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Here is a correlation if you are familiar with Thailand:

Bangkok. Manila.

Pattaya. Angeles.

I'm looking for a change of scenery and not looking to go to a beach type-place. Will be working 80% of the time via computer. Any suggestions?

Incheon Airport took 9+ years of construction and Thailand took about 5 years of construction. Hmm, makes it 12+ years of construction here for the Philippines (and both plans are useless without a...

Blue collar crime aka drugs makes a big PR splash, but white collar crime has the same or more impact on everyone's lives. Corruption? Incompetence? Probably a combination of both that caused /...

LOL, his wife is vice-mayor and will taking his place in office.

Seemed a little fishy, but who knows. 10 guys in 2 different vehicles and they only had 13 baggies of shabu. (and all 10 guys died, but no Police were injured.) Ok, maybe they were the worst...

Dude. Umm, did you need to flood it with multiple posts? Could you just consolidate into one post?

Trump advocates increases in defense spending. Not sure where the fight is.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/06/politics/donald-trump-defense-spending-sequester/

Let's see the voters decide. Not sure...

While it might work in certain situations, but looks like the drug "war" wasn't planned very well. Ugh, almost like invading Iraq and then realizing we are the occupying force with no plan.

Looks...

Dude. You are overestimating how quickly business can flow in and out (tangible economic impact). Even with all the deals announced with China (and that's if they are on the level) won't have any...

South Korea was in the shitter after the war and under a brutal dictator (ultimately assassinated). Weird as it sounds, you can have good (Park) and bad (Marcos) dictators. While chaebols (oligarchs)...

Whew, D30 is giving the world a preview of what US foreign policy would look like under a Trump administration. Most likely, the demographics (women, college educated, minorities) will prevent this...

LOL, I shop at SM supermarket (1 km away) to buy cheaper vegetables rather than the Robinsons Select (walking distance).

Weirdly, westerns are compassionate even if the government is spitting in their face (separating the people and the government). You only need to look to Yolanda relief to see how China operates....

I'm officially nervous now (and I can pickup and go pretty easily after my lease is over). Will be interesting if the western BPO companies get nervous as well.

Must have been getting a lot of complaints. Although, Americans traveling abroad can be annoying as well.
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I had Skycable for Wifi and it was a disaster. Sometimes, my speed dropped to less that 1 Mbps, but it was at night and there wasn't anyone to call. After I moved to a different place, I switched to...

I lived in the Bay area before and the Bay Bridge was a disaster.

http://media.sacbee.com/static/sinclair/sinclair.jquery/baybridge/index.html

Another article:
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I'm assuming you are talking about "shadow" corporate partners? Yes, agree on the real estate if it's an investment, but if I decide to live here permanently. I'm not sure if I want to rent forever.

Well, they don't have wifi hotspots here, so I use my phone to tether my computer a lot when I am outside my apartment. My guess is they have "some" LTE infrastructure, it's not enough for the...

I read an article where BPO jobs contribute more to the GDP than remittances. Additionally, they use contractors and they aren't corporate employees. There are a lot of buildings that have "corporate...

Fx trading has always been too complex for me ($5-6 trillion in currency is traded daily). Yeah, China isn't stupid. They will loan them the money and then just get the money back by requiring to use...

Google is easier: just type in "dollar to php" and the current spot rate comes up. Weirdly at Czarina exchange, I've gotten higher rates than the current spot rate (possibly due to a slight lag if...

I live in the nicest part of Manila (and the Philippines) and LTE never works properly. I stopped paying for it and just downgraded to 3 G (buying block data).

You would have no idea how much it would cost. You would be a minority partner at the whim of your local partner. It would have to snow in Manila before I would invest money here (only possibly buy...