Comments by "Barf" (@j134679) on "Life Where I'm From" channel.

  1. I'm a local & I constantly have to analyze if I'm being scammed haha.
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  2.  @jesuslovespotatoes  it is a prerequisite when there is barely any other decent alternative option, like most US cities.
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  3. YEP that's why it's better to order takeout yourself if you live in the city. If you choose the pick-up option, the delivery fee is taken out, but all the other upcharges remain. Order straight from the restaurant whenever you can as this helps them survive better.
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  4. I got the opposite :( I was raised in Dubai but then had to be sent back to the Philippines for affordable university education. Now I'm burdened to be their retirement plan with a Philippine salary rate. It's doubly hard since I rent & live alone in Manila too.
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  5. Manila too. Elderly, pregnant, disabled, and those with small children have to wait for rush hour to end if they want to use a bus to get home during workday.
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  6. a long broom
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  7. Or any Asian that don't look East Asian.
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  8. How did you deal with the steam/smoke/smell? We have electric grills like this but we strictly use it in the kitchen right below the exhaust fans. Also, what was that powder for the yakisoba?
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  9. In the Philippines you try to memorize where they are so you don't fall & drown in them when the streets flood every rainy season.
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  10.  @bugrist  it's why you're only walking through 🤣 best spot is in the middle of a strictly zoned low rise residential area, ~20mins away from station, so redevelopment doesn't overtake your sanctuary. Not too near, not too far. If you're too far the expressway construction can hit you or cut your route off or just remove the peace & quiet.
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  11. its just about an hour which a lot of people already do
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  12. Hey to be fair those pedicab drivers in Intramuros will scam anyone they can. I was a student in one of the universities inside. Every single time, even as a regular rider, you have to haggle. Confirm the price before you get on, no matter the urgency of your trip. They think university students are rich lol.
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  13.  @-EchoesIntoEternity-  Japan was planning to take over Southeast Asia anyway, which includes US colonies. They were always planning to start a war - they just hit Pearl Harbor first to cripple US backup forces. They steamrolled over Asia the next few days after Pearl Harbor.
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  14.  @PerfectPride  fried egg over anything really. Even on top of leftover spaghetti when I'm too lazy to make anything else.
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  15. All the clips of official's announcements were so impressive. Meanwhile the Philippines gets a drunk rambling geezer type of announcement.
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  16. or it can be the usual Japanese way of hiding dirty laundry under the bed. Like they do with crime & suicide rates. I won't be surprised if the murders/disappearances are done by the Japanese government to mute issues like this. Edit: but I agree with being careful with the CCP specially when you're in the eastern half of Asia, not just East Asia.
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  17. the Mario Karts are actually a nuisance to locals so it's a very foreign tourist thing.
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  18. Australia sounds almost perfect to be honest. The most complaints I see on the internet are about internet quality & international travel (flights are almost all long haul, this also affects shipping prices & time). Also the wildlife, but you get used to it apparently.
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  19.  @Haags_hopje_070  a solution would be for an investor to set up tourist attractions that would both make use of & revitalize the line. But of course that'd only be an idea if the investor was biased in favor of trains in the first place
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  20.  @doriswaddington2418  MSG fearmongering has been revealed to be a hoax to ensure US products get more sales instead.
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  21. In Dubai I grew up in an apartment that had a normal bathroom w/ toilet and also a separate tiolet room with bidet (like the stand-alone traditional bidet, not the handheld or japanese type).
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  22. Maybe. But I doubt many would give up office jobs for manual labor
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  23. Yep! Passports are property of the state that issued it, so Japan has no right to take or destroy your foreign passport. Just agree to them that you are indeed planning to rescind the foreign passport, and never use the foreign passport or the foreign state's services like the embassy while you're in Japan. The same applies vice versa (in the foreign country). Do note that there may be some unlucky individuals who get caught though, don't get caught or you'll lose the Japanese one - that one they can take.
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  24. 😂 Rich catholic priests is correct. I graduated from one of the top universities, a Catholic one. Naturally the priests there have the latest iphones, macs, etc hidden in their living quarters. People will gift anything tp priests thinking it will absolve them of their evil doing.
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  25. he needs space for staff & security. Being a publicly known billionaire has more costs than being a discrete one. Less risks to handle. Unnamed billionaires could walk the streets & shop on their own for example. Public figures like him, not so much. Everything has to be done by someone else.
