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Philippines: Filipina wife of 20 years dies:
You are not a smuck. That can happen to anyone anywhere. The inheritance laws are weird. Your property would go to her parents or if they have passed to the older to the youngest sibling. Your legal children have a chance of keeping it for themselves too. Was there a will. You can stay in the home unless you remarry.
Philippines: visiting phils for 1st time:
seernai - I am certain that the 20% poverty rate is incorrect. About a year ago, I reviewed the PH government reports on poverty and (when I have time) I will review them again. Definitely poverty back then was over 70% which is based on a poverty rate of about $1.00 (Canadian) per person per day. The number of people living at this rate was over 2/3 of the population. I will follow this post up with the current PH gov. reporting on poverty following another review.
Philippines: Emigration Clearance Certificate:
ftm2- if you stay over 6 months you have to pay for an exit visa. In Davao immigration, they require 4 - 2X2 photos, they fingerprint you and give you a two page document. When I gave it to immigration before departing to Canada from Manila, neither of the immigration officers knew what it was though I explained it to them. They gave it back to me.
Philippines: canadian Old Age Security pension, And Canada pension Plan taxes:
draks - direct deposit is available for Canadian pensions in the currency of the country where you live.
Philippines: Never Trust A Filipina:
This sage advise was given to me by a 73 year old Filipina in Canada when I began dating my wife. I was so sure my wife was a good woman and would not cheat or lie. Our courtship was beautiful. After our marriage and my investment of $40,000 Canadian in our home and the building of a second house for $37,000 (all debt), she has cheated on me once. I intercepted 2 other attempts to cheat on me by figuring out her password to her iPhone. She has also destroyed tablets, headphones, cell phones, keyboards, legal records, drapes, windows, and antique map worth over $500, thrown me out of our home in the Philippines twice resulting in plane reservation charges of $587 added to previous reservation changes of about the same. She has smeared my reputation on Facebook. She has set me up by telling a young woman that I am annulling our marriage so she could marry me and then photographing the two of us. I fended her off. There have also been very special loving periods. I am turning 73 and have few opportunities left to attain the good life and happiness before I hit the ditch. Recently, I exposed another attempted affair where she invited a Westerner to meet with her in Davao after communicating loving messages to him for the month of December. I caught his alert saying "YOU ARE MY WOMAN". I am tired of the drama psycho and damage. I'm ready to throw in the towel. There is still love in me for her, but I get only negativity in return. Maybe she will come out of it again. I'm giving it a week. I know some of you guys have lucked out with good women here. But it is a minefield out there. I will still live here one way or another, but never get married again. So remember this: Never Trust a Filipina!
Philippines: Freight forwaders:
Be careful with the Lazada rules. If you have to cancel do it before they ship. Their prices can vary 40% day to day. Only buy during promo periods. Pay only COD. You can contact them even after they ship and tell them you will refuse to pay. They are good on returns of defective products and will LBC a full refund for you.
Philippines: Pollution:
axelnoah We moved from Davao city to Toril, a suburb city that's 40 minutes out in traffic. We get a breeze off the Philippine Sea. Neighbors burn leaves and trash most nights making for a white ash dust. In Davao, it was much heavier charcoal dust. There is a plywood mill nearby too, but generally the air is much better. Low noise and no flooding. Vales Beach is the only nice beach anywhere around. 3 - 4 years ago it was filled with schools of fish and the water was clear. Now the fish are rarely seen and the water is murky. It's littered with plastic and liquor bottles. Shame really.
Philippines: US-Philippine Relations:
Sosabatac- Duterte bears resemblance to Trump oddly. No one wanted an escalation of conflict between the US & China using the RP as a US operational base. Duterte sold out RP territory to prevent this when it wasn't necessary. His war on drugs through EJK was simplistic and showed his ignorance about drug addiction & treatment. It scared straight some addicts though from what I hear in Davao. The problem with RP relations with the US was not unlike the same situation with Cuba. Many families cannot afford to send their children to school, so why isn't education free? There is no freedom of information law here. The Catholic Church has effectively downgraded the maternal health legislation and funding. Corruption is still endemic. Discounting human rights is seen as a cheap quickie for social change. My observations are mostly of the extreme systemic massive poverty here. It's unbelievable. No wonder there are those who are persuaded to compromise themselves by drug dealing, becoming sex trade workers, or scammers. If you don't finish secondary school, you can't even get a job in a convenience store. Speaking reasonably fluent English is another barrier to employment. There will be more backlash to Duterte in future, The monolith of isolationism (anti-foreigners) seems systemic albeit I find most Pinoy's very friendly, multi cultutalism doesn't exists. Why Duterte remains popular is that the majority who struggle to feed their families daily do not want drug addicts or dealers fed and clothed in the judicial system. Life is devalued when it comes down to a drug addict being fed and clothed at government expense when ordinary impoverished Pinoy's struggle for the same.
Philippines: Planning From Scratch:
If fast internet is your priority, go to South Korea where they have the fastest in the world.
Canada: Dual Canadian/US citizen:
Cmcvay52 - I was born in Chicago and immigrated to Canada in 1968, exams a naturalized Canadian in 1973. The US Consulate took my US citizenship away in 1985, but was allowed an exception by the state department since I worked for government. They then reissued my American passport. I am dual. The US Consulate asked if I always considered myself an American, and I affirmed that I did. Have you contacted the Canadian Embassy or Consulate? If you have your Canadian birth certificate, then you should be able to get a Canadian Passport. The US may want you to renounce your American citizenship if you cannot qualify for an exception. Canada does not require you to renounce US citizenship. Look at
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