50 Amazing Facts About Earth,- Manila Is The Most Crowded City

[CVT]

Crowded City

Don't like crowds? Stay away from Manila. This city in the Philippines is the most densely populated in the world, with the most people crammed into the smallest city limits (outlying suburbs don't count). As of the 2007 census, 1,660,714 people lived in 14.8 square miles (38.55 square kilometers).

from: 50 Amazing Facts About Earth | Earthquakes, Northern Lights, Natural Disasters & Tectonic Plates | LiveScience

Wow! Just too many people....

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[EE100shiro]

lahat lahat na andun pati alien nag pa panggap na tao

[vinj]

So this is probably just speaking of Metro Manila or the NCR as a whole?

I'm currently reading the JBIC report, The Earthquake Impact Reduction Study for Metro Manila.

[Monseratto]

Dami kasi mga squattings crowding into rather crowded stolen lands. Imagine hundreds of families squeezed in a few hundred sqm. Tapos they breed like rabbits. Salamat sa CBCP.

[isa1023]

Dami kasi mga squattings crowding into rather crowded stolen lands. Imagine hundreds of families squeezed in a few hundred sqm. Tapos they breed like rabbits. Salamat sa CBCP.

Just a curious question sir, does that mean yung mga squatters nasasama din sa population census of the city?

I was thinking kasi na since illegal settlers sila eh wala silang permanent city address, hence no official documentation to prove their residency.

Or is there a different way to determine the city population?

[CVT]

Just a curious question sir, does that mean yung mga squatters nasasama din sa population census of the city?

I was thinking kasi na since illegal settlers sila eh wala silang permanent city address, hence no official documentation to prove their residency.

Or is there a different way to determine the city population?

Siyempre,- kasama sila sa survey.....

Botante rin ang mga iyan, di ba?.... Kung gayon,- kasama (ni/si Mayor)!....

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[vinj]

^Of course kasama ang squatters. They're the most important citizens for elected officials.

If you remove them, what would the actual MM population be?

[timrev]

nakakainis nga tuwing mapapatingin ako sa gilid ng tulay or ilog sa metro manila ang daming squatters kaya mabaho tuloy ang mga ilog dito kaya ayaw din sila paalisin minsan kasi botante sila

[uls]

nasa urban centers kasi ang pera kaya lahat ng tao nandito

like sa "Toughest Place to be a Bus Driver" yung pinoy jeepney driver nagtitiis dito sa Manila pero mas maganda sa province niya tabing dagat pa ang bahay

[CVT]

The Big City Attraction...

Kaya overcrowded.....

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[niky]

Begging in Manila is more lucrative than farming in the province. When squatters who are relocated complain there are no jobs... that's not strictly true. It's just that the jobs there won't pay as well as the jobs in Manila, where they get higher pay and free housing, to boot.

[pop3corn]

if you remove the squatters in Manila, then sino ang mga sikyu, janitor, attendants, waitress sa mga respective office bldgs. Nyo. you talk like like you have more god-given right to them pero we do need them sa daily cycles of our lives. Personally, mas ok nga na squatter country yan Maynila. Qc, Pasay, Caloocan para malapit LNG sila. I don't go to those places anyway Basta andyan LNG sila sa tabi-tabi ng Fort, Ortigas and Makati ok na yun. in fact they are useful too. Sila buyers ng old iPhone, iPad and other household equips na dispose ko. Sila pa punta sa condo ko. Would you believe even used imported shoes ko bumibili nila

[lowslowbenz]

if you remove the squatters in Manila, then sino ang mga sikyu, janitor, attendants, waitress sa mga respective office bldgs. Nyo. you talk like like you have more god-given right to them pero we do need them sa daily cycles of our lives. Personally, mas ok nga na squatter country yan Maynila. Qc, Pasay, Caloocan para malapit LNG sila. I don't go to those places anyway Basta andyan LNG sila sa tabi-tabi ng Fort, Ortigas and Makati ok na yun. in fact they are useful too. Sila buyers ng old iPhone, iPad and other household equips na dispose ko. Sila pa punta sa condo ko. Would you believe even used imported shoes ko bumibili nila

Good point ..

[marg]

if you remove the squatters in Manila, then sino ang mga sikyu, janitor, attendants, waitress sa mga respective office bldgs. Nyo. you talk like like you have more god-given right to them pero we do need them sa daily cycles of our lives. Personally, mas ok nga na squatter country yan Maynila. Qc, Pasay, Caloocan para malapit LNG sila.

That's the Old World, Feudalistic thinking that has kept the PH the way it is.

Keep them Poor, Keep them Stupid.....so we can exploit them.

May janitor, sikyo and waitress in progressive nations like Singapore or Canada. Do they have to be from Squatter areas?

[vinj]

May janitor, sikyo and waitress in progressive nations like Singapore or Canada. Do they have to be from Squatter areas?

Our kababayans who hold such kinds jobs have quite decent standards of living in those countries AFAIK. Not the best but generally good.

Its the same thing for voters: Keep them stupid so they will continue to vote for their (the politico's) wives, kabits, children and grandchildren.

[Monseratto]

And most squatters don't have work, that's why they're poor.

[lowslowbenz]

That's the Old World, Feudalistic thinking that has kept the PH the way it is.

Call it anything you want, but its the truth here in this country. And what's "feudalistic" about it? They get paid for their work, they have the money to buy the things that one does not want anymore. They have the freedom to use their hard earned cash on anything that they wish.

Case in point: Yung messenger ko dito sa office naka Samsung touch sceen ultra high tech phone model I don't know sorry. Why? because gusto nya at binili nya yun, yet he lives around the slums in Guadalupe. I have a beat up MyPhone, I have money, but I dont wanna spend it on an expensive top notch branded phone that I would not even know how to fully utilize/use. I live in a middle class subdivision in the suburbs.

Is that exploitation?

[uls]

amazing the spending decisions poor people make

[Monseratto]

Cheap housing is a big problem, goverment should subsidize building more tenament housing. Even in Hong Kong, housing is becoming a problem. Unfortunately, tenements built during Ramos were declared already condemned, because of substandard construction due to CORRUPTION.

[vinj]

Cheap housing is a big problem, goverment should subsidize building more tenament housing. Even in Hong Kong, housing is becoming a problem. Unfortunately, tenements built during Ramos were declared already condemned, because of substandard construction due to CORRUPTION.

I passed by an Erap Pabahay near Pasig/Taytay/C6 some time ago. Man it's in real bad shape. It makes those BLISS developments look like an Ayala project.