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I haven't been to the PI before, but from what I've heard from my friends there, it's amazing if you're well off, and terrible if you're not. My friends don't want to move here, but then again, they live in the Makati and BGC areas of Manila, so they have no reason to. From what I've seen and heard, it would be a huge downgrade for them. Those are the areas where the rich politicians' and businessmen's kids go to party and do drugs all night while Duterte terrorizes poorer neighborhoods
I think you've mentioned this before too, but my Filipino American friends have zero desire to go back, while my Filipino friends have zero desire to leave their neighborhoods . My American born friends are descendants of poorer families while the native friends are all sheltered upper middle class, so there's a huge divide in how they perceive the country.
Yeah Singapore is I go there almost every year to visit friends/cousins, so it's in my top 3 choices of countries to move to when/if my dad gets better. Cleanliness and a lack of ignorant behavior in public is huge to me, and Singapore is the GOAT in that sense Not much to see for tourism, but a great place to live.
Everything you said is truth. And trust the dudes peeing in the streets and homeless kids running around trying to grab your phone is real. Makati/BGC was like a weekend getaway for me and my filam friends
One of the biggest regrets is that I wasn’t able to travel around Asia more, wanted to do HK, Tokyo, Macau but the $$$$ and the time wasn’t there. Singapore for a few days was crazy like how clean it was and the efficient public transportation and the safety