Wow you found my hidden gem of The Philippines. I was there for Dinagyang Festival in 2017.😊 It's a clean safe city 🏙️. I can see myself retiring there unlike where other retired expats settle in The Philippines ❤
You should pass on Vivian's kitchen in Austery subd. There's expat meeting every Wednesday. Owner are from Austria, means clear quality and environment!
I always advise expats/retirees to check the City/Places and try to live alteast for a moth to know if it fits you before you decide where to stay permanently.
Those boys in white are students of Marine & Navigation. Iloilo is the top supplier of graduates in this field. They become officers in cargo ships, chemical tanker, cruise ships and oil tanker.
Hope to see more of Iloilo. My grandfather came from Iloilo to the U.S. to I’m interested in the history and culture of the city. Nice that it is so clean. Enjoy your videos. 🇵🇭
Thank you yeah I would like to explore more and understand more about the history and culture as well it was kind of a quick trip for this one. Thank you for watching!
Wow !!! Thank you for this video !!! I have done alot of research tending more towards medium cities not huge ones and this one came-up often and was great to see !!! Finally and add to my list !!! 🤗 !!! It definitely fits me and my styles !!!
I have visited the city a few times. IloIlo is a great city for food, entertainment, great shopping malls and warm friendly people. Always enjoy visiting there
Hi Chad.. it’s Dean and Anna here from Canada.. we were actually set to build a retirement home in Valencia Negros Oriental.. but after living in Dumaguete for over a month we realized Dumaguete is not for us. Dumaguete has no infrastructure in place no plan for the future.. very dangerous to walk and to drive. Thank God we have’nt build a house yet. We will sell our land there. We had been in Iloilo twice and we love it there. Iloilo is modern, clean, well planned, people follow rules and care about their city. We will be relocating to Iloilo. Great video!
That's great you found your perfect retirement place, I definitely noticed a big difference almost right away when I arrived there. Good luck with your move out there!
_"Dumaguete has no infrastructure in place no plan for the future.. very dangerous to walk and to drive."_ Interesting. Have you figured out why so many expats seem to love Dumaguete? I haven't been yet. - Thanks.
I am from Cebu and proud of my hometown but your observation about Iloilo is quite fair. It has the best scenery of a city comparable to some of the best cities around the world. Everybody in the city deserve a congratulations for keeping your city a place to be proud about.
Nearby island Guimaras is 15 to 20 minutes by ferry. There is Sicogon and Gigantes island aslo. Yeah u are right Boracay is 5 to 6 hrs drive depends on transport. Private car usually take around 4 hrs.
And for nearby mountains and waterfalls.. there is Southern Iloilo.. BUCARI, Leon has a cool weather with the sweetest mango.. Ilonggos sell and export Guimaras mangos.. but when they eat mangoes.. they look for the Leon kind.
Iloilo is known as the City of Love!! Ilonggos are the Most Romantic in the country.The Hiligaynon dialect( spoken as Lengua franca) in the Philippines is filled with heartfelt love Tonal undertones!❤❤❤
It is a nice local place for the Philippines. Much better video than the video with the guy with the imagination. Your channel wil grow more with this content.
Iloilo city is one of the finest city in the Philippines One of the cleanest and safest and most beautiful city in the Philippines The Food is great the Ilonggos are amazing people
Good to see your vlog. I'm especially interested in your content because after marrying my wife in Iloilo in 2002 I'm ready to retire there. Have fun, we're jealous.
Thanks for visiting my hometown and for the positive feedback. It's pretty much expensive there now but Iloilo has a different vibe compared to other cities. Enjoy your stay!
BGC is very organized, master planned, no brownouts, St Luke’s top notch Hosp, no jeepneys, very safe 24/7, can hike at any time, in the center of everything, 500 restaurants, 40 coffee shops, as clean as Japan, as nice as Singapore, beaches you can always fly or drive to, cut the chase, life is short, live in BGC.
Estancia Iloilo is a good in between. Check out the Huni resort if ya get a chance. Air taxi helicopter 🚁 they have a private landing strip. Security there can show you around on 4-6 passenger side by sides. Worth the costs
Hello chad. I really like your videos. Can you test the internet speed/reliability at these locations? Im a daytrader moving to the philippines in a year or two. On a side note, lived in clearwater beach for years. Enjoyed your video on st. Pete. Have a nice journey.
Hey thank you for watching I appreciate it, the Internet thing can definitely be an issue and it really depends on place to place, I often will check the Wi-Fi before committing to somewhere it just depends, especially if I'm going to be there for a while. Sometimes it's awful I'm not going to lie. I've had Airbnb that advertise high speed but then you get there and it's brutal, other times it's incredibly fast.
Thanks Chad for featuring our place. Ilonggo are peace loving people. Top notch for most liveable city in the country. Explore more of Panay and Guimaras island. There's more underrated places to discover.
I was in Iloilo about 1 month ago. I like it just fine but it's a big city. It kind of defeats the purpose of moving to a tropical country. Not my first choice, but nice.
You can live in Oton or along the coastal areas going to Dumangas. Oton has its coastal areas too which gradually leads to the hilly towns of Iloilo like Miagao, San Joaquin etc which has its own natural waterfalls and yet this town sits at the boundary.
