Just watched another YouTube video with the arrest yesterday of another Philippines Vlogger " Pro life traveller "

Now if you don't know the Philippines late last year introduced new laws that if you vlog you can't put people's faces on and encouraged their citizens to report foreigners vlogging .

Another arrest yesterday of a Estonian man ,( Pro life traveller) and

last year was famous YouTuber Vitaly who is still in jail

They also have a elderly 82yo American in a jail on Cebu for smoking marijuana and in possession he is serving 5 years

I have been to the Philippines three times in the last 4 years , I did consider once retiring there but the people are unwelcome, they are not nice like Thai people, their infrastructure is rubbish , railways ,buses etc

The Philippines doesnt want foreigners,they don't even like their own people.

I find them aggressive especially the young ones nothing like young Thai people

They are aggressive people begging for money in the streets , beeping their horns at you , dirty streets , security guards with machine guns everywhere

And ...it's 3 hours from Bangkok,

I hope the vlogger can be released

It's a dirty <deleted>hole stay away !!!!

I've been planning to visit since 1998, always change my mind after some research

43 minutes ago, georgegeorgia said:

Just watched another YouTube video with the arrest yesterday of another Philippines Vlogger " Pro life traveller "

Now if you don't know the Philippines late last year introduced new laws that if you vlog you can't put people's faces on and encouraged their citizens to report foreigners vlogging .

Another arrest yesterday of a Estonian man ,( Pro life traveller) and

last year was famous YouTuber Vitaly who is still in jail

They also have a elderly 82yo American in a jail on Cebu for smoking marijuana and in possession he is serving 5 years

I have been to the Philippines three times in the last 4 years , I did consider once retiring there but the people are unwelcome, they are not nice like Thai people, their infrastructure is rubbish , railways ,buses etc

The Philippines doesnt want foreigners,they don't even like their own people.

I find them aggressive especially the young ones nothing like young Thai people

They are aggressive people begging for money in the streets , beeping their horns at you , dirty streets , security guards with machine guns everywhere

And ...it's 3 hours from Bangkok,

I hope the vlogger can be released

It's a dirty <deleted>hole stay away !!!!

I reckon all vloggers and content creators etc should be put in prison, very few are genuine, just looking to make a quick buck. Always Preaching their uneducated theories to the weak people who follow them.

25 years ago it was already a filthy sewer hole. Dangerous, crap infrastructure, the transportation blows, shabby looking environs, bad food, and all that annoying Catholicism. The women can be a bit fun, but they aren't the most attractive lot in SE Asia, not by a monger's mile. The people in general can be friendly, and they do speak decent English, but they are full of BS and the place is just kind of dull.

And 25 years later it's only gotten even worse. More crime, drugs, poverty. And now it gets terribly battered by storms and floods every year. Probably one of the last places I would want to visit again at this point. And retire there? Shiii... Yeah, not in this lifetime.

Some of them look more like Pacific Islanders ,big women

And the Philippines is more expensive than other South East Asia countries, it is thankyou !!!

2 hours ago, georgegeorgia said:

Now if you don't know the Philippines late last year introduced new laws that if you vlog you can't put people's faces on and encouraged their citizens to report foreigners vlogging .

So those so-called smart glasses that record everything will be banned there? Good. Should be banned everywhere.

Dont blog then. Just enjoy the country.

Possible arrest should not stop you from visiting you should be able to handle yourself in jail didn't you say awhile back you used to be a prison guard? What happened with that anyway you said you only had the job a month or two did you quit or were you fired???

This video which is more focused on the tourism industry reminded me of reasons why that after a big tour to consider retirement there, I have yet to even visit again.

3 hours ago, georgegeorgia said:

They also have a elderly 82yo American in a jail on Cebu for smoking marijuana and in possession he is serving 5 years

And ? He is a criminal that needs to be punished.

2 hours ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

I reckon all vloggers and content creators etc should be put in prison, very few are genuine, just looking to make a quick buck. Always Preaching their uneducated theories to the weak people who follow them.

Absolutely, we'll said!

3 hours ago, georgegeorgia said:

yesterday of another Philippines Vlogger " Pro life traveller "

I just looked him up briefly.

He seems to be putting young girls (minors?) in his videos in sexually suggestive scenes ... not explicit porn, but very edgy ... that might have something to do with it.

Youtubers get desperate for clicks and go too far.

I wonder if he would get away with that in Thailand. Probably not. One of the girls parents might file a complaint at some point.

3 hours ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

I reckon all vloggers and content creators etc should be put in prison

That's a bit harsh.

Thank Buddha you are not a supreme court judge.

A lot of creators are actually putting up useful and interesting content. I guess you're jealous?

Thanks for the heads up, Georgie Boy!

47 minutes ago, Oliver Holzerfilled said:

Possible arrest should not stop you from visiting you should be able to handle yourself in jail didn't you say awhile back you used to be a prison guard? What happened with that anyway you said you only had the job a month or two did you quit or were you fired???

I quit

I was called names and abused and even threatened they said things about my mother !!!!

And they are not nice people

Even the other guards were not nice people the women ones looked like men

You guys wouldn't believe this

My number one vlogger I like in the Philippines is a guy called Alex who reads out the Philippines foreigners news everyday

I just found out another YouTuber has exposed him ...he is not in the Philippines but ....Bangkok !!

Really ...he always said on his news mornings he is coming live from Cebu

Absolutely liar he is in Bangkok!!!!

