Back to the Philippines

I was fortunate to be able to have time to come back to this new area several times. I particularly like the fact that this place is a product of well-thought out urban planning. Prices of land have already gone up for the past few years. This wasn’t there when I left in 1996 and I am very impressed as to how it has developed.

Basically, you have here places for upscale and middle class shopping and dining. Market! Market! is quite middle class. The other nice place is Serendra and High Street which is more upscale. Both places have nice open air areas where one can hangout. We were at Serendra one evening for dinner and the place was packed with yuppies even at 10pm and that was in the middle of the week!

Transportation is also not a problem. One one side of the Market! Market! is a taxi line

and I think on another area I saw a whole public transportation terminal complete with signs. I saw various signs for transportation to major cities in Metro Manila.

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