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[Sithara007]

Well personally I really don't think this is a bad idea. Thailand and Philippines is easier for western guys because people there can understand and talk English very well.

People speak English well... but at the same time, the expats must be cautious. There are quite a few guys out there, who would attempt to trick the expats with various ponzi schemes and offers.

You better believe it. If you decide to buy land in Central or South America, you need to find a lawyer. There isn't any Title Agency, in any of these lands. It is very difficult to determine who really owns a chunk of land being sold.

I don't have much knowledge about the Philippine laws, but in India foreigners can't purchase land. If you want to buy land, then either you must take the Indian citizenship (which require 12 years of residency, plus a fluency in one of the local languages), or you should create a private company and register it with the authorities.

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[BADecker]

Well personally I really don't think this is a bad idea. Thailand and Philippines is easier for western guys because people there can understand and talk English very well.

People speak English well... but at the same time, the expats must be cautious. There are quite a few guys out there, who would attempt to trick the expats with various ponzi schemes and offers.

You better believe it. If you decide to buy land in Central or South America, you need to find a lawyer. There isn't any Title Agency, in any of these lands. It is very difficult to determine who really owns a chunk of land being sold.

I don't have much knowledge about the Philippine laws, but in India foreigners can't purchase land. If you want to buy land, then either you must take the Indian citizenship (which require 12 years of residency, plus a fluency in one of the local languages), or you should create a private company and register it with the authorities.

When India was governed by the British, common law was the basic law of the land, although few Indians realized it or understood it. Within the last few years, the changes in India from common law to customary law have overridden common law. Probably there is enough influence of common law, still, so that anybody could use it if he wanted.

What is common law? Common law is essentially jury rule, where one man/woman has a claim of injury done by another man/woman. The jury decides who is right and who must pay. Probably, the jury in India would be free to decide, if the people pushed it. But they don't know this, so they submit to customary law, if there even is a jury invoked.

The updated (within the last 3 years, or so) Wikipedia map below shows that Pakistan and Bangladesh have common law governments, while India has moved away from common law to customary law. Since this map has only been updated in the last 3 years (or less), it might not show the true, underlying, legal law.

Click the map to open it to a larger size.

Legal Systems of the World

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/Map_of_the_Legal_systems_of_the_world_%28en%29.png

[Kvazimoda]

Well personally I really don't think this is a bad idea. Thailand and Philippines is easier for western guys because people there can understand and talk English very well.

People speak English well... but at the same time, the expats must be cautious. There are quite a few guys out there, who would attempt to trick the expats with various ponzi schemes and offers.

You better believe it. If you decide to buy land in Central or South America, you need to find a lawyer. There isn't any Title Agency, in any of these lands. It is very difficult to determine who really owns a chunk of land being sold.

I don't have much knowledge about the Philippine laws, but in India foreigners can't purchase land. If you want to buy land, then either you must take the Indian citizenship (which require 12 years of residency, plus a fluency in one of the local languages), or you should create a private company and register it with the authorities.

What intelligent person wants to go from America to the Philippines? This is a poor country with a primitive way of life. In addition now the President of the Philippines is trying to be friends with Russia. This means that the President of the Philippines start to get out of the crisis.

[Sithara007]

What intelligent person wants to go from America to the Philippines? This is a poor country with a primitive way of life. In addition now the President of the Philippines is trying to be friends with Russia. This means that the President of the Philippines start to get out of the crisis.

The living expenses are much lower in the Philippines, when compared to the United States. There is a large American expat community in the Philippines, and it is regarded as a good option for the retirees.

[iamnotback]

Many if not most people here are mostly all carrying tuberculosis, STDs, skin mites (enjoy it when they shake your hand and you itch like hell), etc.. Enjoy. It will be "fun" in the beginning.

80% of the people in the Philippines have Tuberculosis which is a very serious illness spread by coughing. You will catch this. I did. You will then need 6 months of medicines and you will never be guaranteed to be cured. You can relapse later in life.

