Yes, you can still hop a taxi at Arrivals...as I have always done, and did so again earlier this year.
As a tourist, prices in Manila are a fraction of those in London, whether it be hotels, food and drink, entertainment or transport.
Yes, you can probably buy expensive property in Manila, but the build-quality will come nowhere near the standards laid down anywhere in the UK.
You can buy similar new cars there, but you have to drive them on roads that would be closed for safety reasons in this country, or buy a secondhand car in Manila that will actually cost you more than its equivalent in the UK and will probably be in an unroadworthy state by our standards.
Then you can try buying car insurance with equivalent cover to what would be offered as a minimum legal requirement in the UK.
Good luck with that.
Personally I'm happy to accept the somewhat 'sketchy' standards and prices in the Phils in exchange for the sheer adventure and fun to be had there.
The biggest bores you'll ever meet there are the moaning and whinging expats who do nothing but point out the negatives.
Why do they stay ?
