Discussion for all things Philippines.The Philippines has the greatest expat community in the world! Come to live in an imitation of iconic East Asian business districts with much lower prices. With a location this good surely that condo you bought is only going to go up in value as it ages! Ignore the corruption and broken infrastructure. Everything is shiny and the lights are bright. That's all that matters. Live in social isolation despite the people around you speaking passable English. Boast about your supposed sexual exploits on an anime website to impress lonely virgin NEETs who wish to be you. Drink alone until you pass out. Living the dream baby.Previous thread: >>2843920
>>2848347Sometimes there is toilet paper, but you can't get it out of the dispenser because some goofy engineer existed... Extra socks have a lot of use cases.
Is it worthwhile to work remotely in Manila for a week or two, going out in just the mornings and afternoon? Is it possible to get around town and do interesting things without spending several hours in traffic?
>>2848382Manila is pretty much the worst place for that. Not because there aren't places you can go from there. But because as you said you need to endure the traffic first.
>>2848386Damn. So is there no part of town where there's plenty to do and eat within a 30-60 minute walking radius?
>>2848389Well Manila contains multitudes. But it's not especially pedestrian friendly. Do you really want to walk around in the hot ass sun all day anyway?
>>2848391Not all day, but I'd like to walk around for a few hours, grab something to eat, then head back to my hotel to work. I've walked around in the hot ass summers of Japan and handled the heat of Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia just fine. I can handle the heat of the Philippines. Seeing a few new things and eating some decent food would be enough to satisfy me.
>>2848393Well the Philippines is hard mode. If you're going to be here for only 1-2 weeks that's hardly enough time to get acclimated. You can research the cool places you want to go but getting to them is going to be a pain. It's not as if you can't make any kind of plan. Like say you stayed near Intramuros. You can walk through the old fort, go to the trendy bars and restaurants there, go to Rizal Park once, go spend time in Binondo for the Chinatown experience, etc. Just don't get too ambitious. If you make plans that involve multiple parts of the city you need to travel between them. That will destroy your plans.
>>2848393Street level pollution in Manila is much worse than in those other countries. You will probably be blowing black snot out of your nose after a couple hours of walking along the busy roads, thanks to the filthy fucking jeepneys. Motorbike taxis are cheap and plentiful in MNL. I'd typically head out on my walk, then when I was tired of walking I'd take a motorbike taxi back to my hotel. Overall, it's not a very enjoyable city to explore on foot. The streets are India tier in many places, minus the sacred cows and the fragrant incense/spice odors. In fact, Manila is more densely populated than any Indian city. The beaches suck compared to Mumbai. The metro sucks compared to Mumbai. The nature parks suck compared to the Mumbai metro area. The food sucks compared to Mumbai. I haven't been around Mumbai too much, but from what I saw there were far fewer beggars and tambay lowlifes on the Mumbai streets than there are in Manila.
>>2848354> Boast about your supposed sexual exploits on an anime website to impress lonely virgin NEETs who wish to be you. I tried, but a brown janny deleted my post. It was a good one too. Full of depravity. >>2848382Yeah if you stay in BGC or Makati. But you’re stuck in those areas. You don’t really want to venture out too far anyway. Manila is a shithole for the most part - all the pretty beaches and nature are several hours away.
>>2848688if it's worse than Bangkok for walking around, I'd definitely steer clear. That was not very enjoyable due to the car exhaust, lack of side walks, and dangling wires. I suspect PH would add tripping over feces and garbage to the equation?>>2848382If you value peace, and cleanliness, and don't mind minimal social contact, I can recommend choosing a suburb in kanagawa, japan.It's nice to experience if you have nothing else going on. It's very peaceful, and excursion from 2pm to 9pm are doable. Note that I did not try 5am to 1pm excursion. And note that hotel rooms seldom have full size chairs, often the back rests only go up 6 inches, so they're more like stools than chairs.Enoshima, castles, train rides, $50 hotel rooms, large malls, accessible and western friendly food. Maybe the nicest was how still and silent the evening walks at night were. I'd stumble across 1500 year old ruins by chance consistently beneath the starry night sky after walking off large meals I had eaten.I am trying this in another region. I'll report back later once I finalize some thoughts.
