Filipinas - Opinions and Advice

[QUOTE=Tony Hoeprano]Cripes, I was a day late and a dollar short in reading this bit of advice! ........

Then her behavior really soured, some examples:

Was extremely irritable, snapped at the slightest "infraction".[/QUOTE]
Time to show her where the door is, after giving her the bus fare of course.

[QUOTE=Tony Hoeprano]1. Insulted me over silly things. Then later on asked me if she was mean to me, LOL.[/QUOTE]
Insulted you??? Ok throw her the bus fare then.

[QUOTE=Tony Hoeprano]2. Immediately after sex, she demanded to see my cell phone-she wanted to see texts and contact lists, looked at them and got angry.[/QUOTE]
Ok just forget the bus fare, show her the door.

[QUOTE=Tony Hoeprano]3. After sex, she told me she felt like she hated me. Then as she laid there would ask for me to hug her[/QUOTE]
I wouldn't have bothered to fuck her, just kick her out.

[QUOTE=Tony Hoeprano]4. Went to get some food with her still sleeping, she then snooped and looked at all my emails on my laptop. Then got angry. Finally left to her friend's house[/QUOTE]
Well eventually you could have saved the energy and the bus fare by kicking her out earlier then.

One question - Why bother, after all there are plenty more fish???

Cheers, F/Fifty

[QUOTE=Tony Hoeprano] "Cum inside me!"[/QUOTE] That should have made you wilt like a flower. Hope you didn't grant her request! :eek:

[QUOTE=Amavida]2) Pinay folklore eg. all foreigners have big Titi's (penis's) that hurt etc, all foreigners are rich, any foreigner already travelled to asia has been in Thailand with prostitutes.

AV[/QUOTE]I was kinda offended at first, then I just realised I totally fit into the stereotype, LOL

Big dick - check
Rich foreigner - check
Been to thailand with hookers - check

I guess the folklore is correct.

[QUOTE=GoodEnough]D'Etat struck a real chord with me. It's easy, if you live here, to walk around with a molten core of anger inside all the time. It's not only the scamming, though there is that. There's also the constant, grinding poverty. The filth. The utter stupidity with which some things are organized. The endless corruption at every level of society. The futility of the place. The lack of hope. All of that and more. If those feelings aren't at least evenly balanced by other factors, be it pussy availability, friends, the lifestyle you can maintain here for far less than in the West, then there's not much reason--in my opinion--to stay.

GE[/QUOTE]Could you guys who chose to live in a 3rd world craphole clear something up for me.- why? Is cheap pussy that important that you'd give up everything else?

I mean, you are giving up quite a lot when you leave the civilized world. I visit south east asia for biz and holiday trips, and it's fun for a few weeks, but living there permanently? With the polluted air and water, overcrowded filthy slums, useless and corrupt government, non-existant social services, crap healthcare, mafia-like police, petty crime, nepotism, laziness and incompetence. And what shits me the most. If you have a white face, you are viewed by everybody as a walking moneybag sucker, to be scammed and taken advantage of at every available opportunity.

I had the impression life is cheap in 3rd world, but actually you usually get what you pay for. It's cheap to live in filth. To get same quality of goods and services as I am used to back home, the cost is almost the same. Maybe 30% cheaper, no more than that.

[QUOTE=Fast Buck Artist]Could you guys who chose to live in a 3rd world craphole clear something up for me.- why? Is cheap pussy that important that you'd give up everything else?

I mean, you are giving up quite a lot when you leave the civilized world. I visit south east asia for biz and holiday trips, and it's fun for a few weeks, but living there permanently? With the polluted air and water, overcrowded filthy slums, useless and corrupt government, non-existant social services, crap healthcare, mafia-like police, petty crime, nepotism, laziness and incompetence. And what shits me the most. If you have a white face, you are viewed by everybody as a walking moneybag sucker, to be scammed and taken advantage of at every available opportunity.

I had the impression life is cheap in 3rd world, but actually you usually get what you pay for. It's cheap to live in filth. To get same quality of goods and services as I am used to back home, the cost is almost the same. Maybe 30% cheaper, no more than that.[/QUOTE]

Yep you said what I said but better...

to get away from a government/country/culture they no longer if ever liked.
I would rather be free to do what I want then have good infrastructure. I am going to escape America and can hardly wait.

[QUOTE=Amavida]Today she suddenly tells me she is in love & moving to Thailand to be with here 'fiance'.

This is totally out of left field but when i get a look at her 'fiance' i going into mild shock & think 'oh god irish how could you..'

AV[/QUOTE]
I've waited a few days to write this..... thinking that - "surely someone will point it out. Telling myselt to MYOB."
But up-to-date - nothing...zilch.. nada!

What am I going on about? Well, its the posting of someone else's picture; someone who most likely donot know that he's being posted and certainly would mind a helluva lot if he ever finds out - as he's being put to really bad ridicule here.

How would you llike it if someone posts YOUR picture without your expressed permission. Especially in this context - and by someone who does have an axe to grind - i.e. he's lost his Irish to someone else.

I don';t know much about the law - but I would think that there may be a case for slander or ....????

Perhaps you should consider asking Jackson to remove the offending picture?

Just IMHO.

Peace and Salutations

SEAJ

[QUOTE=Fred C Dobbs]to get away from a government/country/culture they no longer if ever liked.
I would rather be free to do what I want then have good infrastructure. I am going to escape America and can hardly wait.[/QUOTE]

Happy to see you go Fred.

