Why are EXPATS leaving the Philippines in a mass exodus?

Why are EXPATS leaving the Philippines in a mass exodus?

Hey good morning guys I thought today being beer Friday we would just have a session about why are all the expats leaving the Philippines let’s talk about it Heyy guys so I’m packing up some of the some of the personal materials for the transition over for the dive shop now and I thought since I’m here I would take the time to do the beer Friday session and to kind of just a session about like my opinion and maybe

If you guys will comment on your opinions as far as this this perception that there’s this Mass Exodus of expats from the Philippines back to their home countries and um what the reality is um now you know I have a personal opinion you know how opinions are right I I think there’s

Probably I don’t think that there’s any significant data that supports that there is a significant movement of expats uh from the Philippines or Asia in general in 2023 that would outpace anything that was occurring let’s say at the end of 21 or the beginning of 2022 postco you know

I think that was the peak I think what we’re seeing now is the slide down now those numbers are probably lower okay and may not pace out the influx of those that are moving versus those that are staying however I think what we’re seeing is especially in this

Community you know like vloggers are specifically throwing in the towel and making big deals about moving back to their home country I think that’s showing and then they’re giving their opinions of why you know and that is keeping in Focus you know there’s a couple things that occur in that anomaly

All right number one you know the visibility you they’re on the media platform some of these people are pretty popular YouTubers and they’re giving their opinions why they’ve moved back or why they’re leaving or that long drawn out drama of clickbait in their transition from leaving saying they’re leaving yet they’re still here

And will eventually leave whatever right I think there’s a lot there’s a lot of different things going on with that um one you know uh they’re using it in order to to move um visibility you know get more attention get more views likes Etc uh I I’ve noted that some of these bloggers

Are not really they’re talking about it but they don’t you you it doesn’t look like that they’re actually doing anything in their moves per se then you’ve got those there’s a couple of them that have done it and they’ve made a big deal but you know uh

Most of those guys you need to understand most of us have made our uh content material based on are perceptions experiences and travels within the Philippines or Asia so the minute you move back you lose that that genre you lose that Niche and and you can see the

Downturn in views and comments and everything else on the on that and and to be fair you know I think the genre in general the Asia or the Philippine vlogging genre or the Asia vlogging genre is pretty spent it’s pretty burnt out I think with the way the economy is

Right now and I’ve actually on uh Sunday I will have a video specifically about um some of the the facts behind the economy in the Philippines internationally in general how the US is tied to that but I think those things are starting to kind of impact a lot of

People and there is some movement of people moving back into their uh home countries probably mainly for security reasons I I I I can’t see you know for instance let’s just take the US it’s the easiest for me to actually defend you know if you’re on a set budget in the United

States it it’s obviously going to be harder predominantly now there’s areas that are a lot cheaper to live in in in the United States and has more support than living here in the Philippines but in general you know if we compare apples to apples you know like seu to let’s say

Phoenix or SIU to um uh San Antonio that would be a good one San Antonio and SIU little big cities right uh I think it’s cheaper to live live in SIU than it is San Antonio for sure you know uh housing costs have gone insane and I had a home

That I sold back in I think 2017 right that doubled in price and I can’t imagine what that area is like now and uh you know significant cost increases you know food and housing and everything else I think that’s part of the factor I think that

Uh uh the the people are getting shocked here with the increase in interest rate or not interest rates but inflation rates and cost of living in general so they’re assuming that them going back to their home country and more of a comfort zone things will be better you know I

Don’t know I I I have a tendency to do the math before I start making decisions like that and the math doesn’t play out for me all right right um but then again I think it’s it’s you know to a certain degree some of these guys are just tired of it and even

Though it may appear that they’ve got friends and they got they’ve got girlfriends or they’re in relationships or anything I got a feeling there’s a bit bit of loneliness behind that you know I I’m I’m betting money that some of these guys are pretty lonely and are

Just kind of missing family and and old friends I’m lucky I’ve got solid friends here I don’t have a lot of them but you know the ones that I do have are solid and you know my relationship is you know I got three kids so I’m integrated into

The Philippines a lot of guys are you know it’s not like we can pick up and go um I just don’t think that there’s as many as people are um letting on I think they’re manipulating the data or projecting not manipulating but projecting data that is nonexistent I also feel that

