We have the same fully tropical climate so I guess urbanity has developed in a similar way :) I think if you came to Metro Manila you’d feel “at home” while still being abroad.
I'm from Indonesia. I see that Manila is very similar to Jakarta: the greenery between the skyscrapers, the type of cars they're driving, the scooters, how the road looks. And because of these similarities, it kinda weirded me out a little bit seeing that you guys drive on the right side of the road (us Indonesians drive on the left side). It's like looking at a familiar picture but you feel like there's something off about it 😂 much love my South East Asian family.
Philippines don’t use scooters much than the other Southeast Asian countries. Those scooters you see from this video, most of them were from food delivery service not for personal use
tambah 1 lg pak habbit berkendaranya jg paling mendekati jakarta, pada ringan tangan semua sm tombol klakson, dan keberadaan kendaraan legendaris mereka JEEPNEY mirip2 era kopaja metromini orange di kita dulu
I think the Philippines in general will be more popular with tourism once the New Manila International Airport opens. This new airport will be in Bulacan. There are plans for improved roadway and train infrastructure connecting NMIA to and from downtown Manila.
I believe once the Metro Manila Subway is completed, the congestion will be solved, once the Jeepney Modernization is implemented pollution will be drastically lessen. Manila has a great future on the right leaders ☘️
hopefully it does but part of me thinks traffic on exit points of the subway will impede its effectiveness developing and urbanizing areas outside of manila may be the key to easing the concentration of where people would want to live thereby lessen the congestion it's good government still has high hopes of solving the traffic problem but infrastructure investment outside of metro manila should be as equally important
No, it will not solve the traffic issue, but it will surely mitigate it. the only way it can solve the traffic is improving other urban region in luzon.
@@wildboy3937 nope! modernized Manila, Cebu and Davao only! Just like in Japan, they modernized Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Yokohama. And they preserved the provinces and its nature.
@@AtlasMan-ec4vv wtf you are even saying? those japanese places you've mention are well established cities even way before, Tokyo was not even a simple capital, it is surrounded with well developed neighboring provinces, Tokyo, Nagoya, and Osaka, are 3 metropolitan areas, Taihyo belt, a megalopolis. even US has megalopolis, which name north east megalopolis compose of Boston, New york, Philadelpia, Washington. to maximize manila it needs to synergize with other neighboring metropolitan.
Because motorcycle riders are fined Php 1,500 or $27 (1st offence) , Php 3,000 or $54 (2nd offence) , Php 5,000 or $88 (3rd offence) AND Php 10,000 or $178 (4th and succeeding offences) if they don't wear their helmets while riding on highways )
Metro Manila does not have a smog problem here. You can clearly see the clouds even in a duller color scheme. Streets are well-maintained with no garbage even on non-business districts or the suburbs and even the walls of the underpasses have plants in them. They have transformed the whole city into an eco system of its own.
@@noeminoemi1350traffic wont improve if the public transportation didn't improve, tbh the traffic got worse when the skyway was introduced during duterte admin, and they admit it that it will solve traffic, but no. Because building more roads will make the traffic worse, and this us what we called the induced demand
@@datuhenson3758 because it lies of mt. Apo and some durian farms and other places are protected areas so they cannot touch it, so reclamation is only their choice same as manila
There’s nothing to do with São Paulo and I’m from São Paulo. Manila is way more modern. It totally looks like a US city combined such as Miami, Los Angeles, San Francisco….
As an Indonesian, this looks similar to Indonesia but looks like something's different and I realise that Philippines driving on the right side of the road (Indonesia is driving on the left side on the road, road sceneries, and the type of their cars. One day, I'll visit Philippines to compare this country with Indonesia
Habang tumatagal, paganda ng paganda ang metro manila bumibilis ang pag-unlad kaliwa’t kanan na yung mga ginagawang gusali,paupahan may mga nag lalakihang reclamation pa. chariz Pero seryoso gumaganda na talaga ang metro manila, kunpara noon na sobrang gulo medyo maayos nadin ang transportasyon may pag pipiliian kana kung brt, jeep o tren sana mag tuloy-tuloy pag unlad natin hindi lang sa maynila, sa ibang parte din ng pilipinas
May mga bago ding syudad ngayon nagulat ako ganito na itsura ng aseana parang dati ghost town sya tapos ngayon grabe na sa development ruclips.net/video/W1mXSP6cZyI/видео.htmlsi=fiuhDXFfHH9suapx ruclips.net/video/H-9AESistd8/видео.htmlsi=yIvVQWT1reWpgSgp
@@Nicky-zm5ybnot only that. People tend to focus on Metro Manila but nearby cities and provinces are rapidly developing as well. Take Cavite and Bulacan as an example. New villages, malls and business centers are being built left and right.
