Living cost where you live

[stevewool]

2 hours ago, OnMyWay said:

Are you sure about that?  That seems like a very low increase.

Not here in Subic Freeport, Olongapo and I think Angeles too.  In December 2021 I paid 10.07 per kwh.  In July 2021, I paid 14.8 per kwh.  That is a 47% increase in 7 months.

Almost all the electricity produced here uses coal.  Since the war on coal and other fossil fuels was started in January 2021, this is what happened.

Soon out electric is going up to 70 pence a kWh that’s around 49 pesos a kWh her in the UK 

[hk blues]

2 hours ago, OnMyWay said:

Are you sure about that?  That seems like a very low increase.

Not here in Subic Freeport, Olongapo and I think Angeles too.  In December 2021 I paid 10.07 per kwh.  In July 2021, I paid 14.8 per kwh.  That is a 47% increase in 7 months.

Almost all the electricity produced here uses coal.  Since the war on coal and other fossil fuels was started in January 2021, this is what happened.

Yep...we have swung along the range 10.whetever to 12.whatever over the past year so.  Latest increase from August is 13.27.  Sure, if I was to take the lowest figure of say 10.5 over the year to the latest 13.27 that equates to around 25% give or take but it's a tad misleading IMO.  Without checking all the past 12 months (cos life's too short) I'd say 12 was the average so I'd say 10% is in the ballpark.

[OnMyWay]

55 minutes ago, hk blues said:

Yep...we have swung along the range 10.whetever to 12.whatever over the past year so.  Latest increase from August is 13.27.  Sure, if I was to take the lowest figure of say 10.5 over the year to the latest 13.27 that equates to around 25% give or take but it's a tad misleading IMO.  Without checking all the past 12 months (cos life's too short) I'd say 12 was the average so I'd say 10% is in the ballpark.

I'm not following the math but that is ok. 

I'm a nerd so I have all of my electric bills in a spreadsheet, since I moved here in 2013.  The lowest we ever had was a bit over 7 per kwh in Nov/Dec 2020.  Then the world changed for the worse in Jan 2021.

You can see on this 5 year graph that coal bottomed just before I got those lowest bills in my 9 years of living here.  Then in Jan 2021, you know who happened.

[OzeMike]

This is in reply to someone asking how much our rent was and the size of the house. 

P13k a month unfurnished. Car port and small garden. 1 large bedroom with ensuite and one small bedroom with access door to main bathroom.

House was just built when we moved in and is only 4years old.

Edited August 24, 2022 by OzeMike
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[stevewool]

1 hour ago, OzeMike said:

This is in reply to someone asking how much our rent was and the size of the house. 

P13k a month unfurnished. Car port and small garden. 1 large bedroom with ensuite and one small bedroom with access door to main bathroom.

House was just built when we moved in and is only 4years old.

Thank you

[Kingpin]

17 hours ago, OzeMike said:

This is in reply to someone asking how much our rent was and the size of the house. 

P13k a month unfurnished.

That's about what I pay per week, also no increase here for the past few years. The only costs that have gone up are water and gas delivery.

 

[Mike J]

Maybe this is part of reason for the inflation in food prices? 

https://www.manilatimes.net/2022/08/24/opinion/columns/a-billion-pesos-worth-of-sugar-hoarded/1855790

"DISPOSE for markets to sell at P70 per kilogram, or we'll see you in court."

Mobilizing several different agencies, the Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. administration has raided and found in several warehouses mainly in the National Capital Region and a few other provinces 401,000 50-kg bags of sugar. If half of these were raw sugar (P3,200 per bag) and half refined (P4,500), this hoarded sugar would be worth P821 million.

The figure would likely pass P1 billion when reports after "inspections" in other warehouses in the Visayas come in, government officials said.

The raids were undertaken, jointly and separately, by the Bureau of Customs, using its visitorial powers on warehouses keeping imported commodities, aided by the National Bureau of Investigation, the military's intelligence service, and even the Presidential Security Group.

Government officials said all evidence points to sugar traders' hoarding of the commodity to artificially push up prices in the past several months to even reach P110 per kg retail, more than double that of the previous year. Nearly all of the warehouses had bags of sugar nearly filling up the entire floor space and almost reaching the ceiling.

 

[OnMyWay]

1 hour ago, Mike J said:

Maybe this is part of reason for the inflation in food prices? 

https://www.manilatimes.net/2022/08/24/opinion/columns/a-billion-pesos-worth-of-sugar-hoarded/1855790

"DISPOSE for markets to sell at P70 per kilogram, or we'll see you in court."

Mobilizing several different agencies, the Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. administration has raided and found in several warehouses mainly in the National Capital Region and a few other provinces 401,000 50-kg bags of sugar. If half of these were raw sugar (P3,200 per bag) and half refined (P4,500), this hoarded sugar would be worth P821 million.

The figure would likely pass P1 billion when reports after "inspections" in other warehouses in the Visayas come in, government officials said.

The raids were undertaken, jointly and separately, by the Bureau of Customs, using its visitorial powers on warehouses keeping imported commodities, aided by the National Bureau of Investigation, the military's intelligence service, and even the Presidential Security Group.

Government officials said all evidence points to sugar traders' hoarding of the commodity to artificially push up prices in the past several months to even reach P110 per kg retail, more than double that of the previous year. Nearly all of the warehouses had bags of sugar nearly filling up the entire floor space and almost reaching the ceiling.

 

Tons of sugar will keep the population unhealthy and diabetic, for sure.

There was a lot of publicity last week when a ship full of illegal sugar imports was found at Subic port.  The SBMA chairman was out there for photo ops, etc.

With much less publicity, it is now revealed that 6 BOC employees are under investigation for involvement.  Surprise, surprise!

[JJReyes]

We will be living in hotels during our Philippine visit and there has been a large increase in properties advertised on the Internet and search engines.  My strategy is to book the first few nights only and call direct for rates (requesting for discounts).  I was told this might no longer work because economic prosperity means lots of domestic travel by locals.  The hotels are no longer dependent on foreign visitors.  Some of the more expensive hotels are properties with a casino.  

[scott h]

23 hours ago, OnMyWay said:

it is now revealed that 6 BOC employees are under investigation for involvement.  Surprise, surprise!