Swimming pools are expensive. A fast food meal costs like 30-50% of the daily minimum wage in most places. We're talking about like $7-10 a day, 6 days a week, uncapped hours. No overtime pay. And many people are unable to afford avoiding having to use unsafe modes of transportation. Where will they swim, let alone live? A lot of Filipinos working in country are living in rooms no larger than a dorm room. All they do there is work. Six days a week, 40 hour weeks are a dream when you work 50-80 hours and get paid a flat daily rate. Building codes may exist, but there are so many of them that would be death traps. They are forced to ride modified small motorcycles to get around. Seatbelts are rarely used even when in a vehicle that has them.

Filipinos often are de facto forced to quit their jobs without severance, sometimes without being paid for wages they're owed, JUST to get a week off, but let's say a family or group of friends can make it to a beach, hotel, etc. With a pool. A lot of beachfront is developed to the point of not being affordable to locals. Some isn't, but you'll still pay a lot just to get there. There are a large variety of jellyfish including species of box jellyfish (not all are deadly, but some of the deadly ones are in Filipino waters - all are painful and dangerous to children) and venomous sea snakes that make the shallows pretty dangerous in a lot of areas.

And this is just the tip of the iceberg. But it's pretty understandably why Filipinos go overseas to find work, even if that means 70 hours a week in Dubai in a contract where they can't leave, where they may be assaulted or murdered by their boss. Poverty makes everything about life difficult.