In answer to your question, its because unlike all the other neighboring Southeast Asian countries that actively censor media from going to poorer areas, the Philippines is a liberal democracy. Media agencies exploit this relative democratic freedom to crop their reports and cast it in an exagerratedly bad light (bad news gets views). A minority of Metro Manila is actually considered 'slums' (between 15-17% of the total urbanity, in line with national poverty statistics), but you find many foreign content creators and journalists (and money focused local content creators) going just to the slum areas to get loads of views via 'poverty porn'. its big business, even on RUclips. Its unfair to the masses of Filipinos who are bettering their lives through quietly working hard, and disregards any of the groundbreaking projects that have been introduced here over the last 6-8 years to fuel this rapid economic growth he country is still benefitting from. If the recent 4PH program pushed by the current president to construct huge housing projects on former slum land continues throughout the country (i read recently that the govt has alredy turned over 1.5 million out of the 6 million projected government-built apartment units so far, still some way to go), there hopefully won't be any more slums for those exploitative content creators and news agencies to 'show off' whatever bad light they can portray the country in. Let's hope that day comes soon. Living here, I have seen a LOT of social mobilization happening at a grass roots level - bafflingly ignored up by the world's news media agencies. Families who used to live in slums able to move into townhouses in lower middle class subdivisions in satellite cities; many are slowly transforming their slums into standard homes by their own hands and hard work, loads of SME start ups supported by other locals reciprocally and funded by govt livelihood-training programmes; whole squatter communities that had stood as blights for decades finally being demolished with their residents getting rehoused into clean purpose-built government tenements or pabahay projects (public housing) and blocking their return to rebuild slums on ilegally squatted land again (something that plagued this country until relatively recently), more low cost condominiums and subdivisions from more ethical land developers like Urban Deca Homes, building on land that used to be slum areas or derelict land to help socially mobilize the working class into the middle classes. These things have been changing Filipino society and the urban landscape here bit-by-bit, year-on-year, for the better. Whlie relative poverty is still a thing among many of the lower-middle class and working class (i.e. a single medical emergency can use up a family's savings if they don't possess a good enough insurer), extreme poverty (the kind you associate with slums and utter destitution) has been decreasing year on year. And its a travesty that the media refuses to show the on-going metamorphosis which is transforming the Philippines into a stable middle economy in the next few years. All for quick viewership, shock and profit.
They should repave the entire stretch of Edsa like a proper highway but don't make it a toll. And plant more palms to make it really tropical green and a South Pacific vibe and feels. Same with C5 it's in bad shape and feels like you're driving in the ocean.
@@imdark4975 they absolutely will. luzon is tropical. there were palm trees everywhere in the video, right from the start lol. did you watch it? and have you ever been here before? the cordilleras and mountain province have pine trees and cold wealther, but everywhere else in luzon is hot, humid and fully tropical.
the problem is, the stretch of EDSA zips through different cities with different local governments. Metro Manila has no unified governor. It's why it looks unorganized because cities have their own rules and level of development, which hampers any future developments
A lot of people got surprised that Manila looks like this, because they have been feed by the news from BBC, CNN, Al jazeera and other media outlets which only show TONDO, a small dot in the map of metro manila. 😅
Wow....fantastic views of metropolitan manila.... Maybe you may also try to visit parlinks city and bridgetowne in C5 Pasig.....the new emerging business district with beautiful land scapes and views.
Seeing this video makes me feel proud about the progress in Metro Manila, which many Southeast Asian neighbors try to raise their eyebrows! Forward Philippines!!! Prove them wrong about what you can do !!!
Tak ada cacat. Tak ada kekurangan. Semua tampak rapih dan tertata. Setiap sudut begitu indah dipandang. Kemacetan juga tidak ditemukan. Sepeda motor juga tidak terlalu banyak berkeliaran.
You can also drive in reclaimed part of Manila like aseana city, entertainment City, Bay City... Or perhaps you can go to the south portion of metro manila and drive around madrigal Business Park, fil-invest City etc
@@blueshirt26obviously way better than boring KL😂 walk around KL and you'll see homeless Malaysians sleeping on sidewalks and littering the streets. You'll see old dilapidated abandoned buildings. You'll see Bangla and indians and it will make you wonder this is Banglaysia 😂
@@blueshirt26you always mentioned pagpag 😂perhaps it's your favorite like the food that you eat in your dirty restaurants with rats and others. LOL it's even in the news in KL
@@richardnuevo do you even looked in a mirror before you talk? 🤣 like the wise men once said "accusation is a confession", Manila is literally one of the worse slum city in the world, only 1% of Manila's area is developed, the rest are a bunch of slums with no sewer, polluted, shanky buildings and homelessness and crime! Nobody even mentions Manila as one of the great cities of Asia not even Southeast Asians, you are living in a lie 🤣
@@blueshirt26 😂 search it then if it's a lie Manila named as one of the best cities in the world and it's infact the leading city destination in the world.
are you using a new camera?? the colors are a bit dull compared to your previous Manila videos. but still nice vid. kudos to you driving at our notorious EDSA. ahaha
thx for the feedback! i continue to experiment with different cameras, in cam settings, export settings etc. and yes, the drivers are courteous so its a relaxing experience overall. manila is doing well
@@jutahYou were in luck for a chill drive. On a busy weekday traffic, vehicles tend to be aggressive going towards the flyover from the right side in 57:50 😅
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I would like to have seen Las Casas de Azucar in Quezon City along Roosevelt Ave., to see a glimpse of Manila's Spanish Colonial period....hope you include this place in your nxt video....
