Ive been watching vlogs from Duma for 4 years and you, Mike, are showing me places and giving commentary I’ve never seen before. Most of the expats in Duma have more “sit in one place info” channels. Thank you!
I was thinking exactly the same thing. Other youtubers, while perhaps offering decent advice, provide mostly hours of sofa chatting and/or table sitting, just stationary in one form or another. I've seen more and got more of a feel for Dumaguete in the last 30+ mins than I've ever captured before in hours and hours of stationary verbals.
Michael - great video. Interestingly, you showed more of Dumaguete than most if not all of the infamous Dramaguete vloggers show. By and large, they tend to sit around talking about things, interviewing each other and providing good info about getting settled in the Phils. And that is all good for sure. You though, just walking around, looking for interesting things - good stuff!! LOL.
This. I’ve watched a lot of RUclipsrs that live in that city (I’m sure we’re talking about the same ones lol) but I always leave the videos thinking “yea but what is the city actually like?? Besides the mall lol”
There are also asian foreign vloggers in Dumaguete too with good content. For example Dial Eleven and Hello Philippines, they're very underrated and should have more subscribers.
Great video. Better than all the local videos, cos you walk around and actually show what places are like and your personality is excellent for meeting people and explaining. I think you will really grow your channel and be very successful. Keep it up!
Michael never change. Been watching your vlogs. Don't think I have ever left a comment. Love that you seemed to have your @#$ together. Maturity goes a long way..keeping it real always. Easy as you go. Hope your new life adventure is a success. Hello from Florida..originally from Cebu City..
Hello Michael. Love your video about Dumaguete. Great contents you have in a short period of time. There are more to explore next time when you comeback. I can see you pick up more subscribers and lots of positive comments. Cheers buddy.
I have one more video to show of this area before I left and I'm already setting the dates to come back to explore just south of there and the nearby islands too.
Another great video. Splitting out the interview keeps a good focus on Dumaguete, excellent idea. Top of Valencia looked super peaceful. Glad you are enjoying your visit
good morning Mike, I'm glad to see your channel is doing well. I know you will have great success building a great channel. I think you will do great on your own. Have fun keep busy. ( South Florida Filipino ) Mike, I know you will make the 25,000 subcribers.and more ! excuse my spelling
Mike, I have started watching the ads all the way through to help your revenue. You are one of 3 channels that I let the ads run. I let them run for the Filipina Pea and Simple Living Alaska also. I appreciate creators that put a lot of work and love into their channels. Keep up the good work.
despite you breaking up with bianca i will follow your two blogs still you seem so humble and i love seeing the different places you show us all take care michael
Me too, good memories of Duma. I remember my parent brought us on trips to Dumaguete for a family day out, going the Movie… @ the Park Theatre, but before that, we’ll have our lunch at the Oriental Panceteria at San Juan St., that’s before Chin Loong started. Then before going home we will get some merienda at La Cavitenia. Where those days gone?
Aloha from Hawaii! Excellent content...Subscribed! I've watched your videos before and like them because they're like a fun, informative, travel/relocation guide rolled into one video! Keep up the great work! 🏖
Subscribed. I will be visiting Iloilo this next week. Good format and casual adventure video. I prefer the solo style better than the couple style videos.
You are doing it right Mike! Explore outside of Dumaguete like Valencia , Dauin, Siaton, Island of Siquijor etc...there are lots of beautiful beaches and good affordable foods you will enjoy and there are lots of waterfalls and hot springs to see also beautiful cool mountains.
I think Dauin would be the better place, younger expats there, and still very fast to get to Robinsons and so on.. And of course, if you want the real vacation vibes, there is Siquijor
lol, you saw so much in a single day…I applaud your energy. Saw you and Shay pass by me on the street and thought an another collaboration might be coming. Looking forward to the expanded interview:)
Michael, thank you for continuing to show so many wonderful places there. I hope you will be able to purchase some land like you initially talked about.
🇨🇦This is your best video so far! I might be a bit biased as I'm in Vancouver but plan to move Dumaguete this year! Perhaps see you there if you come back! 🎉🎉🎉
Thank you Michael for showing us all around the place . So nice to see. Makes a change from the other guys that just sit there so i just joined your channel. Greetings from Dublin Ireland
What it sounds like is that you taught her to be financially independent and when she achieved that she no longer needed you and left you. Seen this happen multiple times sadly
I helped my wife to fully develop her career. I said at the beginning of our marriage her career was as important as mine. She succeeded and we're still together after 32 years.
