This city could be the next expat hotspot in the Philippines. It has everything!
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Wow you found my hidden gem of The Philippines. I was there for Dinagyang Festival in 2017.😊 It's a clean safe city 🏙️. I can see myself retiring there unlike where other retired expats settle in The Philippines ❤
Thanks for visiting Iloilo ❤
You should pass on Vivian's kitchen in Austery subd. There's expat meeting every Wednesday. Owner are from Austria, means clear quality and environment!
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There are many expats there. Don't talk about things you know nothing about.
Those boys in white are students of Marine & Navigation. Iloilo is the top supplier of graduates in this field. They become officers in cargo ships, chemical tanker, cruise ships and oil tanker.
Iloilo has the best urban planning so far and good governance as well👍💪💪
Hi Chad.. it’s Dean and Anna here from Canada.. we were actually set to build a retirement home in Valencia Negros Oriental.. but after living in Dumaguete for over a month we realized Dumaguete is not for us. Dumaguete has no infrastructure in place no plan for the future.. very dangerous to walk and to drive. Thank God we have’nt build a house yet. We will sell our land there. We had been in Iloilo twice and we love it there. Iloilo is modern, clean, well planned, people follow rules and care about their city. We will be relocating to Iloilo. Great video!
That's great you found your perfect retirement place, I definitely noticed a big difference almost right away when I arrived there. Good luck with your move out there!
_"Dumaguete has no infrastructure in place no plan for the future.. very dangerous to walk and to drive."_
Interesting. Have you figured out why so many expats seem to love Dumaguete? I haven't been yet. - Thanks.
Great choice! You're welcome to our lovely city.
Any idea about Tagbilaran
I lived in Iloilo for three years. I have no idea what you're talking about about.
It is good that there are not a lot of expats right now, not over expats like Duma and Cebu. We like it that way.
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Haha. Not for long. These vloggers keep giving away our secret spots. Won't be long until this place is ruined
Are you worried about a possible gentrification?
People from Iloilo would rather not allow unfavorable expats
Iloilo city is one of the finest city in the Philippines
One of the cleanest and safest and most beautiful city in the Philippines
The Food is great the Ilonggos are amazing people
You're delusional
Outstanding looking city! Very impressed with how clean and vibrant Iloilo looks! What a cool festival!
I have visited the city a few times. IloIlo is a great city for food, entertainment, great shopping malls and warm friendly people. Always enjoy visiting there
I am from Cebu and proud of my hometown but your observation about Iloilo is quite fair. It has the best scenery of a city comparable to some of the best cities around the world. Everybody in the city deserve a congratulations for keeping your city a place to be proud about.
Hope to see more of Iloilo. My grandfather came from Iloilo to the U.S. to I’m interested in the history and culture of the city. Nice that it is so clean. Enjoy your videos. 🇵🇭
Thank you yeah I would like to explore more and understand more about the history and culture as well it was kind of a quick trip for this one. Thank you for watching!
My wife of almost 50 years is from Iloilo City. We met in Rochester Minnesota as she was my parents nurse at the Mayo Clinic. My mother loved my wife even before I met her. We just came back from Iloilo one month ago. My wife’s nephew got married this past June 22. We had a great time and our daughter, son-in-law and two grandchildren flew in for the wedding from New York! I am truly grateful to have a Filipino wife and grateful to have married into a fun, loving family! We have been to this festival many times before! Great place!
Wow !!! Thank you for this video !!! I have done alot of research tending more towards medium cities not huge ones and this one came-up often and was great to see !!! Finally and add to my list !!! 🤗 !!! It definitely fits me and my styles !!!
Thanks for visiting Iloilo my hometown.. Iloilo is the best called city of love explore more and enjoy.
Thanks for visiting my hometown and for the positive feedback. It's pretty much expensive there now but Iloilo has a different vibe compared to other cities. Enjoy your stay!
Iloilo is known as the City of Love!! Ilonggos are the Most Romantic in the country.The Hiligaynon dialect( spoken as Lengua franca) in the Philippines is filled with heartfelt love Tonal undertones!❤❤❤
BGC is very organized, master planned, no brownouts, St Luke’s top notch Hosp, no jeepneys, very safe 24/7, can hike at any time, in the center of everything, 500 restaurants, 40 coffee shops, as clean as Japan, as nice as Singapore, beaches you can always fly or drive to, cut the chase, life is short, live in BGC.
True
But is it affordable for most expats?
Yes but outside BGC?
@@musingsofamarine9601 i mean if you can afford it but yeah outside BGC is cheaper, i have a house in Cebu City but will still decide to live in BGC.
@@musingsofamarine9601NO!
