Life in the Philippines pt 2 | Homes, Family & Work

Hello world, this is my third video about the Philippines, so if you missed those two, I put the links in the description of this video. How about we dive into things and check out some houses first? Let's talk to Jordan, who lives with her sister, her husband and her nephew, who just so you know are not the other people you see in the pictures of the house, how come you don't have notices right now ? Oh, it's daytime, yes, on energy saving, oh, okay, see if there's money. Yes, yes, here in the Philippines, yes, although my camera doesn't show it, it is indeed dark in the house and Jordan is right, energy is expensive in the Philippines, especially in Manila, so there is a hole in the roof because He's trying to fix a water leak and this.

It's just me confirming that those are new shoes on the bed, which were, this room is messier because they have a kid here, they have a kid here, yeah, and then you can see that, oh, wait in your rooms, there's no wall. , yeah, just for no ventilation, this is where your bath ball is, yeah, so you just crouch over it, so you use that to clean your tummy, yeah, or you use your hand to wash yourself. Let's pause my shaky camera for a second, so I'm told it's a typical middle class house you'll use the bucket and tabal to wash, there's no shower head and most likely you won't have hot water, everything gets wet, so you would wear slippers so this just dries yeah so it's not like a dishwasher what?

What I was told is that dishwashers in the Philippines are not popular. If you're not rich, you can't afford one. If you are rich, you would have a maid make them and this is me enjoying Filipino hospitality. Thanks to the Jordan handle. Next we visit Jessica and her

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who live in a gated community, unfortunately for all the health stores, I did a terrible job talking and filming at the same time, so I'll summarize conversations much like this, this is her father's room and she said her mom stays at her sister's house, which shares the same backyard as this house.

I continued asking about the CR that the comfort room has, it's called in the Philippines and why not use a curtain that separates the toilet and shower which they don't want. have Curtis but I want to have curtains cut the bathroom oh yeah they give priority to the bathroom as long as there is a shower and a toilet bowl that's already the bathroom so this is my cousin's room haha ​​he It has remained with us since then. He was a little boy and without having happy primaries like my father's author, we have my cousin here, this is supposed to be my mom's room, he has some prejudices or places where you can hang out, I'm dying, he We called Ryan like he was nice and full-bodied.

Okay, so here we have a balcony that then overlooks everything, um, my dad's garden. With this footage I did an even worse job than the house tour and didn't even record sound, however I was impressed by the variety of fruits so I wanted to show them off. you here, of course, are bananas and this is actually a banana heart or a banana flower and this is soursop here is a papaya tree and this is passion fruit and the little dog here is rambutan this one is called jackfruit now we're looking a pumpkin, I think this is a water apple, but I'm not 100% sure.

Lastly, this is a pineapple plant. I never knew they looked like this now, back to the tour of the house. I love it, I love hanging here initially, your house is only up to this wall and then we had an extension and then another extension, so Filipinos like to have extensions next if we extend the house for the duration of their lease. Yes, peace there while Jessica was showing me the real estate. Her mother joined us, she and her team actually sold many of the houses in this gated area. community agent my three children finished university through my commission oh and this is our third house third uh yes we have been lately and we have in San Pedro Norma and Dino's houses have their third yes sir so we have those angels and the saint of the Trinity and the Holy Family, whatever value you have for a dining room, there is no house for visitors and then the sea, yes, now I'm skipping a bit, but here is the fourth house I visited, you see the formal dining room and then the two rooms.

The rooms to the left and right were not used during my visit, instead it was a small kitchen table around which we gathered. I thought it was pretty funny because it's exactly what happens at my dad's house in Canada, anyway, he shows me. He had never seen them like this before. Yes, they are going to have drawers like this here because of the termites and if you like it, you want to move from one place to another. Yes, it is easier, as I will say in Japan. This is very important to us, they are ice coolers, typical, you know, the calendar is just this one and then this is where you just cut, this is where we cook our food, but here we just cook simple food, yeah, so if you want cook like, for example, vanilla. like the one we add the meat to it we cook it here so we use firewood ah there so this is where my mom cooks happiness if you cook the rice using firewood it is a different flavor in the province we also have this one it is very essential yes As was the norm, they invited me to delicious food, so fresh fruits from her father's garden and homemade food from her mother's kitchen.

