Moving To Philippines: Are the Numbers Up?
June 8, 2009
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Posted by dmihalia
I have been looking closely at this website’s statistics and analysis lately to find the reason people are visiting. Maybe it’s just the interesting posts I make but it probably isn’t. Although I enjoy writing here when I get a chance, my main goal is to help other people make their the move to the Philippines. What I’ve noticed is my site is coming up with quite a few more searches on my older posts vice my newer posts. I can take the results two ways. Either I’m getting boring or many more people are considering a move to the Philippines. I think I’m pretty sure that more people are considering the move.
In an article for the website MelissaData.com, David Bancroft Avrick uses U.S. census numbers to show that last year 40,093,000 people moved from their original address. Out of that 40+ million 1,269,000 moved to a new country. Now that number could be higher because basically I think they are using the number of people who filed change of address notices to the post office. But I was curious of how many of those 1+ million moved to the Philippines. That research isn’t done yet and when I finish that I’ll post it here. But getting back to my original thought the number of people that are visiting this site looking for what they need to take with them when they move to the Philippines is just amazing. I wouldn’t think many Filipinos living in the U.S. would visit my site looking for what to do or what to take back so I’m assuming these are Americans moving. The ratio of how many are moving to the Philippines to how many are just doing the research is beyond me but my question for today is two part: Do you think the numbers of people moving to the Philippines are up? And Will they be up enough for the Philipppine government to notice or take some kind of action?
Categories: Philippines General
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I do not know if the visits directly relate to the immigration of Americans to the Philippines, but I do know that my own research is leading me that way. I do visit from time to time as well when new articles are written, so take some small measure of comfort from that. It was a toss up between Thailand and the Philippines. I am more inclined now to move the the Philippines with Visa runs to Thailand and a bit of holiday.
Now my reasons for wanting to move there? In two words, the pace and the women. Working and commuting into DC are horrible, not to mention the attitude. I will own my own internet business online, so geography is not important, communications are though. So you might write and article about that if you have not already done so
Hi Randy
Your two favorite things are prettty close to mine both in Thaniland and Philippines. Your 3 things about DC could be mone also. Thank God for the Metro. What part of the Philippines will you be spending the most time in?