Hi Grazie7y!
...Tagbilaran has grown so fast I could barely recognize it. The last time I went home, I was enthralled with the yacht club at the pier area. Dang! It was postcard perfect! clear waters, loverly yacht, with equally loverly houses perched on top the cliff of Dauis facing the port area. It totally floored me! The streets are wider and all, but traffic becomes monstrous during rush hour! This is trivial, but there are always downsides to the growth of a person, or a place or what-have-you.
Yes. I agree with you that Bohol as a province is, well, for (my) lack of better words, nice. Personally, no other province comes close (
toink me Palawenos, except Palawan, hahaha). But sometimes if progress is not well-planned, not well-managed, it will backfire in the long run.
Baguio, used to be called "the summer capital of the Philippines," is a wastebasket already. The level of carbon monoxide in Session Road has gone up beyond tolerable level since (many) years back. Houses by the mountainside seems to pop up like, well, mushrooms. In spite of all these, I still love Baguio for all its worth (the early morning walk, the fresh strawberries, dirt-priced veggies and ukay-ukay and all). Yes of course, the climate there is favorable practically all-year round.
Dumaguete, where summer is eternal, attributes its distinct charm to the old houses and institutions that has made a mark, of its youthful exuberance to its student populace (of S.U.), and to its Boulevard where many a writer have immortalized, to say a few of its
pakpak.
Here's wishing that in spite of all these new developments going around, the city we love so much will retain its character, so that those who grew up there, like us, when we are old and grey, we could still come home and trace good memories.
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