Iloilo beckons - and the migrants flock back
Sleepy Philippine towns are being transformed with big developments
[MANILA] Jennifer Ann Palmares-Fong has come home. Fifteen years after leaving Iloilo in the Philippines for the bright lights of Manila, she and her friends have been lured back as her once-quiet hometown is transformed.
"Never in my wildest dreams did I expect there would be these developments mushrooming all over," Ms Palmares- Fong, 32, said as she prepared to take clients to view a site for new US$57,000 condominiums. "It used to be a sleepy place; now, at night it's all lights."
Iloilo, the second-…
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