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[R-Seoul]

Might have the possibility of a (non-teaching) job in Manila, whilst i like the Philippines I'm a bit reticent to move to the big bad capital.

Have any of you lived in Manila or can anyone recommend a good expat board?

[Tiger Beer]

I can recommend a real interesting book:

"HEY JOE: A Slice of the City - An American in Manila" by Ted Lerner.

Essentially its a Jewish-American guy from Pennsylvania who after 8 years in Hawaii.. made a visit to the Philippines and never left. He's now a columnist for a newspaper and writes short stories of observations of Manila. He compiled many of his stories and made a book. Great book too! You can order it online - Amazon.com has it.

[ttompatz]

[I-am-me]

If you like busy cities and smog, you might like Manila. Here is an excellent board to get info on philppines living. I've used it for several years.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LivingInThePhilippines3/

[Tiger Beer]

Some other forums for the Philippines

www.gov.ph/FORUM/

Good site on living in the Philippines:

http://www.livinginthephilippines.com/

That website has a lot of info.. their forum is lacking and needs a bit of activity though: http://livinginthephilippines.com/forum/index.php

[Lonewolf]

I have heard good news and bad but I have never had any trouble there. If you are careful you will be ok. There are other foreigners there who will help you check out PIatnight.com chat with Trance he can help you a lot.

[Tiger Beer]

Anyone know much about the expat scene in Manila?

Mostly business-types or all kinds? What kind of businesses are most involved in?

[Matman]

There's definitely not much of an expat scene. One think I loved about Manila was going around the markets and being the only white person. On the plane home almost all other passengers were Filipino overseas workers. The only expat I met was a priest!

I should think other expats are the usual mulitinationals/IT/engineering types.