Why Retire in the Philippines/Marinduque Vacations: Most Popular Non-Filipino Vloggers about the Philippines

Planning to Retire Soon!

If you are planning to retire in the Philippines soon, I suggest you visit several excellent websites on pro's and cons of retiring in the Philippines. However if you want to retire in the provinces, where life is simple, standard of living cheaper, less traffic congestion and pollution, availability of fresh seafood and vegetables compared to the big cities, my island province is the place for you! If this is your first time in my site, welcome. Some of the photos and videos on this site, I do not own. However, I have no intention on the infringement of your copyrights. The photo above is the front yard of Chateau Du Mer- Our Retirement Home in Boac, Marinduque, Philippines

Sunday, May 1, 2022

Most Popular Non-Filipino Vloggers about the Philippines

In my previous posting, I discussed the term Filipino-baiting. It referred to actions of non-Filipino vloggers just to earn clicks and views solely for cash and money. Their feelings for the Philippines are not real but artificial and insincere. Their vlogs are targeted mainly to attract Filipino subscribers and thus cash.

The following are eight most popular foreign vloggers living in the Philippines. Two in the List, Making it Happened and the Juicy Vlog are accused of Filipino Baiting. View their vlogs and judged for yourself.

Personally, I watched Becoming Filipino by Kyle Jennermann from Canada. His vlogs about Marinduque my second home, I treasured very much. Here are his videos about Marinduque.

https://www.gmanetwork.com/entertainment/celebritylife/hobbies/70838/8-foreign-vloggers-living-in-the-philippines-you-should-follow-on-youtube/story

There are several non-Filipinos vlogging about the Philippines claiming they are travel blogs. Some of them are good, others are trashy.

As of 2021, the Philippines has the highest social media usage rate in the world and their internet use is 60% higher than the average, at 11 hours a day! That's staggering online time. And it's been that way for the past few years. On social media, Filipinos spend an average of 4 hours and 15 minutes every day (dated Nov 2, 2021). So the Philippines is a heaven for Filipino-baiting and a cash cow for vloggers.

What is BecomingFilipino's net worth?

BecomingFilipino is a Canadian YouTube channel with over 937.00K subscribers. It started 15 years ago and has 1207 uploaded videos.

The net worth of BecomingFilipino's channel through 26 Apr 2022

$1,413,206

Videos on the channel are posted in the categories Lifestyle, Tourism, Food. Kyle vlogs inspired me to rename one of my blogs, BecomingAmerican in 2020.

https://davidbkatague.blogspot.com/2020/12/renaming-one-of-my-blogs-becoming.html

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Fruit Trees in the Gardens of Chateau Du Mer

The Mango Tree-I have three varieties in my Garden-The Indian, Guimaras and Carabao Mangoes My caretaker/gardener informed me last month that due to the El Nino drought in Marinduque, two of my Durian trees died in spite of his vigilant watering. One of the tree was attacked by insects that looks like a big fly but yellowish in color that sucks the sap of the seedling. The roots of the other tree was attacked by ants residing in the soil. However, my other fruit trees, the rambutans( 2), the lanzones(2) and the jack fruits ( 2) trees are doing well. The above eight fruit trees were given to me by Retired General Recaredo Sarmiento of Boac and Lucena., about three years ago. General Sarmiento is the “atid” of my wife. “Atid” is the colloquial term for brother. Evidently, Macrine's father, the late Bernardo Jambalos was the Godfather of General Sarmiento during his baptism and comfirmation. Gen Sarmiento's hobby is orchard planting, reforestation and farming. The other fruit trees in my garden are guayabanos, cashew, avocados, starapples, duhats, ates, guavas, mangoes( 3 varieties) and papayas as well as several varieties of bananas . Of the above fruit trees, my favorite is the guayabanos, also known as soursop tree known for its anti-tumor and anti-cancer properties . The following are photos of the fruit trees. The Durian photo is from the web. Note that it almost look like a jack fruit tree, except that the leaves are bigger and shiny. My desire is to have a passion fruit tree in the near future. You are welcome to visit my orchard and flower gardens any time, if perchance you are in the vicinity of The Chateau Du Mer Beach Resort and Conference Center.

The Rambutan Tree and Fruits

The Lanzone Tree and Fruits

The Jack Fruit Tree

The Durian Fruit Tree