I made that statement as someone who lives in India and understands the contrast. Manila, as the capital of a smaller and better-organized country, sets a different standard compared to New Delhi, which struggles despite its larger population and heavy income resources. If a simple comparison offends you and calls me a comedian, maybe take a step back and reassess. ☮️
2 CHRONICLES 7:14 If My people, who are called by My name, shall humble themselves and pray, and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
@@RihannaCarlaMorganpembohong, did you know that Manila has the biggest slum area in south east Asia,? i always see your comments you always spread hate to Indonesia, you never been to jakarta, i know you are liying, you never been to Mumbai but you say Mumbai looks like jakarta, i've been to Mumbai ITS really different btw
@@yasmine4197 Do you know that TAMBORA in Jakarta is also the biggest slum area in South East Asia? Stop imagining things please. Thank you! Mumbai is a beautiful city full of colonial and historic buildings so please don't look down on Indian Cities
Đông Nam Á đều vậy thôi, ở dạng "developing" trừ Singapore, nhiều người muốn khoe khoang đất nước của mình, chê bai đất nước khác chứ các nước ở dạng "developed" nhiều người ko rảnh đi cãi nhau.
I like Manila, but public transport is not convenient and traffic jam make me sad. Take a look on Moscow! We have the best public transport system in huge city.
Venice Grand Canal Mall is within McKinley Hills, not BGG, both are in Taguig City, Metro Manila. Although, McKinley Hills is not technically part of Bonifacio Global City development area, it is adjacent to it and considered by many as unofficially within BGC Urban Core, including McKinley West.
Told ya Manila is the big apple of Asia and king of skyscrapers as well. Unlike Jakarta or Bangkok which still look like a typical poor 3rd world city, Manila is a fun and lively city with an American city vibe.
Just wondered why bicycles are allowed running in the freeway. Btw, there streets are so clean compared to our streets here in San Francisco, Ca. there are too many homeless encampment in our city. It's becoming to be a 3rd world city.
@felipo2000 not necessarily. Freeways are intended for vehicles only not bicycles. In Western Countries including Japan you will not see bicycles on freeways as the speed of cars are driving 65 miles an hour max..
There are 'expressways' (which are all toll roads) here, which are the same as freeways in the US. Unfortunately none of the roads he travelled in this video were expressways. Search youtube for videos on SLEX (South Luzon Expressway), NLEX (North Luzon Expressway), TPLEX (Tarlac Pangasinan La Union Expressway), Metro Manila Skyway, among others. Those are comparable to what you call freeways in the US, motorways in the UK, autobahns in Germany, or 高速道路 in Japan.
Why are you still using that term? lol because I can give you dozens of 3rd world countries that have way better healthcare, infrastructure, and social security services than many 1st world countries. These terms are no longer relevant really.
@@alroberts193 According to economists, the modern, appropriate categories are underdeveloped, developing, emerging newly industrialized, and developed. The Philippines is an emerging newly industrialized country (NIC). The other countries countries that belong to this category are Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Mexico, and Turkey.
I see that not everyone likes Metro Manila (at least what's shown here). I say, it's not for everyone and that's a good thing. Otherwise, everyone would like to relocate there-that would be very bad indeed. Some (people from other Asian nations mostly) bad mouth the Philippines-it's their way of "raising" their countries up by putting another one down. Philippines does not have a monopoly on crab mentality. It exists in many shapes or form from many corners on this planet. So, it's normal and it's good so that those people get to sleep well at night with the thought (justified or not) that they are in a better place-less people to worry about going over to the Philippines as in our interconnected world over tourism and its negative effects has already reared its ugly heads (think about the beast and its 7 heads) in many places in Europe. To name a few (Spain, Italy and Portugal) Asia (Thailand, Japan). Hopefully, the Philippines with its newfangled zest (brought about by steadily rising GDP) for making the country's infrastructures better, building new world class cities at record pace will finally give its populace the country they always dreamt of and deserve.
except the business districts. The business districts of Metro Manila are on a whole another level. They're very clean, organized, pedestrian friendly, and also safe. Example is BGC. Even foreigners say that no cities in Southeast Asia (except SG of course) is comparable to BGC
@@igilly0261 pause on . 48 sec. You will see one. Anyway LRT and MRT in Metro Manila are passing through Metro Manilas major Arterial Road (EDSA), unfortunately most of the videos not passing through it. Additionally, some of MM LRT and MRT stations are underground plus the under construction first in SouthEast Asia technically Subway System as all the Modern Stations are underground.
Mawala na rin sana mga dayong Bisaya na minsan numero uno naninira nang reputasyon ng Maynila! Mga amplaya sa kabisera! Pero numero uno naman kakapal na umaagaw nang opportunidad ng mga Manileno!
I want if only you can drive from manila to baguio city via skyway stage3 from buendia ave to Balintawak ext all the way to nlex, sctex and tplex, thanks it will will take 4-5hours✌️
Edsa is the most important avenue in the metro yet it looks so shabby. It needs an upgrade badly.If it needs to be privatized, then give it to private entity to run it. As usual the government is incapable.
EDSA is hopeless. It looks dull and monochromatic. All of the structures along it are greasy. The sidewalks are unorganized and claimed by private properties. The sewage system is not properly built. The road itself is has no asphalt.
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You brought back so many memories, I stayed in Makati for a week for business. What a great city is Manila. Thanks for the flashbacks!
I love how this city was planned and built. can’t wait to visit Manila soon.
I can watch these videos all day! Thank you.
glad you enjoy them!
Suatu hari nanti ingin ke Manila dan kota-kota lain di Filipina. ❤
Come visit! Our Makati CBD seems almost similar with Jakarta Thamrin. The area also has car-free Sundays. 😁
you are always welcome here ❤ terima kasih banyak!
