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Is the Forbes article about Dumaguete really making a difference?

Discussion in 'Dumaguete City' started by sandersonph, Jan 23, 2018.

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  1. Rye83

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    Millennials started in 1979ish....ended in 90s-2000s.

    Now....the shitheads born after that, that's a different story. This younger generation don't know what it was like to grow up in my day! :oldman:
     
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    And they are serious about that. There is a line up of them on the boulevard most evenings waiting to get their picture taken with the sign that says Duma-Get-Me and the explanation on the back of the sign explains the origins of the name Dumaguete came from the old days when girls would get snatched off the beach by foreign pirates (Yes I am paraphrasing as I cannot remember the exact wording of the sign but the girls like the idea and its probably good for sex tourism). I guess they want to go back to the good old days.
     
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    Do you really think they are reading the fine print on the back of the sign? lol

    And the pirates weren't "foreign". Moros are Filipino that have caught a bad case of the Islam. :wink:
     
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    people up, prices up, wages up, pollution up, congestion up, quality of life down...
     
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    From an expats perspective, perhaps.

    But many expats spend a whole lot of time complaining that "Boohoo. This and that isn't like my country! They should try to be more like where I couldn't afford to live!"
    Well, it's becoming more like our countries now. Urbanization, more people in cities, higher prices, higher wages, more pollution and congestion....but local quality of life going up. The West had the same growing pains that Asia is going through now with the pollution and congestion (a dip in the Thames River in London used to be a death sentence). Birth rates will start to go down and soon enough the government will be all up in your business, raising prices with their tax hikes so they can afford to hold your hand even more.....then the budget expats will be priced out of the country and when the locals have their own money they won't find the older long noses nearly as gwapo.
     
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    Nothing has changed. Girls are STILL getting snatched off the beach by foreigners. The girls just have to run a little slower because canes and walkers are clumsy in sand.
     
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    Depends on the location in the Philippines. Most metro regions I would agree and even city regulations about phasing out all suboptimal maintained vehicles to decongest the traffic or planning oneway systems are turning into the opposite. In many municipalities are the traffic and the pollution low. This counts also for several small cities like Bais, Bayawan, Tanjay and so on. In the Philippines it is like clean air, low traffic and few amenities versus lots of amenities, high traffic and high pollution.
     
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    and all i got to do is dream dream dream..
     
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    green acres is the life for me.. farm living is the life i seek..
     
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    Well then, expats, please be turtle-like in investing in those sprouting condos so that we can slow the downward life quality a bit.
     
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