Uh you know whatever is being displaced will be replaced I I just I can’t see it um in in and then next week I’m gonna have a kind of like a geopolitical take on some of the potentials of what’s going on specifically in the South China Sea

And how that could parallel to you know immigration in the past into the Philippines and others Asia countries I I kind of feel that we’re teetering on several points in the world in some humanitarian crisis issues I feel that you know um I I mean I I just I can’t see what

The benefit of if you’ve got it settled in here and you’re doing good what maybe that’s the problem too maybe they’re not doing good maybe they’re financially not being honest about their finances or or they took on more than they could chew or or

Whatever it is I mean I have no idea but I don’t honestly believe there’s the mass exit and you know what do you think I mean do you think there is I I know two two that went back to the States one already regrets it and um I just kind of wonder

What why now everybody is using this as their clickbait you know and if you got any data that shows that there is a significant you know tourism is one thing okay I’m talking about real demographic data uh because Department of Tourism and especially in all of these a lot of

That data that’s wrapped up is twofold so you’re not talking about long-term expat sometimes in that data you get a lot of tourists that happen to be here two or three months and are are registering as you know um uh expats leaving a long-term environment and that that’s not

Necessary to necessarily true because they’re just long-term tourists there’s a difference people who have been here five seven 10 years and then now deciding that they’re coming back I don’t think there’s a lot of them I don’t think there’s um you know um not so I mean let uh vloggers and I’m not

Going to go through names but you guys probably know who I’m talking about um you know some of the dumag Getti guys uh one of them a very well-known vlogger but that was because of medical issues specific for uh that family and um then then you’ve got the one guy he’s he’s

Probably uh he was here he he had some um issues in the past I guess he was you know in Corporate America and didn’t Faire too well in that spent a little bit of time in a Slammer but he’s one of the major proponents on perpetuating this perception that you

Know there’s this Mass Exodus and then you’ve got several other dumag Getti guys and um you’ve got uh one or two up in lazone um one of them is not really moving out of the Philippines he’s just moving within the Philippines cuz he’s tired to where he’s

At because of some some bull crap and I don’t blame the guy you know what he was what he was dealing with but um you know then the one atate that took his family up then there’s an argument about whether that was permanent or if he’s just there on vacation I don’t know

So um see you know th those are just High visible individuals that are perpetuating that and people are making assumptions on what they’re seeing I am seeing more and more people especially from Europe coming in looking for you know the one two three years possibly forever I got one here locally

Um from France that you know he came and is deciding he staying long term so there’s more people that I think are actually um generating in that now there is one caveat to this I will admit that I have seen more of the um foreigners that had came and done done business the

Right way you know whether corporating or or or building a business and running it and you know then covid hits and then the new regulations new all this stuff that they’re grinding businesses down in the Philippines you know there’s a lot of people that are quitting it um but

That goes in two ways a lot of them are quitting and going home right because they got to open something up or go back to work right or they just are tired of doing business and deciding to close it up and they’re not moving out of the Philippines they’re just not doing

Business in the Philippines so again I don’t there may be an increase in that that demographic simply because of um post co uh recovery policies Etc you know what I mean um I mean that’s not you know health reasons are the reasons why I um sold this out

It isn’t it’s not closing it’s just being bought by somebody else and it’s uh renamed as a new d a different dive or uh uh spot now so um same same you know and I’m still uh more more or less still kind of connected to it I’ll I’ll

Do all the text stuff and everything but I won’t be residing here as all the difference is but you know I I’m not I’m not seeing it you know what what do you guys think what do you guys see put comments down tell me tell me what you think um and if

You do see it what are those reasons what are the the the logical reasons people are leaving the Philippines you know the things that bring people here is affordability you know quality of life and all this so if you’re leaving and things have since then gotten worse

In that home what is so significant that’s pushing people to go back just a quick one man I’m not going to sit here and talk 30 45 minutes on this but just you know one of those things that are a curious thing so if you guys got any comments let me know

All right guys until next time remember Sunday I got something coming in if you like the Channel Please Subscribe and like the video helps me get the in the algorithm and um you know again Sunday I got some material coming out and then uh next Wednesday we got another adventure

Vlog so we’ll see how that goes right um I’m going to keep pretty much on the three-day cycles and we’ll see how it goes from there peace out

Why are EXPATS leaving the Philippines in a mass exodus?

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