I even bought a takeout container, thank you. Now we are going to visit another gated community where the last one was. the provinces with houses and now we are in Metro Manila and this is full of apartments and has a resort feel to it, so the type of people that live here, so you would think middle class to upper middle class. because if you look at the rent, it's usually between eighteen and twenty-five thousand and if you were someone who

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s in the office, if you were maybe in that office for about five years, your salary would be around the thirty thousand range, so only when you're manager of a department you look at the salary of fifty thousand pesos, so generally people who earn at least 50, 50 to 70 can afford a place like this, so let's take a little tour.

Of the facilities available there are some swimming pools, this one is for doing laps, behind it there is an indoor basketball court and in another building we found the indoor gym, there were signs of noise and garbage and, in fact, the place was quieter and cleaner than others places I visited. a small convenience store and most importantly a place to fill up on clean water, there's even a water tank on top just in case, it's also right on the river with a green space to walk your dogs mate Hey, so are you going to swim there?

It's that unit with the plastic on top it's just for shade, the one in the back is banana when I asked to film the interior this is the answer I got but they let me film a bit of their

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space that they use for their I work online jobs and in the background you can see the small kitchen they have, they will come back to cook at home and talk about work later, however, now let's take a look at Eileen's parents' house, the largest of them all , yeah, it's this one with a huge square footage that I actually made.

I don't film much since I know it's nowhere near your average Filipino home, but this is the guest room I had to myself. I even had my own Comfort room with a bathroom, plus the Thai mom left out all this stuff for me that I didn't get a chance to eat since she also made these delicious ribs. Now there are houses where I didn't film the interior. Our informal settlements are the people of the ISS who built their houses to the point where they are already cement, they are no longer like wooden houses. then someone says, oh, let's develop this land now and you have to move, okay, our house is already made of stone, it's already cemented, so we could pack up and leave, our livelihood is here, so you would like to go where wants us to go.

You have to give us housing, that's been a problem for the last three years and then they send them to the provinces where there are real houses and then they come back saying, "Oh, we couldn't find any livelihood there, it's estimated that there are 1.3 millions of people". Percentage of Metro Manila's population lives in informal settlements. I will quote the World Bank Group report. Within the migration of those who aspire to a better

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from rural areas to urban centers there has been an increase in demand for jobs, housing infrastructure and basic services in major cities, but the government has not been able to address the increase of demand given the accelerated pace, the result has been the pro

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ration of informal settlers in urban areas without adequate access to decent living conditions.

If you look at the cables, most FS have access to electricity, although it is indeed expensive. expensive in the world as such many resort to shared connections they are skipping an illegal connection to neighbors our public electricity only 46 percent of

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have a proper connection in my previous video I already talked about how waste collection was a problem, what I did What I didn't mention was that besides polluting the waterways when garbage is dumped there and polluting the air when the burned solid waste leaches and contaminates the soil, causing health problems and in my first video about the Philippines I covered what it's like Commuting, transportation is a huge expense for residents in informal settlements that currently accounts for 15% of household spending and will only increase as congestion in Metro Manila worsens.

There are a variety of transportation methods that a Filipino student can take, for example, there is the school service van. I also see that students are picked up on tricycles that probably pick them up according to a pre-booked time slot. In the case of the

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I stayed with, they had a gang that came right to their doors to pick them up. It is this cost of additional transportation, as well as uniforms, textbooks, school supplies and lunches that make the system of free public education from kindergarten to grade 12 not truly free as a result of those living in informal settlements, 22.4% had primary education or less and 30.6% dropped out of high school, so basically half of the residents do not graduate from high school and the main reason seems to be financial, both because of the cost of education as well as the opportunity cost of not having young contributing family members at an early age on the opposite end of the spectrum that we have already entered. another gated community to see how the super rich lived in Metro Manila.

They have security guards who actually do proper security checks, so we needed an internal connection to enter once inside the totally transformed cityscape. This could happen on a street in Canada or the United States. If you take a quick look, the streets were not busy, there was not much noise, there were lots of trees, there were joggers and dog walkers and even houses with front yards, however, there were some indications that this was not a typical, if not richer. The Canadian neighborhood, firstly there were the gates restricting access to the area, then there was the shiny fire truck on the street, lastly there were the hired cleaners who made sure the roads were tidy and I specifically said Canadian neighborhood because, although there are many closed communities. in the United States are few and far between in Canada to live here in this exclusive neighborhood of Makati you need to be a millionaire, this is really where the elites live, especially considering that the median household income in the Philippines is around five thousand US dollars from We're talking about money, let me tell you about these guys who make a living fishing.

