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I don't know if I got the right message out of your post Kick2Dante, but you seem very bitter towards the idea, correct me if I'm wrong. All I want to do is collect as much knowledge as possible before I travel somewhere, and in exchange, I hope I can help other people out later that wants to do the same thing. I've gone to places after too little information before and wasted a lot of travel money 'cause I couldn't find enough information before. No information can tell you that you will love a destination or not, but it can be a great guideline.
No, this is actually EXACTLY what he is doing, and what he has been doing.
He was being sarcastic in his most recent post.
He has no experience in the Philippines at all, or even the 3rd world so of course some of his questions are going to come across as naive or downright dumb to experienced veterans of 3rd world living.
If Paul B would instead take a moment to think back to when he was new to the 3rd world himself, and didn't have a ****ing clue about anything either he'd probably realize he was in similar shoes to the ones K2D is in now, and he would ease up on him a bit, maybe even help him out.
Sure your way of doing research Disorienter is perhaps much more sophisticated and superior, but 99% of people aren't going to do it that way, most people are going to go about it the way K2D and myself do, relentlessly ask those with more experience question after question no matter how seemingly inane or dumb they may seem, until we have enough answers to construct a solid idea of the way things are there, and what we should do when we are first starting out there.
And there is nothing wrong with that method, I know that from personal experience.