Quality woman for a quality guy

Choices P1 and it really depends on which head you are thinking with. Like you I met my better half online and a dozen or 20 more and weeded them out, 15 years on we are still together and I suppose like an old married couple and sure we have our ups and downs like most relationships, and I hope for the rest of my life.

Seems to have worked for us.

Cheers, Steve.

@Peter Clark I hope you did not take a bag of sweets wandering around them school playgrounds looking for your soul mate P1. - @Cherryann01

My now-wife was 38 when we danced

across playgrounds and light as air. She

was traditional-dance / english teacher

and still doesn't like sugar. Put on 2kg

in the years married.

She still goes straight to my heart whenever

we are together again.

Agreed, not Angeles, go to a beautiful remote

place, enjoy!

Cheers   

BP writes: "Choices P1 and it really depends on which head you are thinking with. Like you, I met my better half online and .. we are still together and I suppose like an old married couple .. and I hope for the rest of my life. Seems to have worked for us. Cheers, Steve." - @bigpearl

Yes agreed BP, never paid for sex, wife was a virgin.

Love perfect. Have good investments, free medical,

all properties paid off, now building lovely AirBNBs

as dear wife's projects. All because we met online

Sorry, certainly not in city-slicker-ville Angeles City!

Maybe interesting place to visit? But not meet wife.

Cheers gents ..

I'm not a judge as I've never been to Angeles city, Clark airport or pass it on the motorway but and only my opinion I'm sure it's little different to any other cities in the Philippines or around the world for that matter, depends where you hang out and what you are looking for.

Not quite sure why Angeles city seems to have this stigma offered by many, perhaps like some dislike Mindanao? A slight Muslim population?  I'm sure they have the bar girls and brothels like all cities.

Happiness is where you find it.

Cheers, Steve.

I'm sure it's little different to any other cities in the Philippines or around the world for that matter, depends where you hang out and what you are looking for. Not quite sure why Angeles city seems to have this stigma offered by many, perhaps like some dislike Mindanao? A slight Muslim population? I'm sure they have the bar girls and brothels like all cities. Happiness is where you find it.

Cheers, Steve. - @bigpearl

Reputation, I've heard. A tough city?

Maybe see the Encyclopedia Britannica:

https://www.britannica.com/place/Angeles

Angeles Philippines:

"Chartered city, central Luzon, Philippines. It lies along the principal north-south highway and railway lines approximately 50 miles (82 km) north of Manila, and was officially incorporated as a city in 1963.

Angeles is the site of Angeles University (founded 1962), a Roman Catholic seminary, and several other colleges.

Once known as the “city of the dollar,” Angeles had an economy fueled by its proximity to the American-run Clark Air Base, which was responsible for the rapid growth of the city by providing substantial employment, housing, and business opportunities.

The eruption of Mount Pinatubo in June 1991, followed by the subsequent decision of the U.S. government to abandon the ash-covered air base that November, were serious blows to the city’s economy.

However, following cleanup of the ash, the Clark facility was converted into an international airport, and a free port and an economic zone were also established there."

Its easy to fall in love when you see a lady, happened to me an Angeles bar with a waitress and i tok her to dinner to get to know her.

The feelings were one sided but i saw her on a couple of visits and she went to live with her brother in Australia....choked up some what.

So it happens physically on eye sight but getting it right at our age is imporant and so thats why learning about your future partner comes first. We know a great German guy Gunter who has a young gf he met in a bar at Punta Galera and he has little conversation with her at home...."she doesn.t say much". I couldn.t live like that

I watched a Retired American guy get conned by his on line girlfriend who was part of a group of Filipinos catching guys and selling their organs ????

Of course us westerners are very trusting and easily fall prey to these devils who can provide acceotable excuses and stories to make us follow them.

Another thing m very different.

Us Gerry-attrics with wrinkles and baggy bodies do not get attention back in the UK, however in the Philippines we are always inspected and put on wish lists which has its effect on us beause we are only men after all.?

I know it bothered me very much so.

Short stay trips to Angeles and Barretto cured me of the trouble and i don.t notice admiring glances anymore.

@Slowdown23

The negativity on here is wellmeaning. Love is easy but true love is hard. In my experience, Cebu has the best looking women and there's no reason not to start there. Take your time, get to know her, her family and friends, trust only the evidence not you hearing what you want to hear and your chances of success will be no different to meeting someone elsewhere. I've been scammed but also met some amazing and genuine Filipinas including my current partner. All the best with it. Remember, get to know her and her family and friends and trust only the evidence

Yes, her family and friends,, thats where the video action is good for online dating

Our friend maried his Filipina in the UK and then retired here, meeting her fanily for the first time and it was a shock!

