests feel free to uh reach out to me uh

Gerard says this is the reason I wish to move out of the US yeah I mean I talked to recent immigrants in the US or first gen and they're like yeah I mean we thought it was going to

be paradise here in the US and it's readily apparent we just moved to an economic zone where the value of our labor is extracted we're tired uh the country does not is not in line with our values whatever

their values may be they feel like there's a misplacement there or I value these things and the leadership in America values these things um they feel like they don't have the time to spend with their families they are

not getting ahead in the same way that they thought they would uh they may feel like they're Treading Water financially because of inflation um they may miss their home country they may feel like man you know here it's

cold there's this winter and back home there's not much of a winter so that's a great uh a great Point Gerard I you know my first visit to Thailand totally changed my perspective on life I knew six years

ago I wanted to move out of the US and with every subsequent year that feeling is only solidified um it's only become more and more solid for me that I want to go try living somewhere else I want

to explore other countries maybe it doesn't work out maybe uh Colombia is not for me but I can find the place for me I think I found that here in the Philippines the Philippines may not be for you

you may come here and feel like man I really like vacationing there but as far as to live there it's not the right place for me to live um and I think more and more people will do it

I think more and more people will have this sense of hopelessness in the US and feel like what do I have to lose I'm single maybe I got a divorce uh maybe I don't have many friends or family

maybe people are too busy um for whatever uh reason they just feel like it's worth a shot and I I think that's the case for a lot of people um anano says if you're under 55 old single male

you should move out of the West no upward Mobility I think it's it's mixed it depends on how cheap you're willing to live on cono like if you're capable of maxing your income and living far below your means

which involves a lot of sacrifice I lived in a shoe box apartment in California I'm probably if I go back I'm living in a shoe box apartment in California I'm not going out on the weekends I'm if I

go out it's to do free activities it's to go hang out at people's houses it's to go hiking it's to go to the beach it's not going to be going out to a fancy concert it's not going out

to uh fancy Michelin star dinners every uh night of the week it's not to um buy a sports car it's a very what I would call a Spartan lifestyle right so I was able in California to save about

65 to 70% of my income but this was a lifestyle most people do not want to lead I never I didn't fly back home for a year uh I didn't uh I wasn't trying to date you know um

I did go and get uh food at restaurants take out because I'm working so hard and so fast there were times I I just didn't have time like I'm eating on my lunch break uh and so there are

certain things you have to pay for to work so efficiently but I tried to be very structured in that plus California has rent control so my apartment in California had rent control where they're not doing this 20% rent

increase you see in the midwest that actually against the law where I lived in California there's a maximum I think two or three% that they could actually raise my rent uh in the building that I was in now

of course there's tradeoffs with that they don't do the maintenance they don't do the upkeep uh Beyond what's legally required like they're not constantly putting up a new paint job they're not uh you know putting in a new

set of stairs um the building is a little bit dishevel but I don't care I'm there to make money right I'm there expressly to make money I don't care about living uh below my means in the short term

um because you know just for uh you you know just for what it's worth like I know what I'm going toward I know what I'm working toward I know the lifestyle I can have over here and I'm willing

to make short to medium-term sacrifices to attain that uh there's nothing that's going to blow my mind away in America anymore I've been to 36 States uh I've lived in three three different states I've lived in Tennessee I've

lived in Colorado I've lived in California multiple times in each um there's nothing that's just going to blow my mind I've eaten at fancy restaur restaurants I've uh flown many many times I've gone to the beach in Florida

I've spent time in New York City I've lived near San Francisco uh lived in the mountains of Colorado for several years uh or near the mountains in some cases it's uh I've been there done that and there's a

lot to see and there's a lot to do but I feel like I've done it done most of what I wanted to do seen most of what I wanted to see um seeing my granddad's Hometown in rural Idaho

seeing my mom where mom was born in um Central California lived in uh Nashville went to concerts every night for years or almost every night for years back when it was really cheap to do so or there were

free concerts a lot of the times um live near downtown you know uh I could go on and on about all the things I've done in the US but so if I just suffice it to say the most

part been there done that uh got the t-shirt and I'm ready to move on to the next phase of my life and I think that lifestyle is abroad uh apparently ancano says apparently some people are going to stay

and fight an American fight yeah you know more power to them uh each individual has to make their own decision their own determination about what they want to do how they want to live where they want to live

if somebody enjoys their life in America uh I fully support that right I think I've heard this said before if your life in America is awesome cool cool beans like uh if you enjoy it if it's the perfect

