{"id":2360,"date":"2013-01-02T09:19:52","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T09:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=2360"},"modified":"2013-01-02T09:19:52","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T09:19:52","slug":"looking-forward-to-retire-in-the-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=2360","title":{"rendered":"Looking forward to retire in the Philippines?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Find a place outside Metro Manila.  The Metro area is  overcrowded; traffic is an absolute nightmare; and new housing developments are trending toward &#8220;pocket-sized&#8221; living. Condominium units are getting smaller but not getting any cheaper. Two-bedroom condos that are only 800 square feet or less are going for seven to eight million pesos (AUD190,000). If you&#8217;re coming from the Sydney Eastern Suburbs, that  might be acceptable,  but the place is claustrophobic and is overpriced. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Those who are constrained by family matters to remain in Manila might consider settling down in Subic Freeport. It has a nice environment,  clean air,  relatively cheap housing,  beaches,  and only three hours from Manila via North Luzon Expressway (NLEX) and the new SCTEX (Subic-Clark-Relax Expressway) which is as good as any interstate in Australia. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Find a place outside Metro Manila. The Metro area is overcrowded; traffic is an absolute nightmare; and new housing developments are trending toward &#8220;pocket-sized&#8221; living. Condominium units are getting smaller but not getting any cheaper. Two-bedroom condos that are only 800 square feet or less are going for seven to eight million pesos (AUD190,000). If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}