Malate prices doubled (or more) in 4 years
I've increasingly noticed that ever since the Mayor started the "Baywalk" project with all the nice street lights, the fountain at Remedios that replaced the Chingy-chingy and mal-life that used to hang out there, etc etc, the cost of just about everything in Malate has doubled. No more 30 peso 1-litre beer, and part-time pickup girls now ask P1000 or even P1000, wheras not too long ago they would have been happy with P500 and ecstatic with any tip over that. Too many rich tourists and all the eVat and rVAT stuff has made some adventures way expensive now. Even out in Cavite some bar girls are asking 1500! It's getting way out of hand; time to just give up on pay-for-play and stick to non-pickup girls, which I notice seem to be more and more interested in making the first move these days. Nice!
Then again, one family member just told me yesterday about a bar way out in the boonies where the GROs are happy with 200 or 300, no bar fine, but you'll have invested P1000 in girlie drinks a few nights in a row before you get that far, wiich means the bar owner makes a bundle and the girl gets next-to-nothing. So, yeah. Like I wrote above, let's just bypass all that.