Quote from: Dabs on June 06, 2022, 11:00:15 PM

Another vote for the Philippines from me. One, it's where I was born in. Two, I happen to be, or had been, in a position, to know the former president. If that's not enough, I happen to be a commissioned officer in the military, so I can get away with very minor traffic violations, or enter places I would not otherwise have access to.

But even if you have none of those, its a decent enough place to live in, even if you are white as a vampire and stick out like a sore thumb. Stick to the top two large islands. If you decide you like the bottom one, try to stick to Davao city or other place that has large buildings, banks, shopping malls. You should be fine.

You can probably stay as a tourist for about 1 year, then you can worry about alien registration to stay longer or indefinitely. You'll need some sort of paperwork and documents if you intend to open bank accounts, and you'll need that even if you have lots of crypto / bitcoin because you'll have to pay for most things in fiat.

Are you suggesting that there would be significantly high safety issues for whities who stand out too much in the Philippines? Does familiarity help with not being a kidnapping/ransom target, or are there just some folks who are targeting whities for economic reasons in the more rural areas (or the areas that you outlined)?

For the various folks recommending countries in Africa, I am thinking that quite a few African country rural locations would be less safe than places like the Philippines, and of course, it is one of those things that likely is going to vary from country to country, and usually the more major cities are going to be safer than rural areas... but also that anyone might proclaim that it hardly ever happens, but there can be quite a few reasons that "it hardly ever happens," and we may well even be entering into an era in which anyone perceived to have access to dollars will be even more of a target because of what seems to be ongoing world-wide economic declines - and at the same time, even though people with dollars still might be kind of fucked - but for a while they still might be less fucked than some others who are experiencing economic declines that surely do not even affect people within countries in any kind of equally distributed way.