Things I Don’t Like Living In The Philippines
In a previous article, I started writing about things I don’t like about living in the Philippines. As I’ve said many times, I love living in the Philippines. That in no way says that I live everything about the Philippines. There are things I don’t like. There is not anything in these two articles I have not said before. Usually I say it when I’m writing about how much I love living in the Philippines. Here are the main issues that I don’t like about the Philippines:
- Somethings Cost More in the Philippines
- Scamming Filipina — There are lying expats too though.
- Judgemental Filipinos – Your expected to conform
- Terrorism , Kidnappings and Civil War – Hard to like a kidnapping
- Dengue and Typhoid– Who wants to be sick?
- Reduced Freedom Of Speech – Foreigners don’t have freedom of speech
- Corruption – Not a huge problem for me other than questionable import duties
In The Philippines Somethings Cost More
If you want to live in the Philippines and live a life equivalent to that of theUSA, you may not even like it here. It depends on why you came. If money is an issue for you in the West, it will be less of an issue for you here.
I have yet to meet anyone that actually lives in the Philippines that thinks it is more expensive to live in the Philippines than the West. I’m sure they are out there but I have not talked with them. Most that think that leave.
I have a much better life in the Philippines on my pension than I did in theUSA. There is simply no way to dispute that. I know, because it is me. Yes, I had more things, nice things when I worked and more than twice the same income. When I retired, things got lean, very lean.
Housing is cheaper, services are cheaper and food that is produced in the Philippines is cheaper. If you buy imported food, then you will pay more. You will also have fewer choices living in the Philippines. Many expats eat a lot more spam than they would at home. I have but lately it has been making me sick so I’ve cut way back.
If you go to Pizza Hut in SM Mall, it will be close to $20. If you go to Starbucks in the same mall it will also be expensive, I spend around $10 when I go in there.
However a movie at SM Mall will cost you about about P180 or for two people $7.50 at today’s horrible exchange rate of 41.5 (August 2011). Skip the popcorn its like cardboard. They have a new IMAX screen in the SM Mall in Cebu City.
Gasoline is expensive. It is around $5.00 a gallon in August 2011. If you’re living in the Philippines and need to buy gasoline you will pay more for it.
They say electricity is higher and I think it is but I haven’t bothered to figure out the price. I keep it as cool as I can and pay the freaking bill. Just like I would do when I was in the USA.
Quality imported electronics are more expensive in the Philippines. That seems to be true even if they are made here. Usually though, the parts are made here and the finished product assembled some place else.
Because of these higher cost and lower incomes, you’ll find less centralized air and hot water. Both are pretty rare. I’ve learned to be happy without those things.
You’ll probably have fewer choices in watching TV if you get it from a Philippines provider. For me, there are more important things than TV. There is a company online that will provide it to you for about $250 a month. Not a lot more than the cable I paid for in the USA. After living a more frugal life and seeing how much others living in the Philippines do without, I just have a really hard time paying that now.
Living in the Philippines will also include outages. This could raise your cost of living in the Philippines if you look for a more expensive alternative. Sometimes things can be hard to get at all in thePhilippines. A caffeine free coke is next to impossible but I’ve heard that someone did find some in the Subic area. I gave up a long time ago. I sure would be better off without all this caffeine. By the way, I’ve read that Subic still has many shops that cater to the likes of Americans. There use to be an Air Force base near there. Filipino protested in large numbers over the base. The USA was in the mood for closing bases and we closed it.
It will be very difficult to live the same life in the Philippines that you do in the West. If you insist on that, pay for it. That is your choice. The cost of living in the Philippines is less than the West. Filipinos often live here with $200 or $300 a month and take care of an entire family.
Scamming Filipina
Where there is little opportunity to earn money there will be more people begging, lying and stealing. People do what they have to do. One can become so jaded after doing things like this it can loose its sense of being wrong. We humans have all kinds of ways of justifying our selfish behavior. I have been lied to by a lot of Filipina. I’ve met a lot of wonderful Filipinos including women but there are liars too. Of course, the women can be jaded by all the empty promises they get from foreign men too. There is a lot of that. I know of an expat that paid a restaurant owner for a backdated receipt so he could prove to his girlfriend he was in a place where he was not. This goes both ways.
In the Philippines though, some, especially Filipina make their income by going online and promising many men anything they want to hear. Some mean it for the guy that shows up first but most of those are also getting money from multiple men they meet online.
