Make sure it is Filipina, they are very good wives!
Lived in HK, Manila, Tokyo in earlier times.
No exchange of $ if you were White and had a Passport.
For the Japanese it was for fun.
In the 1980s in HK a live-in Filipina “Amah” (maid) earned $350/month. Cooking/cleaning only. There were 15,000 women of all ages working there. Most with kids back home.
In the Philippines a live-in earned $30/month as they got room & board.
A factory girl earned $50/month for a 60 hour week. A bar girl ~$50/night.
Except for a few Marcos adjacent oligarchs they were desperate to leave.
The country was still under Marcos and impoverished. Japanese were getting kidnapped off golf courses.
“You can take the girl out of HK, but you can’t take the HK out of the girl.”
You marry the family & her deadbeat brothers and they expect to move with you.
I escaped.
It’s different now. “Crazy Rich Asians”
Met an ABK (American Born K……) in the US.