Retire In The Philippines Now

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

Nuvali Evoliving

Santa Rosa Magazine

City of Santa Rosa Website - under construction as of 3/9/2010 but does contain helpful phone numbers and email addresses

How to Travel the World and Still Make Money

This post is about a recent post on johnchow.com that shows Yaro Starak giving a presentation of how he travels the world and still makes a good living while doing it. Yaro is one of the leaders in internet marketing and affiliate marketing. His material was one of the first I studied before deciding to start my internet marketing business. Here is a good example of how you can retire in the Philippines and still make money. To read the article CLICK HERE

Dive Philippines

If you like to dive the Philippines is the place to retire to do it. Just search the many sites relating to diving in the Philippines and Philippine Dive Resorts. The water is clear and the water temperature is very comfortable and you are guaranteed to see things underwater that you will not see anywhere. Check out a video I enjoyed from YouTube and think about making a trip to dive in the Philippines.

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Spam and My Lil Ol Website

Most of you know I retired from the rat race which is called corporate America and am attempting to make my living online. Working online has provided me with freedom to do things I have never been free to fully enjoy such as vacations, and time spent with family among other pleasures. Besides the freedom to do these things ,working online has released me from other nasty things like dealing with rude people and office politics. That is until the last couple of days. My websites have been hit by a hateful serial spammer who has attempted to intrude on my comments and spew hateful language towards me. But unlike in an office in the rat race, where I can’t plug my ears 24 hours a day, I have tools to filter this stuff.

I call this stuff spam although others would describe spam differently. In fact Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia describes spam as ” the abuse of electronic messaging systems (including most broadcast media, digital delivery systems) to send unsolicited bulk messages indiscriminately. While the most widely recognized form of spam is e-mail spam, the term is applied to similar abuses in other media: instant messaging spam, Usenet newsgroup spam, Web search engine spam, spam in blogs, wiki spam, online classified ads spam, mobile phone messaging spam, Internet forum spam, junk fax transmissions, social networking spam, and file sharing network spam.” My definition is much simpler and it is unwanted emails or comments the common thread being UNWANTED. That is why when I advertise on this site I only advertise with things that I have used or think that the readers would be interested in. Is there a way to prevent automated spam submssions or ways to stop spam or at least get rid of spam email or correspondence from reaching you accounts?

 One of the best ways to prevent spam include free wordpress plugins if you have a wordpress site. I personally use the Akismet Plugin which is free for personal use. It does the job and is the best anti spam program I have used. It is certainly better than some anti-spam email software I have used. Some of the software I have tried to prevent spam emails, including the email spam feautres included in major email providers, have not done a very good of job of either filtering unwanted emails or letting me look at wanted emails. I can’t afford to lose an email with an earnings report or such. I’m still looking for that type of email program so suggestions are welcome at this time. Just don’t spam me!
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Alaminos City-Hundred Islands

The following is a video of the place in the Philippines where I go when I want to get away from the city or crowds. My wife and I are actually having a beach house built on land she inherited and it should be finished sometime this year. If you are looking for loud parties and lots of people this is not the place to go but if you want a place to lie on the beach or snorkel or sailboat it’s the perfect place. My thanks to the Alaminos City Planning & Development Office for making this video.

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Malls of Manila

Many times people ask me why I would want to retire in the Philippines and I say one of the best reasons is the shopping. There are many malls close to where I live including Mall of Asia and The Mall at the Fort. I recently found a video on YouTube highlighting just about all the malls I’ve visited in Manila. Thanks to the person who recorded it and I hope you all enjoy it.

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Cebu’s Beaches

As you all know I love the beach especially the beautiful ones in the Philippines. Cebu is one of the best places in the Philippines for beaches and I found a nice video with nice beach music to show you a little about Cebu beaches. Just think you can retire now to a beautiful place like Cebu. Please visit Retire in Philippines Now as I will be featuring more videos in the future.

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You Can Make Money Online in the Philippines

Perhaps many of you are making a fair sum or maybe much money online at this time and you think if you move to the Philippines you may have to change what you do online to make money. I’m here to tell you something you probably already know and that is the Internet is global. Yes, you can do what you are doing right now with very little changes in almost every country in the world. It’s just that in some places you will enjoy your time away from the computer a little more such as laying on the beach and soaking up the sun. BTW did I ever tell you all the story about falling asleep on the beach in the Philippines without putting on sunscreen? If not. I’ll have to include that in a post later on, but I warn you it is not pretty.

Anyway there are a couple sources I recommend that will show you how easy it is to make money online in the Philippines and I really am getting down to the specific things because like I said the Internet is global and you really don’t need much training if you are already doing the right things. One source is a website called Pinoy Money Talk  or PMT for short. This site which describes itself as “Your online resource on banking, investing, trading, and making money online and offline” is geared towards Filipinos but if you are living over there it provides you with good information on the topics included in the description. Check out a recent article entitled List of Philippines’ Best Blogs-2nd Quarter 2009 and you may be suprised of the Alexa rankings of some of these blogs.

Another source is one that I have recommended previously and that is Bob Martin’s new site Auctiontopia which covers how an American who moved to the Philippines is working the auction side of making money online in the Philippines. Bob, the author of such books as 49 Ways to Make a Living in the Philipppines and Retire Like a King is an expert on making a living in the Philippines online. So there are two sources which should be enough for you to get a start on making a living online in the Philippines.

Here is a good idea for making some money while living in the Philippines. T-shirts are really inexpensive if you shop around and this guide, Learn How to Start a T-Shirt Company  may be something you’d like to start while living in the Philippines.

Great Article for Americans Retiring In the Philippines

If you are considering on retiring in the Philippines and you are American you may want to check out the article entitled Moving to the Philippines: Your First Trip. It’s located on the website My Move to the Philppines. It has great insight on how to obtain a passport, immunizations needed, and lodging and airfare prices. It’s a long article but some good things to know are included.

As you know this website has been created to not only inform folks on the Philippines but on subjects which show you how to make money while living in the Philippines. I don’t mean spending  most of your time working but rather kicking back on the beach and enjoying life. The only way you can do that is have a source of automated income something like say a pushbutton way of making money where you just do a little computer work and rake in the money. Believe me there are many claims out there for such pushbutton methods and as I discover new ones I will let you know. I want to mention one of them right now.

Twitter is fast becoming one of the leading ways that companies are marketing their products. If you are not familiar with twitter is it part of what is known as micro-blogging. On twitter you have 140 characters available to let your friends or followers as they are known, whats going on in your life you can twit all day and get out any message you would like. You may refer customers to your website or blog or possibly a sales page you have set up. Your message is only limited to 140 characters and the number of followers you have. In business your  number of twitter followers=number of people seeing your product. Some people have hundreds of thousands of followers and some have more than a million. Can you imagine if you are selling something what you could do with a 100,000 or more views of your product? How would you like that to be automatic each and every day? For more information on getting that many followers automatically check out the free video  my friend AND FOLLOWER Bill Crosby offers on getting twitter traffic.

Retire In Philippines: Balaihara Villatel Boracay

 Do you like golf? Do you like nightclubs and fine dining? Have you wanted to go to Boracay? Watch this video and you will be planning your trip very soon. This video highlights golf in Boracay and shows the true beauty of the island. I will soon be spending at least a week every year on this island and my mouth is already watering!

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