Her parents and family lived in a concrete block hovel and Dave would not leave the car on future trips because he was discusted. Certainly a culture shock.

At family gathering at Daves house he wouldn.t join them and the times that we met them i could understand why.

I met Mila for the first time in Hongkong but earlier i had spent a few days with her imediate family here in San Pablo to see how things were and what financial support i was in for. Thankfully all was well.

These forums are a great way to learn abiut the Philippines.

@Cherryann01

You go to Angeles for fun and learning how the Filipinos work

SM Clark is enormous and lots to browse around.

I met a table full of expats having a chinwag and presumed they were English but they were Dutch! I was invuted to join them but just thankd them for the invite abd waljed on.

There must be English guys doiung the same thing in Angeles?

I think its very impoirtant to be able to meetup with your species now and again because otherwise you become a hermit, then you get depressed and could resort to alcohol to erase the loneliness feelings.

@Peter Clark

I served 10.5 years in the RAF, 2 in Germany near to the Dutch border and have a number of Dutch friends from my time there so would have happily sat down with a group of guys from The Netherlands for a chin wag although I have no intention to visit Angeles City.

I have had a few girlfriends from the Philippines and have visited 8 times to see them but all the relationships ended for various reasons - two because the neglected to tell me they were married. Never really been scammed there so far although I did send small amounts of money for load and food but very small amounts. All these women I met on Facebook and all came from different backgrounds (province girls, city girls and one OFW).

My current girlfriend lives in Lapu Lapu and I was given her details by her sister who worked in a Sports Bar in Cebu. I had been in the bar before, met a Danish guy there and he invited me to another sports bar on Mango Avenue near the girlie bar area. I did not go because I thought that after visiting the sports bar he may suggest moving on to one of these girlie bars and that was not what I wanted. I had been there to see another woman but that did not work out after she started asking for money so I binned her. It was a few days later that I visited the sports bar again and the lady behind the bar asked me all the usual questions like - first time in the Philippines, first time in Cebu and are you on your own. The next day I returned to watch the F1 racing and a woman I had seen working in the bar pulled me to one side and said she had been told about my situation and that she had an older sister who may be interested in a serious relationship. She messaged her sister after I said it would be okay, her sister agreed and later that night we started messaging and arranged to meet for coffee the next day.

We spent the last 3 days of my trip together and I returned last November to spend just over 3 weeks with her, visiting Boracay and Moalboal where I also spent time with her friends and their Canadian partners. I also met most of her family and celebrated her mothers birthday with most of her family.

I have never had to ask my girlfriend for a cenomar because she was married but her husband passed away some years ago and she is in some scheme for solo parents (she has 2 boys). She sent me a picture of her solo parent ID card and that states the reason for eligibility as Death of Spouse and has her details and her 2 boys details on the picture ID card. She has never asked me for money and never hinted that I should send her any. She works in a laundry shop and her boss is also a friend who lets her use the WIFI to call me if she is not busy. When we call outside work on her day off she will buy a promo load for about 59 pesos which she says lasts a few days depending on usage. She will be 41 this Wednesday so I did send her 5K to get herself a present but she never asked for the money and I find it easier than buying a gift here in the UK and posting it to her.

I intend to visit again this year when this war in the Middle East is over and airspace is fully opened and flights are not subject to being cancelled. We plan to visit Moalboal again, see her friends and maybe a trip to Davao for a few days and maybe somewhere else if we have the time.

I do like a stopover in a nearby country or country on route on my way to the Philippines so I may look at doing that again. I was hopping to take advantage of Qatar Airlines Stopover Programme and spend a couple of days in Doha but that will depend on when I visit - I will not be doing so if the temperatures in Doha are expected to be over the 35 degree mark and I understand temperatures there can exceed 50 degrees. Taipei is another option I will consider.

Bruggen was my posting and Holland was a shopping trip closeby. Love their sausages curryworst and the bokwurst served hot outside on chilly days dipped in mayonaise.

Thanks for sharing your Filipina experiences we ae all so different as are the ladies.

Matchmaking is tricky at times, compromises happen of course and avouding ladies with " attitude"  i believe is the way to go......for me anyway.