u/Impressive-Buyer1054

I just tried Airbnb in the US to train it up for moving overseas, and the host ghosted me like I was a worthless nothing, despite being forced to pay in advance. Is there something safer and more reliable in the Philippines and South East Asia? A app? Ideally you get the confirmation of staying upon booking, no 24 hour wait and see while airbnb has your funds?

Will be moving to the region later in the summer. I'm seriously unnerved about how I was treated right before checking in (never met), and I see on internet forums hosts are paranoid about renting if the guest hasn't had several positive reviews? How do I review if new? You got access to airbnb who has my ID and financial info if you have to sue.

This paradox is like the job advertisement for a entry level employee with +10 plus years of experience, no prior experience required. Hotels don't do that- you book, you show up, show ID, get keys after payment. Airbnb took over $1000 in advance (I booked for a month) and then let the host play games with me. I really hope my bank allows me to book a seperate hotel now, will really hate to sleep outside because of this. Just so backwards and unreliable.

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/7HFjU3Y0PMI

That looks remarkably similar in concept, not design, to my travel set up using The Beast.

It is a 3D set of glasses, hooked up to a phone able to connect to my smart watch, I get cell and some satellite connectivity, and the printer is my cellphone display I suppose. I'm sure someone has a portable printer, I used to.

I'm a American, and was looking to move to either Bacolod or Iloilo City later in the summer. I'm nervous about Bacolod now because there is a insurgency there. It happened on the other side of the mountains from Bacolod, but kept reading how up in the hills there are Marxist no-go zones. If you go on a hike up there, you don't come back.

Given I hike alot, this has me unnerved. Is Iloilo City suffering the same situation with insurgency? Can you go up into the mountains and hike a trail and not face capture?

From my understanding it is a old movement, on the decline, but they managed a 12 hour stand-off against trained infantry. I looked up the two Americans that died, and they don't seem like innocent bystanders, so I am not too worried about the local Army. It's getting nabbed by ignorant people shouting slogans and swinging machettes due to yankee imperialism, and whatever current events somewhere else in the world nobody knows about as their excuse to blow off steam and feel important and justified, that has me worried.