MUCH HAVE been said about the Filipino Diaspora. Here’s my two cents.

I was employed because one of the teachers in the school where I teach now left for work in Arizona. Three other teachers here are processing their papers. I’d like to mention that these teachers are few of the best teachers in the province. But for whatever reasons, they choose to leave the country and seek for better life.

Despite the good news that the President is broadcasting to the world, that the Philippine economy is getting better, we cannot deny that we are not experiencing now. True that the effects of it can be felt in a few years’ time, I believe the difference it would make in the lives of Filipinos would still be little.

Each day, a great number of Filipino professionals are leaving the country to work–mostly as nurses, teachers, or caregivers in some?nursing homes in Los Angeles, CA, Texas, the Middle East, Europe, and anywhere in the world. If all the skillful Filipino professionals leave, the country would not be attractive to foreign investors, anymore, while many among ourselves are even hesitant to invest in our own country.

I have repeatedly said in my other blogs that I choose to work in and for the Philippines. That’s a personal choice. Life might be difficult here but my happiness is here–my family.?Nothing, not even the world’s?riches, could ever replace that.