What does URBANIDAD mean?It means : courteous behavior: politeness. A courteous act or utterance. Well-mannered behavior toward others: courteousness, courtesy, genteelness, gentility, mannerliness, politeness, politesse. A courteous act or courteous acts that contribute to smoothness and ease in dealings and social relationships.
I was brought up by loving parents and a family who taught me well and instilled in me the good Filipino characteristics which I carry like a lighted torch. As a Filipino, I am proud to embody each trait which symbolizes my true character.My question is...do people still have URBANIDAD inside them? 
Why am I asking this? My ancestors have lived in the municipality of Mandaluyong, Philippines since World War I and II...we have been occupying this piece of land that we have live at for more than 50 years...this is where our grandparents have lived and died...our relatives...our friends...we have been here longer than most of our neighbors. Today our street, Romualdez located at Barangay Daang Bakal, Mandaluyong City Philippines is no longer the community we have been a part of all these years. Some of our old neighbors have sold their houses and moved elsewhere and our family intends to do the same even if we have sentimental values for the place where we have been born, raised and where we have spent our lifetime at, because most of our new neighbors do not have URBANIDAD.Let me sight some examples why I say this..
1.)Beside our house is KOOL IT beerhouse posing to be a small general store slash eatery. It is also a recruitment house for women who would like to go to Japan as entertainers. They do not care if their music is loud enough to wake up everyone 500 miles away which plays until wee hours of the morning. Their customers spit, vomit, urinate at our perimeter walls or in front of our gate. They cause riots and disturbances when their customers are drunk. They park their vehicles carelessly in front our home despite our plea that my father is a practicing surgeon and we need a parking area for our patients. We have requested them a hundred times to do something to enclose the sound of their music since there is a law on NOISE POLLUTION and refrain from doing all these rude manners. We want to complain at the Barangay but even the service men of our barangay are patrons of this place. We have pleaded with our uncle who is their landlord for some considerations but everything falls on a deaf ear. How come these people who are not even original residents of this community have this right to disrepect us and our home showing no URBANIDAD? This is a residential area but do you think a girly bar should be in this zone?2.)Across our house is a metal hardware/metal manufacturing factory-SUPERSONIC Hardware or SSPI. They have 10-wheeler trucks cruising our road, parking in front of our driveway and again on our PATIENT's parking area. Their customers...various TRUCKS, AUVs, CARS ---you name it...cannot park on their side of the street because they prohibited them, instead they push them towards our area and they also ignore our plea since these vehicles are mostly diesel and fumigate our house with carbon monoxide. The owners of this hardware are chinese so you know how influential they are since they could operate in a residential zone with permits from the Mayor's Office...they even consult with my dad when they're ill and my dad doesn't charge them for "pakikisama" and yet where do we draw the line? Where is their sense of URBANIDAD and "pakikisama" with us, the original inhabitants of this community?3.)The tenants in our apartments contribute the same dilemma to us....by being NOISY, throwing garbage in front of our house, not paying their rents until 6mos. or simply ignoring the clauses in their contracts. We have taken legal action before but sadly it is no use to report this on the Barangay level or even higher because as landlords, you can't force them to pay...that's what the legal people told us and we didn't want to spend more on this issue so we just let it be. So do you think they have URBANIDAD?I want to be a good Christian...I want to set good examples for the younger generation of my family...I want to be more forgiving...I try to...I honestly try to offer all these to GOD. I want to have peace with all of them but I am only human. I am tired of all these RUDENESS especially if you experience all these on a daily basis.
I used to enjoy this neighborhood...people get along fine...they share, they care, they have URBANIDAD. So if you know anyone who would like to buy a house and lot here at Romualdez St. Barangay Daang Bakal near Kalentong Mandaluyong (it's at the back of Mandaluyong Ice Plant across Jose Rizal University at Shaw Boulevard, let me know, my house is FOR SALE please send me a message here at multiply.
