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Originally Posted by DirtyWhiteBoy
I was looking to move to the PI last year but change my mind. Outside of a few areas, it's just too much of a shit hole and I HATE dirty street kids running around begging for food and money. That's just not something I want to deal with.
Not that Thailand is light years better, but it is much cleaner and you don't see the dirty street kids everywhere. Well, that and the pollution in the PI is just horrible.
People wise, I prefer the Filipinos over Thais, without question. I often say if they could import the Filipinos into Thailand and export the Thais to... say... Hell, it would be perfect.
I just can't get past the filth, homeless kids and pollution.  Not really wanting to be confined to just 1 or 2 areas that are clean like Makati. That would drive me crazy, I like to roam about. But if someone would clean all that shit up, I'd be over there in a second.
On another note regarding street kids... in Brazil years back (not too many ago) they had death squads that would kill the street children because there were so many of them. Brutal. |
Yeah...very dirty and poverty is extremely bad in many areas. You have to get out of town as often as you can to stay sane. Which I usually don't get around to doing enough
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Some areas are cleaning up, but until the government begins investing the peoples tax money back into...the people...no major changes in the class structure/beggars/poverty stricken will be seen. The corrupt government is primarily interested in lining their own pockets which is really holding things back. A shame too, because there's so much potential that isn't being realized.
The people of the philippines are very hospitable to you and I, but what amazes me is how quickly they stab each other in the back...and that's not only my observation, rather the opinion of several of my filipino friends
That thing about Brazil is fucked up...