Leaving Philippines and migrating to another country, is it really worth it?

That's truly quite unfortunate, lhen. I could really only imagine how sad your sisters truly are. In response to your main question, though, I actually feel that it depends. If the benefits of migrating abroad far outweigh its accompanying harms, then I believe it could perhaps be considered as worth it. With regard to your question concerning the true value of money in the decision-making process of our fellow Filipinos who intend to go abroad, on the other hand, I could only surmise that, for some, money could really matter and it could even be their primary reason for leaving the Philippines, which is perfectly understandable, to my mind, given the practical realities and other things they have to consider. Whether we like it or not, some countries (i.e. US, UK, ETC.) offer relatively bigger bucks, in comparison to our country, to laborers (Filipinos or otherwise), who are willing to put in the necessary work and such bigger offers, I feel, are enough motivation for some of us to migrate. As to whether I would be willing to sacrifice my happiness and my profession, living with strangers just to be able to earn big, I'm inclined to say that I personally could not make such a sacrifice, especially since I only have one life to live and I would not want to live it doing something that does not make me happy. However, if I could still practice my profession and earn big bucks abroad, which would certainly make me happy, I would definitely consider migrating for a while. Leaving the Philippines and grabbing a better opportunity abroad, in this particular case, would just be the means to my goals--to easily earn a lot of money quickly and to use my hard earned money as capital for the businesses that I want to someday put up in the Philippines.

dear,its not easy any where,this is just the truth,am from a country where there is so much,and yet the people live in ardent poverty,its hard being a doctor and ending up as a factory worker,i have friends that have experience such situation,but then what can you do,provided you can end up sending money back home and putting food on your table.but i will advice they pick up some courses to upgrade their CVs.take care

Sad to hear that but we really hear many of such facts. Perhaps they are in dire need of money to sacrifice a lot of things. Money answers everything here on earth and if they have a family to sustain so which is more important - pride or life? Anyway, perhaps if they earn some capital, they may return to the Philippines to have their own business.

I don't think I would sacrifice my happiness to live with strangers, I have a friend thats from the philippines and she loves it here she grew up very poor and she works really hard.

hi! it depends on the situation i think... but most of our fellow filipinos goes abroad is because of money. they will sacrifice everything even their family just to earn a living. i know many of them. its very hard here in the philippines to earn a lot and our salary are low compared to other countries. so those who want to earn more, they worked abroad. but what makes it sad is that the work that they will be having there are low level jobs except of the few....

Don't waist your time!!!! If you can, jump on nearest flight and go. Canada always staying right at the top of my dream destinations. You will find out later if the money matters. Do you have your own family? Kids? I've been rebel by nature and sort of anarchist deeply in my heart, when i was single man. Things bit changed by now. All i want is better future for my daughter and for this reason, i'm working most of time abroad, where i get paid the better way. I realy think that you should go. :)

Well, I'm waiting for my working visa for Canada and I would have to say that I'm both excited and sad. Leaving the Philippines, the country that I've known to love for 26 years, is not an easy thing to do. Plus I'm going to leave my loved ones and wouldnt see nor be with them for a long time. But I have plans and that is the only way to go now in these times. It's really sad that our professionals here in the Philippines are just common workers in other countries. But you have to give them credit for swallowing their pride and accepting jobs lower than their levels just to get more money so they can support their families and loved ones back home.

i am sad to hear it.i don't think money is everything,in our world ,our life is not only have money,and money is only a tool .so it is ont worth itself.

the worth of going out of the country can be measured on the end result of going out. for example, if one goes out and s/he is able to earn a significant amouunt of money, that can be worth of being separated from one's family. however, if one goes out of the country and upon returning, s/he finds out that his/her family is broken; whatever amount of money one saves or earns, it will very difficult to say it is worth it. thus, the measurement whether it is worth it or not lies on what values one has.