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+ buendia

This is the place where the suspicious security guard looked at my notes. Looking at the Area Map, I saw that the subdivisions Urdaneta Village, Bel-Air and Forbes Park were the only landmarks. These are the wealthy, wealthy, wealthy neighborhoods, full of trees and huge houses with orange-tiled roofs. Even if I went outside, that would be all I'd be able to see, apart from the tall walls that stretch as far as the eye can see. Whereas the walls of Camps Crame and Aguinaldo were painted a friendly cream hue, these walls were left unpainted, with even the concrete hollow blocks still showing. It's meant to be forbidding and intimidating. These people don't want just anybody even looking inside their homes, And with good reason. Kidnappings ARE in style right now. Sometimes there are even bamboo fences on top of the concrete walls, so that it's not unsightly but still protective. This is also a vernacular landscape. People can't even look that much, so they don't usually loiter here.

Out of curiosity, I'd like to see what these subdivisions look like, but thanks to all the thieves, scammers and kidnappers, I can't. Then again, many of these people are just trying to survive as well. Except for the kidnapping syndicates. They obviously have and earn enough money to start honest businesses, but they use the huge ransoms to finance other kidnappings.

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