I much prefer scamming Filipina over having some punk in the USA stick a gun in my face and demand I get out of my car and then watch him drive off in it. Theft in the Philippines, at least for now tends to be less violent and more sneaky.
Judgmental Filipinos
I don’t like this any where, I’m very open to how others live, accepting of their choices. I try to correct myself when I feel like someone else is doing some thing I don’t approve of. I don’t walk with their brain. I have not lived their life and I’m certainly not in a position to judge anyone. Christians are a very judgmental group. I find that to be a very un-Christ like way to be. My thinking is a lot different in many areas from other peoples thinking. In Filipino culture, I’ve been judged far too often and I don’t like it. It doesn’t cause me to dislike the Philippines. I just will not live that way. Filipinos often do conform to the accepted path, especially Filipina as they have much pressure put on them. That is their culture and I respect that but don’t expect me to live by it. If someone wants to think they are better than me, oh well, enjoy the moment of superiority in your own head.
Of course, I’ve seen some very judgmental Americans too. Filipinos don’t corner the market but generally they seem more likely to be so.
When you judge someone, you’re applying your thinking to that person. That makes no sense and it often reveals things about those sitting in judgement. Do I ever judge? Yeah, I’m human but I resist.
Terrorism, Kidnappings and Civil War
Hard to like those things and living in the Philippines will mean dealing with that more often. I’ve never dealt with any of it directly but these are things I’m mindful of. There are places I don’t go because of it.
Dengue and Typhoid
There is more dengue in the Philippines than in most places in the West for these illnesses. Typhoid is more of a concern for poorer Filipinos than me but I suppose I’m at somewhat more of a greater risk. Of course, the West will have their own specific illnesses too. I don’t see how it really is a factor at all.
Malaria is also present in the Philippines but it is not common. You are probably more at risk of contracting rabies too. Jessie was once bitten by a dog that later was found to have rabies. Good thing she got shots!
Reduced Freedom Of Speech
Foreigners living in the Philippines have reduced freedom of speech than Americans enjoy in the USA. I don’t like it but I live with it. Since I just wrote a full article regarding that topic, I’ll refer you back to the article “Freedom of Speech in the Philippines.”
Corruption in the Philippines
I hear about corruption a lot more than I see it. I think I’ve paid custom duties that were not due. I’ve also seen foreigners claim things to be corruption when in fact, they were just the law. One case was where a guy flew into the country without an onward ticket. That brought him a lot of unneeded attention from the authorities. He did end up giving away some of his chocolate to officials, so he said. If you’re coming into the Philippines as a tourist, you must be leaving and the law requires you have a departing ticket paid for. Try to get into the USA from the Philippines using those criteria.
It is my perception that if you do business in the Philippines you are more likely to run into “special payments.” I don’t know if that is the case but it seems to be. I suspect that much of this is overblown complaining about the legal fees that are required but I can’t say for certain.
Maybe some just run into this a lot more than I do. When I did run into it, I found a way to stop it.
I know of a few times that people were asked for an extra P500 to P1000 for things from officials. It must happen but it has never happened to me.
Some might add that you can’t buy land in the Philippines. I don’t add that because if foreigners could own land in the Philippines, the prices of land would sky rocket, rents would rise and it would seriously increase my cost of living in the Philippines. Sometimes a negative can also be a positive. You can take out a 50 year lease but that is loaded with problems too. The legal process here does seem to favor native Filipino. You can also buy a condo, that is my long range goal. There is much less risk and you can own it outright. A corporation can also own land. There are restrictions on ownership of a domestic corporation.
Living in the Philippines is Right for Me
I’ve managed to make the best out of the worst of living in the Philippines. That allows me to forget it and have a wonderful life living in the Philippines. I do so much more, I see so much more than I could do living in the USA. Truly the USA is a wonderful place to live. It is more wonderful if you have a very good income. There are a lot of poor people in the USA that have no hope of every moving to a place like the Philippines and they just live a pretty basic life in the USA. They may be miserable there or they may be happy there. Just like living in the Philippines how they see it depends on their own coping skills and outlook on life.
Maybe I’m more adaptable than some people are. I never thought of myself that way though. I began to after hearing from people that grumble about living in the Philippies.
For whatever the reason, I love living in the Philippines and I am happy here. If you are not happy here then living in the Philippines is not right for you.
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hi rusty,air pollution is what i cant stand.The trikes and bikes in dipolog city spewing their oily carbon monoxide is so bad that most woman walking the streets anywhere hold a hankerchief up to their nose and mouth to help their breathing.