If the TB is multi-drug resistant, you are in big trouble.

http://www.philstar.com/health-and-family/763897/tuberculosis-philippines-10-things-you-should-know

[iamnotback]

It is sad to know how messed up the public health is in these 3rd world countries. They couldn't even treat all their TB cases if they wanted to. Impossible. Very difficult to get compliance with a 6 month drug regimen and even just statistically, they are going to end up with many multi-drug resistant carriers even with good compliance, not to mention the poor compliance they would get.

The realization is that my gf has an 80% chance of being infected (all filipinos do), and if she is treated, she can't come back here, because she will get infected again. It is a very problematic because I know she won't be contented if she can't visit her family and culture. It really puts a pause on the concept of having a relationship with a filipina.

Frankly I am ready to get out of this country asap.

[Okurkabinladin]

Any updates on OP? Is he dead already or did he chicken out like majority of Hollywood celebrities "migrating" to Canada?

Holding my breath in anticipation.

Seriously, though, you autists need to grow a pair. Third world countries have politics too. If you cant handle it, try meds and turn off you tv for once.

[Sithara007]

80% of the people in the Philippines have Tuberculosis which is a very serious illness spread by coughing. You will catch this. I did. You will then need 6 months of medicines and you will never be guaranteed to be cured. You can relapse later in life.

Incidence of Tuberculosis in Philippines is 322 per 100,000 or 0.3% according to the World Bank.

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.TBS.INCD?name_desc=true

And healthy people usually don't get tuberculosis from coughing. If that was the case, then the American authorities might have put up a health warning on the travel advisories.

[iamnotback]

The idiot Marxist from the global warming thread comes over here to try his luck at putting his foot in his mouth some more...

80% of the people in the Philippines have Tuberculosis which is a very serious illness spread by coughing. You will catch this. I did. You will then need 6 months of medicines and you will never be guaranteed to be cured. You can relapse later in life.

If the TB is multi-drug resistant, you are in big trouble.

http://www.philstar.com/health-and-family/763897/tuberculosis-philippines-10-things-you-should-know

Incidence of Tuberculosis in Philippines is 322 per 100,000 or 0.3% according to the World Bank.

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.TBS.INCD?name_desc=true

Those are active symptomatic TB disease admitted to a hospital for treatment on an annual basis.

It appears to be difficult to get the LTBI rate online, probably because the government does not warn to alarm you idiots about how bad the problem really is. But the doctors have all told me the rate of LTBI is 70 - 80%.

The incidence of latent TB infection is 70 - 80%. Here is one resource that documents the infection rate is 8 to 12 times higher than the smear positive incidence rate:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18235886

Even amongst healthcare workers in the Philippines the LTBI (latent TB) rate was measured at 27%:

http://www.ejbronchology.eg.net/article.asp?issn=1687-8426;year=2015;volume=9;issue=2;spage=183;epage=187;aulast=Abdelghaffar

The following resource says 2.33 billion people have LTBI:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4024230/

Here is a 46% LTBI incidence in a village in China:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4440671/

And healthy people usually don't get tuberculosis from coughing. If that was the case, then the American authorities might have put up a health warning on the travel advisories.

STFU idiot:

When people with TB in their lungs or throat cough, laugh, sneeze, sing, or even talk, the germs that cause TB may be spread into the air. If another person breathes in these germs there is a chance that they will become infected.

[Sithara007]

Before GWB was elected as the POTUS for the second time in 2004, some idiots were saying that they will immigrate to Canada if he wins. But after his win, none of them made the journey.

The idiot Marxist from the global warming thread comes over here to try his luck at putting his foot in his mouth some more...

STFU idiot:

Yeah... another loser added to my ignore list. Name calling occurs when someone is losing the argument. Since you have no answer, I am adding you to my ignore list.

[grenade launcher]

Before GWB was elected as the POTUS for the second time in 2004, some idiots were saying that they will immigrate to Canada if he wins. But after his win, none of them made the journey.

The idiot Marxist from the global warming thread comes over here to try his luck at putting his foot in his mouth some more...

STFU idiot:

Yeah... another loser added to my ignore list. Name calling occurs when someone is losing the argument. Since you have no answer, I am adding you to my ignore list.

