Actually there is a guy from New York on my floor. He has been here four years. I made a Filipino friend as well, he has invited us to his daughters 10th birthday in a few days.
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There is another foreigner on my floor. Younger guy, late 20's early 30's. Don't think he is here to stay. Seems like a real tourist/backpacker and not an expat. He hasn't bother to stop and say hi. Always has earbuds in and rushes into his apt.
He has waved hi twice, just as I am about to say something, gone into his apartment. Must have just got here and still not adjusted to the heat. Cristine has been turning off the a/c to save money during the day... I hate it but it's getting me more used to the heat.
The water bill for my apartment is a flat 400 peso, so 7 dollars and some change. First month in an apartment so we will see how the power bill is. But this all depends on you. If you crank the A/C all day every day...
Cris makes us turn it off during the day to not run the bill up too much. Just after the sun sets to be able to sleep comfortably.
Phones work differently here, it's all pre pay. You can get unlimited data 5g plans for like 1000 peso a month. But if you spend most of your time at home and have WiFi it's not really needed. The different carriers all have unlimited text, calls to others on the same carrier. So can really get away with super cheap phone bills.
I don't know the internet cost here as my apartment comes with free 56meg Wi-Fi.
The houses though unlike in the states typically don't come with appliances, so will have to buy your own. We found some 2 bedroom houses for only 7500 peso, half the cost of this apartment. But need to buy all the appliances before we can move there. Things like stoves with an oven are not common. Not a lot of baking done here, most use a counter top induction cooker. Or a gas version that runs on propane
The refrigerators are typically smaller as well, not a lot of food storage happens here, more so going to the market daily for what's needed.
Not sure how trash works here. In the apartment here we just take it downstairs to a big can and they take care of it. But from I have seen there are collection points people take it to and it's picked up there. Not sure of cost.
I don't know the internet cost here as my apartment comes with free 56meg Wi-Fi.
The houses though unlike in the states typically don't come with appliances, so will have to buy your own. We found some 2 bedroom houses for only 7500 peso, half the cost of this apartment. But need to buy all the appliances before we can move there. Things like stoves with an oven are not common. Not a lot of baking done here, most use a counter top induction cooker. Or a gas version that runs on propane
The refrigerators are typically smaller as well, not a lot of food storage happens here, more so going to the market daily for what's needed.
Not sure how trash works here. In the apartment here we just take it downstairs to a big can and they take care of it. But from I have seen there are collection points people take it to and it's picked up there. Not sure of cost.
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When I got here I bought a phone here for my philippines line. Have not used it much at all, and it still has lots of "load" that's what's it's called here to ba able to call and text and still have 40 gigs of data, for watching videos etc. Paid 3400 peso for phone and the load. Was a used floor model, not brand new so about 1000 peso off of new phone cost. It looks new works new so why not.
Can't say I'm not curious, what's the vehicle/car scene like in the Philippines Jexnell? I'm picturing a lot of bikes and smaller cars but I could be way off. This is definitely my inner car nerd talking but I'm imagining little Japanese 4x4 trucks are popular and would be fun as hell to rip around in lol.