You don't know their situation. This reminds me of a quote from the excellent movie Good Will Hunting; "...You're an orphan right? [Will nods] Sean: You think I know the first thing about how hard your life has been, how you feel, who you are, because I read Oliver Twist?"
Ever since the breakup video of you and Bianca was released, I thought I would have lost interest in your channel, but I was wrong. Keep positive and stay cool!
Just came across your channel - born and raised in Valencia living in the US for 30+ years (working as a CPA here). Looking forward to retiring there soon. The owner of Limmotakna is our cousin. Glad you enjoyed it there.
Thanks for sharing this . If ever you looking expat in day time , try to go to ground zero about noon time a lot of expat there. I'm thankful you visited my place. I hope you can meet some vlogers too here so you may know more about Dumaguete City. Stay safe of travel.
I have been here on and off for months and it is very simple. You can find expats if you want, and you will see very few if you don't want to. Same as Manila and Cebu. If you go to other places like CDO you will see very few expats. One really nice thing about here is that in 10 minutes on a motorbike you can be up in the cooler mountains which I really love. 20 minutes south and you are at amazing beaches. Dumaguete can be exactly what you want it to be, the varied geography gives you more options here than I have found elsewhere. It is all about what each person wants. Cam
I liked the way you describe traffic flow and the behavior of drivers there in the Philippines. You are right on point and that is why there seems to be less vehicle accidents there i noticed as well.
Hi Mike, I just became a new subscriber of your channel. Thank you for showing so much of Dumaguete especially at night. Dumaguete at night looks a lot like Clearwater and Tampa Florida, U.S.A. that I visited a few years ago. Thanks Mike for this great video of Dumaguete and Valencia,..two of my "FAVORITE" places in the Philippines. Take care.
I had the same issue Seda Hotel in Cebu. 9k onsite. Made a call to Expedia and picked the same room up for under 6K I've had great success with Expedia... even when there's been a problem they've refunded me or resolved it.
Very informative video, you have a quick pace and able to show important highlights of the place. I need to watch more of your Vlogs from Dumaguete and Iloilo and if you have some in Bohol? that would be awesome! I currently reside in NYC but I was born and raised in CDO Phils and am greatly considering retiring back in my home country in the future .
Digging your positive channel. Wife (from Cebu) and I expect to return next year for good. She's happy, been 40+ years except for short family visits. Good info.
I will tell my sister to drive around and show me Dumaguete and my father’s hometown Inalad siaton and sibulan. Which I miss it so much. I don’t go home that much but connecting with my family on fb and social media it helps a lot. I love were I’m was born is negros oriental. Someday I would retired after working for many yrs.
I really do appreciate this new format. Thank you for the tour of this gorgeous area! Once you get your finances in order, upgrade to an Osmo Action 4 (much better low light than GoPro).
I was there 2 months ago. Dumaguete is my favorite city. I'm currently building a house about a 3 hour ride to the north in Mabinay. Lots of caves to explore out there. Enjoy your time there.
Great video and love the whole attutude of " lets go have an adventure " - I love it. Just going where u want when u want. 1k peso for the room was ideal 👌 Great find compared to the 5k from the other one. Would love to see the waterfalls so hope u go back and make use of those massive flip flops lol. Safe travels xxx
I'm from Zamboanguita It's a 27 km drive from dumaguete. Hey welcome to Negros Oriental. See yah around maybe meet you in person. I'm one of your subscribers. Cheers
Michael, You are putting the videos, and I'm watching and enjoying them all!❤ I watch you to the land, houses and condo prices. However, equally important to me are the travel destinations. So, I want to say I appreciate your content and hope to possibly meet you in Iloilo city when I'm in town Feb 5 to 10. You are on your way brother to 100K subs on thise channel within 6 months I think. Take care
I am from Vancouver and live in the burbs and Mike you are spot on about pricing$$ Staring at retiremt and planning longer stays in the Philippines. I am sure your vlogs will temper my future plans. Keep doing you...look forward to your content.
