qatar itself is a safe place, eventhough the transportation situation here is horrible, but it's a nice place to live. cheap? depend on your earning and your definition what is cheap or not. filipino food? there is, but not as good as what you use to eat back there in the philippines, we have a souq(market) here its known as filipino souq (souq alsiri), almost all things related to filipino can be found there.

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