Many days i walk the main street or side streets and my eyes water and i actually feel dizzy from carbon monoxide poisoning and they still are allowed to sell leaded fuel here.The gasoline labeled super contains lead which is not outlawed in the PI.
And the ants,especially when they bite you while laying down,for such a tiny creature they have some super power in their crimpers.
LOL I laugh at the ants in the Philippines. Well initially anyway. First time one of them bit me I was like “Is that all you got?” I’m from the Southern USA where the fire ants could teach the ants in the Philippines a think or two. Now I’ve seen a larger red ant in the Philippines that all the other ants run from, they see terrified of them. Only saw them a couple of times. Jessie said those hurt. Maybe that’s what got you.
I haven’t been to Dipolog but to many cities like that. Cebu is much worse and Manila, so they say is much worse than Cebu. The smog in Cebu doesn’t bother me too much until later. Just came back from there today and my chest is not doing so great.
The Philippines is making progress on cleaning that up. There use to be a lot two stroke motorcycles. I think they are outlawed in all of the Philippines for new sales, could be just parts. I think all of the Philippines. Of course, they will still be quite a few around. It will take time. Taxis are most on propane/hybrids to help also. Some electric I think but that probably still mostly in Manila. Have seen some electric “Jeepneys” but Jessie said “That’s just a bus.” Also in Manila.
I live out in Northern Cebu province. I’m sure the air isn’t great but it sure looks very nice. Very clear blue skies except when its raining. Lots of rain in Bogo for the last month.
By the way Rusty for your info Subic Bay off the Battan peninsula was the site of the largest U.S.Navy base outside the USA for decades, not an AFB. The largest AFB outside the USA was at Clark AFB, Luzon (Angeles City).Until the Philippines, in wanting to take the final step in breaking from the USA, and the eruption of Mt Pinotubo led to its closure. In your article above u had it wrong
it is not just the vehicles that cause the air pollution. I lived in a rather nice little enclave in Mandaue. Some of the nicer houses you will see close at hand. Yet as u come into it there is a large vacant lot. The first day there I see an attractively dressed obvious matron of means walking down the road carrying a bag of garbage. I starting to wonder where she going with it, when she stops and just tosses it into the vacant lot. I couldn’t help but wonder what she thought would happen to it there. After living near for awhile I found out what happened. First the dogs rip through it and maybe poor kids also. Then when there is a pile someone lights it and it smolders away usually continually for days. When you consider that people in Philippines dont flush their ass wipe but bag up the used filth and put with garbage. What it is you are smelling is to a large part smoldering shit. That is the inscense of your life when you are in that area. Then after it burns and it is dry the wind scatters the ashes into the air and onto everything. Try to talk about a better way and they say its just how it is done there. Garbage pickup too expensive.
Yes, that is very common. I wonder if it has become worse since in Cebu City (maybe Metro Cebu) they have to sort their trash now for recycling.
One of our ya ya was dumping trash on the other side of the fence outside our back door, we made her stop.
I don’t even know if we pay for it trash pickup. If so it would be on our water bill but I don’t think we pay for it. I suppose it could be different in some areas. I really doubt people pay for it though.
You know many “country folk” in the USA do that too.
There were almost daily stories in the paper and on the news when I was there about the trash problem and how they are trying at least to do something to make their system more modern and sanitary. Closing illegal dumps, trying to find places for sanitary landfills, fining companies dumping illegally, things like that. Just behind standards in place in the west for decades, but trying to catch up but with limited means and very limited land area and transportation system to work with.
Hope the “I like the Philippines just the way it is” lobby will concede on this point at least.
Where I live that isn’t the case.
Bogo won Cleanest and Greenest in the Philippines three years in a row. The last year, I think the last year maybe last two that honor went to Puerto Princesa.
I lived in Talisay, also very clean but there was a ditch not far that didn’t smell so clean at all. I did see a few spot here people were dumping trash. Just never really seemed like a big deal to me. Not mountains of it or anything.
They have flooding issues in Mandaue because the river is polluted and needs dredging.
There’s some places in Cebu City where I’ve seen trashy areas. Not a big deal to me.
There are lots of run down buildings all over the Philippines, no doubt about that. One could see them as an ugly eye sore I suppose, I don’t. I like to take pictures of them myself.
The trash in the sea around cities is an issue. People use it as a big trash can. They toss everything into it.