To add to the ignore list the opponent is not the way out. There is a forum for litters. I also see that you are from Russia. I do not support this barbaric policy of the country, but this does not mean that you can't have an opinion. On the contrary I interested.

[iamnotback]

I am experiencing nearly constant nausea, which is an expected side-effect of the strong anti-Tuberculosis medicines.  This nausea also produces a delirium effect. So don't expect too much of me until this nausea subsides. The 4 different medicines continue for 8 weeks (1 week already completed). They say sometimes the nausea subsides after 2 weeks, but not in all cases. After the 8 weeks, I have 16 weeks of a 2 drug regimen. It is also possible that regimen could make me nauseous, but less likely. My body does seem to be producing the necessary chemistry for me to sleep unlike before I started treatment when I was experiencing debilitating insomnia. Now it is debilitating sleepiness, nausea, and something like a delirium from that combination. I presume I will come back to normal health eventually.

Again this presumes I don't have a multi-drug resistant strain which is resistant to all 4 of the drugs I am taking. The incidence of 4 drug resistance in the Philippines is quite high at ~0.5% - 1%. And I might be under greater risk, because most likely I was infected numerous times with TB, probably dozens of times.

Unfortunately my doctor here did not collect a sample and culture it to test for multi-drug resistance and thus I can't know if I am wasting my time with these medications. Additionally my doctor in 2012 for my acute peptic ulcer had prescribed ofloxacin without first testing me for TB, thus if I already had TB then (which is very likely as I think it caused my ulcer) then he made my TB resistant to the only second line drug treatment for multi-drug resistant TB.

So in short, the doctors in the Philippines are incredibly dangerous for your health. They also destroyed my right eye (my USA surgeon said if I had gone directly to the USA, he could have very likely saved 90% of my vision in my right eye).

Stay away from the third world if you value your health! I hope I don't have to say this again! 70 - 80% of the filipinos are carrying a latent TB infection. The WHO hides this data from you! If I had known that, I wouldn't have gone here!

[pearlmen]

I am experiencing nearly constant nausea, which is an expected side-effect of the strong anti-Tuberculosis medicines.  This nausea also produces a delirium effect. So don't expect too much of me until this nausea subsides. The 4 different medicines continue for 8 weeks (1 week already completed). They say sometimes the nausea subsides after 2 weeks, but not in all cases. After the 8 weeks, I have 16 weeks of a 2 drug regimen. It is also possible that regimen could make me nauseous, but less likely. My body does seem to be producing the necessary chemistry for me to sleep unlike before I started treatment when I was experiencing debilitating insomnia. Now it is debilitating sleepiness, nausea, and something like a delirium from that combination. I presume I will come back to normal health eventually.

Again this presumes I don't have a multi-drug resistant strain which is resistant to all 4 of the drugs I am taking. The incidence of 4 drug resistance in the Philippines is quite high at ~0.5% - 1%. And I might be under greater risk, because most likely I was infected numerous times with TB, probably dozens of times.

Unfortunately my doctor here did not collect a sample and culture it to test for multi-drug resistance and thus I can't know if I am wasting my time with these medications. Additionally my doctor in 2012 for my acute peptic ulcer had prescribed ofloxacin without first testing me for TB, thus if I already had TB then (which is very likely as I think it caused my ulcer) then he made my TB resistant to the only second line drug treatment for multi-drug resistant TB.

So in short, the doctors in the Philippines are incredibly dangerous for your health. They also destroyed my right eye (my USA surgeon said if I had gone directly to the USA, he could have very likely saved 90% of my vision in my right eye).

Stay away from the third world if you value your health! I hope I don't have to say this again! 70 - 80% of the filipinos are carrying a latent TB infection. The WHO hides this data from you! If I had known that, I wouldn't have gone here!

Its unfortunate what you had to go through in the area of your health in a third world country but at the same time that does not still mean that doctors in USA have not been sued for negligence or error. OP is saying he wants to to there because of politics but for me I will tstill tell him to stay back if he still needs his life because in those country they dont wait for court to decide, you are taken care of easily without the issue of insecurity then your death is even easier.