It's amazing to see how similar Asian cities like Jakarta and Manilla are in comparison to Panama City...
We have the same fully tropical climate so I guess urbanity has developed in a similar way :) I think if you came to Metro Manila you’d feel “at home” while still being abroad.
I'm from Indonesia. I see that Manila is very similar to Jakarta: the greenery between the skyscrapers, the type of cars they're driving, the scooters, how the road looks. And because of these similarities, it kinda weirded me out a little bit seeing that you guys drive on the right side of the road (us Indonesians drive on the left side). It's like looking at a familiar picture but you feel like there's something off about it 😂 much love my South East Asian family.
Philippines don’t use scooters much than the other Southeast Asian countries. Those scooters you see from this video, most of them were from food delivery service not for personal use
tambah 1 lg pak habbit berkendaranya jg paling mendekati jakarta, pada ringan tangan semua sm tombol klakson, dan keberadaan kendaraan legendaris mereka JEEPNEY mirip2 era kopaja metromini orange di kita dulu
Beautiful greenery and skyscrapers, looks also very clean and the traffic is surprisingly calm!
I think the Philippines in general will be more popular with tourism once the New Manila International Airport opens. This new airport will be in Bulacan. There are plans for improved roadway and train infrastructure connecting NMIA to and from downtown Manila.
I believe once the Metro Manila Subway is completed, the congestion will be solved, once the Jeepney Modernization is implemented pollution will be drastically lessen. Manila has a great future on the right leaders ☘️
Indeed that's what I thought.
hopefully it does but part of me thinks traffic on exit points of the subway will impede its effectiveness
developing and urbanizing areas outside of manila may be the key to easing the concentration of where people would want to live thereby lessen the congestion
it's good government still has high hopes of solving the traffic problem but infrastructure investment outside of metro manila should be as equally important
No, it will not solve the traffic issue, but it will surely mitigate it. the only way it can solve the traffic is improving other urban region in luzon.
@@wildboy3937 nope! modernized Manila, Cebu and Davao only! Just like in Japan, they modernized Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Yokohama. And they preserved the provinces and its nature.
@@AtlasMan-ec4vv wtf you are even saying? those japanese places you've mention are well established cities even way before, Tokyo was not even a simple capital, it is surrounded with well developed neighboring provinces, Tokyo, Nagoya, and Osaka, are 3 metropolitan areas, Taihyo belt, a megalopolis. even US has megalopolis, which name north east megalopolis compose of Boston, New york, Philadelpia, Washington. to maximize manila it needs to synergize with other neighboring metropolitan.
looks clean and organized. Motorcycle riders have their helmets on, impressive.
Because motorcycle riders are fined Php 1,500 or $27 (1st offence) , Php 3,000 or $54 (2nd offence) , Php 5,000 or $88 (3rd offence) AND Php 10,000 or $178 (4th and succeeding offences) if they don't wear their helmets while riding on highways )
Wow so much improvements. Before not enough trees along the road. Missed you so much Metro Manila.
Then ,before is corona the victim ,that wrong 💔💔
Manila is not yet fully upgraded but it's still pleasing, but manila now is growing rapidly, so we will see in the future 😊
Lets rise Asian❤
Metro Manila does not have a smog problem here. You can clearly see the clouds even in a duller color scheme. Streets are well-maintained with no garbage even on non-business districts or the suburbs and even the walls of the underpasses have plants in them. They have transformed the whole city into an eco system of its own.
Just the facts
Metro Manila air has improved the last few years also the traffic has improved a bit thanks to Duterte, but still need work.
@@noeminoemi1350Here’s for Duterte: 🤮 🤢
@@levitabacug3377duterte is the best 😊😊
@@noeminoemi1350traffic wont improve if the public transportation didn't improve, tbh the traffic got worse when the skyway was introduced during duterte admin, and they admit it that it will solve traffic, but no.
Because building more roads will make the traffic worse, and this us what we called the induced demand
Another nice Video🙂...Thx for Upload....hopefully i'll visit Manila one day🙂
Metro Manila is so huge, extensive, very dense and bustling with life, businesses and heavy traffic.
traffic in every country shows how they progressive they are.
Metro Manila is just a small in land area, although Davao City is 6x largest
@@박은재-b6fyes its 6x larger, but no improvement, 98percent grassland.
@@datuhenson3758 because it lies of mt. Apo and some durian farms and other places are protected areas so they cannot touch it, so reclamation is only their choice same as manila
Stunning Manila! Your videos never disappoint
Beautiful city! Congratulations for wonderful vídeo! I'm from Belém do Pará, Brasil
Bom dia amigo filipinas es muy maravillosa...
Regards to our Asian cousins from México.
Gracias mi hermano Latino de America abrazo muy puerte desde hermano Latino de Asia...arriba hispanidad...
Gracias ❤
These city is really ahead of its time 😮
It looks like Miami & Sao Paolo combined.
but more tall buildings
There’s nothing to do with São Paulo and I’m from São Paulo. Manila is way more modern. It totally looks like a US city combined such as Miami, Los Angeles, San Francisco….
Looks like Mexico City business district actually. Been there 2019.
Latin America vibes with all the Spanish names of places like "Monumento, Ortigas, Guadalupe, San Juan"
Kinda Mexico city vibes!
