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Proactive Retirement Planning

Retirement Planning For a Move to The Philippines This blog is directed at the many retirees, especially in America, who are experiencing difficult times in their country and want to do some retirement planning. We need to make it absolutely clear that, at Retire Dumaguete, we are non-political. We recognize [...]

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World Travelers – Dumaguete Is 1 Great Jump-Off

Wanderlust is a German word used to perfectly describe travelers who have a great desire for wandering . These are independent, adventurous people. Traditionally, young adults or college students from countries such as Sweden, Australia, New Zealand, America, and Canada used to travel the world extensively before “settling down.” It [...]

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Philanthropic Opportunities in the Philippines 2020

Philanthropic Opportunities When Retiring To The Philippines There has never been a shortage of philanthropic opportunities in the Philippines. Unfortunately, today, because of the harshly negative impact of the C19 virus, the lower class here in suffering on a level not experienced since World War 2. It’s almost redundant to [...]

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Cultural Attractions of Dumaguete

Cultural attractions in Dumaguete draw in people from all over the island of Negros Oriental. People gather in the city for fiestas and cultural events throughout the year. Every night on Rizal Boulevard live music can be enjoyed at several locations. Being a city with several universities and colleges, it’s [...]

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Filipinos Retiring to The Philippines with a Foreign Partner

Filipinos Retiring to The Philippines with a Foreign Partner Usually, but not always, it’s a Filipina retiring to the Philippines. Depending on her educational or social background, she would have been living in North America, Europe, or the The Middle East. What is it that prompts emigrants to leave their [...]

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OFWs Retiring to the Philippines

One of the biggest exports of The Philippines is OFWs,  and there are few countries whose citizens when they emigrate, miss their homeland as deeply as Filipinos. Family and country are highly important to them. They leave the Philippines for a variety of reasons, usually economic, sometimes political. Tradesmen and [...]

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Retired Expats Creating New Businesses in Dumaguete.

Retirees Coming to Dumaguete and Then Opening Up new Businesses? There are many types of individuals and couples who come to retire in Dumaguete and, surprise, surprise, some of them find themselves starting a new business. So, what’s the typical profile of these entrepreneurs? Interestingly, there are no characteristics that [...]

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Same Sex Relationships – LGBTQ

How Does Dumaguete Treat it’s LGBTQ Community? It’s a sad condemnation of our evolution when in a time of great advances in technology and communication, and our ability to send rockets millions of miles out into space to arrive with absolute precision at its destination, we are still limited as [...]

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Retirement Anxiety Blog

Retirees with Financial Concerns

Financial Concerns for Retirees One of the most frightening experiences any retiree can have is to wake up one morning with still several years to live and realize they are financially insolvent and the ugly topic of financial concerns becomes front and center . Let’s be more direct. They wake [...]

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Active Retirement Lifestyle Options

When people consider what type of retirement lifestyle they are looking for, there are so many factors to consider it’s often overwhelming. There are individuals and couples for whom outdoor activities are an essential part of their retirement lifestyle. They place a high value on outdoor life when determining where [...]

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Why Dumaguete?

Why Dumaguete? We are living in interesting times. The world we felt rather comfortable with has temporarily disappeared. It’s been over one hundred years since the last pandemic of such devastating power hit our world. It’s a respecter on no country, culture, religion, political belief, or economic structure. It has [...]

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Retirement Anxiety is One Reasons for Procrastination

A lot of potential retirees suffer from retirement anxiety When would be the right time to decide to come to live in Dumaguete? Unfortunately, due to retirement anxiety, for many that time will never come. There will always be reasons not to take action, not to make the right decision. [...]

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Who Are the People Retiring To Dumaguete?

So, Who are the people retiring to Dumaguete? There is no quick and easy answer because to be honest, many different types of people have look at this region and seen that it has the special things that they are looking for. RETURNING FILIPINOS Traditionally most, sometimes all, families in [...]

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The Philippines – East Meets West

The Philippines – A Perfect Example of Where East Meets West It would be an understatement to say we are living in interesting times. While migrations of people have been a prevalent aspect of life throughout the ages, we are presently seeing people migrate at levels not seen since World [...]

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How Fortunate We Are to Be In Dumaguete

While living through the pandemic in Dumaguete I sometimes think about history. It seems human survival has been regularly threatened during each of the past two centuries. The “war to end all wars,” World War 1, was accompanied by what was tidily called the Spanish flu that hit in 1918. [...]

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How to Successfully Adapt To Life In Dumaguete

Of all the information you need to know about coming to live in this destination, arguably what’s most important is knowing how to successfully adapt to your new life in Dumaguete. If you come from Europe, North America, or Australia, you will have expectations in certain areas that, quite frankly, [...]

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Why Not An Exploratory Visit To Dumaguete Before Retirement

WHY NOT VISIT DUMAGUETE BEFORE RETIREMENT ? See if it is right for you before the making the big decision Before making the move to new life experiences, its wise to have as much information as possible in order to make an informed decision. I don’t know about other countries, [...]

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The Transition to a Great Life in Dumaguete City

How was your transition to life in Dumaguete? We all have interesting stories to share. Each one is unique, but similarities undoubtedly exist in many. Regardless of which county you came from, adapting to life here is an interesting experience. Please write and let me know about your experiences, what [...]

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The Effects of Covid 19 on Dumaguete Expats

Without a doubt, the Covid-19 pandemic has been the single most traumatic and life changing crisis most of the people of this generation have ever experienced. All across the world, this pandemic has had consequences of varying degrees, not only to  of mankind, but to each of us all on [...]

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