5 Best Retirement Cities in The Philippines - Low Cost Living! 

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I have been living in Davao for 3 years. A very friendly nice city with a couple of world class hospitals to care for senior ExPats. The cost of living is much lower than Manila combined with a low crime rate. Great malls. As mentioned in the video, Samal Island is close for a day trip or a weekend at The Paradise Island Resort.

I am glad you mentioned Davao. My asawa and I have a condo and other property there. Davao is safer than Calgary in western Canada where we are now. Next year we will be moving back to Davao permanently so my wife can be there to run a nearby beach resort she owns. As for the traffic, it is a lot better than the insanity that one encounters on the streets in Manila. In my humble opinion, Davao is the place to be.

I like it when people make a list of their favourite places. I know it's all according to taste, but I gives 'noobs' a good start at least. Thanks Gio.

Great overview Gio and I appreciate all you do! Take care my friend!

I have lived in the Philippines on and off since 1962. Why would you live in a City? They are crowded, noisy , hot, Polluted and dirty. The Philippines is an amazing place with many fantastic place to live. But Cities? I do not get it.

Hi! So glad to come across your channel and see this video! Thanks for this cool video! :)

Good stuff. Now just waiting for the country to open up!

Was planning on visiting the Philippines this fall. Oh well, guess I'll just have to keep fly fishing in the South until stuff opens up again. Great video!

Thanks Gio for the video and information good to know take care

Gio, Great vid. You covered all the bases. Very informative.

Really informative video pal, thanks. I'm looking at heading over to do a bit of exploring your videos are really helpful

Good topic, keep up the good work!

Nice video and thanks for featuring Davao City.

Yes that’s true,cagayan de oro is the best,used to live there for 5 yrs,graduated there as well.me and my husband are planning to retire there someday.

Another great video Gio. Always informative and thought provoking content. Excellent.

Thank you. This was helpful. I didn't know about Valencia. Now I will definitely visit!

Good video, I personally like Cebu, Baguio and Bohol. Haven’t been to Valencia, Cagayan de Oro or Davao. I’ll check them out next.

Thanks Gio for choosing CDO as the number one best retirement city in the Philippines. It has all the best amenities every retiree is looking for just like Cebu and Davao but is less traffic and is less expensive. It is also strategically located a distance away from Cebu, Bohol, and Davao so traveling within these areas is very easy and accessible. CDO has also lots of things to do from nightlife to nature adventure that's why it's also called the "Adventure Capital of the Philippines." Plus the friendliness of the people being known as the city of golden friendship. The uptown area specifically is best for expats to reside overlooking Macajalar Bay. It is now growing and booming and will become the 4th metropolitan area in the country by 2025.

Good top five. I would have chosen CDO as #1 but earthquakes frighten me. Bad experience when I was 16. Hey, check out Iloilo and Baguio too, you might like it.

EXCELLENT INFORMATION. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

Excellent video, Gio. Solid info. You are teaching us much about the lovely Philippines. Thank you, Jack

Traffic has really changed in Cebu. I've been going to Cebu for 20 years. And I can say traffic has improved.

Nice to know this information Thanks

Hey you got the best blogs thanks for taking your sunglasses off

Thank you for the information!

Great! My gf suggested cagayan de oro, is where she went to school as a young filipina.

Love these types of videos... Loyal watcher.....

Thanks Gio, so many options that sound very good there. Thanks

Thanks I know this is an old video but its great info. I know you are back by Cebu now. Thanks for the great content

Baguio city is a wonderful place, far cooler climate. Met my wife there 30 yrs ago as fellow students w Youth With A Mission school during the earthquake of July 1990! TC in Annapolis Maryland

Great choices. 👏🏻👏🏻 Thank you.

I stayed in Claveria Cagayan and absolutely loved it..I was the only us 🇺🇸 citizen to stay at the rest house in 2 weeks.. beautiful coast line and mountains and quiet roads.

The weather in Valencia is more like 2-3 degrees cooler. It’s worth is how pretty and chill it is.

Nice video and very informative. And the cities you picked are very nice. I’ve got a place in Bukidnon malaybalay . It’s a very nice clean city there.

Thanks for the video. Planning my first trip to the Philippines in December.

I have been to CDD just last year 2019 and i love it. Nice experience. Love the place.

Interesting video. I've been to Cebu. Lots to do. Thinking about moving there from Florida. May I ask how you handle your health insurance? Keep up the good work.

Thanks Gio! This sounds like this could be a good first visit as well, depending on how much time is available. Thanks for sharing! EW :)

Rented a car in Manila to go to the 100 islands. The drive in Manila is an adventure itself.

My fiance lives in CDO ( opol) very nice people, I been going to CDO for the last three years now, I will be retiring there as soon as air travel is possible

1st time seeing your channel Gio. Really good information & content ! So many bloggers in the Philippines you / Paul / Mark / Calvin all putting out great videos. You have opened my eyes to other places to retire in. Still have time in the US to work & get things in order before I do it. I'm getting close though at 64 if work wasn't as good as it is I'd be retired already.

