I quickly realized that I did not need to bring everything I had brought with me and I also realized there are some things I should have brought or brought more of which I will discuss later. The items I really did not need to bring were simply clothes, shoes and an excessive amount of personal hygiene items. For some reason I pictured 3rd world stores carrying foreign hygiene items or clothes that would not fit me or a variety of different thoughts I had in my mind about what stores might be like here. With that being said if there are favorite personal hygiene items that you may have you may want to bring them or if you fall into a clothing size that might be out of the average size, then I highly recommend that you bring clothes and shoes that fit you. I was able to find a variety of good and inexpensive clothing that fit me here at a fraction of the cost of what it would have cost me in the West. Also, I have discovered Amazon does deliver here and, in most cases, only takes about 3 weeks on average to arrive.
Leave your American girlfriend at home, she is not needed here, if you have one tell her you are going out of town on a business trip. When you get back, breakup with her and then downsize and sell and give away your things, don’t move here without coming here first and seeing if this is even for you, it’s not for everybody but most men like the simple beauty and friendliness of the girls and people here
Don’t bring sand to the beach lol
Just my personal oppinion, sounds harsh, but you will be glad you did, becauase the Philippines is certainly a second chance at life
I have asked this (in Part) before. When you order off Amazon, do you use a mail forwarding service or is it just send directly to you address in the Philippines?
How long do it take from when you order from Amazon until you receive it? Thanks.
Amazon will send directly to your Philippines address and typically takes 3 weeks.
thank you
Hey Gio,
This doesn’t really get mentioned much but shouldn’t being fully immunised against diseases? I’m coming in July and it’s been recommended that I get the following…
Hepatitis A
Typhoid
Japanese encephalitis
Malaria
Rabies
What do you think….
There are no vaccinations for rabies and the new malaria vaccine is very hard to get.
Hepatitis A & B are a good idea.