Bonifacio Global City

It is a shortcoming that is instantly recognized not only by our more active friends and colleagues, but especially by overseas visitors who regularly express shock at how difficult it is to navigate the metro area on foot.

Except for districts where infrastructure is largely left to the management of private enterprise, for example, Bonifacio Global City, the Makati Central Business District, the Ortigas Greenhills District, Eastwood, and the Mall of Asia complex, along with the metropolitan area's number of private villages, reasonably safe and useful pedestrian access is considered a nuisance and a waste of space if it is considered at all.

From our point of view, this is an essential flaw in government thinking because it does not consider the actual profile of the public it purports to serve.

Across the entire Philippines, vehicle ownership is a bit less than thirty percent, meaning that at least seventy percent of the population relies on public transportation or active transport, that is either walking or riding a bicycle for mobility.

In Manila's Tondo District, families have eaten pagpag for more than a decade, scraps thrown out by fast food restaurants, picked over and cooked again.

About seven miles away stand the glass towers of Bonifacio Global City.

About 60 miles north lies Nivansa, the rice belt that's supposed to feed them both.

In 2024, almost 2.2 million Filipinos were working abroad.

The Home Development Mutual Fund, HDMF, also known as the Pag-IBIG Fund, has partnered with the Bases Conversion and Development Authority, BCDA, to advance the agenda of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.'s Expanded Pampansang Pabhay Para sa Pilipino, Expanded4PH, program.

Both parties signed a memorandum of agreement on Thursday at the BCDA's office at Bonifacio Global City in Taguig.

It added that the partnership between the agencies will initially prioritize about fourteen hectares in New Clark City, which will comprise a ten-hectare property in Bamban, Tarlac, and a four-hectare property in Capas, Tarlac, with the Tarlac property intended to be a government center and other complementary developments.

The planned housing development in New Clark City is intended for workers and aims to create a walk-to-work township, bringing homes closer to employment opportunities.

I know, I know.

Uh, in, uh, in Fort Bonifacio.

Is that amazing? So we could have been playmates.

Who knows?

All right.

Somebody's moving the BGC.

Shout out to Alaskan whiskey.

There's a lot of there's the foreigners love BGC in Manila.

So I'm in BGC.

I love BGC.

more than any other place i can't really live many other places in the philippines at this point but maybe at some particular point i might move to the peninsula i'm sorry to the uh i might not the peninsula um i might move over there and get on out into the uh into the other areas of the philippines when i'm older so i can get a 22 year old woman when i'm 69 out there in the province.

Get some of them province girls.