Best Posts in Thread: Is DGT overrated?

Absolutely Correct!
And I dont know, where the unfriendly people should be!
My experiences are: If you are friendly to them they are the same - but a lot of foreigners are very arrogant & ignorant to the Filipinos - especially when I monitoring them on the "Boulevard"!
I am not sad about anybody of them might leave Dumaguete - would make the City cleaner and the Athmosphere much better!

 

Yes im so tired of those westerners coming here and trying to impose the same BS as home.
You don't like to drive without helmet? Guess what you can wear one or not and this used to be call freedom,
another thing, you don't like it you leave it simple as that.

The people are still friendly but annoying people like you that come to their country and start complaining about THEIR way of life what do you think will happen?

BTW they are nearly finish building the diversion road (Bagacay to Bacong) and normally big trucks will not pass by the boulevard anymore, so yes they trying to improve their city.

 

Overrated? I love Dumaguete just as much if not more than I did when I first set foot here 18 years ago and frankly I don't observe THAT much change in this period of time. What has changed a lot is my perspective. I notice things I didn't see before, I focus on different things in some ways. Traffic and so forth bothers me more than it did before at times, not because those things have so drastically changed, but because I have now lived them day after day for many years. If all of these "negatives" we're cured, most of us would probably not be here because it would then be a "first world" country and the cost of living would reflect accordingly.

 

Some expats live in front of the beach and cable companies won't/can't go that far down the road, unless you wan't a slow connection.

 

Hey Rye, I most certainly agree on you 110 percent. The key principle there is... just be good and pleasant without hurting someone else. This is Dumaguete.

 

Hi Everyone!
If you feel Dumaguete is not nice anymore, it may be wise to take a western adventure, and check out all the addicts, zombies, needles where children play, police state, stack and pack, smart (dumb) grid, dumb meters, floride, GMO, 5G, huge outdoor TVs, cost of living, etc.
It's very scary in the land of milk, and honey.
I like it here!
Have fun! longlife.

 

For sure there are a few things that need to be ddressed to allow all of us to live healthier lives. Smoking vehicle exhausts. Filipino culture to drop litter anywhere all the time. Potable drinking water supply for all. Stray dogs. Inconsiderate noise. Ceres buses that act as they own the whole road system. Go to Siquior / Comigan and things look a whole lot better....Go to Bohol, Pangalo Beach and things look really BAD!! DMGTE is in a hurry to develop....could go either way ...fingers crossed.

 

Dumaguete - clearly overrated

I know DGT for more than 10 years and live there with my wife and daughter.

Why do I think this city is overrated? Here selected examples.

For years it has not been possible to keep the heavy traffic out of the city center. So you sit on the boulevard and you have to inhale diesel-black exhaust from the truck traffic, which is just passing by. If you are unlucky, then it stinks at the same time on this "figurehead of the city" even stubborn for feces, which are directed into the sea.

The air pollution is enormous, without respiratory protection one should not walk around in the city. Dirt and garbage are everywhere. Fire is constantly burning throughout the city, burning leaves and shrubs, as well as plastic waste and freshly cut grass. These fires often smoulder for hours and pollute the air, although this is prohibited by Philippine law (RA 9003). But obviously nobody cares. Also to accept wearing helmets while riding a motorbike. This is required since last year September. May be 15 % of the drivers just follow. Some motorbike driver use a torch when going without daylight. WOW!!

The people in DGT are friendly, they say. That was once. Wherever many foreigners live or live permanently, the social climate changes into the negative. You can study it all over the world, and here it is.

So, leave the city again as soon as possible. For my family, I am looking for a place to live healthier lives.

 

The budget quoted of about 23k pesos per month for a single person, renting a "nice apartment in a more expensive part of the city" will surely be questioned by many - unless the renter stays in to watch TV.