The Spaniards made Manila and Mexico City sister cities via the Philippine-Mexico Galleons that ran for hundreds of years.
@@pOpCoRn0531si hermano manila y mexico es cuidad hermana y tambien grandisimo...
@@pOpCoRn0531the Spaniards made a fort (Intramurus) and trouble. Philippines built Manila 😊
What i find interesting is the Guada, comes from the arabic word Wadi.
Nice and far! Greetings from Bulgaria!🎉😊
Metro Manila just looks great ❤
lol kala mo naman forigner ka nagcomment
@@tracy062 akala ko din foreigner ako
@@tracy062hahaha maka great naman
Thanks! Your videos really transport us to the country you're in! You've been a big inspiration for my channel. 😊❤
happy to inspire! i can see you are putting in the effort!
As an Indonesian, this looks similar to Indonesia but looks like something's different and I realise that Philippines driving on the right side of the road (Indonesia is driving on the left side on the road, road sceneries, and the type of their cars. One day, I'll visit Philippines to compare this country with Indonesia
Who else is getting new York and Singapore vibes frm this video
Look likes miami vibes and downtown chicago.
I get more new York vibes frm this
Wow its giving me Miami and Sao Paolo vibe :_)
Great that you visited Manila and have a driving tour. Tnx4sharing J Utah.
Habang tumatagal, paganda ng paganda ang metro manila bumibilis ang pag-unlad kaliwa’t kanan na yung mga ginagawang gusali,paupahan may mga nag lalakihang reclamation pa. chariz Pero seryoso gumaganda na talaga ang metro manila, kunpara noon na sobrang gulo medyo maayos nadin ang transportasyon may pag pipiliian kana kung brt, jeep o tren sana mag tuloy-tuloy pag unlad natin hindi lang sa maynila, sa ibang parte din ng pilipinas
May mga bago ding syudad ngayon nagulat ako ganito na itsura ng aseana parang dati ghost town sya tapos ngayon grabe na sa development
ruclips.net/video/W1mXSP6cZyI/видео.htmlsi=fiuhDXFfHH9suapx
ruclips.net/video/H-9AESistd8/видео.htmlsi=yIvVQWT1reWpgSgp
@@Nicky-zm5ybnot only that. People tend to focus on Metro Manila but nearby cities and provinces are rapidly developing as well. Take Cavite and Bulacan as an example. New villages, malls and business centers are being built left and right.
Beautiful city. It looks like any other rich city in South East Asia, like Seoul.
Looks very modern to me. A great city with a bulging skyline.
Why does the media always depict the Philippines in a bad light??
becuase brown people
In answer to your question, its because unlike all the other neighboring Southeast Asian countries that actively censor media from going to poorer areas, the Philippines is a liberal democracy. Media agencies exploit this relative democratic freedom to crop their reports and cast it in an exagerratedly bad light (bad news gets views). A minority of Metro Manila is actually considered 'slums' (between 15-17% of the total urbanity, in line with national poverty statistics), but you find many foreign content creators and journalists (and money focused local content creators) going just to the slum areas to get loads of views via 'poverty porn'. its big business, even on RUclips. Its unfair to the masses of Filipinos who are bettering their lives through quietly working hard, and disregards any of the groundbreaking projects that have been introduced here over the last 6-8 years to fuel this rapid economic growth he country is still benefitting from.
If the recent 4PH program pushed by the current president to construct huge housing projects on former slum land continues throughout the country (i read recently that the govt has alredy turned over 1.5 million out of the 6 million projected government-built apartment units so far, still some way to go), there hopefully won't be any more slums for those exploitative content creators and news agencies to 'show off' whatever bad light they can portray the country in. Let's hope that day comes soon.
Living here, I have seen a LOT of social mobilization happening at a grass roots level - bafflingly ignored up by the world's news media agencies. Families who used to live in slums able to move into townhouses in lower middle class subdivisions in satellite cities; many are slowly transforming their slums into standard homes by their own hands and hard work, loads of SME start ups supported by other locals reciprocally and funded by govt livelihood-training programmes; whole squatter communities that had stood as blights for decades finally being demolished with their residents getting rehoused into clean purpose-built government tenements or pabahay projects (public housing) and blocking their return to rebuild slums on ilegally squatted land again (something that plagued this country until relatively recently), more low cost condominiums and subdivisions from more ethical land developers like Urban Deca Homes, building on land that used to be slum areas or derelict land to help socially mobilize the working class into the middle classes. These things have been changing Filipino society and the urban landscape here bit-by-bit, year-on-year, for the better. Whlie relative poverty is still a thing among many of the lower-middle class and working class (i.e. a single medical emergency can use up a family's savings if they don't possess a good enough insurer), extreme poverty (the kind you associate with slums and utter destitution) has been decreasing year on year. And its a travesty that the media refuses to show the on-going metamorphosis which is transforming the Philippines into a stable middle economy in the next few years. All for quick viewership, shock and profit.
Because in the phililppines there are many slums in urban areas and the villages are also poor.
@@gaplekchannel6503😂 you are describing Jakarta 😂
@@James-gr1vkwhat does skin have to do with this, Filipinos are not even brownish, they are more tannish - whiteish
It's just intriging with beuty
Always love your videos
They should repave the entire stretch of Edsa like a proper highway but don't make it a toll. And plant more palms to make it really tropical green and a South Pacific vibe and feels. Same with C5 it's in bad shape and feels like you're driving in the ocean.
