Why do Filipinas always talk about their financial problems to us rather than about love and romance?!

[Winston]

Also why am I the only guy in Angeles who cares about love and romance and relationship? Other men here act like those things don't exist and don't matter. But isn't love and romance hardwired into our human DNA? If so how come I'm the only guy who seeks it or needs it here? Is it because I'm the only real human left and the rest are just NPCs with no soul or authenticity?

You're in Angeles, the Sodom and Gomorrah of the Philippines. It's like some degenerate asking: "Am I the only guy in Sodom who cares about romance and relationships?" right before God comes down and smites him. You want romance, you want something genuine, you have to go elsewhere, away from places that have many foreigners. And you have to put the work in.

You're in a place known for low-class mercenary females, a place local man looking for love would rightfully stay clear of. Your problem is one of location, nothing else. If an American man wanted to find "love" inside America, would he go to Las Vegas to find it?

True. But you forget that Angeles used to be much better before. The girls at least stayed with you all night and gave you the illusion of love and romance and it was satisfying. Not anymore. Now they want to stay for 1 hour of lousy sex and they are not even GFE and they want to leave with 2000p at least and go home and not hang with you longer than they need to.

I'm not the only one who says this. Other expats say the same. They also say that the Korean guys who come to AC now have ruined it. So it's not just about location, it's about our era when everything is getting worse and worse and deteriorating. Only technology is getting better. That's how it is in this Satanic matrix. It could also be the 2nd law of thermodynamics which says that everything decays over time, including culture and morals and people.

[Winston]

Moreover the girls on walking street in Angeles city look greedy and unlikable and all they want is quick cash in exchange for an hour of lousy sex.
.....
When I first came in 2006 the girls were very likable and fun and had good vibes.

1-
What about changing your location to another city in the Philippines? Or even move on to another country?

2-
Times are changing, 2006 is not 2023 -, 17 years ago. Maybe changing for the better or changing to the worse....
And it's not only about the local girls, but also about the foreign men. You and I too of course are now 17 years older ... big difference, I need only to look in a mirror...

Yes I am going to Cambodia next. But murphy's law still seems to follow me. Because I always attract scammers, whores, psychos with bad tempers, flakes, and girls who treat me like shit for no reason.

Yes times are changing but PH has always been renowned for allowing older men to date/marry younger women. Like this guy Mark and his wife for instance:

[Winston]

I have an angry question.

Of course you do. You're over 50 and still hold delusional beliefs about how "girls" should act around you.

Also I found it very funny that you're over 50 and don't refer to females as "women", but you refer to them as "girls". Do you really think a woman in her 20s wants anything to do with some old man over 50?

If u were a foreign man in Angeles and u were seeking love and romance and relationship, would that annoy u too if all girls wants to talk about is their financial problems and the stress they feel from it?

Obviously the places that you are seeking love in must be the lower class, riff-raff infested areas with worthless scummy individuals. Maybe if you were to live in the more upscale areas like I do, then you would be around more higher-class females.

You trying to use age to shame is illogical and mean spirited and inaccurate. The PH has always been renowned for allowing older males to date/marry younger women. Like this guy for example:



The women in the PH are not as age conscious. Everyone knows that. Who cares if I call them women or girls. If you are offended by little things like that, you don't belong here. I like using both terms "girls and women". If that offends you, then you don't belong here.

[Winston]

How come in Tagalog romance movies the couple never talks about money problems? Only about love and romance. But in real life women are obsessed with money and don't care about love? Why can't real women be like women in the movies?

Lets be real here, how many Tagalog romance movies take place in Angeles City between a porener in his fifties and a Filipina bar girl in her twenties? I mean c'mon man lets not be naive here.

I'm sure @publicduende is more than capable of backing me up on the issue of location being key. People don't generally eat where they shit, and Angeles is the nation's dirty little secret, it isn't a genuine place for genuine people to find genuine connections... it's a seedy, shady place full of degeneracy and going there with expectations of love and sweet girls is a recipe for disaster.