I just don’t see trash in the Philippines being a major issue. I’m not living in it. Don’t see it in the areas I visit in Cebu City but sometimes I have passed through some areas that had a bit of trash. Must be here, I see people complaining about it. It isn’t where I tend to be or it just didn’t bother me enough to remember it.
I guess it just don’t bother me. I saw plenty of trash in the USA too. Three is a problem with people dumping raw sewage into the ditches along the streets and in the water ways. Maybe since I actual live here, I’ve become immune to it. Somethings that use to really stand out to me, no longer do.
You know news papers get on a kick about something from time to time. I don’t have a subscription to the paper any more, use to get Cebu Daily News. I don’t recall any stories about trash. Maybe it is one of those things that I just don’t see that affects me. Thus, no reason to concern myself with disliking it. Surely is not a day to day issue for me. Very clean here though. Well, there are a few spots on the street that don’t smell so great.
It only cost about 145 pesos a month to get the Cebu Daily News online for a month. Their online credit Card payment is simple and secure and the site is easy to use. I am a news junkie no matter where I am and got into local issues when I was there. The biggest story was the terrible foreigner and filipina murder case of the 6 yr old girl. It was front page for weeks. How is that case going? When it was hot topic it seemed to bring suspition and even animosity down on foreigners. With the people wondering if you were the one who witnesses saw snatching that poor little girl. For someone making a living being an expert on the Philippines a subscription to an excellant english language paper like the daily news might help. Just a suggestion – there are alot of adds and classifieds in the 30 or so daily pages that can also be useful in your efforts.
trash pick up is paid once at the start of the year. along with the land tax, if my memory serves me correctly.
Now I remember you telling me that several years ago.
The large rats everywhere are not very pleasant especially when u see them in restraunts and foodstores and you wonder where they have been and how they got so big and fat. The most amazing rat story I have is of seeing one on the fuorth floor of Ayala mall while waiting for my gf. It was huge and everyone at the coffee shop had seen it running around. I watched this huge creature waddle toward the escalator just as I noticed my gf coming up it. Sure enough she got to the top just when the rat got there and the screams and fancy dance footwork of her avoiding it made me and others laugh our ass off.
The rats here are not as big as the ones in the Southern USA. Put a collar on it.
I have pictures of some rats drinking out of a pail that a BBQ stall used to wash their dishes. Pretty disgusting. I ate there once. ewwwww Not again.
Rusty,
The thing I hate most is the cold shower. Brrrrrrrrrrr!
I rented a nice house there. It was actually about the nicest house I ever lived in. I jumped on it quick because I had been looking for over a month for an alternative to the over-priced studio I was in. Only after I paid deposit and moved in did I find out that there is no hot water. I had just assumed that the left hand faucet in the two bathrooms and two kitchens would be hot water, but no the house was fillipino style meaning no hot water. No AC except in br as that also is fillipino style but i knew and wanted that so as to experience more real life there (the smoldering shit).
I actually got used to and learn to appreciate the cool showers. Lord knows cooling off there on a hot day feels better than hot water on a hot day. For the tub I bought a little plug in drop in the water heater for 370 pesos that would allow me to have a hot bath after an hour if I wanted that. An article on the filipino ways that come as a shock and surprise to westerners would be helpful.
Yeah Jack that is a good one but P5000 can fix that. Search this site for no more cold showers. Should turn up the article, I hope.
I had a lot of them. Not pleasant most of the time.
I missed the NFL untill i bought the NFL package on the comp.Hey jordan i see you are a cheese head,i have been a packer fan for 45 years and to watch the NFL games in the pi i bought the nfl gameday package to watch live on the comp for $250.00.It was awesome,my usa buddies would meet at 1 oclock in the morning at my place and watch the pack,after a few weeks the 1 in the morning took its toll on us so we just waited till mid morning and watched it on replay,you can archive all the games and watch at anytime even go back and watch games from a year ago.
I Also miss good tap water.The water out of the faucet caused me to get 2 urinary tract infections which i had to take antibiotics which costed me tons of money for those fricken pills.I didnt drink the water but i would use it to rinse my mouth out when brushing my teeth and used the water to rinse out my water bottles before i would fill them up with bottled water.
This was in dipolog city and was not well water as the well water was contaminated with feces and some expats were getting sick so the place we lived got city water brought in and had the typical storage tanks installed.Thats when i moved in and one day i opened the lid on the storage tank which was mounted on ground level and when i seen the dirt and sludge which had settled on the bottom of the tank i was shocked that i was using this to rinse out my mouth.There is no filtration system on the tank,the water goes from tank to faucet to mouth.So getting used to strictley bottled water out of a 5 gallon container is a hassle.