Palms wont survive there, or in Luzon islands generally.
They are plans to make EDSA a more greener and pedestrian friendly. They have to deal first with right of way issues so that they can start already.
@@imdark4975 they absolutely will. luzon is tropical. there were palm trees everywhere in the video, right from the start lol. did you watch it? and have you ever been here before? the cordilleras and mountain province have pine trees and cold wealther, but everywhere else in luzon is hot, humid and fully tropical.
the problem is, the stretch of EDSA zips through different cities with different local governments. Metro Manila has no unified governor. It's why it looks unorganized because cities have their own rules and level of development, which hampers any future developments
Manila haa many skyscraper districts and that makes it beautiful. The slums in Manila are not dirty, just over crowded 😊
l really love watching Philippine soap opera love movies are so wonderful.
Hope for a better Philippines
A lot of people got surprised that Manila looks like this, because they have been feed by the news from BBC, CNN, Al jazeera and other media outlets which only show TONDO, a small dot in the map of metro manila. 😅
Right. But there's still a lot of cleaning to do though 😊
tondo is a huge slum
Wow....fantastic views of metropolitan manila....
Maybe you may also try to visit parlinks city and bridgetowne in C5 Pasig.....the new emerging business district with beautiful land scapes and views.
東南アジアっぽいバイクの多さ。
でも街路樹が立派できれいな街
Wow beautiful City........ good view ❤❤ 1:05:42
God bless Philippines
Seeing this video makes me feel proud about the progress in Metro Manila, which many Southeast Asian neighbors try to raise their eyebrows! Forward Philippines!!! Prove them wrong about what you can do !!!
Totoo. Sakit sakit nyan sa dibdib para sa kanila lalo na dun sa powerbank of esya
Manila is a modern city.
I love this video. amazing!
Tak ada cacat. Tak ada kekurangan. Semua tampak rapih dan tertata. Setiap sudut begitu indah dipandang. Kemacetan juga tidak ditemukan. Sepeda motor juga tidak terlalu banyak berkeliaran.
getting there
WORLD CLASS
Hello! NICE channel! I'm a big fan of you ＋👍🔔
nice! your hayama drive looks good! i can tell youve got a good foundation with stabilization and a quality camera
It's marvelous
Damn manila looks more developed than Seoul
I'm Filipino and it's definitely not more developed than Seoul unless you live in the areas shown in the video
@@HappyCountryBall half of the video are not even in business district
@@richardnuevo never really mentioned anything about cbds but ok
@@HappyCountryBall live on highways? because that's more than half of the video. Only 2 CBDs were shown, and Metro Manila has dozens of those.
@@apinezstats2237 I meant to mean like cbds similar to that
You can also drive in reclaimed part of Manila like aseana city, entertainment City, Bay City... Or perhaps you can go to the south portion of metro manila and drive around madrigal Business Park, fil-invest City etc
I've watched a video, it looks like a runned down city with hideous buildings, is this what you've been proud about pagpag? What a joke!
@@blueshirt26obviously way better than boring KL😂 walk around KL and you'll see homeless Malaysians sleeping on sidewalks and littering the streets. You'll see old dilapidated abandoned buildings. You'll see Bangla and indians and it will make you wonder this is Banglaysia 😂
@@blueshirt26you always mentioned pagpag 😂perhaps it's your favorite like the food that you eat in your dirty restaurants with rats and others. LOL it's even in the news in KL
@@richardnuevo do you even looked in a mirror before you talk? 🤣 like the wise men once said "accusation is a confession", Manila is literally one of the worse slum city in the world, only 1% of Manila's area is developed, the rest are a bunch of slums with no sewer, polluted, shanky buildings and homelessness and crime! Nobody even mentions Manila as one of the great cities of Asia not even Southeast Asians, you are living in a lie 🤣
@@blueshirt26 😂 search it then if it's a lie Manila named as one of the best cities in the world and it's infact the leading city destination in the world.
beautiful city 👍👍👍👍👍🙏
Beautiful ❤❤❤
Kinda looks like Miami Fl a little bit
I would say more new York
very beautiful city clean and green fr. UK
are you using a new camera?? the colors are a bit dull compared to your previous Manila videos. but still nice vid. kudos to you driving at our notorious EDSA. ahaha
Could be a different camera.
This time the video looked bland and less exciting.
But it’s still okay 👍.
thx for the feedback! i continue to experiment with different cameras, in cam settings, export settings etc. and yes, the drivers are courteous so its a relaxing experience overall. manila is doing well
@@jutahYou were in luck for a chill drive. On a busy weekday traffic, vehicles tend to be aggressive going towards the flyover from the right side in 57:50 😅
Ngl, this looks way nicer and pleasant than Jakarta
Fun Fact: Manila's Air Quality is much better than Bangkok and Jakarta.
Tapi lebih miskin dari jakarta dan Bangkok wkwkwk
@@Tumanggor-sq2xpstill jakarta have much bigger slum than manila
@@Tumanggor-sq2xp it just means that even though Filipinos are poorer, they are more clean and hygienic than the r1Ch3R Indonesians 😀🎉
not true, I'm from manila, it is polluted
@@CaneZyle whats the point, I am from Manila too, and that statement is base on IQAir average ratings of Air Quality.
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😂😂😂..what???
