Quote from: tvbcof on August 27, 2019, 11:28:39 AM

Quote from: nutildah on August 26, 2019, 03:21:24 PM

I chose the Philippines for 2 reasons, mainly: cost of living was low and I like the women.
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I chose The Philippines because I met a woman who I thought could help me with some things I wanted to do. I didn't know initially that she was Filipino because she was working elsewhere. Only when I found out did I start to study the place and decided that it had a lot of positives for me.

I'm not sure why I didn't consider The Philippines more strongly earlier. I think that there is a dedicated effort world-wide to shit-talk The Philippines and I was partially a victim of it. It is especially strong in the country itself. I suspect that the reason for this is related to the 'demoralization' that Yuri Bezmenov talks about as one phase in destabilizing and overthrowing a country. Unfortunately it has worked pretty well. Lots of Filipinos consider their country hopeless. I'm more and more convinced that it is not. Obviously it's got some problems, but so does every country.

My hope is that Duterte and future presidents increase the concept of nationalism among the people and address some of the main problems that the nation has. I'm quite convinced that many of the problems are artificially inserted, and the drug problems specifically. Probably the communist problems and the radical Islamic issues as well.

Quote from: nutildah on August 26, 2019, 03:21:24 PM

The wealth gap is unfathomable. People complain about it in America, but its like 5x wider here. The middle class are about 100x richer than the poor. I can't understand how some people can make 180 pesos a day (approx. $3.60) and some make 5,000 per day. That's the width of the middle class. Millions make even less than 180 per day. All I can do is be thankful that I was born where I was born - which allowed me to have the privileges that I do - and try to be humble about it. The last thing I would ever do is be a douche nozzle to the locals because of it.

I left the U.S. in part because I wanted to try to make a positive contribution and wanted my money to NOT go toward causing worldwide misery and death. These things and general depravity are, in my opinion, about the only exports that the U.S. does any more. In a place like The Philippines where there is so much need one can make a tiny positive contribution in peoples lives about a dozen times per day just being alive. I like the feeling of living this way.

Another reason I set up for a '2nd option' is that I do think there is a certain well-more-than-zero percent chance of some real problems in the U.S. of the type that few people can really imagine, and it could realistically happen within my lifetime. I think that my country has sunk so low because our leadership has been captured by some real scumbags. Worse, I don't think that these people have any more care for the U.S. than they have for any of the other nations which we are in the process of imploding. We are just a useful tool for now. When our usefulness is over it will be our turn in the barrel, and we may get it even worse than, say, Libya because that will be the most useful and 'safest' outcome for our tormentors. 'Controlled Demolition', bitches.

If the US will have problems, the rest of the world will have "problems squared". North America will always be the mecca to go to, in good times and in bad times.

People who bitch about the US don't have any idea what they are bitching about. The US has the best universities, the best hospitals, best high-tech companies, the best financial system, it is the place where the smartest people on the planet want to go to live and study.