Can someone recommend a good place in Makati to stay for a week? Budget can be... let's say up to 16k. Should also have a kitchen so the wifey can cook. Please not too near to the Greenbelt mall, the wifey will rekt my wallet if we need to shop there.
>>2848813Japan's hotel rooms are so sparse even when they are $50 per night, it seems. Makes me really reluctant to visit the country. In America a $64 (after taxes) budget suite near Denver airport has a cooking range, full-size fridge, sofa, and dining table in a room roughly 35 square meters.
>>2848865>In America a $64 (after taxes) budget suiteAnd plenty cum stains on that sofa I'm sure.
>>2848865That just means you have to go out a few more train stations. If you want to reduce $10 per night, try 2 more train stations away from the city.Pic was $42 usd per night. It's almost comfy maxxing imo. Not quite. Close.
>>2848907That looks like a damn broom closet
>>2848382man, just pick a random cca 300k city and position yourself in some newly built condos in the center.you'll have decent internet, everything will still be working, authentic eating places around + tons of fast food crap if you get fed up with filipino food. there's always a big mall around to waste time or be a faggot in starbucks.also there's usually beaches/mountains closer than from manila. if not closer, you can get to them faster cause of shit traffic there.places like ormoc, dumaguete, cagayan de oro, bacolod, calbayog, naga, iloilo, ... anything really.there's nothing to do in these cities per se, but for 2 weeks you're fine. if you want work-eat-sleep-repeat, id go for that. it's way more relaxed.or just enjoy comforts of bgc / makati / cebu it park and go back home.
>>2848912It "swept" good for 2 weeks. Heres the other place in Yokohama. $50/night.
>>2848907Is that a bug zapper?
>>2848813Japan is cleaner/quieter but the people are garbage (okay, maybe not garbage, but they're obnoxious). Filipinos are at least fun/easy to talk to.
>>2848924It's a space heater. I was freezing in my room, so I went to the front desk to ask for one. By Japanese standards, I was fairly "loud" when inquiring about one because how does a hotel room reach 16 degrees celsius?On day 12th day of my 14 day stay, I noticed AC doesn't just mean "make the temperature colder". Conditioning can imply "warm it up" too. Oopsies...Anyway, the "suffering" was kino. And what's the point of living without kino experiences?>>2848927They don't give a fuck about you. My suggestion is to just go to a rural spot where they might. I met people this way and I don't speak nipponese. I ended up cutting contact because they were boring af, not to mention "saggy" (no I won't elaborate right now)
>>2848934Of course the photo was forgot.Also, new captcha system? Wtf nip moot is actually changing stuff 7 months after a hack?
>>2848935Should have geoguessr as a capatcha here to filter out all the dreamerfags
>>2848813I live in Japan and I’m bored as hell with this country. Why would I want to be in a boring suburb and eat bland western food?
>>2849007You've become ungrateful for living in a utopia. Try to remember the beauty you saw in things before.>>2848985I don't understand? I am having a conversation with someone about a previous trip I took. They are considering working remotely like I've done, and continue to do.
>>2849138If you haven't, you should build a 6 pack and a literary piece you can be proud of.
i'm working out in my condo gym like i'm prepping for the olympics.i have never lived so healthy as i do here. then i eat food of questionable quality and drink alcohol in the evening.after many months i finally managed to find some male company. i was dying inside from only talking to women.i'm happy, life's going great.
>>2849149Gay
>>2849149When I have male company they look like women.
>>2849150you need drinking lads in this countryfilipinas dont get the bantz or they just quietly take it
>>2849063This is a travel board. It’s for people who want to visit other places. Staying in a hotel 10 minutes from my house in the middle of winter when I want to be in a warm and different place is just dumb.
