I am a regular customer of the restaurant since 2010, though have to admit not so frequently as before since many new restaurants did open offering an even better atmosphere to have dinner while prices are equal or even lower. Yesterday evening went there again and although I know almost all the menus, so not really have to go through all pages to make a choice, I was more than surprised of all new prices going up. For some menus it meant a raise of almost 100%. Well every owner of a restaurant is free to ask for his service what ever he considers it is reasonable and making enough profit. As a costumer I have the freedom to choose by comparing prices, quality of food, interior of the restaurant, atmosphere and more. With the kind of current prices I can say there's no longer a reason for me to choose for Why Not.
Gone downhill. I first went in why-not in 2002 when it had a real bar, horse-shoe shape, with cute bar-maids. Spent many hours drinking in there, then a change of Dumo politics made the owner to refurbish it into a restaurant. And yes the prices have gone up considerably.
The Philippines USED TO BE cheap for food and for eating out. Perhaps everywhere is expensive now but I think some countries would be much cheaper to live in - maybe the use of English draws us here.
It was my Filipina wife that drew me here. I had no idea where the Philippines was or what language they spoke. Never had internet in those days, we wrote to each other (pen friends). I bought a map and a book about the Philippines.
There's still quite a few things "cheap" in the Philippines: 1. and yes, eating out is still one of those (I will elaborate, see below). 2. strong alcoholic beverages like rum and whisky etc., but also cigarettes 3. meat (in the supermarket) 4. public transport (from trike to buses and ferries to taxis) 5. medical assistance (try to get your broken leg fixed for 2,000 pounds in the UK when uninsured). 6. household help (try to find even a cleaning lady in the UK for less than 25 quid per hour) 7. labour generally (whatever you need fixed, we got the tv fixed a while ago for 1.5k and the ceiling ventilator for 300 peso, cleaning the aircon is like 750 per unit, and nobody charges to drive to your door) As for the eating out, I left Europe back in early 2016, but I guarantee that even back then I couldn't afford to eat out except for special occasions (and even then I would still pay grudgingly because more often than not I'd spend 50€ per head or more, even when ordering cheap wine. Even a simple fish and chips meal at an average pub in the UK is going to set you back around 14 pounds these days. The average lunch at Casablanca (and many other restaurants here in town) still goes for around 400-500 peso, or 6 to 7 pounds. I'm thinking you may need to travel back to the UK for a couple weeks, just to get a "price reset" .
I would agree that here is cheaper than the UK (but not in all respects) ... BUT I was not comparing here with the UK. I wrote "other countries" and was therefore referring to countries where the cost of living is also far lower than in the UK but cheaper than here. Anyone living here would not need to go back home to get a reset, although my friend @DAVE1952 tells me of all the food items he buys at far better prices in the UK! And I know that people come here because of Filipinas but, again, many countries have very beautiful women who want a wealthy (relative term) man; e.g. Madagascar, Kenya, Nigeria, Dominican Republic, Colombia. Kenyans and Nigerians use English reasonably well but many other counties at the low-cost end do not. Therefore, the big advantage here is the standard of English - plus, many men like Asian women.
Sweet. Same reason I am here - a Filipina wife but one I met in the UK. However, for anyone searching now, there are alternative countries that some may find have lower-cost living. No decent person would dump a wife to save money! Hmmm.
Hmmm, I'm not so sure you are correct here, now in the main the people who are concerned here have been previously Married to Wife's from UK, (likely much the same applies to anywhere in the western world?) well these tend to be great in the the beginning, giving a good performance when newly acquired and tend to keep that up until their maternal instincts have been fulfilled with a couple of children then they tend to dry up? a way around this is to use Vaseline this works wonders by applying this to the bedroom door handle this will stop the toddlers getting into the bedroom and disturbing you when you are on the job, however that said bedroom performance does not last all that long with women from UK , all sorts of problems develop with them. they get more prone to headaches, their periodic oil change will to last for 3 weeks instead of just the 3 days at the start of the relationship, overall they just get tired and very nasty and when they get near to the Mean O Pause they get worse still and become Dragons breathing fire all the time added to that they all demand that massive change to the house management and for them to wear the trousers. Its to be compared with owning a British Car great in the beginning but it is not too long before the problems start and performance drops dramatically, so then we are forced to give them up to save money and turn to an Asian Brand. I found a special programme on the computer and filled out the questionnaire, it turned out for every jump I had at the Wife it had cost me £250,36, now when I moved to the Philippines this was to drop by a huge amount down to P156. So yes it is more expensive to live in UK by a great deal if you have a British Wife, but even if she happens to be an imported bride they eventually become just as bad as their UK counterparts and start to get these same headaches and all the other associated problems with women from UK. Lest I forget I should also mention so many women from UK now suffer from Bi-Polar syndrome just another one of these newly discovered/invented modern syndromes for people to hide behind like the Cupid Stunts that try to excuse themselves by saying they suffer from Dyslexia.