My wife of almost 50 years is from Iloilo City. We met in Rochester Minnesota as she was my parents nurse at the Mayo Clinic. My mother loved my wife even before I met her. We just came back from Iloilo one month ago. My wife’s nephew got married this past June 22. We had a great time and our daughter, son-in-law and two grandchildren flew in for the wedding from New York! I am truly grateful to have a Filipino wife and grateful to have married into a fun, loving family! We have been to this festival many times before! Great place!
Iloilo is well-known for one thing: Food! There's a just lot of delicious food around the city just like La Paz Batchoy, Pancit Molo, Biscocho, Ilonggo Native Bibingka, Inasal, etc.. There are vegan/vegetarian options as well. In the future, the city will be putting up a food market similar to Mercado de San Miguel in Spain.
There are alot of natures vibe around nearby iloilo city. Islands are nearby also you can explore. Enjoy your stay in city of love. Iloilo is mixture of urban and rural. You can come back and explore a bit more if you want to discover iloilo and nearby islands and provinces which a lot to see aslo. Watching from Jeddah Saudi Arabia. I am from iloilo.
Iloilo City has improved a lot in the last few years, but when i lived there it was a dirty, nasty, polluted, corrupt city. The river was completely covered in garbage as many still are in outlying areas like Oton. The traffic is still horrible there. The new malls are nice. Dinagyan is insane, loud and pickpocketing is rampant. If you want peace and quiet and nature, leave Iloilo and head on a pump boat for a short trip to Guimaras Island, but ALWAYS watch your stuff. I knew an American who built a house on Guimaras Island. He lived there six months a year. Everytime he returned to the Philippines he had to totally refurnish his house because he neighbors broke in a removed everything as soon as he was gone. He'd even see his neighbors wearing his clothes saying hi to him with smiles on their faces. Filipinos think all white foreigners have rooms in their house to store their stacks of money. There are many good things about the Philippines, but you'll see it's flaws after you live there.
It would be nice to see you collab with That Philippines Life with Michael now that your checking out Iloilo :) hes a canadian vlogger who lives over there ... Cheers!
Yes and BGC has no festivals nor a walkable riverside. Iloilo has nightlife too but not that many compared to BGC. Not yet but Iloilo city is still expanding while BGC remained the same.
@@alexonorep5978- Yep, but for me BGC is the best choice as I'm a businessman and I absolutely have to have fast and reliable internet plus I like the vibe of BGC as I like big cities so for me it's perfect. I know it's not perfect for everyone but it has everything I like and need. I can always hop a plane to a beautiful beach like Boracay or Palawan or run up to Bagui for the mountain experience.
I myself am a part time digital nomad. Considering Iloilo for next winter. Did you find good places to work from while there? Is the city walkable in general?
BGC still superior you can get everything from Japan to Singapore vibes which is very clean, safe , ultra modern alot of glassy tall skyscrapers the infrastructures is great very wide sidewalks, very new CBD the facilities are top notch one of the well planned district in the World.
Thats great but how many beaches you have in BGC , Museaums,parks and wildlife you can offer to your visitotrs not includins a month long celebration of dinagyang and other festival the Iloilo can offer. I guess Bgc wasnt great at all.
Iloilo gets so overhyped by old foreigners for some reason... It's boring when there's not a festival going on. If you look at what there ACTUALLY IS TO DO, you've got SM and Festive Walk. Just cut the foreplay and settle down in Cebu imo
It depends on what your definition of "going on" is. I'm in my twenties, and there's plenty to do here for me. There's Cinematheque with free/affordable film festivals, Jaro Public Library with a best-seller book collection, nightly food stall markets near Molo Plaza, Zumba sessions at Plaza Libertad and the Esplanade, the no-kill City Pound that accepts animal-loving volunteers, Asilo de Molo's impressionable senior residents, the big, flashy, religion-related celebrations at the Jaro Cathedral, Christmas light shows at the Capitol, and subdivision-level fiestas nearly every month. Pro-tip: don't limit yourself to the Festive Walk/Megaworld area. It's actually one of the most boring places in the city. Not to mention expensive.
Over the last 20 years, I have spent most of that time living abroad. Americans who have NEVER left the United States have no idea what the rest of the world is like. The USA doesn't even rank in the top 10 places to live, The USA doesn't rank in the top 10 safest countries. The USA doesn't rank in the top 10 healthiest countries. MOST citizens around the globe would choose to live anywhere BUT the USA. This world has a lot of nice places to live in. Life goes quickly. Enjoy while you can.
I dont get the hype about Iloilo. I've seen lots of vloggers rave about it, but from what ive seen of it in videos, nothing at all about it interests me
Thanks for the video Chad. I have a question that you don't have to answer because it's personal. I'm looking for ways to become a digital nomad which is a term you called yourself in this video. Is your RU-vid channel your digital nomad work?
Nice video, sir. Expats here usually lived at the peripheral parts of iloilo.. as they could enjoy a lot of areas for agribusiness, beaches and more bigger properties.
Nice vlog - but no way will I pay 50-70 for that hotel , I don’t understand why quality hotels are so much more expensive than Thailand which I lived for 16 months. Thinking of visiting the Philippines but prices seem much higher than other more SEA countries.
That hotel price hike is obviously due to the festival season. Off season, it does go cheaper. I once found a fancy hotel there before that was between 10-15 usd.
You want to tell them "you want 2?" Ok so next time say this when you want 2 fish ....Say "Dell Ah Wah" Means 2 There you go ez huh? Spelled wrong yup but 4u enjoy from an Amercan go try it in US been there done that ha
