re: Bugging out to a different country - permanently

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We)the US government is building 6 bases here staring this year, one is just about 3 hours from my place in Palawan.

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That's what some could call targets for Chinese cruise missiles.

You do raise a good point though, there is a lot of English spoken, the people are usually very friendly (admittedly, the last time I flew out of Clark AFB was in the 80s). Ton of Catholics, which seems important to some.

However, Duerte seems a bit of a wildcard. Erdogan in Turkey is an Islamist shithead, but not Taliban levels of it. Duerte says nice things about killing drug dealers in the streets, but that kind of authoritarianism nearly always gets turned around in a way that isn't a net positive for certain groups.