@commonsenseisntcommon1776 Hong-couver is said as a joke, but it is the very sad reality for us present and former Vancouverites. Our government was very negligent allowing offshore investment in Vancouver’s real estate market for many decades while I was just beginning my professional career. Thanks to all the offshore investors from Hong Kong and China, real estate prices remained far out of reach financially and continued rising at a much higher rate than my salary in large part to these offshore investors. My chance at buying into the real estate market of my home city was ruined forever. I’m not racist and have had many Asian friends over the years, but really felt this should have and could have been prevented with protective government policy. All those Asians are very rich with a good life in Vancouver now and I’m forced to retire in the Philippines. I was born into a middle class family in Canada in the early 60s.
@@ShikokuFoodForest - Victoria is very expensive and its not from the Chinese. Canada in general is very expensive. But that what you get from electing a Liberal NDP government.
@@36handy Hello, you are right. I love Victoria and the whole Vancouver Island. I lived there for 7 years and graduated from UVic 2x and Camosun College 1x. Rest of my life, lived in Vancouver. Yes, all of Canada is expensive now - even far up north in the subarctic where I was forced financially to live. I finally left and moved to southern Japan. It doesn’t really matter now why all of Canada is unaffordable for first-time home buyers. All in the past. Even if prices dropped 50+%, which will never happen, still too expensive. Everyone I know back in Vancouver owns houses now well over $1M and many bought in decades ago when prices were ~$200+K.
@@ShikokuFoodForest - Hey I went to Camsun Collage too. I move back and forth between Victoria and Calgary. Love the place but total costs are killing a lot of people. I took a trip to China, HKong, and Taiwan later year. I was blown away by the area. Going back this year to scout out Thailand and maybe stop over in Tokyo.
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Ive been watching vlogs from Duma for 4 years and you, Mike, are showing me places and giving commentary I’ve never seen before. Most of the expats in Duma have more “sit in one place info” channels. Thank you!
I was thinking exactly the same thing. Other youtubers, while perhaps offering decent advice, provide mostly hours of sofa chatting and/or table sitting, just stationary in one form or another. I've seen more and got more of a feel for Dumaguete in the last 30+ mins than I've ever captured before in hours and hours of stationary verbals.
Michael - great video. Interestingly, you showed more of Dumaguete than most if not all of the infamous Dramaguete vloggers show. By and large, they tend to sit around talking about things, interviewing each other and providing good info about getting settled in the Phils. And that is all good for sure. You though, just walking around, looking for interesting things - good stuff!! LOL.
Road to 100k Michael!! You go over and beyond what most expat vloggers do!!
Yes, the dramaguete bloggers are just old men who rant into the camera and show nothing of the city
This. I’ve watched a lot of RUclipsrs that live in that city (I’m sure we’re talking about the same ones lol) but I always leave the videos thinking “yea but what is the city actually like?? Besides the mall lol”
There are also asian foreign vloggers in Dumaguete too with good content. For example Dial Eleven and Hello Philippines, they're very underrated and should have more subscribers.
Pretty true.
Thanks!
Very appreciated thank you
Because of his vlog I received my permanent resident. Last year by listening to his teaching on that. Thanks a million times 😅
Great video. Better than all the local videos, cos you walk around and actually show what places are like and your personality is excellent for meeting people and explaining. I think you will really grow your channel and be very successful. Keep it up!
Nice to see the Dumaguete scenery
It’s a beautiful little town on the water
Very walkable
Great video
Awesome vlog! I have seen plenty of vlogs about Dumaguete and by far, yours is the most interesting! Keep it up! Loving this!!
Michael never change. Been watching your vlogs. Don't think I have ever left a comment. Love that you seemed to have your @#$ together. Maturity goes a long way..keeping it real always. Easy as you go. Hope your new life adventure is a success. Hello from Florida..originally from Cebu City..
Thank you I appreciate you commenting for the first time
Hello Michael. Love your video about Dumaguete. Great contents you have in a short period of time. There are more to explore next time when you comeback. I can see you pick up more subscribers and lots of positive comments. Cheers buddy.
I have one more video to show of this area before I left and I'm already setting the dates to come back to explore just south of there and the nearby islands too.
Another great video. Splitting out the interview keeps a good focus on Dumaguete, excellent idea. Top of Valencia looked super peaceful. Glad you are enjoying your visit
Ayang place to only place to stay in dumagute fantastic swimming pool
Good morning beautiful Philippines 🇵🇭 and to you young Man.. don't give up take care now...