Metro Manila is chaotic and ugly😂
YES J!
45:27 Chocolate Factory! 🍫🍫 Smells good in that area ❤
I would like to have seen Las Casas de Azucar in Quezon City along Roosevelt Ave., to see a glimpse of Manila's Spanish Colonial period....hope you include this place in your nxt video....
Love Manila
curious, when you do these drives, are you accompanied by a local?
Maybe he/she/they used google Map/apps
Accompanied by Waze app😂
You should’ve went straight EDSA to QC west ave, Instead of turning left to traffic Timog ave/ Thomas Morato area.
This city is far better than New Delhi
NAMAN?! With all places and cities in the world why New Delhi? Hahaha. Are you a comedian?
I made that statement as someone who lives in India and understands the contrast. Manila, as the capital of a smaller and better-organized country, sets a different standard compared to New Delhi, which struggles despite its larger population and heavy income resources. If a simple comparison offends you and calls me a comedian, maybe take a step back and reassess. ☮️
2 CHRONICLES 7:14 If My people, who are called by My name, shall humble themselves and pray, and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
BGC looks like a city in usa
Looks better I think 😊
Wait until you see the completion of the new Clark City in the north. It's a 10x version in size of BGC
Like Mumbai
@@Tumanggor-sq2xp Mumbai is better than your city but it's not comparable to BGC😂
@@richardnuevothe buildings in metro manila are ugly, not futuristic
Łoł, nie mam teraz czasu na całość ale potem obejrzę bo to miasto jest niesamowite, no i jakość filmu bardzo dobra.
❤🎉❤😊 j utah. Thank u. Hope u can drive us too to the provincial area of the Philippines ❤❤❤
Que Hermosa ciudad 😍
Looks like São Paulo in Brazil
looking forward to another south america trip ♥
yep but main difference is metro manila have more taller buildings
Manila has huge and tall buildings than sao paulo.
@@totoacibal7739but metro Manila is chaotic and very ugly 😂
NICE❤👍
Tbh, Manila & Jakarta looks more nicer and modern than Bangkok. But the slums area in manila very worst
I’ve been to Jakarta and the slums there are one of the worst I’ve seen just saying No shade…
bangkok is overrated.
I live in Jakarta and I admit Jakarta is not better than Manila and Bangkok.
@@RihannaCarlaMorganpembohong, did you know that Manila has the biggest slum area in south east Asia,? i always see your comments you always spread hate to Indonesia, you never been to jakarta, i know you are liying, you never been to Mumbai but you say Mumbai looks like jakarta, i've been to Mumbai ITS really different btw
@@yasmine4197 Do you know that TAMBORA in Jakarta is also the biggest slum area in South East Asia? Stop imagining things please. Thank you! Mumbai is a beautiful city full of colonial and historic buildings so please don't look down on Indian Cities
Lại là cuộc tranh cãi nãy lửa giữa manila và Jakarta. Tôi mong chờ clip Hà Nội, Hạ Long, Hải Phòng, Đà Nẵng...
Đông Nam Á đều vậy thôi, ở dạng "developing" trừ Singapore, nhiều người muốn khoe khoang đất nước của mình, chê bai đất nước khác chứ các nước ở dạng "developed" nhiều người ko rảnh đi cãi nhau.
@@hieuchipt_0689the video was captured by a tourist 😅
@@hieuchipt_0689nagtatalo sila dahil sabik sila sa pagunlad ng sariling bansa😅 kahit iisa sila ng lahi...
@@BoboyPC2247 so sánh hơn thua nhau là chính.
❤ Philipine..Salam dari indonesia ....semoga bisa maju bersama dengan asia tenggara.....saatnya asia tenggara menunjukan taringnya😊❤❤❤
have you considered other SEA countries such as Vietnam?
I think its hard for j utah to do a video in vietnam knowing there are alot of motorcycles there?
I’m a Filipino 🇵🇭 and would love to have Vietnam too in J Utah series.
@@Ragnarlothbroook that doesn’t really change anything
@@Ragnarlothbroook Oof
make Vietnam a tym ok they will rise also
I like Manila, but public transport is not convenient and traffic jam make me sad. Take a look on Moscow! We have the best public transport system in huge city.
yeah id prefer a car myself
Our government were working on it, they are building subways right now and lots of railway system,problem is it's takes 4-7yrs to complet.
I like 5this kind of content making
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Only in bangkok 💀@@JcPlus-nb3nd
No its mumbai..he..he..he
@@israelabang7088surely Mumbai is better than your city because you say Manila is similar 😊
@@JcPlus-nb3ndok 2% growth
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Venice Grand Canal Mall is within McKinley Hills, not BGG, both are in Taguig City, Metro Manila.
Although, McKinley Hills is not technically part of Bonifacio Global City development area, it is adjacent to it and considered by many as unofficially within BGC Urban Core, including McKinley West.
what camera are you using??
The places where you drive is not the favorite places of BBC, CNN, and AL JAZEERA. 😂 their headquarters are in Tondo. A small spot in metro manila. 😅
A squeeze of lemon in their eyes 😂
and they somehow have a boner for pagpag lmao.
Better than chinese cities
Nagpapatawa ka yata😅
Told ya Manila is the big apple of Asia and king of skyscrapers as well. Unlike Jakarta or Bangkok which still look like a typical poor 3rd world city, Manila is a fun and lively city with an American city vibe.
