re: Comparing Malls from Manila to Alabama and Minnesota

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What would you most like about living in the Philippines?

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Pace of life, culture, those silly outdated notions that family and religion are still the most important underpinning of society.

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What would you most miss from the United States?

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The everyday modern conveniences of living in the US. Having virtually anything you need within a 15 minute drive or a 2 day delivery schedule. But I also know I could adjust to not having that very quickly.

I suspect in some important ways, life in the Philippines could be akin to life in the US in the '40s and '50s. Culturally, it is just a much more cohesive and functional society than ours currently is.

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Your other post, not directed at me:

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You mean you can actually go shopping in the Philippines without worrying about being car-jacked or hit by a stray bullet in gang-related shootout? What a bunch of backwards rubes.

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This is wholly inaccurate. I've walked the slums of Manila and felt far safer than I would walking through the Desire Projects in NOLA. I've also walked dirt roads in the smallest villages in the interior of Luzon with kids who probably had never seen a white guy before. I've never had even the smallest issue.