Great coverage of Duma. Showed more detail than I've ever seen before. Impressed!
good morning Mike, I'm glad to see your channel is doing well. I know you will have great success
building a great channel. I think you will do great on your own. Have fun keep busy. ( South Florida Filipino )
Mike, I know you will make the 25,000 subcribers.and more ! excuse my spelling
Thank you!
You are very professional and likeable guy , your blogs are great and more so now your doing them solo, Congrats
Mike, I have started watching the ads all the way through to help your revenue. You are one of 3 channels that I let the ads run. I let them run for the Filipina Pea and Simple Living Alaska also. I appreciate creators that put a lot of work and love into their channels. Keep up the good work.
Great video and my first one with Valencia in it !!!
despite you breaking up with bianca i will follow your two blogs still you seem so humble and i love seeing the different places you show us all take care michael
oh man! I used to be in Dumaguete as a young kid! It's nice seeing the boulevard area again
Me too, good memories of Duma. I remember my parent brought us on trips to Dumaguete for a family day out, going the Movie… @ the Park Theatre, but before that, we’ll have our lunch at the Oriental Panceteria at San Juan St., that’s before Chin Loong started. Then before going home we will get some merienda at La Cavitenia. Where those days gone?
Aloha from Hawaii! Excellent content...Subscribed! I've watched your videos before and like them because they're like a fun, informative, travel/relocation guide rolled into one video! Keep up the great work! 🏖
Your much more interesting since you've gone on your own. Keep this format and I think you'll get more subscribers.
Yesssss keep the videos going bro!! Good numbers on the last few videos and need to keep that momentum going.
Great vlog, Mike. Love your channel and your temperament, intelligence, and genuine goodness. Well done and God Bless🙏🏼
Beautiful presentation. Museum, waterfalls , sound of nature. ❤❤❤
Subscribed. I will be visiting Iloilo this next week. Good format and casual adventure video. I prefer the solo style better than the couple style videos.
Looks like a nice place to visit
Thank you for sharing. Now I want to go see Dumaguete 😍
Enjoying your vlogs!
You are doing it right Mike! Explore outside of Dumaguete like Valencia , Dauin, Siaton, Island of Siquijor etc...there are lots of beautiful beaches and good affordable foods you will enjoy and there are lots of waterfalls and hot springs to see also beautiful cool mountains.
I think Dauin would be the better place, younger expats there, and still very fast to get to Robinsons and so on..
And of course, if you want the real vacation vibes, there is Siquijor
lol, you saw so much in a single day…I applaud your energy. Saw you and Shay pass by me on the street and thought an another collaboration might be coming. Looking forward to the expanded interview:)
You look like a real Pinoy now when riding those tricycles, enjoy your travel and be safe.
Great video !, good information, I really like what your doing.
Michael, thank you for continuing to show so many wonderful places there. I hope you will be able to purchase some land like you initially talked about.
Love that pub you had dinner at...awesome place! Keep em coming mate.
🇨🇦This is your best video so far! I might be a bit biased as I'm in Vancouver but plan to move Dumaguete this year! Perhaps see you there if you come back! 🎉🎉🎉
I'll be back with more time and also island hope from here
Nice video again mike, keep it up! More subscribers to come!
Yes nice place 🙂
Thank you Michael for showing us all around the place . So nice to see. Makes a change from the other guys that just sit there so i just joined your channel.
Greetings from Dublin Ireland
Great video !! Keep up the good work!
Great Video Brother!
One of the best videos I seen of Dumaguete and adjoining towns.
Great video its beautiful
Nice video like the walk about feel
Great video Good info. Thankyou 👍🇨🇦
Thanks for showing all around . Im missed my family already seeing your video… also helps a lot.
Take care bro
God is always guiding you through to your future life God bless you more 🙏
Great work Micheal.
What it sounds like is that you taught her to be financially independent and when she achieved that she no longer needed you and left you. Seen this happen multiple times sadly
I helped my wife to fully develop her career. I said at the beginning of our marriage her career was as important as mine. She succeeded and we're still together after 32 years.
But they are still living together. Just not as husband and wife.
