My move to the Philippines

[phreeflow]

Finally we moved from the studio apartment into a two bedroom house. As compared to America, the price is shocking. Just $260 ish USD for a house rental. It came mostly furnished, couch, Smart Tv, fridge, gas stove, two beds, dinette set. The bathroom has a hot water shower and an actual sit down flushing toilet, not so common here. I will post some pictures later as at the moment is am just using Hotspot from Cristines phone. Internet will be installed later today.

Wow $260! Can’t even imagine. So if sit down flushing toilets are uncommon…what’s the norm? Fascinating to learn about other countries

 

[FrancisFloe]

Hello, I just read this thread, welcome to the Philippines! Cebu is like 3 islands away from my place. Yes everything is cheap here in foreigner standards but not so much if your a local. Fish keeping is also big here. Depending on your lfs, you can get a wide variety of exotic fish for cheap prices, they cost cheaper than the equipment. Cebu is known for its coral reefs and marine fish are probably sold there too but I dont know how sustainably they catch them.

 

[Jexnell]

Wow $260! Can’t even imagine. So if sit down flushing toilets are uncommon…what’s the norm? Fascinating to learn about other countries

I call them squatter toilets, kinda hover over it and do your business. Then you flush dumping a bucket of water. No toilet paper, they have a "dipper" and use water to wash. We that use paper have to bag it and throw away, the pipes are not designed for paper flushing.

 

[Jexnell]

Hello, I just read this thread, welcome to the Philippines! Cebu is like 3 islands away from my place. Yes everything is cheap here in foreigner standards but not so much if your a local. Fish keeping is also big here. Depending on your lfs, you can get a wide variety of exotic fish for cheap prices, they cost cheaper than the equipment. Cebu is known for its coral reefs and marine fish are probably sold there too but I dont know how sustainably they catch them.

Thank you for the welcome. Currently I am living in Davao city, Mindanao. Was only in Cebu for about 1 week. Gonna move back to the area in about a year or two. As they have a US Embassy there and hospitals that accept my medical coverage from the states.

 

[FrancisFloe]

No toilet paper, they have a "dipper" and use water to wash.View attachment 1550380

We call that tabo/kabo

 

[phreeflow]

I call them squatter toilets, kinda hover over it and do your business. Then you flush dumping a bucket of water. No toilet paper, they have a "dipper" and use water to wash. We that use paper have to bag it and throw away, the pipes are not designed for paper flushing.
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Interesting…I would need instructions if I ever visit. Reminds me of going to Japan and not knowing what to do with their techy bidets with all the features written in Japanese

 

[ken31cay]

I call them squatter toilets, kinda hover over it and do your business. Then you flush dumping a bucket of water. No toilet paper, they have a "dipper" and use water to wash. We that use paper have to bag it and throw away, the pipes are not designed for paper flushing.
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This reminds me of hurricane season here where the water company will frequently shut off the water as a precaution when a storm is in the area. I usually fill my whole jacuzzi with water for use during this time.

 

[Jexnell]

As promised pics of the new to me house.

 

[tlindsey]

We that use paper have to bag it and throw away, the pipes are not designed for paper flushing.

Wow that would take me some time to get used to

 

[AR1]

Fascinating to learn about other countries

These are pretty common here, known as Orissa pan/Indian toilets. Now, one can imagine how to use it.....