My top complaints about the Philippines. I'm not making this list to discourage, I have adapted and I can now laugh about a lot of it. Really I like it here.
I miss having quality tools
I miss good cheese and milk.
I miss Mexican food.
I miss good sour cream.
I miss Winco.
Filipino food.
Food poisoning.
Cheap quality table ware and cooking utensils.
Waiting for gas for cooking 2 or 3 days.
Anyway I miss friends or family.
Rough roads.
Incredibly bad traffic. Roads are too narrow, if somebody parks their car, it's now a bottleneck.
Trash and filth everywhere.
Polluted rivers full of trash, the water looks like gray water and sometimes the water is black and smells really bad.
Air pollution, jeepneys and tricycles belching smoke.
Beggars follow me around.
Crazy street people (schizophrenics and whatever) are attracted to me.
Loud karaoke with out-of-tune singers, everywhere. Loud motorcycles.
People do not keep promises and don't value my time.
Open sewers breeding mosquitoes.
Sidewalks can be death traps or break legs and things.
Really sick dogs and cats on the streets. (there are clinics specializing in rabies treatments for humans only)
People throw out their baby kittens on the street to die.
Its always hot and humid.
Restaurants never serve enough food. 3 or 4 orders for 2 people.
Dogs live their lives on 3 foot chains or little cages barely big enough to turn around in.
The more and louder a dog barks, the better.
Forget about returning defective merchandise, if it's defective it's all your fault. Caveat emptor all the way. Guarantees? Have a laugh.
Batteries for clocks or anything else are always past expiration and often don't have power left.
Stores remove the "Made in China" labels so product would sell.
Homes are very close together, if you would like a garden or a free roaming pet, you have 2 choices: grow spaghetti or keep a snake.
Cobras. (yes, we killed one in our garden).
Tofu is always half way to becoming miso.
"Open the light", "close the light" Filipino English.
I miss having quality tools
I miss good cheese and milk.
I miss Mexican food.
I miss good sour cream.
I miss Winco.
Filipino food.
Food poisoning.
Cheap quality table ware and cooking utensils.
Waiting for gas for cooking 2 or 3 days.
Anyway I miss friends or family.
Rough roads.
Incredibly bad traffic. Roads are too narrow, if somebody parks their car, it's now a bottleneck.
Trash and filth everywhere.
Polluted rivers full of trash, the water looks like gray water and sometimes the water is black and smells really bad.
Air pollution, jeepneys and tricycles belching smoke.
Beggars follow me around.
Crazy street people (schizophrenics and whatever) are attracted to me.
Loud karaoke with out-of-tune singers, everywhere. Loud motorcycles.
People do not keep promises and don't value my time.
Open sewers breeding mosquitoes.
Sidewalks can be death traps or break legs and things.
Really sick dogs and cats on the streets. (there are clinics specializing in rabies treatments for humans only)
People throw out their baby kittens on the street to die.
Its always hot and humid.
Restaurants never serve enough food. 3 or 4 orders for 2 people.
Dogs live their lives on 3 foot chains or little cages barely big enough to turn around in.
The more and louder a dog barks, the better.
Forget about returning defective merchandise, if it's defective it's all your fault. Caveat emptor all the way. Guarantees? Have a laugh.
Batteries for clocks or anything else are always past expiration and often don't have power left.
Stores remove the "Made in China" labels so product would sell.
Homes are very close together, if you would like a garden or a free roaming pet, you have 2 choices: grow spaghetti or keep a snake.
Cobras. (yes, we killed one in our garden).
Tofu is always half way to becoming miso.
"Open the light", "close the light" Filipino English.