We don't know the whole story. No judging. No blaming. As the saying goes it takes two to tango
You don't know their situation. This reminds me of a quote from the excellent movie Good Will Hunting;
"...You're an orphan right?
[Will nods]
Sean: You think I know the first thing about how hard your life has been, how you feel, who you are, because I read Oliver Twist?"
@@robocop581 congratulation You're a statistical anomaly
Love your content learn history
I miss Dumaguete and soon I will be back again🙏thank you for sharing!
Nice info man! Lots of interesting stuff. Thanks
Wow that's beautiful🥰
Love Dumaguete! And we did visit Sijuijor at the same time…. Awesome 👏
Ever since the breakup video of you and Bianca was released, I thought I would have lost interest in your channel, but I was wrong. Keep positive and stay cool!
Thank you
He probably still needs to eat aka earn money
Just came across your channel - born and raised in Valencia living in the US for 30+ years (working as a CPA here). Looking forward to retiring there soon. The owner of Limmotakna is our cousin. Glad you enjoyed it there.
Great video very informative
Great video Michael. Cannot wait to live in duma
I'm Canadian too, Yes that diffidently looked like a hospital!
Welcome to the City of gentle people, enjoy your adventure
You goto interesting places. Good content
Video quality is A 1
Thanks for sharing this . If ever you looking expat in day time , try to go to ground zero about noon time a lot of expat there. I'm thankful you visited my place. I hope you can meet some vlogers too here so you may know more about Dumaguete City. Stay safe of travel.
I want to visit Dumaguete because of your vlog! Im a Filipina from Bicol region but havent explored much yet of Visayas Region.
Great seeing you traveling.. enjoying. I decided to stay away from Dumaguete due to the heavy expat population but have to say it's looking nice.
I have been here on and off for months and it is very simple. You can find expats if you want, and you will see very few if you don't want to. Same as Manila and Cebu. If you go to other places like CDO you will see very few expats. One really nice thing about here is that in 10 minutes on a motorbike you can be up in the cooler mountains which I really love. 20 minutes south and you are at amazing beaches. Dumaguete can be exactly what you want it to be, the varied geography gives you more options here than I have found elsewhere. It is all about what each person wants. Cam
@@free2roam674 Thanx for the great info..
The "heavy expat population" is grossly exagerated. Most of them live in neighboring towns and just come for shopping or the nightlife.
I liked the way you describe traffic flow and the behavior of drivers there in the Philippines. You are right on point and that is why there seems to be less vehicle accidents there i noticed as well.
Thank you for promoting Dumagaete Mike…
Mike, coming from Japan. I visited Dumaguete twice. Great city. Can’t wait to return to Dumaguete. Great video.
More Dumaguete videos please.Especially the night scene. More of the North Point area. Heard so much about it.
Hi Mike, I just became a new subscriber of your channel.
Thank you for showing so much of Dumaguete especially at night.
Dumaguete at night looks a lot like Clearwater and Tampa Florida, U.S.A. that I visited a few years ago.
Thanks Mike for this great video of Dumaguete and Valencia,..two of my "FAVORITE" places in the Philippines.
Take care.
I had the same issue Seda Hotel in Cebu. 9k onsite. Made a call to Expedia and picked the same room up for under 6K I've had great success with Expedia... even when there's been a problem they've refunded me or resolved it.
Subbed, hope to see you next time you visit
Definitely we will thanks so much
I am enjoying your videos.
I signed up tonight ! You seem to have a fun channel !
Thank you so much
Beautiful!
Thanks for the great video. Your video quality is superb may I ask what camera you were shooting on?
Very informative video, you have a quick pace and able to show important highlights of the place. I need to watch more of your Vlogs from Dumaguete and Iloilo and if you have some in Bohol? that would be awesome! I currently reside in NYC but I was born and raised in CDO Phils and am greatly considering retiring back in my home country in the future .
Digging your positive channel. Wife (from Cebu) and I expect to return next year for good. She's happy, been 40+ years except for short family visits. Good info.
Subscribed - just keep vlogging my friend -
Good video!
I will tell my sister to drive around and show me Dumaguete and my father’s hometown Inalad siaton and sibulan. Which I miss it so much. I don’t go home that much but connecting with my family on fb and social media it helps a lot. I love were I’m was born is negros oriental. Someday I would retired after working for many yrs.