The biggest rats i seen were in the Virgin Islands,I was walking arounds the historical area known as Blackbeards warehouse district and seen one rat the size of a 20 lb cat,the ones in the pi are about the size of a size 6 shoe,also the cockroaches in florida can kick the [crap] out of the pi roaches.
Heres a true story.My pinoy friend worked at the Plaza Hotel in dipolog city where i stayed for 3 months,well one night a rat appeared as we were talking and i said he should kill the damn thing but he said he knows the rat and it has babies and he himself puts food out next to the nest and he doesnt have the heart to kill the rat for then the little ones would die.Thats the way the thinking is over here.
Feel free to share where you got that Internet deal. I haven’t followed American football in a long time, so it isn’t an issue for me but someone asked not long ago how they can get it. Do you watch the games live or only after the game. I hate to watch sports when I already know the winner. I do understand though, if one really gets wrapped in a team. Last time I did was when the Memphis Tigers were doing well under that coach that went to jail. To bad they never got him for point shaving because I had no doubt he was doing it. I remember watching some of those games live and then watching it later on PBS too. lol During time there was a 20 year waiting list for season tickets. That went away after they built the pyramid and then it really went away when they built the FedEx Forum. It is a shame that beautiful pyramid went unused, maybe they resolved it. But I’m going on about Memphis and probably not anyone here cares.
yes missing more than half of the Pack’s SuperBowl winning season was tragic. I was able to stream for free two games at a place I was staying with speedy connection. The next week when I tried again the site had been taken down for violating copyrights. I had just done a search for free NFL games streamed live. Their were three or 4 sites but only that one worked well.
By the way I saw them play Arizona at Lambeau last friday and watched them practise outside the Don Hudson center yesterday. They are looking good. The backup QB’s especially and their big receivers will dominate again.
I saw the NFL.com package for streaming games but thought it too expensive. I guess if a person had a couple other expats chipping in it would be ok. Imagine a Sports bar there that would have streaming games on with differant teams scheduled at differant times with an HDMI connection to a big screen. Seems like it would be a great way to draw in the American ex-pats. Instead all you see at sports bars is basketball and soccer. Its funny how pinoys are crazy about basketball. A game best suited for tall people and them being short.
Blaming your infections down there on the water hmmmm I hope that is it, but I had that once also and it wasn’t the water. Seems like bad water would be more of a stomach problem. The water is cheap out of the five gallon containers and filling bottles from them is good excersise.
I just read a post here where a fellow blasts his experience in Dipolog city. Why did you live there and how did you like it? Are there alot of ex-pats there and why chose that place? Is it always to be close to the gf’s or wifes family.
In another SE asia country where I spent some exciting months along time ago, I tried the feeding the rats elsewhere strategy. It got them further away from me but they will invite there buddies to the feast want more and more and woe be to u if u miss a feeding. They will come for u and show u how brave they are.
One one of my longer stays in the Philippines I actually helped build a local Barangay Incinerator. if was fired by propane and used one full bottle a week. Mostly to get the fire started.
However folks STILL dumped trash in the vacant lots and in other inappropriate places until the Barangay Tanod started issuing citations and it stopped. The Barangay council bought the propane from the “Community tax” that was collected every so often. Not sure how that worked but I was told it was by House and not individual. After you paid they would put a new Placard on your fence or house wall. Also once folks figured out that it was cheaper to bring the garbage to the incinerator they relied less on the “Junks” man, who they still used for other items unsuited to incineration.
Rusty i know people here in pi that have very good incomes most are 65 + and live in tiny apt no hot water and in a not so good area and they sit around complaining about it i ask why do you live where you do and they say its cheap,i just don’t understand what they are trying to acomplish.
It surely doesn’t seem to smart does it? Perhaps they prefer to spend their money on other things, like Filipina.
Hey, I can understand that. The griping though, it really gets on my nerves. I’ve none people so poor they slept on a boat and loved living in the Philippines. Why? Mostly because of Filipina. 
I have known ex-pats like that. One lost $150,000 dollars in failed business ventures, yet likes to show off his 8,000 peso a month apt.. It is a good deal for the money but the place is cramped and basic. I think maybe I am more like Rusty and my home is my castle. If I am extravagant it will be on a comfortable place to live. I paid $560 a month for my gated beautifully landscaped, furnished house. The filipina loved my 2 person jacouzzi and big screen flat panel.
