Quote Originally Posted by blue matt View Post
Ross Kemp did a program on Manila , it said that the Government have really cracked down on " Shaboo " and communities even get rewards if they grass people up who are using it ( I got 3 drugs in that sentence, impressive )
I was there in 2005 and to be honest I had no awareness of the drug problem there at the time, probably because I was staying in a nice 4 star hotel in the business district.

Guns are quite common there and you can see the American culture influence, a lot of the men walk about without shirts on displaying their gang tattoos.

Those people who are lucky enough to have a good paying job will live in gated communities. I don't think I've ever seen so many armed private security guards in all my life, they are everywhere in Manila.