Medellin Philippines is a great mostly quiet place to retire in. This community has everything plenty of space and land to purchase and build your home, several great and not too expensive beach resorts like Warrens’ Beach Resort, the mayor of Medellin’s Hide Away, San Remigio, Virgin Beach Resort, Medellin Free Beach and more (see Beach Resorts page from the top menu under “Beach Resorts”.) This community is right on the ocean so those resorts are not far away. As always I have supplied several photos and some videos of the area. I had a chance to meet the Mayor of Medellin Ricardo Ramirez, while in Bogo recently, he seems to be a very nice guy who truly cares about his city and has done a lot to improve everything there. He is easy to talk to, even invited me to his office for a longer talk, I believe I will take him up on that soon.

Barangays

Medellin is administratively subdivided into 19 barangays

Source: en.wikipedia.org

I want to talk to him about a dream I have. I have a proposal to build a self sustaining community in the Medellin area on our 5 hectares of land. The homes will be entirely solar powered, with a bank of batteries to run it at night. We will also have our own water facility right there on the land.  The homes will be super quiet as there are no festivals near this area, yet it is close to Medellin market and the city of Bogo. This community will have it’s own power company and water company and no more brownouts… Enjoy the photos and videos below.

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The white area on this map next to the road it the mayors barbecue stand and boat dock. You can also see the bridge and river we were boating on with the Mayor. The road crosses the river and enters Medellin Down Town area, you can see the circle depicted in another photo on this page.

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Here you can see the land where you see a row of houses, same ones in the photo with all the people elsewhere on this post. It kind of looks like the west coast of California.

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Photos

Municipality of Medellin

Town Hall taken in 2006

Another view of the Medellin Town Hall, That's my 2005 Ford Escape, we sold it in 2009

Medellin Cultural Center and Shops

Another shot of the Cultural Center and Shops

Elementary School in Medellin

More of the elementary school

Medellin Market lots of shops here I will go get more photos of this soon.

On the way to Medellin there are lots of sugar cane factories, here the Bogo-Medellin Milling Company here since 1928

Cal Tex Gas station in Medellin Down Town area, we refuel here often

Medellin has a huge population of foreigners especially along the beach area, They have some of the largest and most beautiful homes in the Medellin area.

More homes in Medellin, most homes have walls around them to keep out thieves.

Good roads in the Medellin area

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Down Town Medellin Town Square

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More of the town square in Medellin

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Down Town Medellin a well dressed kid seemed unusual...

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One of Mayor Ricardo Ramirez projects a barbecue stand and boat dock.

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More of Mayor Ricardo Ramirez boat dock (needs work)

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Larry Haydon with Mayor Mayor Ricardo Ramirez near one of his projects, the Barbecue stand and boat docks.

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Marianne and Mayor Ricardo Ramirez on one of his boats. I was taking the photos.

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Mayor Ricardo Ramirez boat dock from his boat

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Another shot of the Mayor's boat dock and barbecue stand

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On Mayor of Medellin Ricardo Ramirez boats heading down the river next to Marianne's land,

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Up the river with Mayor Ricardo Ramirez near our 5 hectares of land.

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River next to Marianne's land. Here you can see the coconut trees on our land and the row of houses shown on several other photos.

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More of the river next to the land in Medellin Philippines

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Moving down the river towards the narrow end of where we can go no further.

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Mayor Ricardo Ramirez on his boat

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At this point in the river we are at the closest point next to our 5 hectares of land. You see a row of houses shown in several other photos on this page some from the street side next to the land.

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This is lookint at the houses from the street side the river is to the left behind these houses. These guys work our land for us, well not the kids the adults.

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Coconut trees on our 5 hectares of land next to the river.

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In this photo the river is to the right we are looking back up the road we just came down. Marianne's land is to the left.

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The outline is all of the 5 hectares of land, the gray structures at the bottom are houses. The river is just off the left side of this photo.

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Marianne’s Land taken in 2009 they had an extremely dry year the crop was devastated by dry conditions. This year we have too much rain but the land does have run off so the crop is good.

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Another Looking at Marianne's land form the river. Marianne is standing in the previous photo just beyond these coconut trees.

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Charles standing next to Mayor Ricardo Ramirez on his boat

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Out in the bay near the entrance to the river

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Charles talking to Mayor Ricardo Ramirez about his projects.

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