fit for you I support that I'm happy for you I have no ill will or jealousy toward people living the American dream uh but it's not for me and I have to be transparent and honest it's not something

that I'm interested in doing I'm just one guy with a camera with a laptop um yeah so that's kind of my feeling about the stand and fight thing I feel too is just an average Joe what you know

does anything really change for the average Joe I don't think so um you may feel differently and there's nothing wrong with that uh limay says super friendly gentle vlogger John Smo would be an amazing vlogger to interview and

vice versa so I recently met John and I'm a fan of John's Channel and I've had some great conversations with John I'd love to sit down with him when I make it up to SIU and to ask him

some questions and to uh be featured on his channel I think he's just got a lot of insight and a lot of um yeah just a lot to to talk about he's also an entrepreneur if you're a business

person or a business-minded person he's got a lot of insight check out his channel everyone I'll throw one of his channels down there California expat he's just a sharp guy I mean when I sat down and talk with

him he's he's just got uh he's got a good personality I don't know how else to say it he's just a very friendly and personable guy um unono says do you think the FED will turn on the money

printer again yeah I think they're going to have to turn the money printer on uh it's the only way to deal with the debt is to inflate out of the debt and I've had people get really upset when

I talk about this because they activate their just World hypothesis right life is fair um good things happen to good people they start they start working their add World hypothesis life is fair life is fair life is what

it is reality is neutral we have to assess it um oh wow wow good to see you John hey welcome welcome we have to assess it accurately we have to really think about the situation accurately I personally think

that uh you know I I oh by the way John you're you're getting some compliments here some of my subscribers are familiar uh with your channel and your business shout out to John SMU but yeah just to kind

of tie tie in that question I I do think that the FED will have to turn on the money printer it's um I think the economy will break a bit more if it doesn't eventually happen to provide liquidity

um I think it'll need to uh we encono says we live in clown world now yeah I mean I think that's that's what a lot of people are feeling um ma home uh R says you been to Seattle

and Texas I want to go to a uh Native American reservation um yeah I've been to Seattle been to Texas I was in Texas for work about um about two years ago Austin area very cool Town reminds me

a lot of Nashville and Seattle I like Seattle a lot of course the Seattle sound Nirvana uh you know classic grunge rock music um Gerard is it just me or is there no roof at this restaurant it's like

uh I don't know it's kind of like a greenhouse style ronell says I want to go to Every base um yeah there that's definitely an interesting uh a definitely an interesting goal uh will the US government pay off

the debt I'm not sure how they will um in an Ideal World they would I you know it's not realistic to compare personal finance to the per the finance of a global economy but I I say this in

a polite way I could not live with that kind of debt I would be I'd be pulling my hair out it would be be very stressed out with um with debt at that level of course I'm an individual

I'm not a nation so it's not really realistic to compare uh personal debt versus sovereign debt Gerard says America is a dream yeah certainly that's a a fair point um California expat John says Lim say ho thank you

Lim say ho and John says hi Alex I literally saw your live just as I saw some of these kind comments yeah I think uh people are very familiar uh who are fans of the Philippines or who are

prospective visitors or Travelers or long-term residents they uh they like your content they like your Vibe John I think that you have this kind of uh optimism right that I think a lot of most successful entrepreneurs entrepreneurs have

is they're optimistic about the future about their ability to problem solve about their ability to sort out people's needs and um and serve their clients right uh so yeah if any of you by the way are watching you

need uh various Services check out John's business purple Cal marketing and I'll go ahead and throw the name purple Cal marketing down in the description below I think he's got some great offers um for those of you who

need those Services uh anano says some guy did a Ted Talk on when young people have no future um yeah the uh anano I mean yeah I saw that I think his name is Scott Miller and I think

whether or not that's fully true I do think some things on the internet are exaggerated to be fully transparent there's this need to uh exaggerate to capture people's attention right nobody wants to uh watch um something that doesn't

have more fewer people want to watch something that doesn't have this extreme eye-catching title or ah you know the world is g to end I think everywhere in the world is just evolving I think that some people will

adapt to the change and be able to succeed in the new paradigm and others will be left behind as has been the case for Millennia right um you know you you uh you see the way a person would