That river esplanade has been duplicated now by other cities now in the Philippines.
Only Roxas City has the river that as gentle as the Iloilo River that a low bank protection is enough and it is within the city.
@@alexonorep5978Pasig river
It's a suitable model for riverside developments
Nearby island Guimaras is 15 to 20 minutes by ferry. There is Sicogon and Gigantes island aslo. Yeah u are right Boracay is 5 to 6 hrs drive depends on transport. Private car usually take around 4 hrs.
And for nearby mountains and waterfalls.. there is Southern Iloilo.. BUCARI, Leon has a cool weather with the sweetest mango.. Ilonggos sell and export Guimaras mangos.. but when they eat mangoes.. they look for the Leon kind.
@@ernestdmenace3200 😆😆 mas matamis ba Leon Mango?
Festivals in Philippines are one of a kind❤❤❤
Keep it up City officials, work well done. Your efforts will not go unnoticed!❤
Hi and thanks for the info 👍🏽 I have a few more days of riding a motorbike around Mindanao I think next will be ilo ilo because of you 😃
Cool enjoy it down there that sounds like a fun motorbike tour! And enjoy Iloilo when you get there
Iloilo is well-known for one thing: Food! There's a just lot of delicious food around the city just like La Paz Batchoy, Pancit Molo, Biscocho, Ilonggo Native Bibingka, Inasal, etc.. There are vegan/vegetarian options as well. In the future, the city will be putting up a food market similar to Mercado de San Miguel in Spain.
Nice Vlog,
Nice and Clean City
Beautiful Festival
Beautiful Destination 💯
It is a nice local place for the Philippines. Much better video than the video with the guy with the imagination. Your channel wil
grow more with this content.
Haha I think I know this guy with imagination here in YT 😂
Thanks Chad for featuring our place. Ilonggo are peace loving people. Top notch for most liveable city in the country. Explore more of Panay and Guimaras island. There's more underrated places to discover.
Good to see your vlog. I'm especially interested in your content because after marrying my wife in Iloilo in 2002 I'm ready to retire there. Have fun, we're jealous.
Been to Iloilo, great city. Probably it will take few days to get to know the place. Thank you for sharing
Iloilo was one of the awardees of Asean clean tourist city award 2020-2022
Not when I was there
I have always wanted to visit IIoilo. Just haven't found time to. Also another city is Bacolod City.
Chad you should connect with Michael at That Philippines Life. He chose Iloilo and is now looking at Roxas.
Estancia Iloilo is a good in between. Check out the Huni resort if ya get a chance. Air taxi helicopter 🚁 they have a private landing strip.
Security there can show you around on 4-6 passenger side by sides.
Worth the costs
i rate iloilo and new clark city as 2 places i wanna retire in, another place i am considering is san fernando which is next to Clark
Chad Foster Explores: Keep exporing and showing us more of the Philippines! 🎉
There are alot of natures vibe around nearby iloilo city. Islands are nearby also you can explore. Enjoy your stay in city of love. Iloilo is mixture of urban and rural. You can come back and explore a bit more if you want to discover iloilo and nearby islands and provinces which a lot to see aslo. Watching from Jeddah Saudi Arabia. I am from iloilo.
Chad, Thank you for introducing my beloved City of Iloilo Philippines. Nice Vloged!.
Very nice man also like to say you getting good at this good work
Hey I appreciate you saying that, thank you for watching!
I was in Iloilo about 1 month ago. I like it just fine but it's a big city. It kind of defeats the purpose of moving to a tropical country. Not my first choice, but nice.
You can live in Oton or along the coastal areas going to Dumangas. Oton has its coastal areas too which gradually leads to the hilly towns of Iloilo like Miagao, San Joaquin etc which has its own natural waterfalls and yet this town sits at the boundary.
Dumangas, Iloilo, and Manila Philippines are just only a few places that I want to visit. Otherwise Iloilo looks like a great city, and a place to see! Great job and great video! 👍
Thanks!
@@ChadFosterExplores you're welcome!
Just subscribed and love your upbeat reporting.
Hey thank you I appreciate that!
Nice video, sir. Expats here usually lived at the peripheral parts of iloilo.. as they could enjoy a lot of areas for agribusiness, beaches and more bigger properties.
Maybe a city ideal for really old expat guys but for use younger types there isn't really much going on.
Iloilo City my HOME, The City of Love,,,Miss my Birthplace..Watching here in UAE.
Hello chad. I really like your videos. Can you test the internet speed/reliability at these locations? Im a daytrader moving to the philippines in a year or two. On a side note, lived in clearwater beach for years. Enjoyed your video on st. Pete. Have a nice journey.
