On my last trip down to Manila a few weeks ago, my sister and I took two young friends, college students from Baguio, to Divisoria. And much to our surprise, hanging from an industrial supply store right outside Meisic and 168 Malls were a bunch of brooms with ‘Baguio City’ painted on the handles.
When I asked a hawker how much each one cost, he said P75.00! When I said (in Tagalog of course), “Why so expensive?” he replied, “Because they come all the way from Baguio!”
Yeah right! Red China is more like it.
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I do not bring my cars around in Baguio anymore, except to Camp John Hay and Baguio Country Club. I walk along Leonard Wood or take one of the thousands of taxis that we have during those rare times I go ‘downtown,’ which is about 1.5k from my house. There’s just no parking anywhere, you see. And this is because the locals take up all the parking on Session Road to sell their second hand cars. Session is one big used car display these days, with signs tacked onto the rear windows with cellphone numbers. How much does this cost these people? P20/day, unlimited hours. That’s just Php600/month. Read More…
