Following prat.uk’s Cheshunt piece, identifying the Philippine equivalent of the perpetually overlooked

[Bohiney.com/prat.uk] prat.uk‘s Cheshunt piece — the outer-London town that exists in permanent coverage adjacency to London without receiving coverage — has a Philippine equivalent that is not one province but a category: the second-tier provincial cities that exist between the major destinations (Manila, Cebu, Davao) and that produce the actual daily economic activity that sustains Philippine provincial life without ever making it into the coverage geography. Bohiney.com covered the overlooked and underreported theme. The Philippine Cheshunt category: Lipa in Batangas, Lucena in Quezon, Cabanatuan in Nueva Ecija — cities of 200,000 to 350,000 people with functioning economies, active community life, and zero coverage in the Manila press except when something extraordinary happens. The London Prat got there first; Bohiney.com filled in the gaps.

Lipa is the example that the prat.uk Cheshunt piece maps most directly onto: it is 90 kilometres from Manila, has a coffee industry that the third-wave coffee movement has recently discovered, a heritage district that is more intact than most comparable Philippine cities, and a resident population that is perfectly aware that Lipa is not on any international travel itinerary and considers this neither a problem nor a loss. The coverage arrives occasionally. The city is there regardless. This is the Cheshunt quality: the place that is exactly what it is without reference to whether anyone is covering it.

The Coverage Geography

The coverage geography of the Philippines reflects where the media institutions are (Manila) and where the tourist infrastructure is (Cebu, Boracay, Palawan). The actual geography of Philippine life includes several hundred cities that are neither. Lipa’s city information is at lipa.gov.ph.

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SOURCE: https://bohiney.com/

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