Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2018 8:31:47 GMT
It's ok Deb, I don't know much about Australia either lol. I have relatives who live and work in Sydney and they say the city - and country - is indeed one of the most beautiful in the world. They do point out that things are expensive there - everything they do seems to cost money - but it's a great place to live and work.
About the languages here, yes it can be a barrier at times in the rural provinces. The three biggest islands are Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. Luzon is where you'll find Manila the capital and the other urban cities. English is widely spoken there, and also in tourist spots like Boracay and Palawan.
And speaking of communication, the Filipinos' favorite way of communicating is via text messages / SMS on mobile phones. We send about 400 million text messages a day or 142 billion a year. More than Europe and the US combined.
Yeah. The money is a problem here and it apart from the prices of food and drink going up and shrinking and us having to pay close to double (and sometimes more than that) for items like albums, books, crafts, movies, TV shows and video games we also have to pay some of the highest electrical and water bills in the world. It is not surprising so many people are struggling at the moment 'cause we have a useless government that sits back and does nothing or causes more problems by selling everything off to private companies. I have lost count of how many times our state and federal governments have lied to us and said something was going to be cheaper 'cause they were selling it to a private company and it was going to benefit Australians only for those companies to slowly put it up and put it up until it is double the price we were paying before. It is ridiculous how many things have gone up here in the past decade alone and all the government care about is giving tax cuts to big businesses so the rich can become richer and the rest of us normal folk have to pay more. The Liberals are a bunch of con artists who are only it for themselves and if Labor doesn't win the next election it won't be long until we go the way of China and they think we don't see it.
I look forward to going to the Philippines one day and seeing what everything is like over there. You have taught me so much more than I knew about it before in two posts and wow, I did not know you sent more text messages than America and Europe combined and that is a heck of a lot
and I always thought America would have sent the most texts. Is music popular in the Philippines and do you go to many concerts? 