Manila is often disparaged, as there's much here to like. For one, all the adjectives often used to all directions swallow up villages and rice fields. Describe the Philippines - jovial, laid back, casual, corrupt, shambolic, earnest and more are on display here more than anywhere else in the country. It is a truly teeming metropolis that gets bigger each day, both in population, with people pouring in from the hinterlands, and size, as new developments.