Not a negative about the Philippines, just something your home country does better. (yes, I need more than 5 items as well) From Texas, USA 1. Good service at restaurants. 2. Steaks....what wouldn't do for Texas Land and Cattle medium rare steak. 3. A postal service that works. (efficient on the tax payers, no. Delivers stuff on time, more than likely. 4. Reasonable prices and access to cars, motorcycles and the parts to keep them running. 5. I have rights.....if someone tries price gouging or charging me more for the color of my skin there are serious penalties against them.
grocery stores with endless selection and never out of stock, restaurants with excellent service, costco, garage sales, hummimgbirds.
Florida USA: Grand babies, pristine beaches, unpolluted waterways,non-depleted fisheries,someday soon geriatric care.
1. Ethics and honesty. 2. General maintenance and efficiency of everything...roads, buildings, ATMs, apartments, hotels, government, hospitals, professionals. 3. Quality Customer Service from food servers who are truly your advocate to stores that are NEVER 'out of stock' and where anything can be returned for any reason, no questions asked. 4. Fast, reliable internet service. 5. Police and a Judicial System that actually serve the public interest for their tax-payer financed salary and nothing more. (i.e., No release of criminals because someone paid someone something...) Oh, and P.S. Electricity that never goes out!
London, UK. 1. Rules of the road that are generally observed. 2. Free medical and hospital care and super efficient ambulance service. 3. A log fire in an old British pub on a cold day. 4. The Sunday lunch ritual. 5. Home matches at Upton Park.
Never believed for one minute you could agree to No. 5 Jim. :p. The rest are just nostalgia now. For all its' faults, I would still rather be here than there.
Been to U.S, and would say customer service there is so great! I wanna post something here about what i miss from my "home town" but it said "home country" so i guess i'm invalid. haha Not a local here, but i dunno, there's something about Dumaguete that made me want to live here forever. It's utterly boring and dead during school breaks and holidays, but still, i'm quite attached to the city now. (relatively small, simple and not-that-laidback-not-that-crazy-as-manila/cebu). Well, i really have to say sorry about your experiences about opportunistic locals who try to charge much from you. I know that's terrible. It's true everywhere you go. Filipino tourists or foreign tourists, once they (regardless of place) they know that you are not a local from their place, opportunistic people will always be there..so you just have to be wary and be knowledgeable about how the place/fare cost actually. I have a foreign friend (just a poor guy actually, no job) but i pity him for being a foreigner living him, it must be hard for him, all i told him is just be wise enough and KNOW MORE the local ways THAN them. I'm not a local here, i sometimes get tricked, YES, it's annoying, but you've got learn from it so it won't happen again. Well, regarding with the "customer service" actually it pisses me off how the colonial mentality of the salesmen and esp the salesladies are so rampant. If foreign people asks, they would be all-smiling and helpful and just so totally fake, but when i get to have the turn to ask help, they would just snob me or entertain me BUT they will get/call other people to help me and that guy/girl will ask another colleague to help me. Ah, totall b*llsh*t, i just leave immediately to be honest. Anyway, i do feel sorry for that. They are usually the uneducated ones or at least have a very low level of education (i am not downgrading them or trying to be judgmental, but just saying the plain truth, it might hurt but it's really just it.. it hurts me actually since they are my fellow countrymen). Anyway, continue living life in Duma! :D (although it has becoming more and more polluted and hot and sticky :( i still love the place btw.. hahaa)
I have a 1000cc bike. They are here, you just have to be willing to pay 30% more than you would in the US (or any other western country). Want a Hayabusa? There's one in Duma. The Mexican food, gotta go to Cebu and buy the products and make it yourself.