But Winston wants to prove his ideology. You go somewhere and you do not have to improve yourself but you get all the goodies. Otherwise it feels like work hard abroad. I had when I was younger a jacket with a logo on it 'WWW - World Wide Worker'. I was kind of proud being a Abroad Worker. Though it was only for a short while but free stuff is generally more addicting.

Winston is a solipsist anyway. He feels frustrated that the Angeles City holodeck does only provide the basic limited version if you do not put more money in it.

In Angeles city there are girls with normal jobs too but....

Why do I have to improve myself? My only defect is my pot belly and weight. Other than that, I am seen as a good guy and gentleman in AC, much better than most of the other men there. I am not some scumbag or piece of shit. Ask the girls I know there. I am clean, drug free, wear nice polo shirts, look like a decent guy, and I get a lot of respect from everyone. Go to a restaurant with me in AC and you will see how respectful the staff are to me, because I act clean, refined and classy. I don't smoke or do drugs or drink much, and I have no tattoos. I look far more civilized than other guys in AC who look like rednecks.

Yes AC has girls with normal jobs too. I get their numbers too but they aren't interested in dating me and often flake out and make excuses.

If the solution were that simple, I would have done it long ago. Real problems don't have simple solutions.

HL Mencken said:

https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/h_l_mencken_129796

"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong."

Take note of that @publicduende. You have a lot to learn too and should drop your pride and male "know it all" ego too.

[Winston]

I'm sure @publicduende is more than capable of backing me up on the issue of location being key. People don't generally eat where they shit, and Angeles is the nation's dirty little secret, it isn't a genuine place for genuine people to find genuine connections... it's a seedy, shady place full of degeneracy and going there with expectations of love and sweet girls is a recipe for disaster.

@MarcosZeitola not only me, but virtually every single well-meaning member of this forum has been giving him the same kind of advice, and for the best part of a decade. Me trying to convince @Winston that:

1. Europe wasn't this kind of ideal multicultural melting pot where a 50-yo Winston could find his fit, and
2. there is a lot of potential in the Philippines, as long as one avoids the obvious craphole and is serious about finding a good woman

were the reasons why Winston and I got into a quarrel and he eventually banned me.

I think everybody said everything he could say to bring him to reason. For all I love @Winston, it's kind of clear that his inability to move past the easy (but sterile) bar scene of AC is entirely due to him not wanting to take a step out of his comfort zone.

But PD. When I was in Manila hanging with Rock, the normal good girls we met wouldn't go out with me either. They all flaked and said they were too busy with work or some other excuse. Only scammers, whores, bad girls, and psychos wanted to meet me. So this curse or bad luck or murphy's law can follow you even if you leave AC. Rock didn't believe me either, but after a while he did, because he saw some of his female friends switch on and become cold and moody as soon as they saw me, as though the matrix turned on their robotic mind and made them dislike me by flipping some switch inside them. It's very creepy but it has happened. Rock considers it to be a bit metaphysical either, because the girls he knows that dislikes me, cannot give a good valid reason for disliking me. It's pure instinct, not logical at all. Definitely not attributable to anything simple or logical or obvious. I experienced this when I was younger too. Definitely something paranormal or metaphysical about it. You guys may deny it, but that is your problem if you deny the truth. I would NEVER say something that wasn't true. Never.

Fortunately though I've been using DateinAsia lately and have found some nice girls and leads in both Manila and Cebu. So next time I go to the PH I will stay in those areas instead of AC. AC isn't what it used to be anyway. Every expat there has said that too and agreed with me. So it's not just me. The new young generation of girls is just shitty and low quality with no heart or soul. Even YouTubers that we met in AC said this on their YouTube channel too, such as a YTer named "Regular Guy". I'll send you his video later where he gives his pros and cons of AC. One of the cons is that the girls have no heart in AC.