Ain success even a hundred years ago that looks very different than the success of today I think that with leverage right the internet creates leverage in the age of the internet with so much massive leverage you have a

lot more winners and losers right you have some people that have far away massive success uh you see this in the business world right I think something like four or five companies comprise 20% of the S&P 500 uh

the economic output of the United States Google uh Amazon Netflix um apple and Nvidia uh represent something like 20% of the US economy um conversely there's some random guy who's trying to start a streaming service uh that is

you know not able to afford the server space um because like YouTube right is subsidized by other parts of Google's businesses um and so yeah there's there's more extreme winners and more people who just don't make the cut

um for those who don't make the cut uh they I think they're fair to feel a sense of struggle or unhappiness um they may feel hopeless I have to um I have to acknowledge that right I'm not going

to sit here and tell you oh young people have the best future ever a lot of young people are struggling in the western democracies and it's important to acknowledge that it's important to be cognizant of that and to

consider how we could help some of those people right I mean that's the goal part of the goal of my channel is to uh sort out reality such that people can watch my content watch my streams watch my

videos and get a better sense of is this the right fit for them is it not the right fit for them uh how could they upgrade their skill set to potentially make a larger income keep their expenses low

and uh pursue the lifestyle that's more in line with what they want to get out of life right because life's short we're not here forever we got a finite amount of time here and the ideal world of course

maybe I'm just a dreamer but the ideal world is in which PE is the one in which a person can live in the way that makes them happy and feels makes them feel fulfilled and uh that's part of

the goal of my channel is to come here and to uh you know be awesome uh be not be awesome sorry is to be helpful um California xat says appreciate everyone Alex was great to finally meet you accidentally

in dag Getti recently after we've been in touch for years yeah John and I accidentally met at the local mall and that was a really like a once in a blue moon kind of thing uh where I happened

to have just finished my lunch and he was there to meet a mutual friend of ours and I was like I know that guy and so I approached John and we had a great conversation and uh yeah just

I mean I I've been in touch with John for several years over um you know over the Internet after I watched him be interviewed and that was really yeah really very uh a wonderful coincidence to meet him there

uh limso says California expat you're my go-to guy wishing Alex the best and hope you two can meet up yeah uh my plan if I get that offer in the Bay Area I'll be going up to SIU I

want to meet the lady that I've become acquainted with and I'd also like to meet John and get a chance to sit down with him and chat on his channel and then also ask him some questions for my

audience who's uh really getting so much better benefit from these conversations with these guys who are I like to call them xad experts but he's not a boomer being cool JN is I think technically Gen X so he's

not a boomer being cool that's a series that I think is really funny is I'm a fan of this subreddit Boomers being fools but uh I think the alternative or the positive side the flip side of that is

Boomers being cool guys who are in the boomer generation that they want to pass on the torch so to speak they want to help the younger Generations they want to share their uh Insight uh your channel is loaded

with ads awesome yeah I mean solo transi and I got to be honest like it's uh it's costs money to create content right uh it costs money to buy laptops cameras it costs money to get coffee it costs

money to move around here in the Philippines and so for those who are putting out quality content then they've got to find ways to monetize their Channel um and so that's you know that's something that I'll keep in

mind uh if I get sponsorships then of course that's a a better a more ideal way to operate right is sponsorships more than ads because there's just more opportunity in that I think there's more value in that for

the audience um and maybe a little bit less bothersome anano says have you seen the channel masculine development he talks a lot about a lot of the stuff you do let me pull him up anano [Music] masculine wow

so I haven't but uh I'll give him a subscribe and I'll check his uh Channel out um always happy to check out other vloggers and it might be an interesting collaboration maybe I could send him an email and

uh you know maybe we do some kind of live stream collaboration uh but I'll probably start to wind the stream down in the next 10 minutes I'm definitely feeling famished and want to go grab some lunch uh which

is better expat or passport Bros um yeah I don't know um I I lean toward xat because I don't think that the sole reason for guys to to move abroad should be dating and let me explain why if

you are solely focused on dating as your reason to move abroad and that relationship you find a relationship and it doesn't work out then you're you know you're living in a far away land you may have not put

as much effort into making friends you may not enjoy that location uh you've got to I look at it like you've got to have a deep love for the country that you move to you've got to have a

deep appreciation for the culture I talked a bit about about this with Paul where I explained to Paul like part of what makes your life good is not just your wife it's your community it's your circle of friends

it's the fact that you like the weather you like the culture it's this multi-layered almost like a lasagna and you could tell where my mind is at but almost like this lasagna effect where you've got all these layers

that you love and you're not limited to just oh man my relationship's great but oh I don't like the weather ah the cuisine isn't in line with what I want or um I feel really bored here uh so

