Yet when you select a place to live for retirement, you might wish to consider the fact that your body may not allow you to play tennis for many years. My wife is trying to talk me into doing a retirement (down the road...when ready) that would be Nov. - March in Bali Indonesia and April - October here in the good 'ol USA.
She grew up in Indonesia so she is bilingual....my wife speaks English and Indonesia's language called : "Bahasa". We've visited Bali...it is somewhat like Hawaii maybe?. It might be tolerable for me because so many Australians visit or live their. That way I have English speaking people to talk to.
I don't want to go someplace where the only person who speaks English is my wife. If she gets mad at me and gives me the silent treatment I'll go crazy from the language barrier-isolation.
In the Philippines the stores seem to have signs in
English. Most Filipinos speak 1) their national language "Tagalog" 2) Their local dialect 3) English
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I have watched plenty of that guy’s videos.. he annoys me.. and, he lives in a high dollar part of Manila (Makati or BGC i think) and if you retire there, you might as well retire to someplace in the US b/c you wont save much money .
Ive heard good things about Indonesia .. huge plus that ur wife is from there.. ive never been , but i plan to visit Asia soon since there is only so much you can learn thru Google and watching expat videos on YouTube .. the fact that the Philippines is an English speaking country is a huge plus, but unfotunately there seem to be many more minuses in re to the poverty and ‘roughness ’.. and ive heard that in places like Thailand or Vietnam, it’s easy to get by with English in most of the expat-heavy areas .