Welcome to Dumaguete and Negros. Enjoy ur stay
I love Dumaguete. I'll be moving there later this year!
Interesting to see the war museum/ store AND the mountain waterfall. Thanks for a great tour .
I really do appreciate this new format. Thank you for the tour of this gorgeous area! Once you get your finances in order, upgrade to an Osmo Action 4 (much better low light than GoPro).
Yea I heard it was much better I'll definitely be looking at it
New subscriber here. Look forward to watching your videos
I was there 2 months ago. Dumaguete is my favorite city. I'm currently building a house about a 3 hour ride to the north in Mabinay. Lots of caves to explore out there. Enjoy your time there.
Smart video. Thanks
I ❤ your videos and thanks for hard work
Great video and love the whole attutude of " lets go have an adventure " - I love it. Just going where u want when u want. 1k peso for the room was ideal 👌 Great find compared to the 5k from the other one. Would love to see the waterfalls so hope u go back and make use of those massive flip flops lol. Safe travels xxx
silvanas from dumaguete is famous and sold in metro manila. everybody loves it. 😊
Great to see a younger active guy there, as most vloggers there are older now and don't do much outside home etc...
Love the ship and park.
I'm from Zamboanguita It's a 27 km drive from dumaguete. Hey welcome to Negros Oriental. See yah around maybe meet you in person. I'm one of your subscribers. Cheers
thank you ❤
26:32 best come on Sunday, because then you also can do the sunday market, maybe meeting some younger expats also. Dauin also has some younger ones
😅 looks good I will try there in April before I go to Siquijor
When in Dumaguete The Go Hotel is the best budget hotel.. Clean, under $25.00 (cheaper if you use a hotel app), and next to the mall. Nice staff.
Great video Mike. Another fellow Canadian heading that way in April for a few weeks. My 1st trip. 😊
Michael,
You are putting the videos, and I'm watching and enjoying them all!❤
I watch you to the land, houses and condo prices.
However, equally important to me are the travel destinations.
So, I want to say I appreciate your content and hope to possibly meet you in Iloilo city when I'm in town Feb 5 to 10.
You are on your way brother to 100K subs on thise channel within 6 months I think.
Take care
I should be there when you are so definitely hit me up
We stayed at Bethel when we're there four years ago, it's a very nice and clean place, but the boulevard extension was not done yet.
I am from Vancouver and live in the burbs and Mike you are spot on about pricing$$ Staring at retiremt and planning longer stays in the Philippines. I am sure your vlogs will temper my future plans. Keep doing you...look forward to your content.
You mean Hong-couver?
@commonsenseisntcommon1776 Hong-couver is said as a joke, but it is the very sad reality for us present and former Vancouverites. Our government was very negligent allowing offshore investment in Vancouver’s real estate market for many decades while I was just beginning my professional career. Thanks to all the offshore investors from Hong Kong and China, real estate prices remained far out of reach financially and continued rising at a much higher rate than my salary in large part to these offshore investors. My chance at buying into the real estate market of my home city was ruined forever. I’m not racist and have had many Asian friends over the years, but really felt this should have and could have been prevented with protective government policy. All those Asians are very rich with a good life in Vancouver now and I’m forced to retire in the Philippines. I was born into a middle class family in Canada in the early 60s.
@@ShikokuFoodForest - Victoria is very expensive and its not from the Chinese. Canada in general is very expensive. But that what you get from electing a Liberal NDP government.
@@36handy Hello, you are right. I love Victoria and the whole Vancouver Island. I lived there for 7 years and graduated from UVic 2x and Camosun College 1x. Rest of my life, lived in Vancouver. Yes, all of Canada is expensive now - even far up north in the subarctic where I was forced financially to live. I finally left and moved to southern Japan. It doesn’t really matter now why all of Canada is unaffordable for first-time home buyers. All in the past. Even if prices dropped 50+%, which will never happen, still too expensive. Everyone I know back in Vancouver owns houses now well over $1M and many bought in decades ago when prices were ~$200+K.
@@ShikokuFoodForest - Hey I went to Camsun Collage too. I move back and forth between Victoria and Calgary. Love the place but total costs are killing a lot of people. I took a trip to China, HKong, and Taiwan later year. I was blown away by the area. Going back this year to scout out Thailand and maybe stop over in Tokyo.