I lean toward expat because if a relationship doesn't work out if it doesn't materialize in the way that you thought it would you still like a lot of other things about that place and you can still pursue another

relationship you're not thinking okay that didn't work out time to go back home like I just think that's suboptimal is it wrong no I think if a guy or gal decides they want to go back home there's nothing

wrong with that each individual has to decide where they want to live can they pull it off are they going to be compliant with the VISA structure which everybody needs to be mindful of um uh yeah I I'm

just I have less appreciation for the passport bro movement I think that it's uh it's a little bit too transactional uh in my mind it's a little bit too like I go there with my money and I get

attention and uh I just I don't know I think it kind of cheapens living over seas I um I've been called that but I don't know if you know I don't know if that really applies to me because

for me even if it weren't for relationships I'd still live outside the US um I love Peru I love Colombia uh love the Philippines love Thailand these are probably I love Portugal too would be like my top five

and Spain those would be my top five or six places to live and I'd like to live in those places with or without a relationship a relationship to me is icing on the cake it's not a make or

break for my happiness I find my happiness through vlogging and through the community I have here the relationships I'm able to build and to develop um but yeah absolutely great question Ron uh Christopher says what is your location

so I'm currently in dagate Christopher I'm in dumag Philippines and it's just such a cool City anano says you need to find a place where you want to spend the rest of your life absolutely agree onano you need

to like ideally you need to like most of the following you need to like the culture culture is super important you need to be willing to comply this is the most important you need to be willing to comply

with the VISA requirements whatever they are whatever they adapt and evolve to you need to be compliant I say that for every country I Believe In following the rules whatever they may be uh I believe in respecting the

culture it may it's probably different than American culture but I'm living there because I prefer it to what I'm used to uh you need to have you need to find food that you like right I mean um that's

going to be an easier one I found good food in every country but maybe for you you got different preferences for me um that's probably it's probably a tier where compliance is number one number two is culture H

number three is relationships that you're able to build a sense of community uh because I found that to be very healing for myself and for other guys that they're able to develop this uh Vibrant Community right I mean

back home I was so desperate for friendship that I'd want to hang out with people I didn't really share values with here I've got so many people that I'm in touch with I can turn down interaction I can

turn down offers to hang out because I just got so many people that would like to hang out grab coffee grab a meal go for a walk uh chat you know these these things are there's so much abundance

for me in my life here unano asked what do you think of the great reset I honestly don't know much about it this is something that I just haven't been as familiar with I think it talk about that

may have I don't know when it came out I you know I feel like uh message in a bottle of drift in an ocean back home that kind of answers your question on cono ronal thanks for answering yeah

absolutely thank you for your uh thoughtful question ronal Gerard says 2.11k subscribers what was it a month ago so month ago I was sitting in around 1,700 so I've gotten around 400 subscribers and I'm getting more every day

I mean every time it feels like every time I re refresh my homepage my YouTube homepage I've got more people uh joining um and I think that'll just continue as I get better and better at YouTube as I

try to create more and more thoughtful or interesting content uh more and more people will find Value and what I have to say and what I have to share I'm also able to do more and more interesting collaborations

uh get featured on different channels and provide value to Their audience and in turn they're like oh wow this guy's interesting and other people are like oh this guy's a joke I'm not going to watch him either way

it's cool with me yeah great question Gerard Christopher says first year first seeing your channel are you traveling or relocating I would say I'm more traveling I'm in what I call a discovery trip I want to see different

places in the Philippines I want to get a better sense of what I like and what may not be for me dumag Getti has been awesome it's maybe the place I've enjoyed the most I also like SIU I

also like cigan I also like Kay and deoro so I think that for me personally being a younger guy I want to uh I want to get a better sense of what I like what's going to be a

right fit for me also if I meet a significant other that's going to have a major impact on where I locate to some will say find your place before you find your so I don't always necessarily agree with

that um there's eight billion people on the planet I think there's someone for everywhere everyone but meeting the right person will help you better enjoy a location so uh being here as a single guy in dag Getti is

not the same experience as being a committed guy here in dag Getti being a guy who's committed to a significant other who is guiding them around town as Mike says you get in a relationship she's going to do

everything in your power if you found a good one the right one everything in her power to help you save money she's going to help you moderate your rental price she's going to help you uh you know go

grocery shopping she's going to help you sort out your transportation your health care all these things it's so helpful to have somebody on your side and backing you up H Christopher says first seeing your channel are you traveling

or oh yeah sorry answer that do you think you'd make a video about tech sales uh if I go back yeah you know it may be something that I started a new channel for uh stoic but I have

mixed feelings about it because I know that some companies are not as comfortable with that I don't want to disclose anything proprietary I don't want to share any information that isn't public so it have to be pretty generic