[kangarunner]

@Winston You are a very disrespectful person with a bad, bad mouth. Badmouth. Nasty mouth. Your mother should have taught you how to behave better.

[galii]

How come in Tagalog romance movies the couple never talks about money problems? Only about love and romance. But in real life women are obsessed with money and don't care about love? Why can't real women be like women in the movies?

Lets be real here, how many Tagalog romance movies take place in Angeles City between a porener in his fifties and a Filipina bar girl in her twenties? I mean c'mon man lets not be naive here.

I'm sure @publicduende is more than capable of backing me up on the issue of location being key. People don't generally eat where they shit, and Angeles is the nation's dirty little secret, it isn't a genuine place for genuine people to find genuine connections... it's a seedy, shady place full of degeneracy and going there with expectations of love and sweet girls is a recipe for disaster.

But Winston wants to prove his ideology. You go somewhere and you do not have to improve yourself but you get all the goodies. Otherwise it feels like work hard abroad. I had when I was younger a jacket with a logo on it 'WWW - World Wide Worker'. I was kind of proud being a Abroad Worker. Though it was only for a short while but free stuff is generally more addicting.

Winston is a solipsist anyway. He feels frustrated that the Angeles City holodeck does only provide the basic limited version if you do not put more money in it.

In Angeles city there are girls with normal jobs too but....

Why do I have to improve myself? My only defect is my pot belly and weight. Other than that, I am seen as a good guy and gentleman in AC, much better than most of the other men there. I am not some scumbag or piece of shit. Ask the girls I know there. I am clean, drug free, wear nice polo shirts, look like a decent guy, and I get a lot of respect from everyone. Go to a restaurant with me in AC and you will see how respectful the staff are to me, because I act clean, refined and classy. I don't smoke or do drugs or drink much, and I have no tattoos. I look far more civilized than other guys in AC who look like rednecks.

Yes AC has girls with normal jobs too. I get their numbers too but they aren't interested in dating me and often flake out and make excuses.

If the solution were that simple, I would have done it long ago. Real problems don't have simple solutions.

HL Mencken said:

https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/h_l_mencken_129796

"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong."

Take note of that @publicduende. You have a lot to learn too and should drop your pride and male "know it all" ego too.

Publicduende is an example for self improvement. Also Marcos Zeitola. These guys are perfect in English even it is not their native language. That is on its own a big thing. Publicduende could retire easily I think but he pushes himself to be higher status. He does his IT stuff. Which is amazing. To make your brain work in the Philippines is much harder than normal.

[Winston]

@Winston You are a very disrespectful person with a bad, bad mouth. Badmouth. Nasty mouth. Your mother should have taught you how to behave better.

Please don't post nonsense like that. If you don't have anything of substance to say, better to say nothing. Otherwise you waste space on this forum.

[Winston]

How come in Tagalog romance movies the couple never talks about money problems? Only about love and romance. But in real life women are obsessed with money and don't care about love? Why can't real women be like women in the movies?

Lets be real here, how many Tagalog romance movies take place in Angeles City between a porener in his fifties and a Filipina bar girl in her twenties? I mean c'mon man lets not be naive here.

I'm sure @publicduende is more than capable of backing me up on the issue of location being key. People don't generally eat where they shit, and Angeles is the nation's dirty little secret, it isn't a genuine place for genuine people to find genuine connections... it's a seedy, shady place full of degeneracy and going there with expectations of love and sweet girls is a recipe for disaster.

But Winston wants to prove his ideology. You go somewhere and you do not have to improve yourself but you get all the goodies. Otherwise it feels like work hard abroad. I had when I was younger a jacket with a logo on it 'WWW - World Wide Worker'. I was kind of proud being a Abroad Worker. Though it was only for a short while but free stuff is generally more addicting.

Winston is a solipsist anyway. He feels frustrated that the Angeles City holodeck does only provide the basic limited version if you do not put more money in it.

In Angeles city there are girls with normal jobs too but....

