I was surprized by the size. The initial area you drive through from the airport is quite crappy. Its poor and there are beggers and the odd crazy on the road. When you get to Makati though you find that its a large city filled with skyscrapers. Its odd though as there is a lot of poverty mixed in between. So as an expat you can live from first work to first world without feeling like you are completely losing out.
thats jut Makati. There are 16 cities all very big. Most of them are not very first world although there are a lot of first world pieces in each. Its very hard to explain. Education is everywhere- lots of companies offering courses in everything.
The road systems is large but there are not enough highways by far. So everythign is congested traffic wise.
Best bet - live south - use the skyway to get to work in Makati and back. then you beat the traffice.
Anywhere elese and it welcome to gridlock!!
There are so many malls in Makati and Ayala Alabang that its better for me here thant the UK.
Internet is backward. you can get get good speeds but if you want speed OUT of the country - ie downloading from uk the you get a trickle of speed. its horrible- 2 days to download a movie....
but downloading from withint the country - whoa - full throttle.
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