[The One]

I'm thinking about creating some sort of fundraiser so people who wanted to move out of the U.S. but can't in reality can donate me money to help pay for my transition. Then I could post updates about my move from the fundraiser page so they could live through me vicariously.

If you like this idea, you can show your support by leaving me a donation at the address in my profile, then I'll know that maybe the general public might do the same and I should start a GoFundMe or something.. Here's my booking confirmation for my ticket to Manila. Thanks for reading this!

Another scammer... oh please is anyone falling for this?

[The One]

I feel you man, I'm in the UK at the moment, but the monumental fuck up that is Brexit.

Sore loser... leave then. The EU and immigration policies has been a disaster and bankrupting the UK.

[BartS]

The reason for leaving is up the each one of us, but leaving without an established source of income I think it is a mistake, if you want to leave then the first thing to do is to find ways to earn money on that other country or online, if you don’t have that then stay in your country until you do.

[Sithara007]

I feel you man, I'm in the UK at the moment, but the monumental fuck up that is Brexit.

Sore loser... leave then. The EU and immigration policies has been a disaster and bankrupting the UK.

Exactly. The UK was not gaining anything from the EU. The European Union is essentially a hidden version of the Viertes Reich, designed to provide supremacy for Germany in the European continent. The UK did the right thing by leaving the Union.

[techgeeks8]

The reason for leaving is up the each one of us, but leaving without an established source of income I think it is a mistake, if you want to leave then the first thing to do is to find ways to earn money on that other country or online, if you don’t have that then stay in your country until you do.

Yes, There is no formal plan to identify the risks and benefits in exiting EU.

[iamnotback]

It is ridiculous that I could go so long without knowing I had TB.

Since you were living in the Philippines last year, and you have children who are half-Filipino........ridiculous indeed.

Dude, I've apparently had Tuberculosis for several years. I've been living in the Philippines continuously since 2005, and greater than 50% of time from 1991 to 2004.

What is ridiculous is how fucking stupid the doctors are here.

Additionally my doctor in 2012 for my acute peptic ulcer had prescribed levofloxacin without first testing me for TB, thus if I already had TB then (which is very likely as I think it caused my ulcer) then he made my TB resistant to the only second line drug treatment for multi-drug resistant TB.

A competent doctor should not prescribe the main second line drug for curing TB to someone in a country with 70 - 80% incidence of latent TB where up to 1% of the active cases are resistant to all 4 of the first line drugs!!

If I have a strain of TB resistant to the main 4 drugs, then if that idiot doctor made my TB resistant also to levofloxacin, then basically there are no drug remaining to cure the TB!!

He was treating me for h.pylori and I had a very toxic olfactory reaction to clarithromycin so he decided to prescribe me levofloxacin, but he should know that he must test for TB before giving me levofloxacin, because it can make my TB resistant to levofloxacin, thus meaning I could become incurable. When taking levofloxacin for curing TB, you take much higher doses and for much longer prior of time, than for treating h.pylori.

That is insane. If he had tested me for TB, I wouldn't have been sick for 4 fucking years, which caused me to go bankrupt.

That is fucking ridiculous. In a foreign country, you would sue the doctor for malpractice.

I am simply giving a warning to foreigners to be very careful when visiting the third world. I don't think most foreigners realize that LTBI (latent tuberculosis infection) has a 70 - 80% incidence in the Philippines. The WHO hides that statistic by only displaying the annual rate of active disease at 0.3% who actually bother to go to a hospital (many poor people don't bother to go), but that is very misleading. Actually nearly all the people have LTBI that can become active at any moment so the likelihood of infection is very great. Also one can be active and not even realize it is TB, as in my case. I think sharing that information to my fellow foreigners is helpful.

[Idrisu]

It's really not that bad. Corruption is everywhere.

there is no were that is  safe or without corruption under the heavens currently.Trump is try to rebuild America and repositioning it again. Others nation should follow suit. America soil is being treating by many nations this day because of what the past leader did. If trump will bring sanity to the financial, political, security and emigration he has my support.