Interesting to read the post by Fred C Dobbs - rather have freedom than infrastructure.

I am leaving Australia to live in the Phiols for the same reason.

Let's see who gets there first.

[QUOTE=Fred C Dobbs]to get away from a government/country/culture they no longer if ever liked. I would rather be free to do what I want then have good infrastructure. [/QUOTE]What exactly are you free to do in the Phils that is illegit in USA? The majority of the locals has the freedom to trudge on mud roads to slums with no electricity, indoor plumbing, clean water or basic appliances. There is a reason why they are so desperate to escape and work abroad. Anywhere.

[QUOTE=Gangles]Interesting to read the post by Fred C Dobbs - rather have freedom than infrastructure.

I am leaving Australia to live in the Phiols for the same reason.

Let's see who gets there first.[/QUOTE]


Mr. Gangles you will probably get there first. I have to wait at leat 3 years and 2 months but it will probably be closer to 5.

Not meaning to upset other members but I hardly think I am the only one in the states. I have read on other forums hundreds of thousands if not millions have had the same thoughts. Most of these are just to survive since they have saved little to no money. Hopefully their US dollars don't turn into Pesos.

[QUOTE=Fast Buck Artist]What exactly are you free to do in the Phils that is illegit in USA? The majority of the locals has the freedom to trudge on mud roads to slums with no electricity, indoor plumbing, clean water or basic appliances. There is a reason why they are so desperate to escape and work abroad. Anywhere.[/QUOTE]


Yes Filipinos want to leave to make money and then they want to come back and buy the home that I already can afford. If they had money they would not want to leave. It seems everything I want to do here I could be arrested for. I remember traveling entirely all across Romania and seeing less polizia then I see on one night here in downtown Long Beach, California who insist on teaching me on how to cross the street.

I don't like the guvment investigating everything about me. I even had to have a homeland security investigation to keep the job I've had for over 14 years in a business I have been in for almost 30 years. Plus they are taking 40 per cent of my money for their war machine against our new enemy Terrorists hiding in caves somewhere in the Khyper Pass that are out to get me very similar to the Commies that use to be after me.

I have been free everywhere I have been as long as I've had money. Here in the states I have the freedom to vote for a bought and paid for republican or a bought and paid for democrat or vote for someone who can't win. That freedom and the right to complain about it, not to loudly I might add, is the only freedoms I see. America is all about conformity not freedom. Others can have it, I don't want it because I have saved money. I can leave and will do so.

As for the poor infrastructure you mention, I could always live in Makati or Cebu. I can hack that.

Poverty and freedom are two different subjects and can be but not always mutually exclusivie.

Not to mention the culture. What culture? It seems to follow me everywhere anyhow.

I can understand if you like the states, almost everyone I know does.

[QUOTE=Fred C Dobbs]Yes Filipinos want to leave to make money and then they want to come back and buy the home that I already can afford.[/quote]I find it funny that all my Filipino cousins are begging me bring them to the good ol U. S. Of A, but many on this site want to live there. Such irony. Well I enjoy both worlds, living and working in the states and visiting and bonking the young pinays.

Meluvulongtime

I haven't lived in the States for quite a while, but I get what Fred is saying. First, there's a certain freedom that comes with just leaving the country and living elsewhere. There's no room here to list all of the reasons why I'm freer here than there, and this is not the appropriate forum for a discussion on the massive cultural/societal differences, but the fact is I'm free from the cultural norms and expectations of the US.

No rational person would argue that he would choose to live here if living here meant living like the average Filipino. The fact is though, that with a US salary, or with a decent income paid in Euros or dollars, you can live here at a far better scale than you can in the US/Europe and you can have a lifestyle that, even if you could establish it in the West, would not be affordable.

Unless you're going to choose to live deep in the provincial bush here, which some guys choose to do, the physical infrastructure is not much of a problem. The roads/bridges/buildings in most of major cities are acceptable if not outstanding, and in many areas (Davao being a perfect example) things are getting better quickly. Given that the US as utterly failed to invest massively in its own physical infrastructure for the past 20 years, I would not take any bets on how long the infrastructure there will last either.

GE

[QUOTE=Fast Buck Artist]
I mean, you are giving up quite a lot when you leave the civilized world. I visit south east asia for biz and holiday trips, and it's fun for a few weeks, but living there permanently? With the polluted air and water, overcrowded filthy slums, useless and corrupt government, non-existant social services, crap healthcare, mafia-like police, petty crime, nepotism, laziness and incompetence. And what shits me the most. If you have a white face, you are viewed by everybody as a walking moneybag sucker, to be scammed and taken advantage of at every available opportunity.[/QUOTE]

Polluted air and water: You live in a nation that contributes the majority of the world's CO2
Corrupt government: you pay 30% of your income to the Sam and it pays to Halliburton which was one headed by the Dick head.
Non-existence social services: Have you tried to go to your DMV and stand in line?
Crappy health-care: Are you covered by HMO? If not, try it
Mafia-like police: Ask them what they do with your traffic fines, not going to charity that's for sure.
Nepotism: Have you ever heard of networking? Are they different?
Laziness: Same thing there but you want high pay that's why all the jobs are headed overseas and that's why your dollar is now worth the paper it's printed on.

I have to conclude that it's worse than the average 3rd world country and minus all the pussies. Don't feel bad, I am sharing your suffering.