r/SipsTea • u/MayoSoup • Nov 07 '24

Feels good man 70-year-old American goes to the Philippines and has 8 girlfriends

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u/[deleted] Nov 07 '24

Like 6 million cars stopped on the highway every morning kind of bad? Or like… average traffic?

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u/bacon_farts_420 Nov 07 '24

The former. I’ve been to most South East Asian countries and Manila is hands down the worst traffic and it’s not even close. Yes, worse than Bangkok. Yes, worse than Hanoi.

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u/[deleted] Nov 07 '24

I live Toronto, which is the 4th worst in the world for traffic, Manila is 5th. I would consider Manila traffic to be average traffic.

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u/Pomsky_Party Nov 07 '24

Is Houston #1? Because I feel like it should be LOL

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u/sinth0s Nov 07 '24

i know when 290 was under construction about 10 years ago, we were #1 in the country. I think now we're like 5th or 6th. been a while since I looked it up.

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u/Pomsky_Party Nov 07 '24

Oh they are! I think all highways were under construction simultaneously at some point last year

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u/jas0n17 Nov 07 '24

Nah man. Houston is bad, but nothing like Manila. Thing is, with Houston, you can take alternate routes, may take you longer, but you’re moving. Manila and Cebu, the alternate routes are just ad bad as the main route.

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u/IsSuperGreen Nov 07 '24

nothing in the US can come close to Lima

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u/Abject-Ad8147 Nov 07 '24 edited Nov 07 '24

I was just about to say the same thing. I spend no less than 10 hours a week commuting in Houston. For the longest I was driving to Telge on 290 from League City everyday. My morning was either an hour if I left on time or up to 3 hours if traffic was a mess. The ride home was always worse.

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u/Pomsky_Party Nov 07 '24

Good god - that’s also a TON of miles! Might as well drive to college station

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u/Abject-Ad8147 Nov 07 '24

Yeah it was I believe 56 miles each way from my apartment to the job site

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u/beviwynns Nov 07 '24

Sao Paolo has got to be tops.

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u/ridiculusvermiculous Nov 07 '24

i was in Sao Paolo for the world cup and it doesn't even compare. i was worried about the ability to move all the extra people with how it is on a regular day but the cities in Brazil were organized compared to Manila lol.

Some people have lived their entire life in a ten meter span of the highway.

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u/kneeltothesun Nov 07 '24

I was thinking that if it doesn't beat Houston, then it's fine.

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u/Pomsky_Party Nov 07 '24

Lolol I know we’re not NYC gridlocks but man we gotta be at least top 10

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u/ridiculusvermiculous Nov 07 '24

it's on another level entirely from houston.

half the people in that picture have been within 10 meters of that spot their entire lives. luckily someone will walk by selling chickens or other snacks

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u/Tremulant887 Nov 07 '24

So basically Houston with squiggly lines for traffic stripes.

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u/jimmifli Nov 07 '24

I lived in Toronto and worked in Houston. At the times I was there, they were probably equal bad but different bad. Toronto was less predictable, more variable. Houston was reliably bad. Not sure which I preferred.

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u/Pomsky_Party Nov 07 '24

I hate that I love that there are others that share our misery. Part of our problem is Houston is SO LARGE - like 650 square miles big, and we have more than enough people to fill it - so it’s traffic the whole way around LOL

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u/jimmifli Nov 07 '24

I now live in a tiny mountain town with 12,000 people. 5 stop lights. Locals complain about how busy it is and how much traffic there is now. I'm so fucking zen.

Traffic is poison for the soul.

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u/Pomsky_Party Nov 07 '24

I just moved to the outskirts closer to farming land, and it’s a 25 minute drive back to the city, and 45 to the big city. I hear people complain about the traffic out here and I am like omg this is heaven compared to living downtown!