Quote: (03-03-2014 11:27 PM)Enigma Wrote:
Good info, calwinston. I'm liking the prices on davaoproperties.com, wish they had more concrete location information though. The two condos on that page 5 you linked to have bad to very bad logistics and the rest on the page don't have anything listed.
A live-in maid will run you around $100 or less here based on the people I've talked to.
Back in the late 90's my folks paid our live-in maids 1000 Php a month. We had three of them, and we were only a middle class family.
Most of them come from the provinces and try to save up some money while in the big cities. They also tend to network well, and one will always have family or friends that are looking to find employment as maids, drivers, gardeners. Some are even married, with the husband as a driver/bodyguard and the wife as a maid/cook. Their kids grow up in servitude to the family.
To the West, it may seem like new age slavery. But to the locals, it's just a way of life. Mutual trust is built over time and master-servant bonds grow strong. My Mom, to this day, sends a hundred dollars or so every month for her aging maid, Leonor, living out in the province. Leonor took care of 3 generations of my family starting with my grandparents through WWII, when she hid my Grandma in the jungles to avoid the Japanese.
Of course, there are others, like the father of one of my fraternity brothers. He was (still is) a notorious drunkard. He'd have one of his more cute maids wake him claiming that he needed to get up by a certain time. The maid would walk in and find him snoring... sprawled naked... and reluctantly awaken him. If she does, he would "sleepily" grab her and start kissing. There's hangover-maid game for ya. -_-