Hey thank you for watching I appreciate it, the Internet thing can definitely be an issue and it really depends on place to place, I often will check the Wi-Fi before committing to somewhere it just depends, especially if I'm going to be there for a while. Sometimes it's awful I'm not going to lie. I've had Airbnb that advertise high speed but then you get there and it's brutal, other times it's incredibly fast.
Iloilo city has Fiber internet with 4 telecom provider.
I get a kick out of the bounce in walk you can tell you love what you do
Iloilo is not a ordinary city of the Philippines like Dumaguete Iloilo is one of the major city of the Philippines. Together with Manila and Cebu
One of the Ckeanest City in the Philippines....Iloilo City ❤
Thanks for visiting my hometown
Agree, has overall more to offer than Angeles.
...Thank you for visiting and featuring City Of LOVE ILOILO to your channel..❤🎉👏🏻..
Iloilo City is the Best City..❤
It would be nice to see you collab with That Philippines Life with Michael now that your checking out Iloilo :) hes a canadian vlogger who lives over there ... Cheers!
Iloilo City has improved a lot in the last few years, but when i lived there it was a dirty, nasty, polluted, corrupt city. The river was completely covered in garbage as many still are in outlying areas like Oton. The traffic is still horrible there. The new malls are nice. Dinagyan is insane, loud and pickpocketing is rampant. If you want peace and quiet and nature, leave Iloilo and head on a pump boat for a short trip to Guimaras Island, but ALWAYS watch your stuff. I knew an American who built a house on Guimaras Island. He lived there six months a year. Everytime he returned to the Philippines he had to totally refurnish his house because he neighbors broke in a removed everything as soon as he was gone. He'd even see his neighbors wearing his clothes saying hi to him with smiles on their faces. Filipinos think all white foreigners have rooms in their house to store their stacks of money. There are many good things about the Philippines, but you'll see it's flaws after you live there.
Thanks for featuring our city! I'm so glad you enjoyed Dinagyang and the happy, friendly crowd you met there.
Hopefully next time you're around, you can feature other parts of Iloilo more. Like in downtown, it's not all glitz and glamour, and not all the roads are so nicely paved like at Mandurriao. In other parts of the city, there are older historic and cultural attractions. It's just that they're not marketed as well by the government because not many people are interested in them.
Looks great there bro but I still prefer BGC. Just has everything and especially all the restaurants and nightlife. Nothing compares in the Phils.
Yeah it's a popular spot for foreigners for a reason
Yes and BGC has no festivals nor a walkable riverside. Iloilo has nightlife too but not that many compared to BGC. Not yet but Iloilo city is still expanding while BGC remained the same.
@@alexonorep5978- Yep, but for me BGC is the best choice as I'm a businessman and I absolutely have to have fast and reliable internet plus I like the vibe of BGC as I like big cities so for me it's perfect. I know it's not perfect for everyone but it has everything I like and need. I can always hop a plane to a beautiful beach like Boracay or Palawan or run up to Bagui for the mountain experience.
Hey Chad! I'm 59, considering moving to the Philippines soon
Hey there thanks for watching and leaving a comment, you should definitely tour around first and check out different areas and see what you think!
I always advise expats/retirees to check the City/Places and try to live alteast for a moth to know if it fits you before you decide where to stay permanently.
One of the problems with that area is it has the most cases of dengue in the Philippines
Did you watch the highlights the Dinagyang Tribe Competition?
one if not the most livable city in the Philippines...urban planning at its best.
No more expat hotspots. Where ever expats hotspot it they ruin it for the rest of us
The real hotspots were before youtube, when almost no one new about them..
@@JJ38255Yes it is but bad for vloggers😁 Most of young expats now are vloggers😂
I myself am a part time digital nomad. Considering Iloilo for next winter. Did you find good places to work from while there? Is the city walkable in general?
Chad, did you have a vanlife thing channel before ? Anyways, good vid
Actually no this is my first channel... thanks for watching!
Your Heart Beats in Iloilo City ♥️♥️💯
Thank u for visiting Iloilo sir !❤️🙏💪
Iloilo is a place to be😂 Enjoy the view. Be safe
BGC still superior you can get everything from Japan to Singapore vibes which is very clean, safe , ultra modern alot of glassy tall skyscrapers the infrastructures is great very wide sidewalks, very new CBD the facilities are top notch one of the well planned district in the World.
Thats great but how many beaches you have in BGC , Museaums,parks and wildlife you can offer to your visitotrs not includins a month long celebration of dinagyang and other festival the Iloilo can offer. I guess Bgc wasnt great at all.