Cubabro: perspectives No more fishing bullshit for me, I'm about to go polish doorknobs in the northpole for $30 an hour with free room and board, free food, and equal time off.....only 1 month rotations. Some of you might say $30 an hour is not that much, but I think in pesos, not dollars. Niggers would give their left nut to make $30 dollars a day, let alone an hour...and the best part? It's an absolute slacker job.....washing dishes and taking out the trash. God bless America
Nice captchas BTW
>>2848688That happens after using the London underground.
>>2849171You're such a deadbeat dad. Just abandon your family to live in some distant place for the noble work of... doing dishes.
>>2849063I find beauty in shitholes, not in utopias.
>>2849171That's a lot of flight expenses if you're going from the North Slope (which I assume you're referring to) to PH every month.
>>2849270Can you elaborate on a time when this happened? What did you see or experience and how was it amazingly beautiful?
>>2849271Company pays for travel to the mainland united states>>2849259Abandon your family? How many Flips become OFW for YEARS? Are they abandoning their family for the noble work of washing some Muslims ass in Dubai for $1000 a month? I can see my kids every 45 days coming home with 800k Pesos........PSHHHH whateverrrrrrrr
>>2849307>but what about the habits of the lowest IQ people in the world?It's awesome it pays well, but washing going somewhere far to wash dishes wouldn't be my ideal situation.We're obviously very different, and that's ok.When I have a family, it'll be with people I like and wouldn't want to leave for two weeks, let alone seven. I'm educated and I have option, other people don't. So if this is what it takes for you to fulfill your fatherly role, ok, but a household without a father is typically a wreck.
>>2849325Yes we are different I am an alcoholic, and a street nigger. If I stay in the Philippines to long I inevitably get bored and turn to petty street crimes to pass the time. You play golf, I start fights with dorky white foreigners I front of 7/11. You went to ateneo de carajao, I sold crack in front of miguelitos bodega. To combat this negative trait of mine, I have voluntarily chosen to isolate myself in the most remote part of the world, quite literally the edge of the earth. I'm basically self imposing jail upon myself, albeit it's a jail with steak and shrimp, wifi, a gym, and possibly some slutty Eskimo women (who are known to be very horny).45 days is nothing, I've done much longer stints on boats working much harder, and I don't really have any desire to stay much longer than 45 days in the Philippines because then they start to seriously annoy me......45 days is an ideal time...you don't get burnt out or bored from work, and you don't get annoyed by the retardation of 3rd world nonsense .The goal is earn the most money while doing to least amount of work. I don't responsibility, I don't want to be the boss, I don't want to have to think about managing people or do risky shit to earn a living. I just wanna put on a podcast, zone out, and wash some pots. I've come from literal deadliest catch boats and made it through unscathed, I'm looking for something that can support my family and give me zero stress and risk of death/dismemberment. Again, it's all relative. My wife's has both sisters and brothers who go overseas for YEARS (plural, years). She is relatively lucky that she has a partner who:A: earns way more than all of her siblings (probably combined)B: Still gets to see his kids every monthIt's really a blessing, but only in the Filipino lens. White people or nepo pinoy kids would look at it as a negative (mainly because their afraid of someone fucking their wife)
>>2849342But if my wife ever did decide that she can't be with someone who goes away and she wanted to fuck me over, I'd simply reduce her monthly support to $300, cut her out of my life, and go full Genghis Khan in the slums of Cebu. She knows this very well
>>2849325Filipinos are all about titles. They love to mention when they are engineers , doctors and what not. I would like to mention that I am a completely uneducated illegal immigrant spic. While these Filipinos were studying at Cebu doc, I was smoking weed on the corner with daquan, and yet somehow I has finessed my way into making a bigger salary then them for washing dishes and making cheese sandwiches, not to mention I eat for free and get a free roof over my head. If thats not a flex then I don't know what is, but I'll never mention that to Pinoys IRL because they would never believe me, and even if they did they would just get salty, deservedly so.
