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It's About Time
Down to five days till I'll be free.
Last week I fired myself so I am job less, next week I sell the house so I'll be homeless. I'll stay in the motor home until the check clears then I'll buy a ticket to the Philippines. I have shipped 31 boxes of "stuff" and should ship maybe 10 more next week. Looks like I am out of here. Burr |
In article Dk2xe.17309$Xr6.13205@trnddc07, "Burr"
wrote: Down to five days till I'll be free. Last week I fired myself so I am job less, next week I sell the house so I'll be homeless. I'll stay in the motor home until the check clears then I'll buy a ticket to the Philippines. I have shipped 31 boxes of "stuff" and should ship maybe 10 more next week. Looks like I am out of here. Good luck and have a safe trip. Will we hear from you once you get settled in the Philippines? -- Telamon Ventura, California |
"Burr" wrote in message news:Dk2xe.17309$Xr6.13205@trnddc07... Down to five days till I'll be free. Last week I fired myself so I am job less, next week I sell the house so I'll be homeless. I'll stay in the motor home until the check clears then I'll buy a ticket to the Philippines. I have shipped 31 boxes of "stuff" and should ship maybe 10 more next week. Looks like I am out of here. Sure picking a bad time of year to move to this part of the world. Monsoons.. and day-um is it wet, and hot, and humid, and... Be sure to keep me up on your locale. |
Greetings! Maybe I haven't been paying attention, but are you making a
permanent move, or is this a retirement starting over kind of thing? Are you coming back to the states? Best wishes whatever the reason. I imagine you will keep in touch via the newsgroup. Jon in SC. |
Hello Burr: well, Bon Voyage ! what part of The Phillipines are you moving to? Keep in touch if possible Dan Burr wrote: Down to five days till I'll be free. Last week I fired myself so I am job less, next week I sell the house so I'll be homeless. I'll stay in the motor home until the check clears then I'll buy a ticket to the Philippines. I have shipped 31 boxes of "stuff" and should ship maybe 10 more next week. Looks like I am out of here. Burr |
"Burr" wrote in message news:Dk2xe.17309$Xr6.13205@trnddc07... Down to five days till I'll be free. Last week I fired myself so I am job less, next week I sell the house so I'll be homeless. I'll stay in the motor home until the check clears then I'll buy a ticket to the Philippines. I have shipped 31 boxes of "stuff" and should ship maybe 10 more next week. Looks like I am out of here. Burr I'll be north on Manila for the first year then we should have a house built on Palawan. Yes, I am retired, sold my business, homes and cars. Keep the motor home just to have something to stay in when we come back for a week or so. I'll still be on line, having DSL put in next week. I am looking forward to doing a lot of DXing, fishing and diving. Burr |
I'll be north on Manila for the first year then we should have a house built on Palawan. Yes, I am retired, sold my business, homes and cars. Keep the motor home just to have something to stay in when we come back for a week or so. I'll still be on line, having DSL put in next week. I am looking forward to doing a lot of DXing, fishing and diving. Burr You do know how to retire in style Burr http://www.lakbaypilipinas.com/trave...staurants.html The diving out around those Islands must be Sensational... and at night, no ones going to bother you about 300 foot antennas & such.. |
"Burr" wrote in message news:Dk2xe.17309$Xr6.13205@trnddc07... Down to five days till I'll be free. Last week I fired myself so I am job less, next week I sell the house so I'll be homeless. I'll stay in the motor home until the check clears then I'll buy a ticket to the Philippines. I have shipped 31 boxes of "stuff" and should ship maybe 10 more next week. Looks like I am out of here. Burr Hi Burr My cousin has lived there on and off. He says he likes it. Money goes far and the girls are just very sweet and are very loyal to their men and treat them very nice. Personally I think it's still a dangerous place for Americans to live in this time and age. Lucky |
Lucky wrote:
