I'm currently living here in Davao and I couldn't agree with you more.

i lived in Davao since childhood until 2006. It was until Duterte sits as mayor, when petty crimes, people taking drugs in the corner, NPA terror attacks to villages came to a halt around in the 90s during my college days. Prior to that, petty crimes is so rampant, known drug addicts are your neighbors, and NPA coming to people's houses extorting. Not sure what Duterte did, but I suddenly I forgot about fear, and felt safe the same feeling as I live in Singapore now. I totally enjoyed my teenage days in Davao, without having fear and thinking about safety. I've been working in Manila before and travelled to different places around the country and it's only in Davao that I felt free and safe.

@@rahulmaron I hope you are enjoying your time in Singapore. That is the cleanest city I have ever been too, and I also felt very safe everywhere I went when there. My only problems were taxi drivers that wanted to appoint themselves tour guides so they could run up the meter, but I never cared because I was just a visitor and enjoyed getting to see the various areas they would show me. I think a lot of people may get upset by that but I would just go with the flow, even ask them to pull over a moment so I could take a picture. lol

Great attitude ❤​@@quackersna❤John 3,16 ❤

wife and I are planning on retiring early and move to Mindanao, outside of Iligan, she's originally from there and has family there. I've visited before 6 years ago, never saw any other foreigner as well. Was a fun and safe trip. I never had any worries of personal safety while there. I'm more fearful of personal safety just manila traffic :)

Hey Tom, I am a forigner (British) who lives in Cotabato City. We also have a small farm lot not far from 3 C Kambigan resto, at the edge of Pigkawayan.

No need to worry about Muslim majority areas, it's just that all you hear from news are bad things and never the good stuffs. When in fact, the NCR or Manila is far more dangerous and has higher frequency of crimes.

@@mikejones5364 why would you say that? I lived in Sedona, Arizona. The beautiful red rock country for almost 40 years. It is now overrun with tourists and being loved to death. Now only the very wealthy can afford to live there. I find your comment to be a very judgmental and uneducated. You make a judgement based on no information.

I live twenty min from tagum city. An it's been fine. Pittsburgh was way worse.

​@@michaelmcshane6280I lived in Flagstaff for a long time my ex is still there she is a nurse at the hospital I would love to come to the Philippines❤ I'm in my mid-60s but I'm worried I couldn't take the heat there❤John 3,16 ❤

Yes but a night market is not Mindanao is it???? Come back, let me take you to somewhere in the capital, and leave you there, then right something if you get out, being with your Filipina wife is not the same as you alone

Have you been to Tacurong and Datu Piglas?

@@NeurodogNVR I have not been to those towns. And I would not go alone. That is getting close to the no go areas for foreigners. South from Koronadal is Ok.

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How did you like Polomolok ? I’m headed there in June. Polomolok south Cotabato .

Is it the Ipil that is from Surigao Del Norte? Because I'm from Surigao City and we have a place here that is also called Ipil.

@@lul6658 Ipil in Zamboanga Sibugay

@@richhues oh I see

Haha you know I actually thought about that!

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That also result to poor investment in the area. Not good for development.

Yeah, Mangosteen is good, I heard it cures UTI(Urinary Tract Infections).

Padada,,my birthplace,growing up in bansalan davao del sur,,living in south cotabato,and working currently here in UAE and residing in cavite,bacoor..

Yes driving in CDO is an art. They can t drive At all.

I had not heard about that one in Gen San either. I agree that most countries have their own problems.

I've been near a killing in broad dailyight in Gensan where the bloodbath got live broadcasted directly after the shooting on Facebook and it didn't appear on any news at all (I've been monitoring the www via google every day for several weeks). Killings by gunfire are so common that even not all of them are worth appearing in the news over there.

So how did it go!? Got married ? Feeling safe and sound I assume, now that you are here!? Blessings from Mindanao 🙏

it's a microphone the brand is rode...usually thr vloggers use that as they could easily clip it on like a lapel microphone but with better audio recording quality.

You are so right, but unfortunately 'common sense' isn't that common.

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Are you traveling to Kabacan? Or have you been there already?

Orlando here, I feel you 👍

I live part time in CD

You won't be disappointed.

Foreigner cant own guns Philippines AR -15 are illegal for their citizen google it more murder in Philippines based on a % of population than America

Yes for now, but only until everything is settled. Jolo and the rest of western Mindanao (ZamBaSulTa region) is geared to be a new tourist destination.

@@rogel8680 Until everything is settled? It's one of the oldest ongoing armed conflicts in the world, things won't be settled anytime soon. There is more local support for the extremists than for the government in the Sulu region and even the major military base directly in the heart of the Sulu region didn't really gain any ground for the government!

@Esmiralda Go Vlogs How many Foreigners Exactly Has Been Kidnapped in Mindanao? You Said too many 😂

@@piacash5216 Kidnapping is mostly confined to the Manilla area these days, it's mostly of people involved in criminality. There was a Kidnapping in Zamboanga del Sur in 2019 of a British man. The most recent Kidnapping was in Manilla MANILA, Philippines - Eight transgender women who are members of a kidnapping syndicate preying on foreigners in Metro Manila were arrested by operatives of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group, the CIDG reported yesterday. The suspects, belonging to the Warla group, targeted 14 foreigners since 2018, receiving an average of P200,000 to P500,000 from each of the victims, according to the CIDG. While it is unusual that a kidnap group is composed of members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, their motive is also strange, police said. An investigation by the CIDG revealed that the suspects amassed P4.2 million from their activities, which they used to fund their sex reassignment surgery. “In all my time with anti-kidnapping, this is the first time we encountered a group of transgenders,” CIDG director Brig. Gen. Ronald Lee said in a press conference. Three of the suspects - Dewie Shaine Garcia, Charlemagne Vargas and Christian Paredes - surrendered to police after they were found to be connected to the kidnapping of 58-year-old Taiwanese businessman Michael Lee in Barangay BF Homes, Parañaque on Sept. 3. He was rescued last Sept. 7. Police found out that Garcia, Vargas and Paredes were in possession of five GCash numbers where the victim’s friends deposited P308,000 in r

@Esmeralda Go Vlogs, what happened in the past is long gone. What's important is what's currently happenning. Majority of places in the whole of Mindanao is relatively safe for travellers. Go watch Becoming Filipino vlogs by the Canadian guy nicknamed "Kulas" and be informed.

@@rogel8680 It's funny you mention Becoming Filipino in this context, as the government provides him personal bodyguards. If anything, it rather proves the opposite of what you are trying to say.

I think Tagum is safe, at least I don't worry about being assaulted or something. I have never been to Zamboanga.

I was in Molave, Zamboanga del Norte, it was perfectly safe.

I am an attorney practicing in immigration law and asset protection by going overseas.

@@DrLawaytravels ❤️John 3:16❤️

i just spent a month there with my girlfriend , thinking of moving there from canada.was outside the city alot and went the beach in Glan. still trying to get a full understanding of the situation myself, but i felt perfectly safe, zero issues

@@cjmrcjmr I'm going on march 4th. Also Canadian and with Filipina gf. Very excited 😊

youll love it man , i cant wait to go back!i think shes trying to come here for a visit first, then we will decide where we will live.@@EugeneMatlin

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They still are there. Another problem is the NPA, however as they extort money and the tourists bring in money they make sure not to disturb tourism so it's rather a problem if settling down in an area where the NPA is influential (which can be quite hidden in the first place).