Anywhere outside of BGC is unsafe if you aren't careful. Same like KL, u can walk 10 days without kena pickpocket, but doesn't mean after that you'll still be safe.

The amount of annoying beggars are a lot in manila. They will literally follow you everywhere, even after trying to avoid.

And if you venture out of their malls and major tourist places, you will see the slum area in manila. You go tourist place of course can't see well