Dining as if an expat has never left home is available, some 24 hours. Global corporations have made BGC home as the infrastructure for business especially the BPOs exist. For balikbayans and retiring Filipino Americans as well as other hypenated kababayans, BGC is a sanctuary from the polluted air of the rest of Metro Manila. Inside, Bonifacio Global City rises to the level almost of a Singapore clone, just do not look eastward to the clump of shanties in Taguig and Makati. While it offers a breathe of fresh air (literally because of the landscape and urban design with lots of greeneries serving as jogging and biking mecca) it also showcases the gap between those who can and those who are canned into perpetual state of window-shopperness. Fort Bonifacio was a detention area for activists and enemies of the dictatorship during the martial law years.
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