Places to Retire: Nuvali/Santa Rosa City Laguna
One of my favorite places to visit close to my home in Binan is the Nuvali area of Santa Rosa City in Laguna. The City Of Santa Rosa is one of the best cities to live in Laguna Province of the Philippines. It’s nickname is “The Investment Capital of South Luzon” and it is about 40km south of Manila along the South Luzon Expressway (SLEX). It is actually a suburb of Metro Manila with a population of around 267,000 people although it could have been bigger had it not split with the city of Binan, where I reside. Even though, Santa Rosa is the 4th largest city in Laguna behind Calamba, San Pedro, and Binan.
A few years ago Santa Rosa was mostly known for being the home of a Coca-Cola plant and Toyota facility but more recently it has become more famous for places like the Enchanted Kingdom, a theme park, as well as the Nuvali technological park and several new residential areas.
What I liked about Nuvali is the location of the park which has a lake which you and your family can take boat rides on. Or you can relax at Starbucks or one of the nearby restaurants and watch the workers from the nearby call centers enjoying a sunny afternoon. This place is a growing metro area but is still small enough that you don’t have to worry about pollution or traffic. They have a very environment friendly attitude and it shows with the cleanliness all around. This is definitely one place you should check into as a retirement area. There are new housing developments being constructed as I write that are very modern and inexpensive. I have included a video and links to sites about Nuvali that you can check out. I am in the process of editing a video of a recent trip I made there with my family and will be posting it on YouTube soon.
Helpful Links
City of Santa Rosa Website - under construction as of 3/9/2010 but does contain helpful phone numbers and email addresses
Santa Rosa is great. My personal favorite though is Cebu City, Philippines.
You can read all about my travels there at http://www.paradiseinphilippines.com
Yes Tom Cebu City has some great attractions.
I remember back in one of my many visits there back in 1994 that when they were initially building the Coca Cola factory by the Express Way there at Sta. Rosa, the series of metal frames for one of the buildings that was under construction fell over. The falling frame started a domino effect and started knocking over the rest of the building frames (I believe around 8 or 10 of them) and killed many workers. How unfortunate for the many killed laborers. I was so shocked with the many unsafe construction projects that I witnessed. I plan on retiring there very soon and I hope the Philippine governments have made improvement on their construction safety standards.
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