Retirement & Where to Live
Thinking about retiring in the Philippines? Pea compares the top destinations and weighs the Philippines against Thailand.
11 videos in this collection, spanning 2021 to 2025.
1. THE CITY OF GENTLE PEOPLE — A Quick Trip To My Town: Life in Dumaguete City
With the Philippines nearing reopening, Pea takes viewers on a practical tour of Dumaguete City — not the tourist-brochure version, but the everyday reality of living there. After 140 videos, she realizes she's never actually shown her own town.
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2. DUMAGUETE — A GOOD PLACE TO LIVE? Let's Ask A Foreigner
Pea does a spontaneous "ambush interview" with Sasa, a Polish businessman she encounters at a café in Dumaguete. Sasa has been living in the Philippines for two years (mostly Cebu) and just arrived in Dumaguete two weeks earlier.
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3. THE PHILIPPINES VS THAILAND: The Best Place To Retire
Pea interviews Steve, a recently retired British man who has spent time in both Thailand and the Philippines evaluating where to settle. The conversation is a structured head-to-head comparison covering food, infrastructure, cost of living, women, safety, cultural integration, and visa logistics.
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4. VALENCIA TOUR — The Oasis in Dumaguete's Backyard
Pea plays tour guide for her visiting cousin Sai (a registered nurse turned pastry chef) on a day trip through Valencia, a mountain town near Dumaguete in Negros Oriental. The vlog covers Tierra Alta's Santorini-themed development, a hillside restaurant with panoramic ocean views, and a street food feast at the Valencia plaza market.
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5. DO NOT RETIRE IN THE PHILIPPINES NOW — Things Are Different
Pea delivers a blunt reality check aimed at foreigners fantasizing about retiring in the Philippines. She systematically dismantles the "tropical paradise" image by walking through the daily frustrations, financial traps, and personality types that make expat life here either manageable or miserable — and she's not gentle about it.
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6. WHICH COUNTRY IS BETTER TO RETIRE TO - The Philippines Vs Thailand
Pea delivers a detailed comparison of the Philippines and Thailand as retirement destinations, drawing on her recent trip crisscrossing Thailand from north to south. She covers language, culture, infrastructure, cost of living, dating dynamics, and her overall gut feeling, talking to locals and expats along the way.
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7. BAGUIO CITY - A Good Place To Retire In The Philippines
Pea and her friend Jojo spend a week in Baguio City investigating whether it's a viable retirement destination for foreigners. They meet with real estate agents, test the internet and transportation, check out healthcare, and scope the social scene — all bookended by a paintball battle where Pea shoots Jojo in the butt.
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8. Is The Big City A Good Place To Retire What About Manila And BGC
Pea travels to Bonifacio Global City (BGC) in Metro Manila to interview Evan from The Savvy Expat Channel, a full-blooded Filipino born and raised in Chicago who moved to the Philippines in 2019 at age 15.
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9. Is Dumaguete A Good Place To Retire Or Has It Been Ruined By Foreigners
Pea does a driving tour of Dumaguete City, her hometown, to investigate the common claim among her viewers that it's "overrun with foreigners." Wearing a Velma-from-Scooby-Doo wig disguise to avoid being recognized (she gets stopped by fans in the small city), she visits the boulevard, downtown, restaurants, malls, and expat hangouts on a weekday...
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10. The Right Place To Live - Is Valencia better Than Dumaguete
Pea takes her friend Christine on a walking tour of Valencia, Negros Oriental — a small town just 15 minutes (10 km) west of Dumaguete City that's become increasingly popular with foreign retirees.
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11. The Philippines Now Lets You Retire At 40 But The Visa Is Pricey
Pea brings back visa expert JR to break down major changes to the Philippine Special Resident Retiree's Visa (SRRV) program. The minimum age just dropped from 50 to 40, but deposit requirements have increased significantly.
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