Living in the Philippines

[Bad Santa]

Cancontrib,

There are maid agencies which you could call. You could give them your preferences, i.e., what type of maid you're looking for, what age, duties.... so and and so forth. Although I think agencies charges more, around P3k and up, depending on their qualifications.
Look around your neightborhood. Most older maids have daughters which might have the same profession as them. IF the older mom is good looking, chances are her daughter might be one.

If you want my 2cent on this, I think you’re better off getting strictly a maid without the hanky panky. Two reasons:
1) Your wife already knows you’re preferences on women. When she hires someone, it would be the complete opposite of your “ideal” maid. Let’s say by chance you got lucky and was able to convince your asawa to hire someone you like. By default, her radar would be up 24 hours since her instinct would tell her that you might have some ulterior motive.
2) Trust: With economic hardship in PI. It’s difficult to get a hired help that you could trust. I’m not generalizing that all Filipino maids s would steal your belongings, but with the combination of “kabit” and maid in one, I think that would be a recipe for disaster.

I hope I’ve shed some light on your question.

Good luck, keep us posted.

SC.

[CanContrib]

For once I have a question instead of an answer.

It's time to hire a live-in maid to take care of things around the house. The wife deserves one. On the other hand, I have this preference that she should be young, cute, and enthusiastically ameniable to an extra private "arrangement" when there's opportunity.

The question then is how to best find the "right" maid, before the wife goes and finds one guaranteed to be someone I wouldn't _want_ to touch.

I know you import a maid from the provinces but how do you discretely find the right one? I know the going monthly rate is P1500 plus room and board and such. I'd be quite happy to make the *right* maid the best paid happiest maid in the subdivision.

Any ideas, guys? Any of you ever handled this situation to your satisfaction?

[Vchip]

Here is a website that is chock full of info for any retired U.S. military guys (others as well) considering living in the Angeles City area: http://www2.mozcom.com/~rao_cabr/

[Genuis8]

If you want to know the latest news about the Philippines, these are the websites (updated daily) in english:

www.tribune.net.ph
www.malaya.com.ph
www.bworld.com.ph (businessword - for latest foreign exchange rates)
www.abante.com.ph (for those that can understand FIlipino/Tagalog)

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