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  26. 17:27 the Tokyo Mansions Google result are mostly from a gated neighborhood in the Philippines called.. "Tokyo Mansions" in South Forbes. It's next to "Bali Mansions" & "Phuket Mansions". Click-bait housing developer marketing scheme eh? In fact only 4 results in that screenshot are in Japan LOL
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  27. It's still common in South Korea. You just leave the whole tray & its contents outside your front door & the delivery guys will retrace all his routes that day to collect them.
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  28. Underground is generally safer than above ground as long as you don't cross any fault lines.
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  29. Only strippers & other hosting-like professions expect tips. And even most of them, you're supposed to tip through buying more alcohol from the establishment - it'll be a "generated sale" by the employee which they compute every night.
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  30. When I was a fresh grad I had to leave the house at 3am. At night I arrive around 10 or 11pm. It went on for a couple years till I gave myself an ultimatum & now rent an apartment near work. This of course meant I lose savings & rely on credit cards to offset expenses. The occasional work bonuses are my lifeline right now haha.
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  31. I hate suits! Specially when I was a fresh grad! So pretentious! Expeting me to wear a suit when our country is tropical and I was too poor to own a car?? Meanwhile the out of touch boomers are OK with suits because they drive their own cars, protected from the heat. Totally impractical and plain pretentious. Traditional Philippine corporate culture in a nutshell.
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  32. I'm assuming it's more of a regular customer & elderly neighborhood person being nice & caring, kind of like them offering him hot drinks. Do not tip.
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  33. "What's the transportation system like where you're from?" Well, for one, the train authority in Manila recently recommended an additional 2-3 hour allowance in people's travel time... So it's basically like flying internationally if we ever wanna go to work. Trains are slow too, because of poor maintenance. Usually outside of rush hour, vehicles on the road will be overtaking the trains overhead. As for buses, it's quite common to wait for hours at the bus stop because the buses are all packed right to the doors. People will be running alongside the arriving buses in hopes that the doors open right in front of them. Literally a survival of the fittest type of situation. Commuters with small children, the pregnant, and the elderly have no choice but to wait rush hour out while standing on the sidewalk.
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  34. ​ @Jordan-inJapan even Mt Fuji has wifi for climbers 🤣
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  35. its what is popular. same how most see Japan as anime. America as hollywood. etc. Before kpop became popular I'm sure most would only know about North Korea and the Kim regime.
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  36. Not just any Asian. They discriminate against those who don't look East Asian.
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  37. well, there's the being naked with your colleagues part in the tiny baths but then again that's normal there
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  38. In most public places, only umbrellas and bags with nothing really valuable in it.. in safer (more affluent) areas we leave phones and gadgets too but never wallets.
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  39. I mean it's kinda done in the US as well. You can't change the exterior of historical buildings/districts. Sometimes if it's a district ordinance you can't even build modern architecture. The US has strict zoning overall.
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  40. You have to stop depending on extended family, for starters. The utang-na-loob factor is big on guilt. Yes you become less close with them, but it also allows you more flexibility to be free.
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  41. The people who own these would probably also have party houses within central Tokyo, which also sounds insane as they are literally relatively large residences built solely to host parties, but that's just how it is for those with money.
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  42. You can't legally sell anything with YouTube & it's logo on it as they are brands owned by Google.
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  43. Do they actually work? I think we have some in our backyard because our dogs are going wild, and rats/mice mean snakes will come too.
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  44. Jeepneys are so unsafe. To this day I have no idea how any sane policy maker thinks the jeepney system passes any safety regulations for public transport in a crowded city. I almost got hit once while getting off a jeepney because the one behind it lost their brake. Good thing the driver swerved to the curb and hit the pole right beside me.
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  45. It is. The better table you're not even allowed to touch & is only for when there are visitors, & then the everyday thing that's allowed to get dirty. Of course this is only for houses with space that allows it, meaning usually provinces & suburbs.
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  46. Pretty much me when my parents sent me here for college after raising me overseas. I had to figure it all out alone with new found friends in university. Survived a couple pickpocket & scam attempts, got lost more times than I liked, but overall easy to get used to.
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  47. it also has 2 train stations (one of which an express line stop) and expressway exits, so not really NIMBY enough to be West Vancouver level of puckered hemorrhoid butthole
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  48. I agree. None of the houses shown were middle class. Maybe the condo passes for lower middle?
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  49. you'd have to consider wages as well
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  50. The Philippines idolizes the US too much, which is why it's filled with failure on a national scale.
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