I think there's some other guys that do it well like Trent dressle is somebody who does Great Tech sales content um you know I it's one of those places where I'm pretty good but I also want to be

cognizant of the needs of the business um what the business does and doesn't want being put out there um I have nothing bad to say about my former employers but uh some of them May be concerned about like

me having positive things to say it's it's hard to tell it's hard to gauge uh the value the exchange of value there right anano says have a nice lunch thankk you so much anano that's very kind uh Christopher

says how long have you been in the Philippines what kind of budget does a young man like yourself have so I aim for like you know 12 to, 1500 a month and expenses I can live below that I

mean some months are very cheap like I don't go out as much um I'm trying to prep for certain tests like the GMAT or the elsat um a little bit it's it's kind of tricky I I sometimes I'm

going in too too many different directions I have to narrow it down um so I'd say on the low end I've had expenses as low as 7 800 bucks in a month on the high end I've had it

months as high as uh 14500 I lean toward trying to budget the for the higher amount uh because I don't know know it just it's more practical that way below, 1500 I think most guys are going to struggle

I've spent multiple years living outside of the US now so I'm able to live on less than what a less experienced person would live on uh I'm able to it's kind of like a skill set that you get

and the more skills you get the better off you are at budgeting um you find and also the longer you spend in one place the more budget friendly uh options you find you know what to pay for things

whereas if you're a newcomer you don't know what to pay for things you're going to overpay sometimes um you may you know the less time you spent out of the US you may be less used to foreign Cuisine

that may not be to your liking where I eat a fair amount of local food uh you know when the opportunity presents itself yeah I've been here for a few weeks uh Christopher prior to coming here I spent

a year in Thailand I spent a month in Vietnam I've spent about six months between Mexico Colombia and Peru uh visited Europe visited Northern Africa Morocco been all over the United States visited Canada um but I I'm preferential

to Asia I've spent the most time in Asia I see longterm most of my focus on uh on living here in Asia uh unfriendly so first time a manila taxi guy got me for 600 pce to maati from

the airport yeah you have to be mindful of that uh it's one of those things you learn it's a hard lesson I've definitely overpaid for taxi stoic um it's it's definitely an un uncomfortable lesson grab I recommend grab

taxi I'll go ahead and download this if uh grab app download grab app if you haven't already and you've got a trip upcoming learn how to use it load your payment card on there recommend using grab as much

as possible they calculate the fair for you they figure it out um they make a determination as to what you're going to pay and it's more transparent on the pricing um so that's a way to kind of jump

around that Kenya and Dubai is nice expensive yeah they're definitely I think above the price range for a lot of wouldbe xats but certainly for the wealthy expat or the the higher roller I think they could definitely be

appealing anano says I want to go to Southeast Asia yeah it's it's interesting there's so much variety here in a very small space so you know I don't tell people you must go here you must go there some

guys they're going to love Thailand other guys they like Vietnam some other guys prefer the Philippines I I think there's something for everyone here that likes the tropical weather the economical cost of living the friendly cultures the uh

the variety of Landscapes you got the mountains you got the ocean you've got so much to see and do over here I feel like I could spend a lifetime in Southeast Asia and still not see everything re reason

realistically speaking reasonably speaking probably 10 years per country but I do see uh for me personally at the current time this may change but at the current time I see the Philippines as the place that I want to

focus my attention on uh bang thumbs up thanks so much Christopher Leroy anano says I scuba die very cool anano you're a more courageous person myself I tried to in Mexico and it was terrifying I didn't do lessons

though so if I try to do lessons then I think it would be a better experience H but certainly scuba diving is a big uh reason why southeast Asia is so appealing there's a number of different places that

that's a popular activity to do um but yeah thanks so much everyone I am going to wind down I can't delay my lunch any longer uh please if you haven't already rewatching this subscribe to the Channel Down Below

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I can't thank you enough to all of my new subscribers and the new subscribers coming in the future and my long-term subscribers Gerard ask what time is it out there it's about 1:10 p.m. here so it's uh definitely

getting a little bit late for my lunch but I'm going to go ahead and jet and get that but yeah thanks so much everyone I hope you all have a wonderful evening or wonderful day wherever you are in

the world and we'll see you soon