For the NFL on the comp log into gamepass.nfl.com,i just contacted them and it is still available in the philippines though it will cost around $250.00 and not the $40.00 they charge if in the usa.You can watch games anytime,live,a week later even a year later as they are archived.
Okay, I think I know who you’re talking about. I’ve tried to join their affiliate program but they don’t bother to answer me so they are the company that cannot be mentioned. lol
I don’t remember their name though, google American TV in the Philippines and you’ll find them. When you get to $250 you have the right one.
Cant ya just use a VPN that makes it appear that your in the USA and pay the 40?
I don’t know. What you’re talking of might be a different company. Is it just cable TV, they ship you a box and so on? I don’t care anything about getting the sports stuff but HBO, CNN and the rest would be very nice to have.
I thought the service I looked at was around $250 regardless of where you were? It has been a while since I looked at the one I found. I should revisit it maybe. I’d have to find it first.
mmh, i could not see anything on the list which does not exist in any other country of the world.
Some things cost more in the Philippines ? Sure, and some things are cheaper.
Scamming Filipina ? -The Nbr. one Scammers in the world sit in Europe,namely the UK.
Judgemental Pinoys ? everybody is judgemental, we only notice it when the judgements are different from our viewpoints. But projecting is a nbr. one human capability.
Personally i say, that Pinoys are more tolerant than us guys.
Terrorism etc.? Got that all over the world. Mostly its just called crime. And in every poor nation i know is something brewing.
Dengue and typhoid? Now you are kidding, its the tropics mate, in the northern hemisphere we got deadly other infections, LOL
Reduced freedom of speech? mmmh, thats a good one, i have never thought about it. funny is that sunstar asked for my Columns and articles 98 to 2000 and printed them. Or the other foreign journalists such as Marit Remonde. i think one can very well speak his opinion, inspite of the old law from 1936 saying otherwise. If done in a civil manner.
Corruption? Have not faced it, but to deny it is like closing the eyes. One saves way more money WITH corruption, then the other way round actually. And the so called plunder of politicians. Mostly all this money goes back to the people when they buy votes actually. even fairer, because it come from the rich and goes to the poor. Anyhow, its a part of life in the third world. Without bribes, the salaries of the ZPoliticians and government employees have to be higher and everthing gets more expensive.
I don’t think you really read the article.
I am continually shocked at how people seem to misinterprete your points and think your intented meaning is the opposite of what seems obviously clear to me.
Hi Bruce, I’m now sending most that junk to spam.
When the first sentence is an attack, I don’t bother reading the rest of it.
The last example was some guy asking me if I lived in a tree. I’m all for differing opinions, especially from people that actually live here. These experts posting with US IP addresses are generally totally clueless. There are exceptions of course. Part of the ToS require use of a brain.
PS, this guy is troll. But he obviously didn’t read it. He just scanned the headings.
oh i’m getting in a bad mood, Jehovah’s Witness’s are preaching to my friend and it is all I can do and not go over them and ask them how they treat people that join their church and don’t live up to their standards
Hi Rusty,
perhaps you can treat them the way the locals do.
IE: When a know it all expat or anyone else for that matter acts like they know it all and are in fact full of it, as you klnow, most locals will simply SMILE and SAY OK. (its the PI way to be polite while generally thinking…”go to hell”.
Thats what I notice REALLY upsets some of the “Ugly Foreigners” when all they get after baiting someone is a shrug and a smile followed by OK.
Online its the same thing. ignore them. Most of us are smart enough to see a 57 when we see one.
(BTW, 57 means MAJOR As—–. Five letters in the first word and 7 in the second!) Its a common method of referring someone that is mayabang etc in the Bulacan area.
Hi Joe, yeah, it wasn’t long ago at all, that is exactly what I did. Then things kind of turned rotten among many more comments. So now, i’m going a step further, delete then ignore.haha
i really do enjoy dissenting views but what has been going on lately, I don’t. But yeah, I probably wont even comment on the people that feel some strange need to attack me. I learned a lot from dissenting views. Now many times, I’ll do much research and confirm my own observations. Sometimes though, I find out that either I’m wrong (rare) or need to broaden my view (much more common.) People learn by being challenged.
You know there is really two things I need in life to be happy. I need a good woman and I need to learn. Learning for me is the reason to live.