http://www.LivingInthePhilippines.comis theORIGINAL, firstPhilippines Expat site on the Net, since 1989. This is not one of many knock-offs, copycats, imitations. Some have permutations of the names,misspellings and "in" and "the" or "ing." left off to deceive you. This is the original, by: Don A. Herrington
NCR, Barangay Karuhatan, Valenzuela City
House is located on Cayetano St, a standard pinoy
non-subdivision residential street about 1000 meters from
Macarthur Highway.
Type of residence:
single detached bungalow
Size of house:
3 Bedroom, 2 CR, dirty kitchen & carport
Own or
Rent:
rent
Cost of Rent:
12,000
Electricity:
3000
Water:
Water City120Water (purified): P35/5 gal
(pick-up), P40/5 gal (delivered)
Gas:
250
Phone:
460
Cable:
650
DSL:
use pre-paid dialup
Power
Outages:
seldom, average about once per
2-3 months for no short duration.
Water Outages:
daily from about 7 pm until about 11 pm
DSL:
available – cannot comment otherwise because I
use only pre-paid dial-up ISPs.
Cable TV:
Sky cable – quality just OK (lately reception
on Star Sports has been HORRIBLE), occasional short duration
system outages.
Air Quality:
fair, some trash burning occurs in area,
plus smog from vehicles on Macarthur Highway (about 1000 meters
from our house)
Noise:
3
Traffic:
light traffic on residential road (Cayetano St)
but usually very heavy traffic on MacArthur.
Public Trans:
all forms readily available (bus, taxi, jeepney,
tricycle) literally no wait time on main road (MacArthur)
Stores:
SM Valenzuela 5 min walk, South Supermarket and
Pure Gold nearby, about 20 – 30 min via jeepney to Caloocan
circle (north end of EDSA extension and Rizal Ext.) with Grand
Central Mall, Ever Dep’t Store, small Robinson’s mall, Uniwide
store and major appliance stores (Abenson, Western) and more.
Also about 30-45 min drive to SM Marilao and about the same to
SM North EDSA.
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