We caught them organizing their hooks under a busy bridge so the audio couldn't be used at some points, so they told us they would be out on the water every day. from 7 p.m. at 4 a.m. Fishing with a flashlight, they sell the fish at a local market and then have to reset the 4,000 hooks they dropped at Jordan's house. We found out about his current employment situation. I'm not employed right now, okay, but I am. working on it in Japan or Canada when you are unemployed the government gives you money no no one would work well so how do you survive here in the Philippines if we don't have a job?

We're still looking for some noise. Side jobs survive, yeah, party planner, yeah, like that, okay, we do some free birthday photo shoots, birthday performances like that, but we're a family, we help each other survive, yeah, so he lives with his sister, his brother-in-law and his nephew, and he is my brother. he's the one who just got a job here at Nikola Norman's we learn about online work so I started at a company and then I got tired of the company so I decided to look for more freelance work because I had enough experience on my resume to say that I can do certain things, it's a lot of project management, which is why there's a lot of e-commerce website creation in retail stores.Amazon, so anything you can do on the Internet, basically, I figured out how to do it and I offer it as a service. now I only have one main client so it's enough to survive because when you compare the cost of living with what you can earn per dollar it's very competitive it's even much better than what I used to earn well I earn between 700 and $1,000 per month, depending on if I can do more projects at this time.

I am a web developer for a Canadian company. Yes, with our qualifications and educational background, you think we would be doing more with our potential. A good example of This is Nicola Norman, they both went to the University of the Philippines which is ranked third. De La Salle Nicole has a bachelor's degree in creative writing, while Norman has a bachelor's degree in computer science with a concentration in software development, if you say they are from the US or Canada. I have certain expectations of someone who was raised in a third world country, so it's not like that, in other words, they just don't trust us with something bigger like yeah, it's just too big a risk.

I mean, you've never met the person they're thousands of miles away, they were educated in a third world country, you don't know them, far beyond online work from home, they're for a BPO, a process outsourcing company. commercials, there are many Filipinos who work abroad, they are called OFWs, they are overseas Filipino workers and as of 2018 there were 2.3 million of them. An example of a former OFW was our truck driver. He worked abroad in Saudi Arabia as a driver for about three years. With that money he was able to get a house, but he did not own his own truck.

He went abroad again this time to Dubai for a year and a half and the bar is owned by a foreign leader who said he won't start the engine. Wow, some people I talked to had ambitions of becoming citizens of a foreign country, many others did something similar to our truck. Interestingly, one driver who used it as a way to step up in life, although he owns his own tricycle, says that he doesn't earn more than others in his association, but since he owns it he doesn't need to work. in the evenings. Like the other guys, thank you very much, so Filipinos, at least from what I read and from observation, are willing to put up with the fact that as long as you leave the country for several years you will not see your family. so you know, just to give them a better life because you're making more than you could make here because how much does a nurse make here?

Fifteen thousand pesos. These numbers are from an online job site for Filipino workers, so I can't. I attest to their accuracy, but having spoken to several different locals, they don't appear very far away. The left column is what Filipinos can earn by working locally, while the right column is what they could earn by working online. My next interviewee has also been working. online but now he is in the process of moving to Japan to become OFW during factory work so yes I am on bike and I am from Baguio City. Well, I work for a call center for almost two years, and that's it. for the incoming account they were on we take calls so we take orders and set them up for pickup and delivery okay so if this for Sioux Shelly Oh Swiss Chalet is not just a Canadian restaurant it was no lie my restaurant Favorite when I was young.

I asked him what The amount of money he earned I started at 12 Towson during my first year in comparison, the NCR, the National Capital Region, has the highest minimum wage in the Philippines with five hundred and thirty-seven pesos, which is about $10 American dollars. However, one day where he lives in Baguio, the minimum wage was more than 300 pesos a day, so by answering calls for a Swiss chalet he was able to earn almost double what he could earn with free local jobs. I am now working at home due to a long trip. His online job, which involves teaching English to Chinese students, has the potential to earn almost double his starting salary taking calls for Swiss Chalet, so it's easy to understand why he upgraded to a job he can do from house and by the hour.