The best metropolitan city is
1.Jakarta ,glassy skyscrapers buildings
2.Bangkok
3.Manila
stop that, you're a troll.
This is where the trouble starts when someone with ice cubed brain like you started appearing.
I don’t even think you’re a Filipino at all.
Hahahah hahahaha 😂
I'm from Manila, you must be dreaming..
please go to finland 🙏
I want to visit BGC and makati♥️
Just wondered why bicycles are allowed running in the freeway. Btw, there streets are so clean compared to our streets here in San Francisco, Ca. there are too many homeless encampment in our city. It's becoming to be a 3rd world city.
@felipo2000 not necessarily. Freeways are intended for vehicles only not bicycles. In Western Countries including Japan you will not see bicycles on freeways as the speed of cars are driving 65 miles an hour max..
There are 'expressways' (which are all toll roads) here, which are the same as freeways in the US. Unfortunately none of the roads he travelled in this video were expressways. Search youtube for videos on SLEX (South Luzon Expressway), NLEX (North Luzon Expressway), TPLEX (Tarlac Pangasinan La Union Expressway), Metro Manila Skyway, among others. Those are comparable to what you call freeways in the US, motorways in the UK, autobahns in Germany, or 高速道路 in Japan.
Why are you still using that term? lol because I can give you dozens of 3rd world countries that have way better healthcare, infrastructure, and social security services than many 1st world countries. These terms are no longer relevant really.
@@apinezstats2237 and what is it to you?
@@alroberts193 According to economists, the modern, appropriate categories are underdeveloped, developing, emerging newly industrialized, and developed.
The Philippines is an emerging newly industrialized country (NIC). The other countries countries that belong to this category are Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Mexico, and Turkey.
I see that not everyone likes Metro Manila (at least what's shown here). I say, it's not for everyone and that's a good thing.
Otherwise, everyone would like to relocate there-that would be very bad indeed. Some (people from other Asian nations mostly)
bad mouth the Philippines-it's their way of "raising" their countries up by putting another one down. Philippines does not have a
monopoly on crab mentality. It exists in many shapes or form from many corners on this planet. So, it's normal and it's good
so that those people get to sleep well at night with the thought (justified or not) that they are in a better place-less people
to worry about going over to the Philippines as in our interconnected world over tourism and its negative effects has already
reared its ugly heads (think about the beast and its 7 heads) in many places in Europe. To name a few (Spain, Italy and Portugal)
Asia (Thailand, Japan). Hopefully, the Philippines with its newfangled zest (brought about by steadily rising GDP) for making
the country's infrastructures better, building new world class cities at record pace will finally give its populace the country
they always dreamt of and deserve.
Well, it's evident that most Thai, Indonesian, and Vietnamese normally raise their eyebrows against the Philippines.
looks exactly just like bangkok, but only few trains
Out trains are undergroud
Our trains are transparent that's why you can't see it.
except the business districts. The business districts of Metro Manila are on a whole another level. They're very clean, organized, pedestrian friendly, and also safe. Example is BGC. Even foreigners say that no cities in Southeast Asia (except SG of course) is comparable to BGC
@@YoungMaster-g6q I don't see subways that are operational?
@@igilly0261 pause on . 48 sec. You will see one. Anyway LRT and MRT in Metro Manila are passing through Metro Manilas major Arterial Road (EDSA), unfortunately most of the videos not passing through it.
Additionally, some of MM LRT and MRT stations are underground plus the under construction first in SouthEast Asia technically Subway System as all the Modern Stations are underground.
7:46 Can anyone tell what type of car is that or who's driving that car? Because the license plate is different... The license plate is W1 A013
@jutah what camera setup you used for the older videos?
which ones? do you like the older camera more?
@@jutah I am curious. What you used in your older videos and what camera you are using now? I am impressed with the quality of your videos
Motorbikes everywhere in south east asia
That's true, however the Philippines has one of the lowest motorcycle usage rates in Southeast Asia.
Wala na mga iskwater at Lalo na Ang sinasabi mo slam area halos nalipay na sla gov, housing kung kayat gumanda Ang mga daanan Ng mitro manila
Mawala na rin sana mga dayong Bisaya na minsan numero uno naninira nang reputasyon ng Maynila! Mga amplaya sa kabisera! Pero numero uno naman kakapal na umaagaw nang opportunidad ng mga Manileno!
I want if only you can drive from manila to baguio city via skyway stage3 from buendia ave to Balintawak ext all the way to nlex, sctex and tplex, thanks it will will take 4-5hours✌️
I want to see new Istanbul coast drive
Edsa is the most important avenue in the metro yet it looks so shabby. It needs an upgrade badly.If it needs to be privatized, then give it to private entity to run it. As usual the government is incapable.
Well now there are new highways being built to decongest Edsa. We now have a skyway and others
EDSA is hopeless. It looks dull and monochromatic. All of the structures along it are greasy. The sidewalks are unorganized and claimed by private properties. The sewage system is not properly built. The road itself is has no asphalt.
@@richardnuevo 😂😂😂😂
تشبه مدينه ميامي في فلوريدا 😂
Go to Pandacan where the real people live, struggling but happy and living life
So you mean those who live in other part of manila are not real people? 🙄
Tanga may mga lupa sa Visaya Yung mga Yunfropesional skwater yun