🇺🇸Expat Loves 🤎 Rosario Batangas🇵🇭 Read Description

We ❤ Love the Philippines! WISE CARD LINK: https://wise.com/invite/ahpn/johnedwa... If you want to retire here Your first mistake would be choosing to live in the city! We live on a beautiful 100+ acre farm where we grow a majority of our food and have access to every kind of fruit, root crop and vegetable you can desire. Many of these are only a few feet from our door or within walking distance from our home. We are constantly sharing and trading our harvests with our neighbors. This keeps our everyday food costs to a few hundred dollars. If we limit our Dining out or shopping for things we don't need we could easily live without this expense. IMMIGRATION ISSUES ARE A SNAP! I am married to a Filipino for nearly 20 years and as a USA citizen I have a ACR card. (Alien Certificate of Registration) with permanent resident status. The total cost for a 5 year card is around $200 and it only costs $6 a year to renew it. My electricity, internet and other living costs including housing costs totals around $300 a month. Getting our money from the USA to our Philippines accounts is easy. We have friends with USA bank accounts and Philippines Peso Accounts here. We transfer our pension $ via ZELLE for FREE to their USA account and they deposit from their Peso account here to our BDO account, also at no cost. We also have Gcash and a WISE accounts. Wise does charge a low remittance fee but NO conversion percentage. WISE CARD LINK: https://wise.com/invite/ahpn/johnedwa... NEVER USE A ATM MACHINETO GET BANK TRANSFERS! You will get charged a ATM transaction fee and another transaction fee by your own foriegn bank in addition to a dollar to peso conversion rate of a couple points. Don't screw yourself by using an ATM or other remittance service. We live about 20+- minutes from ROSARIO BATANGAS city center and there are a dozen or more hospitals, various medical clinics, medical supply and pharmacies, dentists, pet care services and veternarians. There are 3 Huge Box Stores similar to a Homedepot or Lowes and 4 or more major grocery stores including a SM, Puregold, Citimart. There are 2 local wet markets where you can buy anything from Fish To Shoes. If you can't find what you want at the in town stores you can shop online at LAZADA and get the items delivered to your door usually within 48 hours or less. The average shipping charge is about $1. If we want to dine out every major food franchise is here including, Kenny Rogers, Chowking, Dunkin Donut, KFC,McDonalds, Jollibee, Seattle Coffee, plus many more I can't think of right now and dozens of mom & pop restaurants from the very modest to fancy air conditioned high end all you can eat Buffet restaurants. For transportation we use the modern airconditioned BATRASCO MINI BUSES.  They are super nice and comfortable and we can go anywhere for about $1 or less. Or I can simply pick up the phone and call several of our trusted friends who own a trike or late model car or truck. These drivers will take us where we want to go door to door. This is a heck of a lot cheaper than owning a car and fighting traffic, parking, tolls and fuel costs, insurance. There are also the commercial trykes, jeepneys and Aircondtioned Buses with very low fares. I don't travel much as I could care less to go to dirty traffic congested cities. My favorite place is my little home on the farm. I stay busy tending my gardens, mowing and trimming my lawn, harvesting crops, building things, furniture refinishing, transplanting seedlings and starting flower and vegetable seeds, in addition to managing my hydroponic growing system and bean sprouting and Micro green projects I can create 101 other projects around the house. I am never bored. We ❤ Love it here! We would Not return to the states for any reason. That is why we have been here 20 years! If interested I have dozens of videos on my Channel proving everything I say.