Your description is accurate for SOME parts of the greater metro manila area but not ALL. Fort Bonifacio/Global City, Eastwood, Emerald Ave/Ortigas, Ayala triangle in Makati, Alabang Town Center, and some other places are actually on a par with high end American locations.
Due to lower costs, YES, it is cheaper to live "like a king" (relative term, really--one man's king is another man's count or lower nobility
) here specially if you earn dollars, pounds or euros. In fact, many Filipino-Americans who get $1500 and up in retirement from pensions/social security go back here to retire. It just goes a longer way if you know where to live and you know how to live within your means.
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Originally Posted by DukeSkywalker
its cheap
there are plenty of whores
and its a shit hole.
people say you can live like a king there.. sure, anyone can, especially.. when your kingdom is a trash heap that smells like diesel fuel.
You get a nice car and pay 40% more for it. you cant drive it in that mess of traffic and never enjoy the car.
no thank you.. I choose to live like a king here.
Duke
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