I think that some people are going quickly into the defensive, yet a lot of the points made by the OP are valid, although to generalise based on her in laws and locality would be wrong.

The posts definitely balances out some of the negative Filipino posts which occur on here regularly, normally posted by new joiners who have visited the Philippines for the first time and have been overcome by culture shock. The Philippines of course is not a particularly clean place overall, but I will will say that in the malls or Provence the female gender all seem to have clean clothes and be freshly showered, with the height difference all you can often smell is freshly shampooed hair.

It is good to have a bit of balance, and hear the views of newly arrived Filipinas.