I am a foreigner who has been living in the Philippines for the past few years. I am also married to a Filipina.

I just wanted to share my perspective on this.

The Bad

Metro Manila is one of the worst cities I have ever been to. The traffic is terrible, getting a ride share during rush hour can take hours to even get a rider to accept your ride and then take hours to transit small distances.

I never learned the jeepney system of getting around, but I even had to wait 40-minutes for one of them once.

Additionally, there is not really anything to do in this city except go to malls or restaurants.

The airport here has 3 main terminals and they are not inter connected in anyway, so if you need to transfer terminals it means getting a ride share or potentially haggling with a taxi who may try to rip you off.

The food, this is mainly a matter of opinion, but Filipino food, is good, but nothing special to write about. My wife, who is Filipina, would agree that there are just a few good dishes but most dishes are not that great compared to other countries.

The Good

Filipinos are the friendliest and nicest people you will ever meet. They are also extremely accepting of basically everyone. Most are outgoing and willing to go out of their way to help you.

It’s really safe, worst case scenario, you may get pick pocketed, it happened to me once. Even in “dangerous” areas I never had a problem.

Connectivity has never really been an issue for me in the city and my mother-in-laws house, has good cellular and a fast fiber connection for the past 3 years or so and she is outside of the city.

The Philippines has the most beautiful nature I have ever seen. I’ve been to 11 different countries and the Philippines easily wins in my opinion.

Getting to those places can be difficult though. The only one that’s pretty easy is Boracay, but that is easily one of my favorite places and recommend it.

Send me a message if you have any questions 😁

Sounds like a threat to America and American values.

He is anti-American.

I miss the days of windows xp, that was middle school to early high school for me. It was around that time when I switched to mac.

Still have random memories of random windows stuff.

I like Fedora plasma the best personally, but the gnome version requires configuration to just get a minimize button and it also needs rpm fusion configured and codecs installed.

That is why I don’t like to recommend this for a newbie.

To be fair, Apple hardware typically lasts for a long time. My wife has a 5 year old m1 air and we have no plans to replace it anytime soon.

We have been out the past few hours working and she went from like 50% to maybe 30-40% in that time.

I really wish people could get together and just agree to recommend like 1 of 3 distros to people and put their personal y preferences aside.

Once people actually switch and use Linux for some time they can figure out what is actually best for them.

I say it should be,

Mint Kubuntu Maybe bazzite (I’ve never used it, but I’ve heard it’s popular for gaming.)

Sorry I meant to say wasn’t marketed as a game in the series.

It’s cool to read that a vaccine is being worked on for fungal infections. I’d love to say goodbye to my reoccurring athletes foot.

I love this! Internet bringing the world together.

I guess you’re right cause it was more of a spinoff not really a sequel.

It’s more of an action horror vibe instead of a survival horror vibe.

I think that game suffers as it is not as good as the first one. But it was not a bad game, I guess. I think I just had high expectations. Maybe it would have been better if it was marketed as a sequel to PE1

I don’t know much about the country, but based on my limited knowledge, I think many of these values are supported by that country.

The OP needs to check it out on his own to learn more.

I loved PE1, but had trouble getting into PE2.

For those who may not know, the game was made to be a sequel to a book with the same name.

My understanding is that the book was wildly famous in Japan, but don’t make a big international splash.

I once found a used English copy on Amazon for $200.

So, just pickup the ebook. I started to read it, but got busy with my wedding and never finished it. I need to give it another go.

The entire plot of breaking bad was caused by high healthcare costs.

I can believe it. I imagine a potential employer would be concerned about that especially if it’s a work from home thing.

It’s too bad really, because it’s entirely out of your control for the most part.

I do all my work from home (free lance), but I always use wired Ethernet to minimize potential problems.

Thanks! I didn’t know this. Especially about the department of defense.

You might check out Costa Rica.

People say the name was changed illegally. I’m out of the loop on this, why is it illegal for their name to be changed?

Ube is pretty great! It’s such a unique flavor and I find it hard to describe to people. I brought some Ube flavored snacks among other things to friends and family in the US recently and they all liked the Ube stuff the best.

Last time I played that game, I got so excited while playing it that I couldn’t sleep for 3 days 😂

I want to play it again but I’m worried it will affect my sleep.