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Curious if your wife is getting a private ride just her and your child or if 6 other people are being squeezed in also? I had one driver who wanted to charge me 70 peso to take me 3 km after dark and I had two small shopping bags. I just told him good luck with your business model and took off walking. I had one of the shills at Robinsons mall want 60 php to take me and a friend to hotel Palwa. I said no thanks and walked out to the highway and about 20 meters down the road before a trike stopped and took us there. I gave him 20 peso and he wanted to make change! I gave him another 5 peso and told him keep the change with my thanks. Not all trike drivers are dicks, just like not all foreigners are dicks, at least I am not...not all the time anyway.

 

I was in the small store that sells beer in Valencia and i gave the man Michale a PHP1000 instead of Php100
He gave it back as he realized i had made a mistake it would not happen here in Australia you make a mistake you pay for it
I have only met nice people in ph maybe it has some thing to do with attitude and i have been going to Dumaguete for ten years

 

Was in bed, half-asleep; felt a sharp, short jolt. My first thought was earthquake, but then I wondered, could it be something else, something more sinister? Perhaps my pacemaker had a meltdown, but quickly ruled that out since I don’t have a pacemaker. Stroke, diabetes, Parkinson’s…? Haven’t had any of these, as far as I know. Relieved to know my first thought was correct. Approaching my mid-70’s – may all future jolts be merely a mild earthquake!

 

A Thai restaurant would be most welcomed

 

Totally Agree but when we see Mothers or Fathers tossing Used Diapers any where and the Kids in tow see this then that, is their Learning curve. This is where the Barangay Captain fails at his First hurdle, Clean your Barangay up and people might start to Respect the City!
If Not
Hurt them where it hurts, In the Pocket.

JP

 

I have seen or experienced much of what this fellow has seen also. I admire the ingenuity of the Filipinos at times to get around with very economical methods of transportation. I enjoy watching the school children walk home from school, as the wait for a large dump truck or some other means of transportation to go by. The drivers that stop for kids and are are always happy and the kids have smiles on their faces as the climb up on what ever huge truck that stops.... I am not sure this is that bad, as I do not hear of many kidnapping or injuries to kids from the activity. In the US this would never be "allowed" to happen but then again the kids would have walk all the way home, or huge expenses would be occurred for transportation. The ability to travel at low cost is one of the "dumb" techniques the kid (and adults) have mastered here. There is not money available to be spent on transportation here many times by the locals. They have to walk around, like being on a treadmill here, same things my friends do in American after driving to the gym and fighting for the closest parking space.
Secondly, I think you can find bad in any city, anywhere. Although it does take some mental adaptation to accept everything that goes on in Dumaguete, some say a lifetime to totally adjust, , You can adjust your immediate environment almost immediately if you have legs to walk a couple of hundred meters. When you are on a street with pollution get on another street. When I ride behind a truck belting out smog, I stop the motorcycle sometimes and give the truck a little distance rather than try to anxiously ride closely behind the truck with my face up the exhaust pipe as I cough. It only takes minor adjustments in your location in most places here to find a much better spot to be.
Dumaguete is not perfect,and it is not hell. You can find the perfect city when your attitude allows you to find it, just as you can find your hell city when your attitude allows you to find it. Dumaguete is neither. Just move around, and adjust and there are some great things about the city to enjoy, just as there are some horrible things to avoid here. It just takes a little time to find the perfect and hellish experiences of this city. Maybe two weeks is too short, and a lifetime is too long to learn the necessary living adjustments for a great life here.

 

Rash completely gone, took about 8 days

 

If/when you settle here PH for the longer term you will not find this strange at all, or that your In-Laws will be giving you wrong information and don't ever expect Filipinos to think about tomorrow, they will just wait till the next day to think about that?

It is more Fun in the Philippines provided you keep your expectations at a very low level.