TONDO MANILA Life Along the Estero Dela Reina - Once Called the "Venice of the Orient"

I found this old post from Facebook via Inside Manila in 2018:
Post:
FYI | Did you know that Estero Dela Reina in Tondo kept the commerce alive during the flourishing years of Manila as “Venice of the Orient”? During those times, it allowed boats carrying transport goods to pass through it. However, due to congestion and overpopulation, what was once life of the trading business became home to seething garbage. But in 2017, in line with Pasig River Rehabilitation, Estero Dela Reina is now recovered and informal settlers are relocated.
Update: It doesn't seem like the informal settlers were relocated. If they were, it looks like they came back =) It's sad to see a once called "Venice of the Orient" not being maintained at any fashion, but I've also heard that the canals of Venice isn't that great as well. At any rate, this is what living by the Estero Dela Reina looks like as of today!
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I found this old post from Facebook via Inside Manila in 2018:
Post:
FYI | Did you know that Estero Dela Reina in Tondo kept the commerce alive during the flourishing years of Manila as “Venice of the Orient”? During those times, it allowed boats carrying transport goods to pass through it. However, due to congestion and overpopulation, what was once life of the trading business became home to seething garbage. But in 2017, in line with Pasig River Rehabilitation, Estero Dela Reina is now recovered and informal settlers are relocated.
Update: It doesn't seem like the informal settlers were relocated. If they were, it looks like they came back =) It's sad to see a once called "Venice of the Orient" not being maintained at any fashion, but I've also heard that the canals of Venice isn't that great as well. At any rate, this is what living by the Estero Dela Reina looks like as of today!

[@romario9158]

Nice

[@rafaelgomez1588]

🗽🗽🗽🗽👍👍👍

[@bluestripetiger]

Is this neighborhood considered normal for Philippines or is this considered a slum?

[@tngchinghwa]

slum, majority of manila is slum, the wealth gap is huge in the country, and manila is a very big city

[@TheWanderingKuya]

It is the most dangerous slum in the Philippines. Manila is a horrible city and I have no idea why anyone would move there.

[@derbdep]

It's a slum. The most notorious . For pure empirical data hat doesn't delve into the Philippine bashing that people from neighboring countries love to indulge in: slums constitute about 4% of the total Philippine population (UN Habitat Philippine country report 2023), but most are concentrated in specific districts of Metro Manila and Cebu city (these being the districts of Tondo, Payatas, Bagong Silangan, and near NAIA airport into coastal avite for the Metro Manila area, and the shorelines of Cebu City).
While poverty levels are at 17% for the entire country (2023), most of that 17% do not live in places like Tondo, but in low income homes that are similar to those in other Southeast Asian countries. 83% of the Philippine population live above the poverty line and are instead decided into working class, middle class, upper middle class, and the small minority who are high income earners. for more on normal and non slum walks in the Philippines you can check the walking playlist I put together on my channel. many money minded local middle class Filipinos use these types of slum walk videos as a source of residual income. poverty porn is big with westerners and East Asians and some want to capitalize on it . some Indonesian non-poor youtubers are also doing the same for slums in Jakarta and Indonesia. it's exploiting their own ppl for viewer income. which is sad.