Why do I have to improve myself? My only defect is my pot belly and weight. Other than that, I am seen as a good guy and gentleman in AC, much better than most of the other men there. I am not some scumbag or piece of shit. Ask the girls I know there. I am clean, drug free, wear nice polo shirts, look like a decent guy, and I get a lot of respect from everyone. Go to a restaurant with me in AC and you will see how respectful the staff are to me, because I act clean, refined and classy. I don't smoke or do drugs or drink much, and I have no tattoos. I look far more civilized than other guys in AC who look like rednecks.

Yes AC has girls with normal jobs too. I get their numbers too but they aren't interested in dating me and often flake out and make excuses.

If the solution were that simple, I would have done it long ago. Real problems don't have simple solutions.

HL Mencken said:

https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/h_l_mencken_129796

"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong."

Take note of that @publicduende. You have a lot to learn too and should drop your pride and male "know it all" ego too.

Publicduende is an example for self improvement. Also Marcos Zeitola. These guys are perfect in English even it is not their native language. That is on its own a big thing. Publicduende could retire easily I think but he pushes himself to be higher status. He does his IT stuff. Which is amazing. To make your brain work in the Philippines is much harder than normal.

What do you mean? In terms of career. But PD has gained a lot of weight. I saw a recent photo of him and he is much bigger than when I first met him. He admits it too. He lives a sedentary lifestyle and works 7 days a week, which is not healthy. He definitely needs to exercise and meditate and reduce his stress. But he says his projects take up his time everyday. He can't even travel anymore. If money is your definition of self improvement, then ok, but I don't agree with that.

You haven't even met these people so you don't even know them. How do you know what I do to improve myself? You don't. You just assume things. At least I meditate and practice Buddhism. PD has always been good in English btw. He learned it in London.

Yes I agree. In the PH your brain can't work very good. Especially in AC. I'm always overstimulated by girls, sex, food, bright lights, etc. It hypnotizes me and zombifies me. I definitely cannot get any serious work done in AC. I don't know how anyone does.

[MarcosZeitola]

True. But you forget that Angeles used to be much better before. The girls at least stayed with you all night and gave you the illusion of love and romance and it was satisfying. Not anymore. Now they want to stay for 1 hour of lousy sex and they are not even GFE and they want to leave with 2000p at least and go home and not hang with you longer than they need to.

I'm not the only one who says this. Other expats say the same. They also say that the Korean guys who come to AC now have ruined it. So it's not just about location, it's about our era when everything is getting worse and worse and deteriorating. Only technology is getting better. That's how it is in this Satanic matrix. It could also be the 2nd law of thermodynamics which says that everything decays over time, including culture and morals and people.

When you say "the girls in Angeles used to be much better before", you mean to say: "the whores were better at their jobs and put more effort into providing good customer service". And it's a shame they don't anymore from what you're telling, but at the end of the day, a whore's a whore and the illusion of romance and seduction is a fading pleasure, not a lasting one. If you want a relationship, my point is, AC may not be the place for you. But if even in Manila you lucked out, maybe there's something else wrong. Something about your vibe or aura, I cannot put my finger on it. Still, the provinces are worth a try. Real girls, in a place that has few to no foreigners, so competition won't be brutal with rich flashy Korean guys stealing your thunder. I'm sure this can be done, it isn't rocket science. But if you say Rock's girls also disliked you for no reason, maybe you should ask him to inquire with some of those girls who met you before. Just straight-up ask him what it is about you that they disliked. Identify the problem so you can work on it. Get it straight from the horse's mouth, Winston.

[galii]

Lets be real here, how many Tagalog romance movies take place in Angeles City between a porener in his fifties and a Filipina bar girl in her twenties? I mean c'mon man lets not be naive here.

I'm sure @publicduende is more than capable of backing me up on the issue of location being key. People don't generally eat where they shit, and Angeles is the nation's dirty little secret, it isn't a genuine place for genuine people to find genuine connections... it's a seedy, shady place full of degeneracy and going there with expectations of love and sweet girls is a recipe for disaster.