Aloha lads good stuff keep rolling good luck God bless

Cool video thank you

Baguio Is worth the trip , suites me , cool and lots of coffee shops , plenty of girls

Great video thank you

Thank you for the info.😊

Great video.

Roxas Night Market was the happiest place in Davao for me. And samal island is one of the cool places in Davao. Thanks for this video.

Great video I've been in Davao Philippines 3 times.... very nice like you said but I couldn't handle the pollution there I may be more sensitive I couldn't handle the deep fried food... pretty women and nice malls very friendly people

Im 63 yrs probably will be travelling next year , born and raised left south Cebu at 22 yrs.

I live close to cagayan de oro or CDO as we call it. I love it here

I was in CDO for a week last September. I really like the city. I may retire there as my girlfriend lives in nearby Jasaan. I stayed at the Centrio Tower Condos next to Centrio mall. Centrio mall, SM mall and the older Gaisano mall share 1 street intersection. I also met a girl at SM Uptown. The people are very friendly. I could easily have 5 beautiful girlfriends there if I was so inclined, and I’m old and ugly. I also like Davao and Dipolog in Mindanao. I was never bored in these places.

Good stuff. I also recommend Tagaytay in Cavite, Lipa in Batangas, Baguio, and the Angeles, Pampanga area.

I have to agree with you about Cagayan de Oro, I lived there as well and it's my #1 choice!

Hi Gio,im glad that you choose CdeO as #1 city in the phils.to retire. Also known as the "City of golden friendship".Im living in one of the exclusive subdivisons here in uptown,its clean and fresh air and everything is accessible, private schools,church,mall,cafe, local and foriegn restaurants and soon to rise private hospital, and whats great is the food is fresh and cheap and also the hospitable and kind people!

It is true that the traffic in Cebu City is terrible but you don't have to live in Cebu City. I live in the south of Cebu & I love, love, love it here.....no traffic, quiet & no pollution. I'm close to the beaches,close to the church, close to the market & close to the municipal hall. This is a town next to the whale shark.

Great list. I’ve spent a lot in CDO. Camiguin Island is Fantastic, and the coastline on the way to Iligan is breathtaking. I wouldn’t recommend Iligan though… many Muslins and some of them can be belligerent.

Cagayan de oro is my favorite place in the Philippines to date. However, I've never been to Cebu and my travels are only based on about 10 cities in the Philippines. Looking forward to going back in January.

Cebu has an international gateway airport, ports where ships sail everywhere in the Philippines, good hospitals, lots of entertainment and nature sites. There are also pockets of western standard places and the mountain and nearby areas are very scenic. But mostly the people are "modern", accepting of differences, speak English and more independent minded than in other places. On the other hand, traffic sucks, the poverty is depressing and you'll marvel at the sheer chaos of the electric wires.

Great video

I agree u gio, thats the best 5 list to retire in my country!!!🤗🙏😀😀🇵🇭

I love davao city.people are very easy to get along with.prices of food is great and shelter ia not a problem as there are a lot of housing villages.

any thoughts to consider Bacolod city, do we miss anything so we can prepare and thanks

I liked CDO too I haven't stayed for long though. Will try to have an extended stay next time round.

Just subbed from Annapolis maryland! Hoping to hear more of your English teaching experience. Married to a Filipina for 30 years and only in our 50s now but because of finances May be forced to retire in the Philippines someday.

Hi Gio nice video. I was in Cebu too crowded. Bohol Taglibarin nice not many restaurants when walking mainly in malls. Bohol very good tho. CDO very good but busy. Went and saw Tom from Tom and Ruths Phillipine Adventure. Maramag Mindinao seems very safe. Camiguin closed 😥. Stopped me..

Many others thing San Juan area of Siquijor Island is very nice. I have to agree.

Hi Gio,! First off, you did a good review of these 5 cities. However, you seemed to forget to mention how much is the rent to live in those cities. Anyway, You’re video is so helpful and informative! Cool.👍👍👍

Thank you so much for sharing. I’m 66 yrs. old and on social security. Wow, the first city you mentioned was Cebu and that’s where I’ll be retiring to as soon as it opens to foreigners. I’ve been depending on your and other blogs which helped me to make my decision. Again, thank you.

Great video congrats

Good video

it's like anywhere else in the world safe areas not so safe areas mindanao is very nice place to live some Muslims but you will find good people of all walks of life as long as you are respectful to people anywhere really you will be fine remember please and thank you will take you far in the world

You need to include Golf.. theres a lot of golf courses in the Phil. Davao alone has 4 golf courses. Bowling, biking trails, motorcycle tourism

If I went: Manila, Cebu, Subic are too big and maybe expensive. Dumaguete has comments about 'to hot', Valencia is really wet with rain almost every day during rainy season, Tagaytay sounds expensive and maybe to high elevation (?). I looked for a smaller, off the beaten trail city. Looked North and saw Aparri. ~60K, not as developed but it's growing and the government is putting resources into the area. New mall, etc.

As I have been living in Dumaguete for 30 years, there is something I don't understand about CDO. It is just beside the sea but turns its back to it. No waterfront at all, except for the port but that doesn't count. The waterfront in Dumaguete adds so much to the quality of the city.