I would love to live in Iloilo but I fell like it’s to expensive!
Over the last 20 years, I have spent most of that time living abroad. Americans who have NEVER left the United States have no idea what the rest of the world is like. The USA doesn't even rank in the top 10 places to live, The USA doesn't rank in the top 10 safest countries. The USA doesn't rank in the top 10 healthiest countries. MOST citizens around the globe would choose to live anywhere BUT the USA. This world has a lot of nice places to live in. Life goes quickly. Enjoy while you can.
I’m new to your channel. Well done. 👍 🇨🇦
I met my filipina there last month. I stayed at Injap tower hotel, cheap and nice clean with generators. The whole city was blackout 🥲.
Oh wow I've experienced some blackouts in my time here good thing they had generators! Good luck with your Filipina girlfriend!
@@ChadFosterExploresThat is why I made my son moved out of Ilo Ilo , too many brown outs when awful hot . It was also very trashy 10 years ago .
Power interruptions can be fix. More power plants and grid interconnections will do.
Thanks for the video Chad. I have a question that you don't have to answer because it's personal. I'm looking for ways to become a digital nomad which is a term you called yourself in this video. Is your CZcams channel your digital nomad work?
2:58 this is outside iloilo capitol 😃
Visit here in negros occidental it’s quite place to live
Wish you could find the right one in iloilo city....!!! Good luck!!!
How did you like Bacolod? Why no video?
My hometown ❤
Great city, but I felt not noticed at all there. Maybe because I was with Angel ?
New subs here from iloilo city enjoy your stay sir
Thank you for visiting my city my pride❤ its iloilo city...
i think davao is the cleanest even on the residential area
Chad , thank you for visiting iloilo known as the city ❤️ LoVe the cleanest city with almost 10 kilometers walkable bike lane and Esplanade...and less traffic compare to Cebu and Manila. And completely different styles of jeepneys, nice lowered like SUV head and body...welcome chad and explore more to know better sure you Love Iloilo more...
hello there chad
Laroooooooski, your first comment on my channel finally
Is there any nightlife there?
Iloilo gets so overhyped by old foreigners for some reason... It's boring when there's not a festival going on. If you look at what there ACTUALLY IS TO DO, you've got SM and Festive Walk. Just cut the foreplay and settle down in Cebu imo
It depends on what your definition of "going on" is. I'm in my twenties, and there's plenty to do here for me. There's Cinematheque with free/affordable film festivals, Jaro Public Library with a best-seller book collection, nightly food stall markets near Molo Plaza, Zumba sessions at Plaza Libertad and the Esplanade, the no-kill City Pound that accepts animal-loving volunteers, Asilo de Molo's impressionable senior residents, the big, flashy, religion-related celebrations at the Jaro Cathedral, Christmas light shows at the Capitol, and subdivision-level fiestas nearly every month.
Pro-tip: don't limit yourself to the Festive Walk/Megaworld area. It's actually one of the most boring places in the city. Not to mention expensive.
Nice vlog - but no way will I pay 50-70 for that hotel , I don’t understand why quality hotels are so much more expensive than Thailand which I lived for 16 months. Thinking of visiting the Philippines but prices seem much higher than other more SEA countries.
That hotel price hike is obviously due to the festival season. Off season, it does go cheaper. I once found a fancy hotel there before that was between 10-15 usd.
speakin' of .....
you and michael from that y.t. chan. "that philippines life" need to hookup and do collab work, he's also a fan of that area!
What do u think cebu or iloilo??? Livable???
How about the cost of living there?
Nice place thank you
when was the festival ? month ,days. ? thx good video,
Every 4th sunday of January is the highlight. But parades starts Friday before that.
You can see lots of festivals in the whole of Iloilo for a year. Another good festival to watch in Iloilo is Paraw Regatta (March 10,2024).
Chad Collab with Becoming Filipino Kyle Jennerman great vlogger From 🇨🇦.😂 visit Davao and he’s Anazing place😂
try to go gigatest island iloilo
Hala bira 🎉🎉🎉
Far too expensive for most of us,Les from London
I dont get the hype about Iloilo. I've seen lots of vloggers rave about it, but from what ive seen of it in videos, nothing at all about it interests me
You have to go to Iloilo to know for yourself. And compare it to other cities in the Philippines
Places in Philippines you are showing are expensive and small.
Welcome to iloilo sir
nice 👍
welcome to iloilo city
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"Dell Ah Wah" Means 2
There you go ez huh?
Spelled wrong yup but 4u enjoy from an Amercan go try it in US been there done that ha
Yes Americans are there but do Americans treat you like a King?
Hello 👋
Am here in negros occidental