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Lost in Fiji

Here's a website that calculates the Cost of Living in countries, eg the Philippines, and also in various cities in countries. Maybe these averages given appear reasonably accurate?


Note: the website also includes:

Quality of Life in Philippines
Crime in Philippines
Health Care in Philippines
Pollution in Philippines
Property Prices in Philippines
Traffic in Philippines

coach53
Including definition what they are talking about?
Timo62

@Lost in Fiji Here is a blog about costs of living with some good links to charts and reports  https://timotraveling.blogspot.com/2022/05/cost-of-living-in-philippines-here-is.html

stumpy
Lost in Fiji

- @stumpy

Well done Stumpy .. that's the one .. thanks 1f600.svg



Lost in Fiji
Including definition what they are talking about?
- @coach53

Quoting the Numbeo dot com website:

Cost of Living

Numbeo is the world’s largest cost of living database. Numbeo is also a crowd-sourced global database of quality of life data: housing indicators, perceived crime rates, healthcare quality, transport quality, and other statistics.

8,031,640 prices in 10,820 cities entered by 689,301 contributors

Numbeo provides a tool to see, share and compare information about cost of living worldwide, by providing online software which:

* enables a reader of the website to see current prices

* uses wisdom of the crowd to get as reliable data as possible

* provides a system for systematic research on cost of living and property markets

* calculates derived indices such as cost of living index, local purchasing power, etc.

* provides a system for other systematic economical research on huge dataset with worldwide data

If you find something helpful or if you like the website, take a little time to help someone else, by contributing your local cost knowledge.

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coach53
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(Perhaps it was that website I checked a bit many years ago, before I got to know such other ways.)
Timo62

@Lost in Fiji At the bottom of your comment form see what looks like two links of a chain. Click on it and paste your link. The link will always appear where your cursor is located.

PalawOne

@Lost in Fiji At the bottom of your comment form see what looks like two links of a chain. Click on it and paste your link. The link will always appear where your cursor is located.

- @Timo62

Yes, thanks Timo. And as a matter of fact, I wrote the following the other day on another thread:

>
> ( Just by the way guys, to post a live url link into any reply, first put your
> cursor where you want the link to appear in your message, then click on
> the "chain" or "link" image down below at the bottom of your reply box,
> then enter or paste your url in the popup box that will appear, then click
> on OK, and your live and working link url will be inserted into your post
> message where ever you positioned your cursor. Works every time :-)


And that's exactly what I did above, but the urls are being with-held, and so not resolving correctly.

Ah well .. whatever 1f600.svg


coach53

the urls are being with-held, and so not resolving correctly.  - @PalawOne

I believe the forum has a rule against posting links, which are to other forums, blogs and such. Thats why links can get checked before they decide if show or not.

(Or perhaps I mixed up with rule in other forum.)

Thats why I write essays here instead of in my blog  1f923.svg
Just joking  I dont have any blog.
((But perhaps I will start one about having business in Phils after more have happened in mine (waiting for the 6th permit before we can realty start) to show sceptics its possible  :) Telling obstacles and how we solved them.))
manwonder
Omo
I do feel much safer/secure/confident here in our fully paid for 3rd class backwater province on our simple 500m2 resort style home (without that many bells & whistles) compared to where I used to live i.e : In a 'tiny' 1st world fully equipped/furnished high floor apartment that came with all the bells & whistles which to me was way over priced & the resultant cost of living/stress factors that went with it.
Sorry I just can't help myself.... Ffffrrrreeeddddoooommm
PalawOne

I believe the forum has a rule against posting links, which are to other forums, blogs and such. Thats why links can get checked before they decide if show or not.


That's interesting, thanks Coach
I write essays here instead of in my blog  1f923.svg Just joking  I dont have any blog.  ((But perhaps I will start one about having business in Phils after more have happened in mine (waiting for the 6th permit before we can realty start) to show sceptics its possible  smile.png Telling obstacles and how we solved them.))  - @coach53

Good, please do start a blog Coach, especially regarding starting and running a business in the Phils.