But Winston wants to prove his ideology. You go somewhere and you do not have to improve yourself but you get all the goodies. Otherwise it feels like work hard abroad. I had when I was younger a jacket with a logo on it 'WWW - World Wide Worker'. I was kind of proud being a Abroad Worker. Though it was only for a short while but free stuff is generally more addicting.

Winston is a solipsist anyway. He feels frustrated that the Angeles City holodeck does only provide the basic limited version if you do not put more money in it.

In Angeles city there are girls with normal jobs too but....

Why do I have to improve myself? My only defect is my pot belly and weight. Other than that, I am seen as a good guy and gentleman in AC, much better than most of the other men there. I am not some scumbag or piece of shit. Ask the girls I know there. I am clean, drug free, wear nice polo shirts, look like a decent guy, and I get a lot of respect from everyone. Go to a restaurant with me in AC and you will see how respectful the staff are to me, because I act clean, refined and classy. I don't smoke or do drugs or drink much, and I have no tattoos. I look far more civilized than other guys in AC who look like rednecks.

Yes AC has girls with normal jobs too. I get their numbers too but they aren't interested in dating me and often flake out and make excuses.

If the solution were that simple, I would have done it long ago. Real problems don't have simple solutions.

HL Mencken said:

https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/h_l_mencken_129796

"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong."

Take note of that @publicduende. You have a lot to learn too and should drop your pride and male "know it all" ego too.

Publicduende is an example for self improvement. Also Marcos Zeitola. These guys are perfect in English even it is not their native language. That is on its own a big thing. Publicduende could retire easily I think but he pushes himself to be higher status. He does his IT stuff. Which is amazing. To make your brain work in the Philippines is much harder than normal.

What do you mean? In terms of career. But PD has gained a lot of weight. I saw a recent photo of him and he is much bigger than when I first met him. He admits it too. He lives a sedentary lifestyle and works 7 days a week, which is not healthy. He definitely needs to exercise and meditate and reduce his stress. But he says his projects take up his time everyday. He can't even travel anymore. If money is your definition of self improvement, then ok, but I don't agree with that.

You haven't even met these people so you don't even know them. How do you know what I do to improve myself? You don't. You just assume things. At least I meditate and practice Buddhism. PD has always been good in English btw. He learned it in London.

Yes I agree. In the PH your brain can't work very good. Especially in AC. I'm always overstimulated by girls, sex, food, bright lights, etc. It hypnotizes me and zombifies me. I definitely cannot get any serious work done in AC. I don't know how anyone does.

I did not mention money in the case of publicduende. I wrote status. That is something different. You get more respect when you have a serious bussiness. A quality girl will respect that. I mean self improvement in the context of getting a quality girl. Shure it is very hard to balance health and business but if I had the drive and skills to do that I might do it like pd for a limited time. I am shure pd will get to a balanced lifestyle when he is done with the project.

Well I am long enough in the forum to know a lot about them. Obviously I don't know what you are exactly doing for self improvement but I can make educated guesses. You already mentioned meditation many times before so this is not something new. Same with Buddhism stuff. So nothing new here. Don't forget you in the past were the anti self improvement guy. You interviewed me about self improvement. I preached to you about the benefits. You were quite allergic against it. I told you at that time already about meditation but you were not ready yet. You did make some steps in the right direction that is nice but other people did that like 20 years befor you even started.

I asked you what kind of meditation you do in the past but you did not reply. When it comes to self improvement you are still allergic against it.

[Space Invaders]

True. But you forget that Angeles used to be much better before. The girls at least stayed with you all night and gave you the illusion of love and romance and it was satisfying. Not anymore. Now they want to stay for 1 hour of lousy sex and they are not even GFE and they want to leave with 2000p at least and go home and not hang with you longer than they need to.

