You are the perfect example to represent us Americans. Thanks for being good to your community and a shining example.

This is just one of the many reasons why I love this channel, keep up the great work!

Totally agree that suporting the locals is a good endeavor, when it is possible.

This also boosts your reputation in your neighborhood as a foreigner, something important as people are watching you, evaluating your character. Well done.

Only part of the way through the video and already hit the like button! Love how you support the locals and people that need the money. Thanks for the video!

So glad your foot is better. i love the simplicity of the furniture. Your style is similar to that of my son. Everything seems to have a place and a significant purpose. Your designs are well thought out and intentional. I was watching another video where a person was buying local at the market and gave a big tip. People thought he was rich. Next thing you know, his place got broken into. I like the fact that you are also safe and secure about things. Speedy recovery on your foot.

Support your local community and its simplistic beauty at its finest...I like it a lot!!!👍🏼

Cheapest local metal fabrication/welding is $60+ an hr. (minimum) here in my area (NC, usa). And that's IF you can find a shop that would take on small jobs like that. Most don't want to 'waste' their time with small pieces, unless they are gonna be enough to warrant 4 hrs minimum ($240+) I say this from experience, as I taught myself to weld because I was tired of paying $60-200 every time I needed a tractor implement repaired or a metal gate repaired. Awesome video and Thank you for sharing!🙏

You can’t go wrong supporting the local economy and you build relationships. I know your story of support will make it around the community. Good job!

Dude! I love you because of exactly what you said here (and a lot of other things you mention too). You have the ability to lift up those around you just by spreading the word and possibly changing someone's life. I was actually thinking the same thing before you mentioned it. Totally support the idea of supporting local when ever possible and this is a great example.

theres plenty of that here in the Phil. craftsman with affordable labor fee, but some are high labor fee especially in big cities like manila or cebu. Great idea to make your own crafts than buy to bigmall or stores coz you help locals earn.Kudos to You amigo!

I love the modern black minimalism design❤️

For cabinets and such, we prefer locally made

I think that's awesome. It is so hard to keep business local in the states. Thanks for posting.

It makes me happy to buy from an individual also. You have craftsmen there that we don’t have here so much in the USA and if we find someone they charge as much or more then the big box stores. You have a quality product that will last for many years and you helped to take care of a family.all this for Avery low price. Working with the people from the community makes you all winners. Yeah!!!

your house looks very nice and furnitures are compliment the whole look!!

Excellent workmanship

Great looking tables.

Always great seeing people give back to locals. Great video, thanks for sharing!

Your end tables make sense. I want a lot of those tables when I go home to the Philippines because there's gonna be plenty of people coming to my house to eat. I grew up just that. I'm going to use the tables as end tables and service tables. Thanks for the idea.

I really like your house - and I totally agree with you. The quality in any of these department stores is disappointing and it's a much better feeling to support locals...

You’re such a great guy Cory!!!

Bought a few month ago a coffeetable "samestyle" with 2 additional drawers. 599 Euros. Danish Designer. And had to transport it and mount it ourselves at home.

I love what I see of your home, and searched your videos to see if you had one that offered a tour of it, but couldn't find it. If you have a video containing a tour of your finished home, could you please direct me to it? Thanks so much for sharing your experiences with us, I truly appreciate it.

Wow you got quality stuffs ..you made me realize..you need not malls, stores for furnitures but a good craftsman locally and is worth it. Thanks!

8 bucks, the hell, a movie ticket is more expensive than that

You have a b3autiful house.i love your tile flor very nice.i hope i can find same tile soon.

Any time I have a realistic choice between buying from a corporation vs a local business, I choose the local business every single time.

It's a beautiful table

I will be doing the same as you regarding, using locals as much as possible….

Great video. You found a real metal worker craftsman…. A found and you’re supporting locals 👏🏻👏🏻 Speedy recovery

Those tables look exotic and sleek. Fantastic Job helping your local community. I’m happy that you’re HAPPY!! 😊 Thank you for sharing your journey with us on KZfaq! Q: What is the custom on tipping in your local community, and throughout the Philippines 🇵🇭?

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im glad i subscribed to your channel , God bless you for helping our kababayan . MABUHAY KA SIR !

