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Originally Posted by Rhoody  hmmm, I spend my money the same way as I did in my "past" life....
beer, cigarettes, unnecessary electronic toys, traveling, looking for best quality to lowest price, don't care if a meal costs more if it's good, trying to avoid rip-offs...
but I also know plenty of peso-millionaires who change the restaurant cause another offers a 30 minute longer happy hour and going to MC Donald's for bottomless coffee (or should I say black water) and ordering extra ketchup to take the unused ones home... somehow I feel like throwing up, This people are very pristine to Dumaguete's Expat community, they can be found in others cities but the percentage of them in Duma is unreal high...
Rhoody |
I think where I'm at, I'm the only expat with an income. Everyone else is living on a dwindling savings trying to figure out how to stretch the stay as long as possible. I'm sure there are many others out there like that.
Many other expats are living on a fixed income which is very tight. They came to the Phils largely because of the lower cost of living. I imagine there are a lot of tightwads among that crowd also.
Ordering extra ketchup to be able to take some home kind of makes sense to me. Not so much because of saving money but because good ketchup seems to be hard to find here.
Or maybe I haven't been looking hard enough.
Otherwise, that sort of thing is a bit extreme.