I'm not the only one who says this. Other expats say the same. They also say that the Korean guys who come to AC now have ruined it. So it's not just about location, it's about our era when everything is getting worse and worse and deteriorating. Only technology is getting better. That's how it is in this Satanic matrix. It could also be the 2nd law of thermodynamics which says that everything decays over time, including culture and morals and people.

When you say "the girls in Angeles used to be much better before", you mean to say: "the whores were better at their jobs and put more effort into providing good customer service". And it's a shame they don't anymore from what you're telling, but at the end of the day, a whore's a whore and the illusion of romance and seduction is a fading pleasure, not a lasting one. If you want a relationship, my point is, AC may not be the place for you. But if even in Manila you lucked out, maybe there's something else wrong. Something about your vibe or aura, I cannot put my finger on it. Still, the provinces are worth a try. Real girls, in a place that has few to no foreigners, so competition won't be brutal with rich flashy Korean guys stealing your thunder. I'm sure this can be done, it isn't rocket science. But if you say Rock's girls also disliked you for no reason, maybe you should ask him to inquire with some of those girls who met you before. Just straight-up ask him what it is about you that they disliked. Identify the problem so you can work on it. Get it straight from the horse's mouth, Winston.

Dude, just give it a rest already with the unsolicited life advice. Obviously Winston doesn't consort with whores because he wants to. They're just the only women who will give him the time of day. Unfortunately, they too have standards and Winston doesn't meet those standards anymore. He's too fat, too ugly, too old, too boring. Question is, is there anyplace in the world easier for p*ssy than Angeles City? So where does he got to now?

[publicduende]

But PD. When I was in Manila hanging with Rock, the normal good girls we met wouldn't go out with me either. They all flaked and said they were too busy with work or some other excuse. Only scammers, whores, bad girls, and psychos wanted to meet me. So this curse or bad luck or murphy's law can follow you even if you leave AC. Rock didn't believe me either, but after a while he did, because he saw some of his female friends switch on and become cold and moody as soon as they saw me, as though the matrix turned on their robotic mind and made them dislike me by flipping some switch inside them. It's very creepy but it has happened. Rock considers it to be a bit metaphysical either, because the girls he knows that dislikes me, cannot give a good valid reason for disliking me. It's pure instinct, not logical at all. Definitely not attributable to anything simple or logical or obvious. I experienced this when I was younger too. Definitely something paranormal or metaphysical about it. You guys may deny it, but that is your problem if you deny the truth. I would NEVER say something that wasn't true. Never.

Well, there you go, then. You perfectly formulated the problem: woman's primal instinct of preservation will immediately trigger with you...unless they need money, in which case they're all over you.

At this point, if that's THE truth, I'll be the first one to advise you to stick to AC. The going rate for a prosti in Davao is P3,000, for an hour, minimum. It's probably still cheaper in AC, probably because of the competition.

Fortunately though I've been using DateinAsia lately and have found some nice girls and leads in both Manila and Cebu. So next time I go to the PH I will stay in those areas instead of AC. AC isn't what it used to be anyway. Every expat there has said that too and agreed with me. So it's not just me. The new young generation of girls is just shitty and low quality with no heart or soul. Even YouTubers that we met in AC said this on their YouTube channel too, such as a YTer named "Regular Guy". I'll send you his video later where he gives his pros and cons of AC. One of the cons is that the girls have no heart in AC.

I wish you well, either way. Only you can change your life, if you really want it, that is. Noone else can.

[publicduende]

What do you mean? In terms of career. But PD has gained a lot of weight. I saw a recent photo of him and he is much bigger than when I first met him. He admits it too. He lives a sedentary lifestyle and works 7 days a week, which is not healthy. He definitely needs to exercise and meditate and reduce his stress. But he says his projects take up his time everyday. He can't even travel anymore. If money is your definition of self improvement, then ok, but I don't agree with that.

