A.C. not good for freelancers
[quote=longhorn2000]taking my first trip to ac in a few weeks, and i wanted to know if it is easy to pick-up freelance talent during the daytime at the mall or similar venues. im mid 40's, reasonably fit, not overweight, not bald, not brad pitt, but not danny devito either. any advice on where to go, how to approach it, etc. would be greatly appreciated.[/quote]there are no freelance venues in ac. street girls are available (santos/real/fields streets). the police are actively recruiting and using freelancers for ****/[url=http://isgprohibitedwords.info?CodeWord=CodeWord123][CodeWord123][/url] scams.
instead, enjoy 24 hour bars (dollhouse, perhaps deja voodoo, and santos street mini bars). most perimeter (don juico) bars are open early afternoon also. spend money; your looks won't matter.
go to the sm mall (try 10am weekdays) and flirt with the sales girls if you want. it won't be easy, but you can always hit santos street afterwards.
Tourists vx Expats, spending
Ok, the average tourist comes here for about 2 weeks a year. I get that number by the hundreds of newbies that look me up and consider the younger guys with limited vacation time. Older guys usually have more time but spend less time on my topic.
Average active monger expat spends between P500-P2000 a day, depending on if he has a live in and or needs short time hotel. Most of us eat out at least for lunch. The source is just paying attention to you guys, not an obsession but just one of those things I do to pass the time.
Average tourist spends about P5,OOO a day not including hotel. I get that figure from my tourist days and meeting so many other guys just by barhopping as well as the newbies I hang out with. Remember, I'm talking about the 2 2 week a year tourist.
So, since I'm an expat I will allow the P500 a day and the tourist his P5,000 a day. Now excuse me while I bring out my calculator. I'm sure to undercut the expat and at least give the AVERAGE tourist his due. BTW, the tourist that I hang out with rarely have more fun than I do per day.
Expat=P182,500
Tourist=P70,000
So in a given year, an expat spends a hell of lot more in a bar than the average tourist. Sure you have the balls to the wall tourist(I refuse to mention Koreans) that will double or triple the amount. And I understand the tourist outnumber the expats, crap I can't imagine that statistic.
Anyway,the purpose of my post is, well this post has taken too much time to make,so I forget. Again and as almost always IMHO all the above. Just want to point out the extreme costs increase over the past 5 years, taking in the exchange rate and the increase of prices. Expats are hurting and I give credit to those bars that help out with the free cards for happy our prices and the generous happy hours that many bars provide.
And since it seems I'm on a rant, service overall has gone way down-hill in the last 5 years.
Before I submit this I had a moment of clarity. The discount cards are the best idea! We can get our cheap drink and the "in the know" tourist too. Yet the bars can still make thier "big" money from the uninformed. Seems like a win win for all to me. But then again, here I sit in my flash recliner...
Bud