My wife wants us to retire in CDO when we can. The city is close to her family n her old college friends...she likes uptown area as well n has an aunt living there.

Hi, like your video, but it would have helped, if you would've included maps of the locations that you are referencing. I think, people like visual aids in any presentation. Thank you for your work! Axel.

So pleased you love CDO, We have a house on Camiguin, my wife is a 6th grade teacher there, We live in Catarman

Enjoyed the video, Gio, but; Holy Moly,! As you were talking about the great rods in Bohol, the video looked like you almost got ran over by that white SUV jumping into you lane. Glad you survived!

Just what i’ve been waiting to see..thanks again for sharing. Does one hv to pay certain membership fee of sort to live in that coastal area?

I will retire surely in Cebu. Easy access to international airport and health necessities

Hi Gio, thanks so much for this video. It’s very informative, especially that I'm trying to convince my Caucasian husband to retire there. I was born in Mindanao, and my family immigrated to the USA when I was eleven years old. That was over fifty years ago. I've visited the Philippines twice and once with my husband, and we had a wonderful time. I think I know where Cagayan De Oro and probably will consider visiting there once this pandemic is over and gone for good! Take care and be safe!

Angeles City for me as i wanna be around "adult fun" action.

i have been tp Bohol for 2 times . Just like it.

Interesting ❤️

You never mentioned about the cost of living. Like how much for a house or apartment or condo! Nice video though! Well informed information. Appreciate it. Keep up the good work.

For me Cebu is the best choice. There are a lot of shopping malls, international airport, restaurants, beautiful beaches, hospitals, great tourist spots, mountains for hiking, no problem communicating with friendly locals, government offices , schools instructions are in English and Tagalog.

I live in a small town in Cavite and the people are fantastic very friendly nothing spectacular I've been here 11years, maybe I don't like the high life due to my age but I and my wife and family love it.

Thanks for the shortlist. Whenever I check places out to retire in the Philippines people always put malls near the top of the list as a reason for retiring there. Coming from the States, I think people are "malled out" here. They have been losing business here in the US for years. Part of the biggest attraction for me coming to the Philippines is the individual personalities of all the independent shops----the kind that were in my home town and surroundings when growing up. They have disappeared and been replaced with big box stores and online shopping. Maybe the malls there are an attraction for the quality of shopping so I might be misjudging them as a reason for wanting to be near them. Your thoughts?

Hi Gio, sitting here in Butte, MT freezing my tush and breathing the forest fires. Can’t wait for the Philippines to allow tourists back again. You know my personal favorite is Bayawan. I have a story about how tight knit the people in the Philippines are. My brother-in-law has a blog, The Sky Is My Garden, on Facebook. He’s a widower, and met a Filipina, D, from Bayawan, who’s lived in Manila for years, through his blog several years ago. He went to the RP to meet D and is now working on getting D to the US on a fiancée visa. A friend, S, of my girl friend, E, friended my BIL’s fiancé, D, a few months ago. With me so far, ‘cause now comes the close knit part. D got in touch with S to talk about E’s aunt, A. A had recently died in Bayawan. It seems that when A and D were young women they boarded together (lived in the same boarding house) in Bayawan. In the US we talk about six degrees of separation, but in the RP I think it’s more like two degrees. Just something that struck an old man as interesting.

Here in US malls are closing or for sell or they’re talking about turn into apartment.Most people here don’t shop in the mall anymore they mostly shop on line.Groceries and department stores don’t have cashiers anymore we check our own groceries and we order our groceries by app and we just pick it up and if u live in the city they’ll deliver it for u

Baguio. It's the closest to Southern CA climate as you can get in the country.

Hey Gio, a good top 5, The Davao sounds like good place for medical at my age, but Cagayan de Oro, Misamis Oriental uptown seems very interesting, a little bit city and good housing, and within reason to the beaches and islands ? Still hate the fact that I don’t know when the hell I’m gonna get to get over there, if this keeps dragging out I think I’m going to try Isla Providencia and San Andres, or on land on the coast of Colombia. The only thing missing is the no age spread difference pass we Get in the Philippines , and that is hard to ignore :-(

Cebu. A mix of both worlds!

You are the man Gio

I love my hometown Davao City ❤️❤️❤️.. Thanks sir Gio 😍😍😍

For myself i have too go with Davao,has everything one could want,people very nice,lots too do, yes there's traffic and my understanding is that Davao city is the biggest city in the world by land mass. That would be my place too retired. Enjoyed the video Gio.

Hi Sir, kindly visit also iloilo City, one of longest bike lane in the Philippines

Hey Gio I watch your videos alot I have learned a lot from you keep up the good work You were talking about being the largest city in the Philippines. My fiance is from Davao we had a Discussion about the size of Davao she had said it was the largest city in the world, I told her thats not right I was thinking about population i was wrong. Davao is so spred out it is the largest city in the world. Good luck in your future endeavors I look forward to your next video and can't wait to see the Philippines for my self Thank you Randy R.