Move to Philippines: About Me

About Me

My name is Christopher Bennetts and I first made this site before moving to the Philippines in an attemp to encourage people to examine their motives for wanting to move to the Philippines with a theme of contrasting romantic views with some of the realities as I saw them. You can see the original site here: MOVE TO PHILIPPINES along with explanatory notes.

In 2006 I moved with my family to the Philippines after dreaming about the move for close to twenty years and planning the actual move for the best part of two years. All my previous experiences and research did not prepare me for the reality of living in the Philippines. I think the irony is obvious.

Living in the Philippines for three years was challenging as I attempted to start a business and attend to day to day living with four school age children. During this time my marriage failed and my wife returned to Australia leaving me to take care of the children. At the end of the second year my children returned to live with their mother in Australia. I returned to salvage what I could from the businesses but finally admitted failure and closed them having lost an estimated $100,000.

After my wife left I met another girl and we had a child together. I started to support her putting her into a new apartment and providing her with all the creature comforts including Air-conditioning. She became increasingly quarrelsome and demanding to the point of being hostile.

What I did not realize was that she had secretly started a relationship with another Australian acquaintance I had introduced to her and for six months they played games with me. He stayed in the apartment I paid for and hid behind the bedroom door when I came to visit my infant son.

I subsequently discovered the guy is a psychopath who enjoyed wrecking relationships and causing emotional suffering in others. For him it was all a game and we were just his latest victims. I followed his long trail of victims in the Philippines and assisted some to make complaints against him. When he discovered this he started to spread the most disgusting lies about me and actually hired people to kill me enlisting the help of a German I have never met who from all reports is also psychopathic.

The threat to my life was very real. The Australian Federal Police were the ones to contact me to inform me they received intelligence that someone had been hired to kill me and I keep proof of this ready for mass distribution to expose all those involved should anything happen to me. The Psychopath claims that I had put a contract out of his life but just about everything he has accused me of he is guilty of himself.

The Psychopath found another ally in a very sick Frenchman called Evan Iliadis with a hate site against Philippine Rotary. I became a target of this guy’s rantings because I was a President of a Philippine Rotary club in Cebu. I have never met him either yet he had no hesitation in attacking me on his site publishing all the lies of the psychopath. Any inquire with Rotary in the Philippines will tell you this guy has no credibility and no regard for the truth. At first I responded to his allegations was told by my legal friends that I was an idiot to do so and the best thing was to ignore him and his site. I will just say that anyone that has read this guy’s pages about me go back to his site and read all his rantings about Rotary and anything else and then decide if you give his allegations any credence. He is just a sad pathetic little man who wants attention.

In late 2008 I fled the Philippines and while I have returned there a few times since and maintain connections I no longer live there having relocated to Thailand.

My problems in the Philippines did not stem from Filipinos or anything related to the country itself but from other foreigners. I have come to the conclusion that the Philippines is a refuge for many social misfits that cannot make it back home.

My experiences as traumatic as they were have made me reflect on my life and set me on a path of self discovery and ultimately peace. As crazy as it sounds this probably would not have happened without the psychopath so I have him to thank and can honestly say I have no animosity towards him at all.

I also have learnt a lot from the Filipino people and have made many life long friends.

In this blog I will revisit the question of motives for moving to the Philippines and share some of my insights and experiences of Living in the Philippines.