"Burr" wrote in message news:Dk2xe.17309$Xr6.13205@trnddc07... Down to five days till I'll be free. Last week I fired myself so I am job less, next week I sell the house so I'll be homeless. I'll stay in the motor home until the check clears then I'll buy a ticket to the Philippines. I have shipped 31 boxes of "stuff" and should ship maybe 10 more next week. Looks like I am out of here. Burr Hi Burr My cousin has lived there on and off. He says he likes it. Money goes far and the girls are just very sweet and are very loyal to their men and treat them very nice. Personally I think it's still a dangerous place for Americans to live in this time and age. Lucky Not necessarily. As long as you stay out of the Muslim areas you should be relatively safe. Christian Filipinos are still relatively friendly to Americans, despite their experiences with Marcos. The Philippines had 50 soldiers in Iraq until they decided that the heat was too much to bear staying in the kitchen. Filipino troops are trained by American soldiers on how to fight their own Muslim insurgents. If you want to be literal, any place outside of the US is dangerous for Americans to be nowadays. But I'd rather be in the Philippines or Thailand than some places in Europe. ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
"running dogg" wrote in message ... Lucky wrote: "Burr" wrote in message news:Dk2xe.17309$Xr6.13205@trnddc07... Down to five days till I'll be free. Last week I fired myself so I am job less, next week I sell the house so I'll be homeless. I'll stay in the motor home until the check clears then I'll buy a ticket to the Philippines. I have shipped 31 boxes of "stuff" and should ship maybe 10 more next week. Looks like I am out of here. Burr Hi Burr My cousin has lived there on and off. He says he likes it. Money goes far and the girls are just very sweet and are very loyal to their men and treat them very nice. Personally I think it's still a dangerous place for Americans to live in this time and age. Lucky Not necessarily. As long as you stay out of the Muslim areas you should be relatively safe. Christian Filipinos are still relatively friendly to Americans, despite their experiences with Marcos. The Philippines had 50 soldiers in Iraq until they decided that the heat was too much to bear staying in the kitchen. Filipino troops are trained by American soldiers on how to fight their own Muslim insurgents. If you want to be literal, any place outside of the US is dangerous for Americans to be nowadays. But I'd rather be in the Philippines or Thailand than some places in Europe. ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- Hi I tend to disagree. The longer you live there, the better known you will get. When these guys go looking for an American to get even with for something that happens in Iraq or to the Muslim world, they will go with the simpliest path in their brain which is the first American they can think of. That well known American. They will already know his routine and it will easy to capture him. Once these guys get a hold of you, you are pretty much finished. All for what? Good cheap living and fun that might end badly one day. I think it's best to stay in this country for now unless you're going somewhere more safe and cultured. Even Europe isn't safe for Americans these days. I would be scared all the time all alone in a foreign country. Most people feel they will be protected like they are in America, only to find out the hard way no one's give a **** about your rights outside this country. Stay home for now till things get better politically unless again it's a well cultured country. Lucky |
Lucky wrote:
"running dogg" wrote in message ... Lucky wrote: "Burr" wrote in message news:Dk2xe.17309$Xr6.13205@trnddc07... Down to five days till I'll be free. Last week I fired myself so I am job less, next week I sell the house so I'll be homeless. I'll stay in the motor home until the check clears then I'll buy a ticket to the Philippines. I have shipped 31 boxes of "stuff" and should ship maybe 10 more next week. Looks like I am out of here. Burr Hi Burr My cousin has lived there on and off. He says he likes it. Money goes far and the girls are just very sweet and are very loyal to their men and treat them very nice. Personally I think it's still a dangerous place for Americans to live in this time and age. Lucky Not necessarily. As long as you stay out of the Muslim areas you should be relatively safe. Christian Filipinos are still relatively friendly to Americans, despite their experiences with Marcos. The Philippines had 50 soldiers in Iraq until they decided that the heat was too much to bear staying in the kitchen. Filipino troops are trained by American soldiers on how to fight their own Muslim insurgents. If you want to be literal, any place outside of the US is dangerous for Americans to be nowadays. But I'd rather be in the Philippines or Thailand than some places in Europe. ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- Hi I tend to disagree. The longer you live there, the better known you will get. When these guys go looking for an American to get even with for something that happens in Iraq or to the Muslim world, they will go with the simpliest path in their brain which is the first American they can think of. That well known American. They will already know his routine and it will easy to capture him. Once these guys get a hold of you, you are pretty much finished. All for what? Good cheap living and fun that might end badly one day. I think it's best to stay in this country for now unless you're going somewhere more safe and cultured. Even Europe isn't safe for Americans these days. I would be scared all the time all alone in a foreign country. Most people feel they will be protected like they are in America, only to find out the hard way no one's give a **** about your rights outside this country. Stay home for now till things get better politically unless again it's a well cultured country. Lucky I would tend to agree that most of the rest of the world hates Americans, and Muslims especially do. Note that I said *Christian* Filipinos are usually friendly towards Americans. *Muslim* Filipinos tend to hate our guts, and they're fighting a guerrilla war against the Christian govt in Manila. AFAIK it all depends where you are in the Philippines. I would NOT want to be on Mindanao, which is predominantly Muslim, for example. And yes, Europeans hate us too, although less so in places like Poland and Ukraine than in say Germany or France. Thank Bush for most of this. (Although Muslims hate everybody who isn't just like them.) ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
Lucky wrote:
I tend to disagree. The longer you live there, the better known you will get. When these guys go looking for an American to get even with for something that happens in Iraq or to the Muslim world, they will go with the simpliest path in their brain which is the first American they can think of. That well known American. They will already know his routine and it will easy to capture him. Not so. Really fat people are hard to kidnap. Try it sometime. mike |
m II wrote:
Lucky wrote: I tend to disagree. The longer you live there, the better known you will get. When these guys go looking for an American to get even with for something that happens in Iraq or to the Muslim world, they will go with the simpliest path in their brain which is the first American they can think of. That well known American. They will already know his routine and it will easy to capture him. Not so. Really fat people are hard to kidnap. Try it sometime. They can be beaten up easily, however, since they tend not to run very fast. Since we're talking about thugs, they'll likely take the easy route and just conk him over the head with a pipe. ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
Burr wrote:
"Burr" wrote in message news:Dk2xe.17309$Xr6.13205@trnddc07... Down to five days till I'll be free. Last week I fired myself so I am job less, next week I sell the house so I'll be homeless. I'll stay in the motor home until the check clears then I'll buy a ticket to the Philippines. I have shipped 31 boxes of "stuff" and should ship maybe 10 more next week. Looks like I am out of here. Burr I'll be north on Manila for the first year then we should have a house built on Palawan. Yes, I am retired, sold my business, homes and cars. Keep the motor home just to have something to stay in when we come back for a week or so. I'll still be on line, having DSL put in next week. I am looking forward to doing a lot of DXing, fishing and diving. I was stationed at (now closed) Clark Air Base in 1973-74, loved my time there, would love to go back. Even under Marcos-era martial law it was a pretty good place to be, but even then there were problems between Muslims and Christians; I stayed mainly on Luzon so I didn't see any conflicts personally and felt safe as long as I obeyed the overnight curfew. Things are different there now, both for good and for bad. From what I've read, Americans are still welcome and safe on most of Luzon, less so on the southern islands. A dollar probably doesn't go as far there as it used to, but it's still a better bargain than some other places in the Far East. Technolgy manufacturing and programming have discovered the country, and I would imagine that means more prosperity ... at least in the urban areas. I'm not sure I'd want to live there full-time, but I think I could really enjoy spending a few weeks or months visiting that country again. -- Walter Luffman Medina, TN USA Amateur curmudgeon, equal opportunity annoyer |
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