In the 1970's Subic Bay was the "Pearl of the Orient" I know because the T-shirts said so. Subic bay was an outrageous experience for an 18 yr old. You cross over "Sh#t river" and before you lies Magsaysay Drive, filled with live music venues of the latest rock and country music. Because of the Martial Law required sailors off the streets by midnight, we headed past Barretto to Subic City. When the bars closed the mamasan would bring out cases of beer and a block of ice for us to continue drinking on the beach.

Room and girl was 50 peso, this was when the exchange rate was around 7 peso to 1 USD. Then in the morning it was a mad dash by special jeepney back to the base. The kid's selling ice cold cokes out of a bucket were a god send. Then back to the ship where we sweat out the alcohol working on deck.

Well the days of old are over there, the base is gone, the clubs of yesteryear are all but gone. It's a fun place to visit but I really wouldn't consider living there.

I mean is Thailand particularly Pattaya any better

I was just reminded that two Grab drivers have been murdered in Pattaya in the last 18 months

Some very nice/good people there.....

Some beautiful sights & places.....

Mostly, a sh!t hole full of desperate people...... Safety is a big concern......

1 hour ago, save the frogs said:

That's a bit harsh.

Thank Buddha you are not a supreme court judge.

A lot of creators are actually putting up useful and interesting content. I guess you're jealous?

I did say very few are genuine.

OnlyFans creators are putting up useful and interesting content 😂

I did consider setting up some kind of fake address there so as to unfreeze my State Pension. I'd love to know if it is possible.

We don't go back to the P.I. While the countryside is beautiful, and the scuba diving absolutely fantastic in Palawan prefecture, we never had a really 'delicious' meal in any restaurant we visited. People were always friendly, prices fine, plenty to see and do, but the food sucks! We found ourselves living on lumpia!

To me, a culture's food is important, and we could just 'tolerate' the foods we ate while there. It was OK, but that's as far as it went.

Been to the Philippines a few times. Can't say I ever felt unsafe (I am from a dodgy part of Scotland it has to be said, so perhaps my 'standards' are lower). Been to a little jamboree in a poor barangay; again, all okay but I wasn't flashing cash around. The Spanish genes don't help the size of older women, but younger women can be stunning, and there's plenty of older women who are also stunning (wicked sense of humour too!).

The country is a mess, with corruption at unbelievable levels (perhaps worse than Thailand), and a leadership that ruined all the good clean-up work done by Duterte, shafted him at Manila airport and got him sent to Den Haag for crimes that wouldn't make many world leaders even blink let alone blush. Oh, and the current incumbent is well known to be a cocaine addict, with a father who was accountable for the downturn that many posters in this thread are alluding to.

That all said, I know the crime rate is high, murders due to jealousy are as common as in Thailand, the infrastructure is a joke (corruption mostly), the beaches are amongst the best in the world, English is widely spoken, the food is generally poor quality (low-quality ingredients and too much frying; the dishes should actually be really nice), great diving and the covers bands in bars are some of the best I've ever seen (I've been to over 80 countries including 43 of 50 US States).

A mixed review, like it'd be for most countries. Still won't retire there tough, but will happily visit again.

Oh, and content creators are a joke to me, and the 82 year old should have adhered to the law (but I don't agree with the harsh sentence).

5 hours ago, georgegeorgia said:

Now if you don't know the Philippines late last year introduced new laws that if you vlog you can't put people's faces on and encouraged their citizens to report foreigners vlogging .

Another arrest yesterday of a Estonian man ,( Pro life traveller) and

last year was famous YouTuber Vitaly who is still in jail

Maybe a bit of research before your implicit support of these two vloggers. After searching on YT, a few vloggers said this guy was a "creep" for his content, and one vlogger seemed to support him because he "other vloggers do the same". He posted a video previously of him giving a vape pen to a 6-7 y/o to take a hit/puff. The one vlogger I follow on YT stated the guy was supposedly warned a few months ago about his content but seemed to double down and continued to post even more suggestive content.

As for Vitaly, this guy was definitely a POS and deserves what he is going through. He was a clout chaser that harassed innocent people for clicks....including stealing a motorbike from a police officer, stealing an industrial fan from a restaurant, and threatening an elderly lady saying "Madam, I wanna f...ing rob you".

No sympathy for either of them.

2 hours ago, georgegeorgia said:

Even the other guards were not nice people

Did they point their machine guns at you?

1 hour ago, georgegeorgia said:

I was just reminded that two Grab drivers have been murdered in Pattaya in the last 18 months

Wow what a coincidence, I read in Australia two uber drivers in Sydney were murdered recently

Take care mate, don't want to see you get chopped up

That Vitaly blogger you mention deserved his comeuppance. For instance in one vid he is seen suddenly calling an unsuspecting guy a "pedophile" for everyone around to hear.

Besides, why should it be ok to film people for the internet in "third world" countries? Are you allowed to film people for the internet without their consent in Europe or the US?

Youtubers filming the night life in Thailand do a lot of harm too, drawing the wrong crowds to Thailand and provoking renewed campaigns against "trafficking". I flag such vids on Youtube whenever I have the opportunity.

Ok - don't ever go to the PI. Nobody will miss you. I've spent considerable amounts of time in the PI during my adult life. The PI is what the PI is. I like the people. I have to know how to handle yourself. Each to their own.

Edith? Edith Clampton? Is that you?

I have been there. It's a complete dump. Everything is awful.. Just awful. Put up a map of SEA on your wall, throw a dart and go to whatever country it lands on except for the Philippines. Yes I mean even Myanmar included. That's how crap the Philippines is.