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Cost of Living: Cavite
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What is the monthly average cost of living (including rent, food, basic bills, etc.) in Cavite, Philippines?
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First let me say this…Cavite has alot of different areas you can choose from as where you may want to live. What ever your budget,you can find a place you can afford. As for as utilities, electricity is the highest monthly bill you will have. If you just use fans, and use a refrigerator, then expect to pay 500p to 1k per month, triple that if you have air conditioning. Water will cost you 400p to 800p a month. For your internet, we use globe which I recommend over PDLT. We get unlimited 20mpbs for 2,500 oer month. Ok now rent, depends on what and where you want to live. You can find row houses for 5k per month and townhomes for 20k a month. It just depends on you lifestyle and your budget. We use the local market for all our food needs, I have a family of 5 girls and we spend about 500p a day on food, and yes we eat well. As for transportation, tricycles are in abundance as well as jeepnesy. You can find busses and Van's going to MOA at a reasonable rate if you wish to go there, but there's plenty of shopping malls and markets close by where you can shop for all your needs. I think I have covered everything, Cavete is a nice place to live in my opinion, but it's just like any other place, it's what you make if it. I hope I have helped answering your questions.
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I am told it is pretty close to Davao City in price for everything except western groceries. You can get a furnished condo or house for between P25,000 and P50,000+, but if you have the time to look around you can find an unfurnished house with 2 or 3 bedrooms in a nice but older subdivision or a nice enough apartment for under P10,000. When searching I recommend using facebook market place, because that is where places meant to be rented to locals at locally affordable rates get listed. My new neighbors down the street found their place through a realtor and are paying p35,000 for an unfurnished 3 bedroom 1 cr house. He will be pissed if he ever finds out I live in a nicer 2 bedroom further up the hill and less close to the trash pickup spot or standing water and only pay P6500 for one less bedroom. He will be even more pissed if he ever finds out it was listed for P8000 on facebook marketplace. Another rental tip is to make sure the water and electric bills even when not in your name are delivered to your house. I know plenty of foreigners who have their own meters but never see the actual billable amount and end up paying 2 to 4 times the amount for water and electricity. My first apartment here in Davao had a meter for each and I could see the posted rate for electricity and water when I rented and i just accepted P45 per cubic meter of water and p30 per kw/hr. What I didn’t realize was the utility companies were charging my apartment owners the going rate of P14.9 per cubic meter and P6.5 per kw/hr. I didn’t think anything about it, because everyone says the Philippines has the most expensive electricity in Southeast Asia P7000 didn’t seem like a lot to keep my studio aircon on 24/7, the fridge plugged in, or my laptop charge, until i found out it should have been less than P2000. Also a nice smaller concrete block house can be kept reasonably cool with just some wall mounted fans most of the time. I have an aircon in my bedroom and we use it just long enough to get the bedroom cool most nights. When it comes right down to it my wife live quite well on P30,000 a month, because we had time to find an unfurnished place at local rates and enough to furnish it simply. You also can save a lot this way as it is not uncommon to find months rent and 2 or 3 months deposit due upon move in. This gets pricey when you have a P35,000+ rent vs a P6500 I bought a king size bed, washer, fridge and TV with what i saved.