It is admirable you want to buy local to keep the money flow local where the local families benefit. But this time I’m going to provoke a thought just for the sake of it. Because we may not be as admirable as we like to think we are. I’m guilty as well. Let’s say the table is sold by big chain for 80 USD and the local builds it for 8 USD, an equivalent of the amount of hours he worked on and giving himself an hourly rate most Filipinos earn. That’s where things go wrong really. They are calculating themselves poor due to poor basic economic insights. And we happily say yes to that, thinking we are helping them with work. Thing is, these Filipinos are not on our payroll. So when we don’t have anything for them next day, the Filipino earns nothing unless someone else requires there service. A risk that any other Filipino who is on a payroll has no concerns about. That’s a concern his boss will be dealing with. If that Filipino is charging 8 USD because he spend 8 hours working for 1 USD per hour, we should not exploit him but correct him voluntarily that he should charge more so that he can actually earn. To not go into debt when he has a day or two without clients. To save up and expand. To be able to replace his equipment whenever needed. Giving a guy the materials to work with and pay him for the hours he has been working on, is still not enough and not so admirable as it looks like. If they don’t ask more, then let us actually be a good person and teach them why they should charge more and not spend it all at once. Sure, it’s easy for us to say yes, deal. And be happy about the cheaper price. In my opinion he should have charged atleast 1500 pesos per 8 hours working day. That’s apx 27 USD. I would tell him he should keep 1.000 peso aside for the day he has no work or whenever he needs to replace working equipments/tools. Still not 80 USD to a big chain but actually helping someone who is not calculating himself poor.

One other piece of furniture for your Living Room would be adding a Console TaBle.

Great video, hope your foot heals fast.

I love supporting local 😊

You are so spot on with the quality, money and speed of getting done, any way of passing along this families contact info? Thanks, Frank from Schaumburg Illinois, also glad you are feeling better. Be safe.. 👍👍

I love your house and all your furniture. Also love custom made stuff. I thought about buying a welder before because of how convenient it is to make your own stuff.

That's a very good way to help uplift people in the community, thank you for what you do.

Nice. Btw, do you speak local language now?

SUPPORT LOCALS

top to bottom, right to left. Game of Thrones, Sopranos, House, Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead, Breaking Bad, NCIS, Narnia, Kill Bill 1& 2, 28 Days & Weeks later, Indiana Jones(?) Kick Ass 1 & 2, Bourne 1-3, Ong Bak 1-3, Taken 1-3, AvP and Star Wars maybe as far as I can tell. Hope the foot gets better brother! sounds like a story.

What general area are you located in the Philippines? Just wondering if it is near where my wife lives. Would love to get some similar tables/side-tables made.

That dog is stinkin' cute. What's the spelling on your wife's name? Raquel? or Rachel?

Any possibility of satellite TV. I've lived in Texas with 2 tv stations unless you got satellite.

cool

So how’s the solar worked out you got a month or two bills yet?

I’m with you on this subject , use local people as much as you can . It helps your community prosper rather than filling big corporate coffers 👍

You should give him P1,250

Glad to see you loving your life here Cory :) I just saw a vlog yesterday about expats living in and leaving PH. I didn't really watch the vlog anymore but got to reading the comments. Sadly, there were a lot of comments there from those who lived here but didn't work out for them that were very hurtful to read. And i'd say very tasteless too. First of all, nobody asked them to live here. It was their own choice. Why have to badmouth our people and culture just because they didn't like it? There's one in particular who keeps replying to others' comments saying so many bad stuff about us, blaming us for ruining his life and even criticizing our physical appearance. That guy def. needs some therapy. I'm sure he'll end up hating any country he lives in even though he's saying so and so country is better than PH. I mean if they don't like it here, fine. Just leave. No need to criticize and bad-mouth the country and people as if their country and people are perfect. And what they don't seem to be aware of is that they themselves are exhibiting bad behavior by incessantly badmouthing PH just because it didn't meet their expectations. Like it's the country that has to adopt to them and not the other way around. Crazy. Anyway, i'm sure this is just a small percentage. Coz i've also seen a number of expats like you who are happy that they moved here. Thanks again for promoting our country :)

I always try and buy locally here in California as much as possible. I have also paid extra to buy American products, instead of the junk they make in China. Not that it’s any of my business, but you are doing things right there 👍

Employing, hiring locals helps them, puts food on their table, it also is very environmentally correct, think about the gas that was saved if it had to come from some other island or China, just this morning I was watching GMA News ,the farmers are complaining about the rice prices,it costs them more to than the price in the grocery store. Farmers there are selling their farms.The same happened 8-10 years ago in Ontario Canada,Peach fruit farms and canning companies closed because they could not with canned peaches from Georgia.Hope your foot is well now.

Morning Cory! Just wanted to ask you a question about taxes. Im moving to the Phillipines early next year! How much money can you make without being taxed in the U.S? Sorry I know it has nothing to do with the Video. Thanks Sir

Furniture here is really flimsy imo. That's a forever table and cool looking. I'm trying to teach my girls family that the mall is not the best value for your money. I try my best to support the locals too.

299 $ !!! what a rape !!! I've been welding for years , this is simple job , even in a developed country it should not cost more than 50 to 70 $ MAXIMUM

i know you two love each other and all, but aren't you worried about the future? if she kicked you to the curb, it's no longer your house. quite the investment.

But did you pay him $15?

You saved $600 so why not give him at least $50 . I don't understand Americans paying slave labor because you can . Don't you believe in your heart the man should get paid more .