Good: When more than one person is waiting for service at the same counter, the people know instinctively that the way to get seen quicker is to form an orderly queue and be seen one at a time, rather than rugby scrum their way to the front en masse and shout until someone looks in their direction.
Good: You can walk into a shopping mall without a security guard fondling you all over. (And has anyone ever noticed that female security guards in the philippines are, without exception, the ONLY instances where you can guarantee to see an ugly filipina?)
Bad: You can't buy bottles of beer for 18p in the local store
Bad: You don't get preferential treatment simply for being a 'foreigner'
Bad: If things aren't going your way, you know there's no chance of paying an 'express fee' and getting it sorted quicker (know what I mean)
Good: You're unlikely to be seduced into buying an unwanted appliance by an attractive, flirtatious and over friendly sex siren come sales assistant.
Good: There's no jollibee so you don't need to think of a million different excuses why you should go to McDonald's instead, when the jollibee is right where you are.
Bad: There's no "hot dog on a stick". Oh mama.
Good: KFC food at least appears like it wasn't made from all the parts of the chicken that are normally thrown away.
Bad: All the filipinas here are covered from head to toe in multiple layers of winter clothing and baggy jumpers. Not a pair of denim shorts for miles around
