Cost of living Philippines vs. Colombia

[JimD]

Apart from being poor, blind and disabled:

"Other rules you must meet:
 
To get SSI, you must live in the U.S. or the Northern Mariana Islands and be a U.S. citizen or national."

So what are the chicas like on Guam? And can we add Guam to the Colombia/Philipines debate.

[Ray]

Wow, where the heck did you get this information? There are at least a million of us living outside the US all over the rest of the world collecting our SS......if I can get a reward for turning me in I'll share it with you

For you guys out there that don’t know the difference between SSI and SS retirement benefits, read here for more info:

http://www.socialsecurity.gov/ssi/index.htm

http://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/cfr20/416/416-0215.htm

Ray

[JimD]

And back to the comparison...

I have no idea what sort of lifestyles are available to a married American living  in the Philippines but lets take a look at life in Colombia. A retired gringo with a pension of say forty to fifty k is earning the equivalent of $80´000.000 to $100¨000.000 pesos. Most caleños who earn that kind of money will have a strata five or six house or apartment in Cali with an empleada (maid), have a nice campero like Kia or Toyota, and have a finca (country place) for weekends with a mayordomo (caretaker) who lives on the place.  This is “normal” for the vast majority of 80 to 100k earners in Cali.  As I said at the start the Philippines is a completely unknown entity to me so would you Philophiles here please  describe a comparable life style in that country.