Interesting things about living here

(according to expats):

• Shop, eat, spa, beach, scuba, skin-diving
• Fresh fruits: pina, mangoes
• 3-course meal (cocktails, wine, dessert, coffee) = $20-25
• cash society
• 150,000 expat community – largest (?) in the world
• sense of time – everybody is moving at half speed here
• woven crafts, pearls, custom-made clothing
• festivals (mostly religious): crucifixions, water festivals, black Nazarene
• nature trips
• books: Dogeaters (Hagedorn), Culture Shock Philippines (Roces)
• fishing
• museum-hopping
• silk, carvings
• balisong butterfly knives
• Filipiniana
• Chinese and American Cemetery
• Jollibee