Crime in Cebu, Philippines

You can get robbed or have your stuff stolen even in a hotel. There are lots of people who don't care about making the place safe. Just another government who don't give an f. And the floods are terrible in some areas.

BE CAREFUL IN THIS CITY.
I lost things here and even worse, the locals told me a lot of foreigners get their gadgets stolen around this area and yet NOBODY BOTHERS TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

Only great part is the outskirts nature but the rest? Nothing special. Too crowded, unorganized city, reminds me of Tondo in manila. Very disappointed with this place, I've heard so many good things only to be greeted with traffic and danger.

Cebu is not safe for Americans,in rural areas BOGO,Americans have no rights and may be threatened by officials.Be careful what u say or do,many murders,threats

Interesting to read. It’s now june 2019 and crime is bad. A lot if the killings are by the police themselves, part of Duterte’s drug war, which hasn’t had a major impact although some will disagree. The violence just keeps ramping up and up. I’m a foreigner living here about four years after visiting for about 10. Yeah, it’s pretty fucked up here as some have noted. Lots of good peeps, but lots who just want something from you. If you are a foreigner...you are rich. It is a culture that is rotting if you ask me. Respect for others, for elders and all that is just evaporating. It’s become a very selfish, self-centred culture where greed rules the day. Corruption, although you may never really experience it as a visitor is pervasive from the very top to the very bottom. I’ve never felt particularly unsafe, but yeah certain areas, night time I just would not go. Groups of guys drinking or individuals who are drunk, stay far away. They like to drink here and fancy themselves good drinkers, but they are NOT! Easily provoked and easy to pull out a knife or gun. That’s the other problem, way too many guns floating about. Every single week I read about someone being killed by a motorcycle passenger shooting someone (known as riding in tandem). It’s a great place to visit, just be common sense careful, but as a place to live...forget it. I reckon this place, sadly becoz there’s lots of good educated people here, will be a third world basket case for many years to come - largely becoz of the utterly corrupt, greedy, self-serving political and economic elite that have much to lose if this country ever developed properly. In the meantime, it’s about grabbing whatever you can at whatever level you are at in society...and that has its obvious impacts, some of which you may or may not experience coming to this country.