Recently she has been training to work in Japan. For me, I will work as a weaving operator and in the company. I think most of the filth would take this opportunity to like working abroad because of the salary of course and for the experience to get out. of the country and, of course, supporting her family financially, supporting the family was a recurring theme in all the conversations I had with Filipinos. I'm supporting my siblings' tuition because my parents can't pay it, so a lot of people are in that same situation, they have siblings, they have parents that need their financial support, that's a very classic story, yeah, anyway, that's it. an expectation for brothers.

In Cyprien's case, it was her family that helped pay for her 2-year IT course and it is her family too. especially her older sisters who are helping pay for her training to go to Japan. Her father is an OFW, so he was the one who supported us financially. He has been in Canada for six or seven years and before that he liked to work. Also in other countries, so we grew up without being with him for a long time. Her father recently obtained permanent residency in Canada, and while his mother and her 15-year-old younger brother were able to join him, Cyprien and her three other siblings did as well. age to be sponsored, while I previously said that there were currently 2.3 million Filipinos working abroad, an even more surprising statistic is that it is estimated that ten point two million Filipinos have sought or worked abroad, given that the country has a population of around 100 million which is a good 10 percent who are or have been abroad know someone abroad my children two children know they are working on a ship one of the reasons why work abroad is that they would like to see other places free, of course, the side that is great, when you work abroad like the minimum like on a cruise or I worked the smallest salary you could get is like $500 a month and you don't pay for the rang you don't pay for the food yes, that's 500 take home Jessica's mother has two sisters working abroad, one in Japan in a tofu factory and another in Canada in a home for the elderly, so Please indulge me for a second as a flash from a previous scene, so this is my cousin's room and he has been staying with us since he was little. boy so he's staying here right now you always the meadow is your family before the rose before you so again I'm about 25 minutes into this issue and I still have so many images I promised to talk about food and travel in the previous video.

So how about this? Let's do a quick montage of a select portion of the food I ate, for example, Nicole specifically shot plates of wild boar and cooked meat, like it's called a target area because it looks like a cream, so it's a Filipino curry tank that she too did. It's called Bicol Express because it comes because I also went to a night market where, you know, there was music. I'm making the takoyaki first, okay, and in Tagaytay I hope to pronounce it right. I also went to a essentially most of the things we tried to order are not available but we made the most of it in Bulacan, we ordered so many dishes at this pick and grill place, just look at this montage and even though this is not technically Filipino food, please soup dumplings whose name I won't even try to pronounce we are probably the tastiest dumplings I have ever eaten and did I mention these homemade ribs I think they were the best ones that have ever touched my lips despite rushing through the whole meal let me go slower.

Please take a brief moment so we can learn about a popular Filipino export banana. I actually went to some plantations in Davao, so Davao in Mindanao is the banana capital of the Philippines, it's basically where we grow all the Cavendish because Doyle doesn't want it. So she's talking about Cavendish bananas like this one, which account for almost half of the world's banana production. The regulation there is very strict, to be an expert in quality, you have to meet certain standards, so if the banana, the bunch of bananas does not meet that. then they usually reject them so they put them all in this pile to be thrown away or they will just become animal feed because the Philippines doesn't eat Cavendish, instead they prefer something like Los Angeles to none which according to I'm told, it's long and The sweet, excellent smoothies are the key that it's smaller, paler, starchier and heartier now for those travel images, while in the Philippines I traveled quite a bit, often stuck in places a bit more Noisier than I liked.

One of my solutions to enjoy that time was to listen to an audible audiobook with my noise canceling headphones, one of the books I'm listening to now is 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. I find it very appropriate while researching the Philippines as the book is about current events. Concerns like work, international cooperation, trust in data sources and immigration, with so much to worry about, what do you do? I think this audiobook helps give you perspective on important topics like it encourages you to be more thoughtful and less reactionary thanks to audible for sponsoring this video I have personally been a member since 2011, if you are not already a member get your first audiobook for free plus of audible originals when you try audible for 30 days visit audible.com slash life where i come from our text life form from 2,500,500 in case you're wondering, audible originals are exclusive audio titles created by celebrated storytellers from worlds as diverse as literature, theater journalism and more.

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Thank you to all those who took Me home and shared their stories with me. I learned a lot and was moved many times thanks to my patreon and IndieGoGo followers for helping fund this video series and lastly, thanks for watching, until next time, bye if you've worked. abroad. What was your experience? Free sauce refill at a McDonald's.