As it  happens my wife and I run a mildly profitable duck egg farm (for salted eggs and balut) and more information, in particular regards the legal paperwork side of business, could indeed be handy. 1f600.svg
PalawOne
Omo
I do feel much safer/secure/confident here in our fully paid for 3rd class backwater province on our simple 500m2 resort style home (without that many bells & whistles) compared to where I used to live i.e : In a 'tiny' 1st world fully equipped/furnished high floor apartment that came with all the bells & whistles which to me was way over priced & the resultant cost of living/stress factors that went with it.  Sorry I just can't help myself.... Ffffrrrreeeddddoooommm  - @manwonder
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Good on you, Man! And one must say that your, "safe and secure, simple 500m2 resort style home (without that many bells & whistles) compared to where I used to live" fully-paid-for property sounds just delightful, and we are  sure that you will have many happy years ahead and living as you are in your own truly genuine tropical paradise 1f600.svg
manwonder
Omo
I do feel much safer/secure/confident here in our fully paid for 3rd class backwater province on our simple 500m2 resort style home (without that many bells & whistles) compared to where I used to live i.e : In a 'tiny' 1st world fully equipped/furnished high floor apartment that came with all the bells & whistles which to me was way over priced & the resultant cost of living/stress factors that went with it.  Sorry I just can't help myself.... Ffffrrrreeeddddoooommm  - @manwonder
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Good on you, Man! And one must say that your, "safe and secure, simple 500m2 resort style home (without that many bells & whistles) compared to where I used to live" fully-paid-for property sounds just delightful, and we are  sure that you will have many happy years ahead and living as you are in your own truly genuine tropical paradise 1f600.svg
- @PalawOne

Thanks PalawOne
coach53
I write essays here instead of in my blog  1f923.svg Just joking  I dont have any blog.  ((But perhaps I will start one about having business in Phils after more have happened in mine (waiting for the 6th permit before we can realty start) to show sceptics its possible  smile.png Telling obstacles and how we solved them.))  - @coach53

Good, please do start a blog Coach, especially regarding starting and running a business in the Phils.

As it  happens my wife and I run a mildly profitable duck egg farm (for salted eggs and balut) and more information, in particular regards the legal paperwork side of business, could indeed be handy. 1f600.svg
- @PalawOne
So far I answer in forum when someone wonder something I know, and have told about some crazynesses :)  in business related contacts with officials.

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Does your ducks eat expensive feed "imported" from elsewhere?  Same as chickens?

I dont know about ducks, but I know most of CHICKEN FEED are "imported" to Palawan, which make it expensive and by that make chicken related businesses get bad results and few try it which make Palawan is short of EGGS too , "importing" most of such too, I got told from MANILA.  More natural would be the OPPOSITE direction :)
One in related business told 80 % came from elsewhere (before covid). He even started own egg production because he had problem to get eggs to his main business.

It wasnt among the business ideas I had thought of, but I have started thinking a bit about perhaps starting a chicken feed manufactory at Palawan to fill some of that gap IF it can be done for competitable prices.  If so I thought of a rather small manufactory perhaps 8 employees, plus make deals with raw material producers of most ingridiences.
(Not researched yet, I have been and still some occupied with starting and exbanding the first business and finnishing researching two other. One refining further step of  the first and the other is a small health product manufactory.)
So I dont know yet if such small manufactory can compeete against huge manufactories elsewherel         
I dont have money enough to do all wanted/needed there myself  :)
Are you interested in geting involved  :)  in the chicken feed business?  :)
I mean if research will show its interesting profitable.

I have access to a reliable and hard worker team of around 30 at south Palawan, but dont have jobs enough to them (yet) and big part is kind of seasonal anyway.

If you tell more about your land and situation, I have perhaps some more ideas suiting you.
In which municipaly is it located?   (So I know if the team in south can if needed come and do startup and some biger later steps, which they are skilled at and know how to do, which is uncommon knowledge in Phils.  (I have added a knowledge part  :)      But your people would handle all other.
You can tell in private message.

manwonder
Sadly the Philippines does import most of its Chicken feed from Vietnam, China and South Korea...why they still need to so is anyone's guess.
In fact the Philippines is now officially the largest importer of Chicken feed [see link below] & a similar situation for the importation of fertilizers


[link under review]
manwonder
This link 1f60e.svg

https://www.volza.com/imports-philippin … icken+feed
PalawOne
Thanks gents for your interest in our newly established family duck egg business on Palawan.

Have to say, we have basically got the production side of things pretty well nailed down. For example, we don't purchase commercial feeds. We have extensive natural wet-lands and so can mostly mostly utilize organic farm-grown feeds such as kangkong and natural live feeds.

Our current flock of a thousand ducks are well spoilt with a completely natural environment and feeds etc, and our girls will normally lay one egg each per day completely naturally.

Here's our family and the farm ..

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coach53
Sadly the Philippines does import most of its Chicken feed from Vietnam, China and South Korea...why they still need to so is anyone's guess.
In fact the Philippines is now officially the largest importer of Chicken feed [see link below] & a similar situation for the importation of fertilizers


[link under review]
- @manwonder
1f44d.svg  Even better for this business idea then by its even much longer transports than from Manila.
(He, who told me, just knew 80 % came from Manila, so it can be from the import there. He knew by being CUSTOMER of eggs, who started own egg production to get sure access of good quality eggs, which made he became customer of chicken feed.)

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