Besides my pictorials that I post from time to time a friend of mine sent me this and it hits the nail right on the head for me. Sorry for the book but I think if he would have left anything out the point might have been missed..........................................................................................
You ask me why I do not return to the USA (read)
I'm am American and from U.S.A. where we are over-taxed, over-regulated, and any slip up will land you in jail. A mere greeting at a female to say hi and they think you're molester or that you are sexually harrassing them and will report you. When you walk out into public its like you have to put on this front of being proper and correct and don't step out of line or your going to get nailed for something.
I find the freedom of the Philippines breathtaking and therapeutic. You can drink outside and talk to women you don't know. Piss on the street. Buy sex without fear of getting arrested, have somebody killed for 20 dollars, drive a vehicle that wouldn't pass any stateside standards. Hit on shop girls all day long and girls at the mall. Drink on the beach. Fit a family on a motorcycle with no helmets. Drunk driving? No problem. Pot holes that swallow cars. Women wearing short skirts up to their ass waving at you as your driving by blowing kisses. Con men trying to get your money, vendors chasing you, smoke anywhere you goddam please.
Beer is so fucking cheap at 40 cents, Cigerattes even cheaper. Food is cheaper than anywhere back home. The air is shit. Heavily armed security guards hoisting M-16's and shotguns everywhere. Casino's. Massage parlours and bars full of women you can have a good time with for the price of a pizza back home. Men driving around wearing masks so you don't know if they are going to rob you or sell you something. Small stores and shops crowd out into the street blocking traffic. Gambling on the streets. Transvestites walking hand in hand. People are poor but smiling like they don't have a care in the world. Being a slob is OK, no dress code whatsoever.
All the above gives the Philippines it's unique flavor and risk and adventure and excitement, because you really don't know what the hell is going to happen from one moment to the next. It gets the blood going and adrenalin rushing. If you have the money you can literally do anything you want in this country. Good or bad, like it or not. Girls will work in bars to make money. That will never go away. The best we can do is treat them nice and not abuse them physically or knock them up and destroy their lives unless we are willing to pay for that baby, but even that is up to you. I choose living here with all the dirt and crime and corruption. I like it. I find it better than the dull, boring, predictable, expensive U.S. I can be at the ocean one week, then the mountains the next. Go to Manila and meet all new people who want to know me because I'm a rich white handsome Americano and age doesn't matter.
Guys who live and work or visit Southeast asia are a different breed. We don't go by the norm's of society. We are outside the regular hustle and bustle of the bullshit that our different cultures have rammed down our throats growing up. We yearn and live for excitement and different cultures. We're not happy unless we are being challenged by new and exciting venues to see what we are really made off. What I learned in the Philippines helped me in Cambodia and Thailand. Thats the beauty of it all. We can take all of our experience's and mix and mash it all together to go to other places in southeast asia and survive on our own.
For me I'm proud of my life and what I have learned from asia and Angeles City and Thailand and more places to come. I don't regret it and I'm not ashamed of being with bargirls or going inside bars or having fun at 3 in the morning screaming on the beach acting like an idiot. You can't buy these moments for any amount of money. When your old and on your death bed you will always remember how crazy you were in asia and all the fun and stupid things that all of us have done. No regrets. What I will NOT remember or think about is the money-grabbing self-centered women in my own country or how hard I worked at my job. It's a reality I don't have to deal with anymore. I care about brown exotic women in southeast asia.
Thats what makes me happy and free and to hell with anyone who thinks I'm a bad person or need to "grow up." I wouldn't trade my life with anyone.
Why I Live In Asia
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John
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