That's true, @Winston, I gained at least 20 kilos since the beginning of the Covid lockdown. I tried to reduce the number of working hours and the stress by delegating to some of my team members. It was a disaster: they didn't deliver, or delivered poorly, and I had to rush and redo everything they had done, in the couple of days or weekend before the deadline. After a few attempts, I decided that the only way to make this project successful is to do as much as I can of the critical stuff (business analysis, specifications, architecture, etc.) on my own and let my Indonesian and Filipino friends to just do the implementation...and perhaps learn something new in the process.

It's true, that I haven't been taking care of myself. The problem is, I can't find any other way out. By the time the project is over, in 2024 or 2025, I will have earned enough to retire and then, hopefully, devote myself to taking care of myself and poor C, who has been following me with an almost supernatural patience and understanding.

Money is not my measure of everything, Winston, obviously. It's also true that I don't have rich parents backing me up. Whatever I am building, I had to build it on my own. And I could well say it, because it's true...apart from C, I got less than zero help from local people, from my so-called Rotary friends to anyone who got interested in my business in Davao. Over here it's really a dog eat dog situation. You can only choose to be a victim or a perp, with no middle ground in between.

You haven't even met these people so you don't even know them. How do you know what I do to improve myself? You don't. You just assume things. At least I meditate and practice Buddhism. PD has always been good in English btw. He learned it in London.

Yes I agree. In the PH your brain can't work very good. Especially in AC. I'm always overstimulated by girls, sex, food, bright lights, etc. It hypnotizes me and zombifies me. I definitely cannot get any serious work done in AC. I don't know how anyone does.

Well, on this I agree. Philippine life, especially one of sun, cheap beer and sex, tends to cloud your brain and adult judgement. Lots of people I know who came here kind of "regressed". Even my spoken English is nowhere near as good as it used to be when I was in London and compelled to speak properly among extremely well-educated people.

The only way I found, to focus on work, is get as little distractions as possible. HA being, obviously, one of my few distractions

I did travel, post-Covid, but mostly for business. I have been to Singapore 3 times, HK twice. C and I are planning a week in Japan around September, when the weather is less hot and humid.

[Yohan]

... Philippine life, especially one of sun, cheap beer and sex, tends to cloud your brain and adult judgement. Lots of people I know who came here kind of "regressed". Even my spoken English is nowhere near as good as it used to be when I was in London and compelled to speak properly among extremely well-educated people.

The only way I found, to focus on work, is get as little distractions as possible. HA being, obviously, one of my few distractions

I did travel, post-Covid, but mostly for business. I have been to Singapore 3 times, HK twice. C and I are planning a week in Japan around September, when the weather is less hot and humid.

@publicduende

It is the same in Thailand, if you look around in some areas which are typical for foreigners for cheap longstay, all of them are men from Western countries - but I can also understand them as they arrive in Thailand often alone, divorced, living out of minimum retirement allowance etc. - many of them are totally broken...

I have my second home in Thailand, within not such a cheap compound, very nice rooms with good maintenance and security and and large swimmingpool, also restaurants and ATM inside and have also my own small Thai motorcycle to go around.

However openly said, after one month I feel I have to leave to do something which is a bit more intelligent or productive, because if you live in Thailand with a drunken community of foreign expats nearby, you will become an idiot and/or alcoholic.

If you look at all those Thai women with them, many of them are also the lowest of the lowest....and not to forget to mention all these gay zones, transvestites etc - where you pick up your sexy boy...

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If you come to Japan, let me know, expect September in the large cities still very hot. Do you have any idea where you want to go within Japan?
Do you need any information/advice? Have you been in Japan before?

I do not live in Tokyo anymore after my retirement, but in Okayama area, between Hiroshima and Osaka. A much better life compared to the large Japanese cities, with river and forests, hills and sea, not crowded... Still Okayama City/Kurashiki City - connected to each other - is not such a small area, about 1.2 million people are living there.

I will be in Thailand/Pattaya in our second home with my wife and younger daughter from 9th up to 29th September, we will be out of Japan. We use now Fukuoka Int'l Airport for our trip to Thailand/Bangkok.