IF you want to be a doctor or engineer to try and help Filipinos, go ahead. I have absolutely no desire to help the greater Filipino population because they are hard headed, stubborn people stuck in their backwards ways. The only people I'm interested in helping are my biological children. Since the times of Magellan, we have known that they don't appreciate anything you do for them, and they take kindness as weakness or stupidity....you basically have to treat them like shit for them to respect you. I'm just there to be served, like it was always destined to be, and if they Filipinos don't like it well then they can take it up with their government leaders, but we all know all their good for is lurking and yapping on the internet
Filipino guy herehttps://youtu.be/MjBo27_u4L0?si=Tz2NEGylQBlT4L9g
>bored boomer retards form charity feeding program for slum kids>more people move to the squatter slum with their kids for free daily food, number of cardboard shacks doubles>program overloaded within a couple months >squatter gypsies who migrated for the free meals complain 'not enough poods' to government>primary complaint is 'only poods for children', the adults were upset that the boomers were not handing out meals to the adults also>gypsies begin fighting with 'locals' over situation>city government intervenes and shuts down food charityWhatever is wrong with these people, you cannot solve it with philanthropy.
>>2849475How did you learn all these details? Are you friends with the boomers? Or is gossip spreading like wildfire in your community?
>>2849475You absolutely cannot solve it with philanthropy.Pinoys always claim of corruption, but they don't realize that they are almost all corrupt, from the President all the way down to the homeless kids holding the door at 7/11. They have always been this way, since the first contact with Europeans this has been noted and recorded. They fight and fued with each other over the pettiest of matters, and don't respect each other or treat each other with dignity..It's the same reason why their are hardly any public parks in the country, because they would quickly become tent cities with people trying to charge an entrance fee for the children's slide Basically in a microcosm...>THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS
>>2849503Filipinos are also huge gossipers When a huge percentage of your population is unemployed or underemployed, and then you give them access to $40 Chinese smartphones and PisoWifi, they inevitably turn to their favorite pastime..>ChismisThat's why you see on internet boards and forums that are primarily geared towards expats or TRVlers, they have been overrun by a bunch of lurking and gossiping Pinoys...Because they are bored and have nothing to do, they love to read all the juicy drama. But it's a little different here on 4chan, because despite the mods, the truth does leak outSo enjoy yourselves my Pinoys
>>2849524and you assume the government would allow them to occupy the parks? The law enforcement wouldn't enforce an emphatic no living in or monetizing the parks resources?>>2849525Why aren't pinoys and pinays all fat?How do the ph folks with brains withstand the horrid minds of the other countrysisters?Do mothers sell their own kids for labor?If you said something insane to a flip, would they even react, or are they barely human? E.g. "I killed a man this morning and it was great". Would they blink contentedly and laugh?Do they listen to traditional music?Duturte seemed very unprofessional and dumb, so if he is representing the people, I can't even imagine how bad it gets DOWN the ladder.Fascinating to learn from you guys. Very fascinating indeed.
Is anyone else learning tagalog? Any resources?
>>2849566I tried for a while. Honestly, it was almost impossible. Not because I’m a slow learner, but because Tagalog is a totally fucked up, broken language that doesn’t make any sense. It’s so fucked up it can’t function as a real language on its own terms, to it has to borrow English, Spanish, and Chinese worlds/phrases. Like everything else in the Philippines, the native languages are a patchwork of “it’s good enough”. You only need a couple of simple phrases anyway to impress the pokpok you’ve met outside the 711. Don’t bother getting too deep beyond that.
>>2849592Maybe you're just retarded.>It’s so fucked up it can’t function as a real language on its own terms, to it has to borrow English, Spanish, and Chinese worlds/phrases.A lot of languages borrow words. This should make it wasier for you though, right? Honestly anon I think you're just coping and not really willing to learn a new language.
English itself borrows lots of words from other languages. French words for example. If you've ever taught English to non-native speakers you'll know they struggle with these words because you are expected to pronounce them as they are pronounced in the language they are borrowed from, which goes against the normal rules of English. Loan words never gave me any issues when it came to Tagalog. I know so many words and many of them are from Spanish but where I struggle is when it comes time to construct a sentence properly. Part of that is me being too lazy to learn how to do it. I don't think there's anything wrong with the way it's done, perhaps it's simpler than English, but it's different so it's harder to wrap my head around.
