Thursday, August 11, 2011

Information on the Social Bookmarks Sites

I searched in the most popular of the social bookmarkers to see what others say about retiring in the Philippines.

Digg was the most informative. One article emphasised the suitability of the Philippines as a retirement destination for citizens of the USA, citing a shared if sometimes stormy history from 1898 to 1946. It even pointed out that Ronald McDonald is here and he delivers! For my personal view of the American occupation of the Phillippines go to http://tglstuff.blogspot.com/2009/07/no-im-british.html.

A Digg entry rated the earthquake risk as no worse than living in San Francisco, on the San Andreas fault line.Others offered visa services and condos to buy and houses to rent.

Delicious has entries about the hospitality and helpfulness of the Filipinos. There is an interesting but unrealistic entry about the cost of living and Ernst and Young offers tax advice.

I found nothing relevant in StumbleUpon.