“The Philippines has a history of torture and rights abuses left over from when it was ruled by brutal dictator Ferdinand Marcos.” 2010 in Manila, “The video showed the suspect screaming on the floor as a man pulled a string bound around his genitals.”
According to one report here, it appears there may be a black hole time warp in Cebu, Philippines, where all is perfect, veggies everywhere, police are your friends, etc., while other locations are as the above - general torture, torture of genitals causing screaming from the victim. The problem with a time warp is it may come undone and revert to regular time and be as those other places which are right now seeing torture.
I have traveled to many countries staying at least two weeks at a time and some for a month and living in England many times in the past twenty five years, and I have the means to live in any of those places, but my house/garden in the United States is totally mine, nothing owed on my house or my car, and I wouldn’t give up my paradise for a foreign country.
Torture, huh?
Wow... Sounds like the kind of place I’D like to run awa - err, sorry, I meant “retire” to...